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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

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.
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Cal Poly Team Wins NASA Human Lander Challenge With Cold-Water System for Space Missions

A woman smiles warmly at the camera in a winter selfie, wearing a knit beanie, a striped burgundy and gold scarf, and a black puffer jacket, with a snowy outdoor scene and bare trees visible behind her.
Faculty/Staff News

CENG Faculty Spotlight: Marjan Zare

A group of cleanroom-suited researchers crowd around a large microscope or lithography machine in a yellow-lit semiconductor fabrication lab.
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A 72-Step Process, One Student’s Plan to Improve It

Team holds awards after competition
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Cal Poly Students Go from Hydropower Newcomers to National Champions 

Student holds electronics assembly of a prototype
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Three Cal Poly Teams Advance to NASA Human Lander Challenge Finals 

Group photo at SAMPE conference
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Cal Poly SAMPE Club Takes First Overall at International Student Competition 

Two students standing in front of a wall that has SAMPE North America printed on it
Faculty

Cal Poly Students Present Peer-Reviewed Paper and Three Posters at SAMPE 2026

Grant M. Brown Engineering Building, college of engineering.
Faculty

Faculty Research Roundup

Students gather for a group photo at conference
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No Digging Required: Engineering students and faculty work to launch a trenchless technology chapter