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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

Muppet Me

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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: Yaneli Cruz

Students collaborate around a whiteboard in a classroom while discussing and solving a problem as others work nearby.

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The Noyce School of Applied Computing Symposium and Social

Group of students gather for donuts

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Hack4Impact Turns Science Lessons Into Play

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on March 30 carrying the Transporter-16 rideshare mission, including SAL-E, Cal Poly’s first CubeSat launch in five years. Photo courtesy of SpaceX

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Student-Built CubeSat Sends Cal Poly Back to Orbit

Students pose at Grace Hopper Celebration

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Grace Hopper Celebration Brings Renewed Energy, Connection to Computer Science and Software Engineering Students

McKinley Weatherford

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CENG Student Spotlight: McKinley Weatherford

Grant M. Brown Engineering Building, college of engineering.

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Engineering Excellence: Students Honored with Outstanding Women in Engineering Award

Team of students stand in front of the TVAC

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Students Push Cal Poly’s Thermal Vacuum Chamber Through Its Longest Cycle