California Alumni Association of Michigan

The viewing party is on for watching our No. 10 California Golden Bear football team take on the Eastern Washington Eagles. Here are the details:

WHO: Spirited Cal fans like yourself (or any others you’d like to invite)
WHAT: Eastern Washington Viewing Party
WHERE: 2233 S Huron Pkwy APT #3
WHEN: Saturday Sept 12, 2009 @ 5:30pm or ~7:30pm (will explain below)
WHY: Because watching a Golden Bear devour an eagle will be awesome. Frankly - I agree with Benjamin Franklin that our national bird should have been a turkey.

Now - there are two options for times due to the Michigan/Notre Game conflict:

(1) Watch the Cal game LIVE starting at 5:30pm

(2) Finish watching/attending the Michigan vs. Notre Dame game, which should end around 7:00pm. Then watch the Cal game on DVR delay.

My current plan is option #2. If there is an overwhelming desire to watch the Cal game live at my place, then send me an e-mail and let me know.

See you Saturday!

Go Bears, Beat the Eagles
Go Blue, Beat the Irish

The California Alumni Michigan Club is hosting its Annual New Student Welcome Reception BBQ for all first-year Berkeley students and their families from the state of Michigan this coming weekend.  We hope to have many alumni attend to both welcome and share their experiences with the newest golden bears.

If you have not yet RSVP’d, please do so soon.  The BBQ is scheduled for Saturday, June 20^th.  We will be having it at Veterans Memorial Park in Ann Arbor from 1pm – 4pm.  The park is located at 2150 Jackson Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI  48103.  All food and drink will be provided.  You can reply via e-mail to calalumniofmichigan@yahoo.com or phone at 734-222-9871.

This is the regular season finale, vs. the 0-11 University of Washington Huskies. Despite playing a winless team, post-Big Game, with the bowl game destination essentially set in stone, the football team sounds motivated to perform well.

This will be our seventh viewing party of the year. For possibly the first time all year, we will be able to watch the game in beautiful high definition. So come on over and enjoy good football, good friends, good drinks, and good food.

Where:
Scott Moura’s Apartment
2233 South Huron Parkway, #3
Ann Arbor, MI  48104

When: 
Saturday December 6, 2008 @ 3:00 pm

The Club will be providing chips, soft drinks, other beverages. Please feel free to bring anything more you may like.

In the mean time, here’s some reading material to get everyone up to speed on this week’s game:

Football Related

USC Offensive Coordinator to be named next Washington head coach

Football looks to redeem last year’s poor defense

Emerald Bowl likely bowl destination for Bears

Big Game Summary

In other news, WE HAVE THE AXE!!! The foam axe, to be specific. Later on we will post pictures from the Big Game party, including yours truly receiving the foam axe from the bitter Stanford club. Ha!

Give them, the axe, the axe, the axes. Right in the neck, the neck, the neck. It’s Big Game week Golden Bears! In following our club’s tradition, we will be joining the Stanford Alumni Club of Michigan at Bailey’s Pub & Grille in Dearborn to watch rivalry football, eat appetizers, and consume beverages. This is the club’s signature event, and the best opportunity to meet fellow Cal alumni and have a good time.  So please come join us to support the team, so we can get the foam axe back from the Stanford Alumni club of Michigan.

We also use this event to hold our one and only official meeting to discuss club dues, events, and elect new officers. If you are interested in volunteering for an official leadership position, then please let us know by sending an e-mail to calalumniofmichigan@yahoo.com.

Where:

22091 Michigan Ave
Dearborn, MI 48124
(313) 277-3212

When:

Saturday November 22, 2008 @ 3:30pm

RSVP:

Please RSVP to calalumniofmichigan@yahoo.com so we can get a rough head count.

The Club will be providing some free appetizers as well.

Big Game Reading:

Pranks throughout the 100 Years War

History and Tales of the Stanford Axe

Big Game Week Article by blogger Tightwad Hill

The Stanford Axe Story

The Golden Bears control their Rose Bowl destiny, but one huge obstacles stands in their way: The mighty Trojans of South-Central LA. Despite the Trojans’ recent dominance, our Golden Bears always play them close. Hopefully this year Cal will come out on top. So join all the Cal Alumni of Michigan to root on our Golden Bears to beat USC!

