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The Long Road to Mars

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Vibe Coding With People in Mind

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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

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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

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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

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Grace Hopper Celebration Brings Renewed Energy, Connection to Computer Science and Software Engineering Students

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