Over 80% of engineering students at Cal Poly believe year-round operations will harm the school, with concerns ranging from internships and club activities to lack of AC in buildings and disruption of social lives.
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How Poly1rover is shooting for the stars
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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Central Coast Girl Scouts work with Cal Poly Engineering Students
Engineering students have collaborated with The Central Coast Girl Scouts in order to make a lego robot. Reporter Ava Kershner has more on how this project came together.
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Students improve shark-spotting technology
Sept. 2020 marked the end to one of Cal Poly’s summer undergraduate research programs (SURP) where students and Cal Poly alumni developed a safer and cheaper tool to detect sharks off the coast of California using artificial intelligence. Before the new technology, volunteers for the shark lab would have to comb through hours of drone […]
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Cal Poly Engineering opens task force for new department proposal
The Cal Poly College of Engineering (CENG) is launching a task force to elevate the computer engineering (CPE) program to department status.
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Civil engineering Steel Bridge team makes Cal Poly history
Laura Hoover went to the Steel Bridge team practice as it prepared for the national competition.
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Engineering students create low-cost prosthetic that will change lives
A group of engineering students are completing their senior projects by designing a $50 prosthetic prototype.
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Jesse Yap swings away
Golf requires consistency and mental toughness. Jesse Yap, a member of the Cal Poly men’s golf team, has come to epitomize both of those qualities on and off the course. Born in Alabama and raised in Singapore, Yap committed to compulsory military training right out of high school and currently sports a 4.0 GPA in the College of Engineering. A vital member of this year’s squad, Yap sits second on the team in scoring average (72.9) and was key in the program’s first win in nearly three years ear
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Cal Poly students work to sustain
The Cal Poly Future Fuels club wants to bridge a gap they see between students and the community. See what the Future Fuels club had in store for city residents at the Central Coast Sustainability Festival.
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Cal Poly unit caps still uncertain, no response from Chancellor’s Office
Cal Poly has requested their engineering and science-based programs be exempt from the 180 unit cap.
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Cal Poly chooses new engineering dean
Larson, a civil engineering professor and the Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs with Northern Arizona University, was named the new dean of Cal Poly Engineering by President Armstrong on June 24, 2011.