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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 man looking at a computer and a woman sitting across from him with a headset on.

Emotional Responses to AI: How Humans Perceive and React to Artificial Intelligence

Student stands next to hydrogen-electric demonstrator

Pushing the Limits of Air Travel: A Cal Poly Student’s Role in the Next Big Breakthrough

Exciting Internship Opportunities at TSS for Computer Science and Engineering Students

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Reaching New Heights: How one Cal Poly Student Became the Youngest Person to Complete the Bulger List Climbs

Otter Pops are frozen with liquid nitrogen

Fueling the Future: Cal Poly and Boeing Chart a Course in Cryogenic Propulsion

Students in a classroom looking at the front of the room.

Summer Jump Start Program Gets Students ‘Transfer-Ready’ for Upcoming School Year

Four students pose in the Composites Lab with various materials

Innovating Ballistics Armor: Students Forge Ahead Despite Challenges

A Cal Poly student standing in front of her poster at the 2024 Senior Project Expo.

Environmental Engineering Student Honored with Harold and Judy Cota Award, Outstanding Woman in Engineering Award