This will be our sixth viewing party of the year. The game has a relatively late start time (8pm), so it may be 11:30pm or so by the time the game ends. Also, last time we convened at Arena Sports Bar, but this time we decided to watch from my apartment. Here are the details:

Where:
Scott Moura’s Apartment
2233 South Huron Parkway, #3
Ann Arbor, MI  48104

When: 
Saturday November 8, 2008 @ 8:00 pm

The Club will be providing chips, soft drinks, other beverages. Please feel free to bring anything more you may like.

In the mean time, here’s some reading material to get everyone up to speed on this week’s game:

Riley returns to practice

USC focused on BCS, Cal focused on USC

Cal defense will test USC QB Sanchez

Cameron Jordan emerging as star player for Cal

Cool motivational video

UPDATE (11/1): WE WILL BE WATCHING THE GAME AT ARENA SPORTS BAR AT 203 E WASHINGTON AT 3:30PM, NOT SCOTT’S APARTMENT.

During the current Jeff Tedford era, the matchup against the Oregon Ducks has always produced exciting games. This year will likely be no different, as both our Golden Bears and the Oregon Ducks are still vying for a Pac-10 championship. Also, besides all the hard hitting, running, and catching an awkwardly shaped leather ball, we get to see a male model fashion show sponsored by Uncle Phil Knight.

 

 

Work it boys!

It is also worthwhile to mention the ever so talented Oregon Dance team, who gets my vote for best cheerleading unit in the country.

 

Your pirouettes are so excellent that I cannot help but root for your Oregon Ducks!

But my heart still lays with Oski and his sexy yellow sweather, recessed eyes, and goofy walk. Some come join the California Alumni Association of Michigan in our fifth viewing party of the year. Here are the details:

Where:
Arena Sports Bar
203 E Washington St
Ann Arbor, MI  48104

When: 
Saturday November 1, 2008 @ 3:30 pm

In the mean time, here’s some reading material to get everyone up to speed on this week’s game:

Football Related

Defensive unit is stepping up to the plate

Preseason Preview by California Golden Blogs

Preview by ESPN blogger Ted Miller

Kevin Riley to start Oregon Game

Who would have thought at the beginning of the season that this game would feature a matchup of two Pac-10 heavyweights? The truth is, Arizona has been feasting on an easy schedule, which explains their loss to those kids on the farm. This week let’s get together to root on our bears and avenge the 2006 loss in the desert that cost us the Rose Bowl.

This will be our fourth viewing party of the year. The game has a VERY late start time (10pm), so it may be 1:30am or so by the time the game ends. Here are the details:

Where:
Scott Moura’s Apartment
2233 South Huron Parkway, #3
Ann Arbor, MI  48104

When: 
Saturday October 18, 2008 @ 10:00 pm

The Club will be providing chips, soft drinks, other beverages. Please feel free to bring anything more you may like.

In the mean time, here’s some reading material to get everyone up to speed on this week’s game:

Football Related

Nate Longshore doing a Peyton Manning

Preseason Outlook of Arizona

Weekly Press Conference Quotes

Cal Band Article

University Related

Smashing the Berkeley Myth

Senator Boxer Praises UC Berkeley’s Green Energy Research

Homecoming 2008 Photos

The California Alumni Association of Michigan presents a seminar on "Control of Mobile Sensor Networks" by Professor J. Karl Hedrick from the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to sjmoura at umich.edu.

DATE: Tuesday October 21, 2008

TIME: 7:00pm - 8:00pm

LOCATION: 2233 GG Brown, 2350 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

RSVP: Send Scott an e-mail at sjmoura at umich.edu by Sunday October 19, 2008

Refreshments will be served!

 

Professor J. Karl Hedrick

University of California, Berkeley

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Control of Mobile Sensor Networks

Abstract:

Interest in using autonomous mobile vehicles, such as unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), to form  mobile sensor networks is gaining momentum in many different military and civilian sectors. This seminar will present recent work at UC Berkeley on several aspects of this problem.

