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Eighth annual Cal Day highlights campus talent
Some 30,000 visitors, including prospective students and their
families, descended on Berkeley last April to sample a smorgasbord
of offerings at Cal Day 2002, the Bay Area’s most celebrated
annual open house.
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students demonstrated their supermileage car, achieving 1,069
mgp. Photo: Bonnie Powell |
Nearly every department on campus showcased
its many talents at this year’s event. Visitors were treated
to a martial arts demonstration, a speech on macroeconomics by
2001 Nobel Laureate Professor George Akerlof, a demonstration
illustrating why animals and insects walk the way they do, and
a robotic car race on a 100-meter track.
The College offered a full day of laboratory tours, demos, performances,
and other attractions, including lectures by CEE professor Hassan
Astaneh on the World Trade Center’s collapse, and a discussion
by NE professor and chair Per Peterson about how inertial confinement
fusion produces electricity.
Engineering students demonstrated the latest models of Cal’s
solar car, concrete canoe, and supermileage vehicles. Berkeley
won the 2002 SAE Super-Mileage two-day competition last spring
in Battle Creek, Michigan, beating out 27 other teams from across
North America.
Contestants built a one-person, fuel efficient vehicle based on
a small four-cycle engine. Cal’s Super Mileage Vehicle Team
designed and built a vehicle that logged an astounding 1,069 miles
per gallon— outclassing other collegiate teams by close
to 100 mpg.
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