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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

Student flipping off off-road vehicle

Flipping the Script: Cal Poly Baja Races Toward a New Season and Stronger Culture

A man talking on speaker phone

Cal/OSHA is Hiring Safety Engineers

Environmental engineering graduate student Corinne Watson

CENG Student Spotlight: Corinne Watson

Cal Poly students with President Armstrong at the state capitol.

College of Engineering Students Honored by Lawmakers at State Capitol

Four students standing in front of a research poster, all facing the camera and smiling.

Mechanical Engineering Students Recognized for Sustainable Energy Ocean Concept

Sustainable Bamboo Construction & Engineering Opportunity

Last Chance to Sign up for Bamboo Construction & Environmental Restoration in Ecuador

Students and professor stand next to project poster

Cal Poly Students Advance Prosthetic Fit Technology in Sony Collaboration

Students in front of the Roman Colosseum

Study Abroad in Rome Returns to Cal Poly Engineering in 2025