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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

Team holds awards after competition

Cal Poly Students Go from Hydropower Newcomers to National Champions

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

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Cal Poly IME Students Win First Place in IISE Operations Research Case Hackathon

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Cal Poly Wind Power Team Takes Home Two First-Place Wins at the Department of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition

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CENG Student Spotlight: Jackson Douvia

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CENG Student Spotlight: Angelika Canete

Students using red Solo cups during a team-building activity

Annual Biomedical Make-A-Thon Spurs Initiatives to Tackle Arthritis

Two students sitting on top of a car, working on a wind turbine

Cal Poly Wind Power Team Heads to 2024 Collegiate Wind Competition Finals

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Student Shop Techs Power Cal Poly’s Hands-On Learning

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Study Abroad Program Returns to Rome in 2024

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Robotics Team Unbeaten, Heading to World Championship with High Hopes