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This car will save you a few bucks at the pump
ENERGY EFFICENT:
Cal’s Supermileage Vehicle Team poses with its 2006
car at this summer’s Supermileage Vehicle Competition
held in Michigan. From left, members are ME senior Andrew
Chang, Integrated Biology graduate Kevin Fang, Dylan Bethel
(B.S.’06 ME), ME junior Sarah Scott, Advisor Mike
Neufer, ME senior Jon Rigotti, Eng. Phys. senior Eric Griffin,
Junior Justin Yang, ME junior Richard Fabini, ME senior Thomas
Li, ME junior Andrew Doan, Jason Herberg (B.S.’06 CEE)
and ME junior Mayra Chavolla. Cal competed to build a one-person,
single-cylinder vehicle that runs on the best mileage per
gallon (mpg) and came in seventh overall, third in the U.S.,
with 628 mpg. This year, the team will produce a new car
and is recruiting new members from any major, year or level
of experience. Go to http://smv.berkeley.edu for
more information.
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Oski. He cavorts along Memorial Stadium sidelines. He hugs kids on Cal Day. He drinks through a straw in his eye hole, a gross but mesmerizing trick. This fall, Berkeley’s lovable bear mascot turns 65, with no signs of stopping. Which means, for over six decades, a parade of undergraduates have sweated it out under a stuffy bear head, wool sweater and size-15 tennis shoes. Moreover, they’re under a super-duper, heavy-duty, triple-strength oath to keep it a secret from everyone forever and ever. It’s enough to make you wonder, as your attention drifts between plays at a Cal football game, what is Oski all about? How did the goofy grin, high-stepping gait, clasped hands and rumors of permanent intoxication become a Cal institution?
The story begins with an engineer, of course.
As a student at Long Beach Junior College in 1938, William Rockwell (B.S.’48 ME) was invited to fill the “Ole Olson the Viking” mascot suit for a school parade.[FULL STORY]
elcome Berkeley engineers! Check out the collection of fun facts and interesting stories below. (Disclosure: There’s no ghost of an old professor haunting the halls … that we know of).
On the east side of Hearst Memorial Mining Building, across the access road, is a padlocked door. Peer through the grating and you’ll see a dark tunnel. This is an old adit, a horizontal mine shaft that the College once used to teach students how to mine. It goes a quarter of a mile into the Berkeley Hills, right under Stern Hall and across the Hayward Fault. In its heyday, the adit had a small rail system of carts and tracks to haul and dump ore. The middle of Hearst looked like a train station with all the activity. Fraternities also used the tunnel to haze pledges, no doubt scaring the bejeezers out of those who had to venture in. It was closed by the 1980s, and today, only seismologists use it to study the fault.[FULL STORY]
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