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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

CENG Student Spotlight: Andrew Dillon

Student gives a thumbs-up from inside a micromobile home

Engineering Team Designs Micromobile Home for the Trail

Lego set portrait

Computer Science Student Builds His Way into Lego History

Students and faculty members posing for a group photo in front of a step and repeat banner at a conference.

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Students Present Latest Research at 2025 IISE Conference

Students in a row posing and holding up airplane parts.

Design, Build, Fly Team Shows Off Their Latest Plane at the International SAE Aero Design West Competition

Team members gather around race car after testing

Full Charge Ahead: Cal Poly Racing Enters a New Era with Electric Drive and Enduring Team Spirit

Group shows off themed ride entry

Poet-Engineer Brings Creative Spark to CAPED’s National Victory

Two students holding a small robot that they built.

Computer Engineering Society Hackathon Gives Students Access to Latest Technology