Plastic barriers between desks, double doors open to ensure proper air flow, students taking labs with masks and face shields on and occupying at 50 percent capacity with their partners over zoom — these are some of the precautions that…
Cal Poly National Society of Black Engineers wins best chapter on west coast
NSBE is the longest-running black organization at Cal Poly.
15-year old admitted to Cal Poly, will join class of 2024 in fall
Incoming electrical engineering freshman Ashton Mitchell will be 16-years old when he starts at Cal Poly in the fall.
Cal Poly student 3D prints respiratory masks from garage
One Cal Poly engineering student’s 3D printing hobby turned into a way to combat medical equipment shortages after he was approached to print N95-style respirators out of his garage. Jeremy Ralston, a facilities engineer at the San Luis Obispo Surgery…
Wind Power Design team selected to compete in national competition
Cal Poly’s Wind Power Design team is among 13 universities selected to compete in the June 2021 Collegiate Wind Competition.
Engineering students, faculty are designing emergency ventilators for COVID-19 patients
An engineering professor and two of his students have been collaborating to design low-cost ventilators that could potentially be used to treat COVID-19 patients.
SLO Hacks encourages students to create ingenious projects in 36 hours
This year, 358 students formed teams and were tasked with creating a solution to an existing, real-world problem.
Engineering students created a ‘sled’ to help wheelchair users get to the ocean
Four members of the Cal Poly engineering department recently partnered with AmpSurf and Quality Life Plus in creating a project to provide people with disabilities a way to get from the beach to the ocean.
A Cal Poly club makes an impact by creating prosthesis
Quality of Life Plus, or QL+, was originally created in 2006 by Cal Poly alum Jon Monett as a program to help wounded veterans through interdisciplinary senior projects.
Meet the students helping NASA collect water on the Moon and Mars
Their mission? To build a robot that can drill through rocks and sand, and extract clean water from the ice beneath it while simultaneously taking measurements.
Cal Poly researchers grow their own cells in lab, avoiding animal testing
Thirteen years and millions of cells ago, Kristen O’Halloran Cardinal began the tissue engineering lab at Cal Poly.