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Museum visitor tests out VR experience with headset and controllers

Cal Poly Students Create VR Space Mission for Aerospace Museum

Students pose in front of Hilmar sign

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

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

Two students sitting on top of a car, working on a wind turbine

Cal Poly Wind Power Team Heads to 2024 Collegiate Wind Competition Finals

Portrait of shop tech Alan Onuma

Student Shop Techs Power Cal Poly’s Hands-On Learning

Students in front of the Roman Colosseum

Study Abroad Program Returns to Rome in 2024

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Robotics Team Unbeaten, Heading to World Championship with High Hopes

Students pose in front of fountain in Rome

Code in Rome with Cal Poly’s Software Engineering Program

Band members perform on stage

Couch Dog Unleashes Debut Album as They Chase Their Musical Dreams

Student sails by Morro Rock

Senior Project to Help Engineering Student Sail Around the World

A view of "Little Thunder Mountain" backyard roller coaster

Do You Want a Roller Coaster in Your Backyard?