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Cal Poly mechanical engineering seniors Matthew Podgorski, right, and Gabe Haarberg, second from right, explain the accessible garden box during Project Expo. The team later installed the project in Heather McColley’s medically fragile classroom at Oceano Elementary School.

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Cal Poly Seniors Build Learning Tools for Medically Fragile Students

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Students collaborate in a College of Engineering classroom. New faculty scholars Puneet Agarwal and Jiun-Yao Cheng will help guide the responsible integration of artificial intelligence across the college’s programs.

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Faculty Scholars to Guide AI Innovation in Engineering Education

Members of Cal Poly’s PHAT team celebrate their first-place overall finish in NASA’s 2026 Human Lander Challenge in Huntsville, Alabama. The mechanical engineering senior project team won the $10,000 top prize for a cold-water system designed to support future lunar and Mars missions.

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Cal Poly Team Wins NASA Human Lander Challenge With Cold-Water System for Space Missions

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Muppet Me: A Senior Project With Character

Training Ship Golden Bear Returns from Final Summer Sea Term

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Training Ship Golden Bear Returns from Final Summer Sea Term, Concluding 30 Years of Service

Avery White, a computer engineering graduate, takes the Oath of Commissioned Officers during Cal Poly Army ROTC’s spring commissioning ceremony June 13 at the Officers’ Club at Camp San Luis Obispo.

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Computer Engineering Graduate Commissioned Through Cal Poly Army ROTC

CENG Building

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Research Roundup

Cal Poly Wind Power members spell out the club’s name, reflecting the team culture behind its first overall win at the 2026 Collegiate Wind Competition Western Regional.

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Cal Poly Wind Power Builds Its Way to First Overall Win

Civil and environmental engineering students review site information during a student competition. The department’s new geospatial engineering subdiscipline will help students work with location-based data and better understand the places where civil engineering projects take shape.

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Beyond the Map: New Geospatial Focus Expands Civil Engineering at Cal Poly

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CENG Student Spotlight: Samantha Richert

Team members pose with award-winning ride

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Cal Poly Team Wins Big at National Ride Engineering Competition

Students gather for a group photo at conference

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No Digging Required: Engineering students and faculty work to launch a trenchless technology chapter

A student standing in front of his project, which includes a giant red stop sign. He is explaining his project to bystanders.

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Cal Poly Maritime Engineering Project Showcase

A student using a tablet to remotely control his project.

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Join Us for the 2026 Engineering Project Expo

Carter Quartararo, left, and his parents, Tony and Stacie Quartararo, gather during a family trip to Savannah, Georgia, last summer. The Cal Poly industrial engineering senior said food and travel have long shaped the way he experiences a place.

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Eat With Your Eyes: An industrial engineering senior creates a food discovery app

Student and professor work at laptop

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Industrial engineering student earns national award for research on robots in warehouses

Students present their project poster

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More Than a Puzzle: A Student-Built Platform Turns Play into Research