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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

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

Students gather for a group photo at conference

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

Student and professor work at laptop

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

Students present their project poster

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

CENG Student Spotlight: Yaneli Cruz

Group of students gather for donuts

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

Student-Built CubeSat Sends Cal Poly Back to Orbit