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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

Student holds electronics assembly of a prototype

Three Cal Poly Teams Advance to NASA Human Lander Challenge Finals

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

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

A group of people in a classroom looking at the speaker at the front of the class

IISE Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Awarded to More Than 50 Participants

BEACoN_5

Industrial and Manufacturing Students Identify Problems Small Businesses Face Through BEACoN Research Project

Students stand next to human-powered vehicle

Powered by Pedals and Ingenuity, Cal Poly’s Human Powered Vehicle Hits 50 mph in the Desert

Side-by-side photo of Meera and Damien

Engineering Their Own Way: Meera Vimalaraj and Damien Butler Find Freedom in Flexibility

A student holding part of a 3D printed prosthesis, while a woman sitting to his right tries on another part of the prosthesis

Cal Poly Tikkun Olam Makers Design Custom, Affordable Prosthetics for Community Members

Student winners pose with staff and faculty

2026 CSU Student Research Competition

Professor and student wheel airplane out of hangar

When Students Built an Airplane

Group stands with finished roller coaster

They Built a Roller Coaster in a Week — for One of the Biggest Names on YouTube