Cal Poly has a reputation for producing some of the top graduates in the state, but who are the top of the top?
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Society of Women Engineers breaks stereotypes
Aryn Sanderson asanderson@mustangdaily.net Men dominate Cal Poly’s College of Engineering. A whopping 81.5 percent of the college — some 4,410 students — are men. Despite being a minority on campus, female engineers have made the Cal Poly chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) one of the largest in the nation. General engineering senior […]
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A liberal dose of engineering
Very few majors offer students the chance to work in both the arts and sciences simultaneously. In fact, at Cal Poly there is only one: liberal arts and engineering studies. Liberal arts and engineering studies (LAES) is an interdisciplinary program that combines skills from the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Engineering to […]
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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 featured aspect of an event hosted by the Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club and the […]
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Ms. Engineer contest no more
There will be no Ms. Engineer in 2012. After promoting the event at the beginning of the school year, the Engineering Student Council (ESC) decided to end the event a month ago. This would have been in its third year. The event, instead, will be replaced by a talent competition. The council decided to cancel […]
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Don't get mad, get grad
In an increasingly competitive workplace, master’s degrees are slowly replacing the previous industry standards of bachelor’s degrees, so students are looking into graduate schools more and more. Jason Lancaster graduated from Cal Poly in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and geography. After a year of travel, he enrolled this year in the graduate […]
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Dean’s complaints incite lawsuit
According to an e-mail sent in Oct. 2007, former dean of Cal Poly’s College of Engineering Mohammad Noori “sold (his) soul to the devil Saudi Arabia” — at least this was written in the mass message sent to all faculty and staff by Noori’s alleged hacked account.
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Engineering department receives ABET recognition
The College of Engineering received recognition at the 2010 Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) symposium for its assessment techniques and evaluation reports utilized by the ABET for ongoing accreditation.
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Eight million donated from alumnus for College of Engineering
Alumnus Paul R. Bonderson, Jr. donated $8 million to create the Bonderson Project Center in the College of Engineering to provide a space for students to work together on projects.
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Supermileage Team takes second in eco-marathon
Cal Poly took a top spot at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana this weekend in a race that tested not speed, but longevity. The University earned second place out of 44 participating schools in the 2009 Shell Eco-marathon Americas.