The first area is defining a distributed system architecture that includes a mission definition language, middleware to access available assets and monitor the mission status and finally a distributed control structure that permits task allocation, path planning and aircraft control.

The second area is cooperative target search and localization using an information theoretic approach. The goal here is to maximize the probability of target detection while simultaneously reducing the error in its localization.

Results from recent flight tests will be shown to illustrate the practicality of our approach.

Biography:

B.S. Engineering Mechanics, University of Michigan, 1966         
M.S. Aeronautical and Astronautical. Eng., Stanford University, 1970
Ph.D. Aeronautical and Astronautical. Eng., Stanford University, 1971

Professor Hedrick is the James Marshall Wells Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Automatic Control Theory. His research focuses on the application of advanced control theory to a wide variety of vehicle dynamic systems including automotive, aircraft and ocean vehicles. He is currently the Director of Berkeley’s Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory as well as the PI of the Office of Naval Research center at Berkeley, the Center for the Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles.

He served as the Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at UC Berkeley from 1999-2004.

He served as the Director of the University of California PATH Research Center, a multi-disciplinary research program located at the Richmond Field Station from 1997-2003. PATH conducts research in a variety of advanced transportation areas including advanced vehicle control systems, advanced traffic management and information systems and technology leading to an automated highway system.
     
Before coming to Berkeley he was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT from 1974-1988, where he served as Director of the Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory.

His research has concentrated on the development of nonlinear control theory and on its application to a broad variety of transportation systems including automated highway systems, power train control, embedded software design, formation flight of autonomous vehicles, and active suspension systems. The active suspension laboratory at UC Berkeley is the only full scale, half car test facility in the US.

He has offered short courses on active and semi-active suspensions, nonlinear control theory, automated highway systems, and unmanned vehicle systems in the US and in Europe.

He has served on many national committees including the Transportation Research Board, the American National Standards Institute, ISO (International Standards Organization) and the NCHRP (National Cooperative Highway Research Program).

He is currently chairman of the International Association of Vehicle System Dynamics (IAVSD) 20th Symposium to be held in August of 2007 and was the editor of the Vehicle Systems Dynamics Journal. He is a Fellow of ASME where he has served as Chairman of the Dynamic Systems and Controls Division and as Chairman of the Honors Committee. He is also a member of SAE and AIAA.

He has been awarded a number of honors including, ASME, Dynamic Systems and Control Division’s Outstanding Investigator Award, 2000, ASME, DSM&C Journal’s Best Paper Award (1983&2001), IEEE Transactions on Control Systems and Technology’s Outstanding Paper Award (1998), and the American Automatic Control Council’s O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award (2003). He was awarded ASME’s 2006 Rufus Oldenburger Medal which recognizes significant contributions and outstanding achievements in the field of automatic control.

 

Despite our spirited efforts, we unfortunately could not will our Bears to a win at Maryland. Nonetheless, the by-week has passed and we are ready to support our team against the mighty Colorado State University Rams.

Stop by this weekend for our third viewing party of the year. Here are the details:

Where:
Scott Moura’s Apartment
2233 South Huron Parkway, #3
Ann Arbor, MI  48104

When: 
Saturday Sept 27, 2008 @ 6:00 pm

The Club will be providing chips, soft drinks, other beverages. Please feel free to bring anything more you may like.

In the mean time, here’s some reading material to get everyone up to speed on this week’s game:

Pac-10 faceplants against Mountain West Conference, gives Rams confidence

Cal won’t nose dive from this early season loss

Tree Sitters get hit with fines. Take that Dumpster Muffin!

Memorial Stadium is in shambles, need of repair.

Wow, what a win last weekend! We had a grand ‘ol time watching our Golden Bears rip through the Cougars. This weekend, we are going to do the same! This time against the Maryland Terrapins (which is apparently a fancy word for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).

Stop by this weekend for our second viewing party of the year. Here are the details:

Where:
Scott Moura’s Apartment
2233 South Huron Parkway, #3
Ann Arbor, MI  48104

When: 
Saturday Sept 13, 2008 @ 12:00 noon

The Club will be providing chips, soft drinks, other beverages. Please feel free to bring anything more you may like.

In the mean time, enjoy this video entitled "Jahvid Best is silly fast"