Sailing on Sunbeams

Now that a mini-satellite prepared at Cal Poly has successfully propelled through space with solar power, Bill Nye the Science Guy has another cosmic goal – and this one is even farther

LEO Launch

LEO, the latest Cal Poly CubeSAT, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket Monday night from NASA’s historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The megarocket — the most

MEDITEC program wraps-up another successful year

Professor Kristen Cardinal wrapped up another successful year of MEDITEC projects, with 15 projects, involving 47 students from throughout the College of Engineering. The MEDITEC program brings industry-sponsored projects from the biomedical

Do the Right Thing

When a viral video revealed a dispenser that only offered soap to white people, commenters were quick to joke that the product was somehow racist. While that notion seemed absurd, the soap dispenser’s design

Teen Cybersleuths

Six middle school students whose school was destroyed in the deadly Paradise fires are among the hundreds of students who will be taking part in the third California Cyber Innovation Challenge, June

I Get Around

Mechanical Engineering students enrolled in ME 441 — often referred to as the “bike building class” — study the geometry and physics of single track vehicles and then design and construct their