Cal Poly Space Systems tested their new liquid fuel rocket engine, Dulcimer 1, in hopes of proving valid engine model. The club is working on demonstrating a proof of concept for their liquid rocket engine so that they can scale up the project in the coming years. Mustang News reporter RJ Pollock shows us how […]
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Advancing gender equity: ‘Why are there not as many women in physics?’
The origin story responsible for shaping Denvir Higgins into the dedicated physics senior she is known as today is unconventional. Higgins’ passion for physics derives from her high school physics teacher, who consistently made jokes about dumb blondes amid class lessons. Denvir Higgins has blonde hair. She wanted to prove a point. “My journey with […]
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Cal Poly Students aren’t just riding bikes, they’re building them
When mechanical engineering senior Colin Reay came to Cal Poly, he had no prior interest in bicycles. Two years later, he found that he put over a thousand hours into creating one. Through Cal Poly Bike Builders, Reay found a community of people that could help him create any type of bike he could imagine. […]
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Missing and murdered Indigenous people honored in UU: ‘We want Indigenous students to feel heard’
Ethnic studies professor Lydia Heberling had attended an event celebrating Indigenous inclusion in the new Burke Museum in Seattle, WA, where a member of the Duwamish Tribe created pins to give out to attendees. On the pin rests a ribbon made of cedar wood — used as a medicine in Coast Salish tribes — and […]
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Cal Poly Engineering partners with Girl Scouts to build functional, life-size Lego robot
The Cal Poly Engineering Department is partnering with the Girl Scouts of California’s Central Coast to build a functional, life-sized Lego robot, according to a press release. Due to supply chain issues from LEGO, the event has been postponed indefinitely. The department doesn’t yet have information on when the legos will arrive. Industrial engineering senior […]
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The endurance of a creative engineering club
On the second floor of the Bonderson Project Center is the Innovation Sandbox club. When the club’s president, Toby Darci-Maher, was a Cal Poly freshman, the small space was filled with students creating, getting assistance on projects and exploring the creative side of engineering. The once 40 person club is now run by five students. […]
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A Cal Poly senior project is making virtual labs a reality
OdinXR, a Cal Poly senior project group, is developing a solution to allow engineering students affected by COVID-19 to attend labs using a virtual reality headset. Electrical engineering senior, Tessa Luzuriaga, came up with the idea in July 2020, after COVID-19 took away the hands-on learning she and her peers expected from their classes. “We […]
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Cal Poly CubeSat earns a spot in Space Technology Hall of Fame
CubeSats, a miniature satellite technology co-created at Cal Poly, will be inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame during the 37th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs April 4-7. Jordi Puig-Suari, a former Cal Poly aerospace engineering professor, and now-retired Stanford University professor Bob Twiggs created the CubeSat together in 1999. Today, the CubeStat has […]
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Graduating from Cal Poly at 18 — and he’s just getting started
This month, Karan Singh surpassed a major milestone in his life as he celebrated his 18th birthday. In March, he will experience another milestone: graduating from college. Singh will be graduating from Cal Poly this winter with an electrical engineering degree completed in two and a half years. This will happen before many other 18-year-olds […]
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Cal Poly’s new ‘Change the World Challenge’ application due Nov. 5
Cal Poly College of Engineering is offering $35,000 in prize money to upperclassman student teams that participate in the first Change the World Challenge, a competition aimed at addressing the world’s pressing issues and promoting holistic thinking amongst students. For the first installment of this challenge, this year’s theme is “Solutions for Living in a […]
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Cal Poly graduate brings the conversation of marginalized groups into the classroom
As Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters filled city streets this past summer, biomedical engineering graduate student Alexander Silva thought of other ways to combat racism in the field of biomedical engineering.