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.
First woman technical lead takes Cal Poly Formula Racing Team to Nebraska competition
The team will compete in Lincoln, Nebraska June 20-23.
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.
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
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…
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…
Cal Poly unit cap agreement reached
All the majors Cal Poly requested to go over 180 units were approved.
‘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.
Radio club talks out of this world
The Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club successfully contacted life in outer space today in a radio conversation with International Space Station astronaut Daniel Burbank at the Keck Advanced Technology Laboratory on campus. The nine-and-a-half minute conversation with Burbank was…
The search for Amelia Earhart
With a tilted head and arms clasped behind her back, Amelia Earhart smiled for the camera. Earhart visited Cal Poly June 25, 1936, with famous stunt pilot Paul Mantz. She took a photo in front of the aeronautical department with…
Toaster-sized launcher to pop out NASA satellites
Cal Poly students will mark their first mission with NASA when their satellite launcher is sent to space out of Vandenberg Air Force Base on Feb. 23.