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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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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.

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

Muppet Me

Muppet Me: A Senior Project With Character

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.

Computer Engineering Graduate Commissioned Through Cal Poly Army ROTC

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.

Cal Poly Wind Power Builds Its Way to First Overall Win

A group of cleanroom-suited researchers crowd around a large microscope or lithography machine in a yellow-lit semiconductor fabrication lab.

A 72-Step Process, One Student’s Plan to Improve It

Team holds awards after competition

Cal Poly Students Go from Hydropower Newcomers to National Champions

A group of people standing in front of a step-and-repeat

IME Students Shine at IISE Annual Conference With Largest Delegation to Date

Four students

Cal Poly IME Students Win First Place in IISE Operations Research Case Hackathon

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Nominations Are Open for the Zero Heroes Campaign

Group photo at SAMPE conference

Cal Poly SAMPE Club Takes First Overall at International Student Competition

Student holds electronics assembly of a prototype

Three Cal Poly Teams Advance to NASA Human Lander Challenge Finals

Students show school spirit at canoe race

Cal Poly’s Society of Civil Engineers Wins Top National Chapter Award

CENG Student Spotlight: Samantha Richert

Four students holding and pointing at a giant check

Cal Poly Students Awarded $5,000 in Fifth Annual Change the World: The Systems Thinking Challenge

This year's Change the World: The Systems Thinking Challenge winners show off the giant check they were rewarded for their project, VitaLines. / Photo by Madeleine Munselle

Cal Poly Students Awarded $5,000 in Fifth Annual Change the World: The Systems Thinking Challenge

Team members pose with award-winning ride

Cal Poly Team Wins Big at National Ride Engineering Competition