More than 100 Cal Poly students are working toward a goal: sending a student-built rover to Mars by 2030. The club, known as Poly1rover, brings together students from all majors and class years to design, build, and test a functional Mars rover. Members work in specialized teams focused on areas like software design, electrical systems, […]
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Cal Poly alum’s payload soars to 37,000 feet on Dawn Aerospace’s Aurora Spaceplane
George Harrison, an aerospace engineering alum, designed part of a payload that flew on Dawn Aerospace’s Aurora Spaceplane, which was the first U.S. student-built system to fly on the spaceplane and the first commercial flight for Dawn Aerospace.
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The financials of a blended program
It’s President’s Day, and the majority of Cal Poly’s campus is empty. Jensen Lam, an aerospace engineering master’s student, is in a classroom analyzing particles to prove that 3D lasers are as effective as a class four laser system.
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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.
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First woman technical lead takes Cal Poly Formula Racing Team to Nebraska competition
The team will compete in Lincoln, Nebraska June 20-23.
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Three graduate students are working to make the perfect surfboard fin
Shaun Wixted was talking about his passion for surfing in Cal Poly’s wind tunnel lab when the idea for a perfectly-proportioned surfboard fin hit.
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On your marks, get set, solar: PROVE Lab helps kids build solar cars
The PROVE Outreach Program shared their knowledge and taught middle school students how to power cars using the sun in hopes of inspiring future engineers
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Meet the freshman ready to break a world record
When Lacey Davis started at Cal Poly this fall, she didn’t expect to be asked to drive the fastest solar-powered vehicle in existence. But standing at 5 feet 3 inches, the aerospace engineering freshman was the perfect candidate to squeeze into a sleek, aerodynamic car set to break a world record. Davis is a member […]
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Reaching for the stars
When aerospace engineering freshman Sophia Brown arrived at Cal Poly at the start of the school year, she began her journey toward fulfilling her childhood dream. At age 18, Brown is the starting goalkeeper for the Cal Poly women’s soccer team. In her first season with the Mustangs, Brown started and finished all 19 games […]
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Cal Poly unit cap agreement reached
All the majors Cal Poly requested to go over 180 units were approved.
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‘They are like my kids, and it hurts’: Remembering the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo crash
Cal Poly graduate Michael Alsbury died in the crash of SpaceShipTwo. Peter Siebold—also a graduate— survived.