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The Long Road to Mars

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Vibe Coding With People in Mind

Students pitch their shoe during a WOW event

MATE Students Find Their Footing During WOW

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

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

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