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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

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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

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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

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

Mechanical engineering master’s student Andrew Sugamele sets up a multi-function sensor to monitor temperature, relative humidity and carbon dioxide levels in a room in Building 20.

Too Hot to Learn? How Cal Poly Engineers are Investigating Thermal Comfort in Classrooms

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Reserve Your Spot to Visit the Accenture Office in San Francisco

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Experience Life Abroad through the Computational Sciences in Barcelona Program

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Take Part in the Northrop Grumman Collaboration Project

Students and faculty members stand on a shake table with part of their timber structure

Shaking up Seismic Research: Cal Poly Students Gear Up for Major Earthquake Test

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Are You Ready to Change the World?

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CENG Student Spotlight: Ashley Sirois

Student team poses for photo

Waterpower Club Kicks Off to Boost Student Engagement in Renewable Energy