Berkeley Innovation Information and Application Overview Session

Thursday, September 11th
112 Wurster Hall (Next to Ramona’s)
7:15-8:00PM
This event will be webcasted. See below for details. Casual dress.

Send an email to contactus@innovation.berkeley.edu to let us know you’re coming.

WHAT WILL BE COVERED:

Project groups from Spring 08 will give a series of brief presentations on their projects, including demos. An overview about BI’s history, goals, time commitment and simple application process will follow.

This presentation will be webcasted and available on the Berkeley Innovation website on Friday, September 12th, 2008 at 10:00AM. The application will also be available online. We highly encourage you to come, we’d love to meet you in person.

We hope to see you soon!

Roland Saekow
Director
Berkeley Innovation

Healthy reading, a project from Fall 2008 has been posted. The project problem was as follows:

Reading while in a fully reclined position causes strain on the user’s neck, shoulders, and back and general fatigue.

Visit the Recumbent Reading project page for full details

With the new semester just around the corner, the team is set for it’s first regroup meeting during the second week of school. For interested students, the application overview presentation is currently scheduled to occur in the third week of classes. The presentation will be made available online as a webcast for those unavailable to attend. The application submission time is one week after the presentation.

Join our mailing list by emailing contactus@innovation.berkeley.edu. Make sure you receive a reply to confirm your listing.

Justin, Summer Bike Project Manager:

The summer BI(ke) research team is in its sixth week of research on bicycle security. We have delved into the workings of bicycles to analyze its mechanical strengths and weaknesses as well as its user and environmental interaction.

We have also analyzed various types of locking and alarm mechanisms to better understand security systems and informatively judge the effectiveness of bicycle safety measures. We are now beginning our outreach phase in which we will be meeting up with local bike shops as well as security agencies to learn more about bicycle securities around campus.

In the future we plan to get more hands-on by trying to lock up and break into test bikes.