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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

Portrait of GIl

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A 1952 Graduate Looks Back on HVAC&R Education at Cal Poly

Students and faculty members posing for a group photo in front of a step and repeat banner at a conference.

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Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Students Present Latest Research at 2025 IISE Conference

A student wearing an eye tracker facing away from the camera.

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Summer Undergraduate Research Program Provides Opportunities for Higher-Level Research, Cross Collaboration

Students in a row posing and holding up airplane parts.

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Design, Build, Fly Team Shows Off Their Latest Plane at the International SAE Aero Design West Competition

Robin Draper

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Materials Engineering Alumnus Carves Path for Environmental Safety in Pipeline Construction

Student installs poppy sculpture in the Botanical Garden

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Engineering Graduates Debut Dynamic Steel Poppy Installation in Botanical Garden

Cal Poly alumna Kelsea Clays

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CENG Alumni Spotlight: Kelsea Clays

Team members gather around race car after testing

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Full Charge Ahead: Cal Poly Racing Enters a New Era with Electric Drive and Enduring Team Spirit