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The Long Road to Mars

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Vibe Coding With People in Mind

Students pitch their shoe during a WOW event

MATE Students Find Their Footing During WOW

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Cal Poly Students Create VR Space Mission for Aerospace Museum

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IME Senior Projects Mark Milestone Year for Industry Partnerships

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.

Cal Poly Seniors Build Learning Tools for Medically Fragile Students

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

Students show school spirit at canoe race

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

CENG Student Spotlight: Samantha Richert

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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

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Cal Poly Team Wins Big at National Ride Engineering Competition

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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.

Cal Poly Maritime Engineering Project Showcase

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.

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