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Students ‘Move to Build’ PolyHouse

Laura Pezzini lpezzini@mustangdaily.net It’s not often college students are able to put their coursework to use in a philanthropic way, but for industrial and manufacturing engineering (IME) students, that opportunity has been made possible in the form of PolyHouse. In the PolyHouse program, students and faculty work together to improve the home of a local […]

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Learn by doing inside out

For some industrial and manufacturing engineering classes, it’s like falling down the rabbit hole — lectures are done at home, homework is done in lectures. The new class structure focuses on a better way of learning. Several industrial and manufacturing engineering faculty, including associate professor Lizabeth Schlemer, have turned their focus to improving the traditional […]

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'Move to Build' the next PolyHouse

Dress like you’re from the ’80s and run — in the name of charity. The ninth annual PolyHouse project, a program which remodels homes for disadvantaged families, kicks off this spring with a fund-run to raise awareness and funds Saturday. Industrial manufacturing engineering professor Roya Javadpour founded the PolyHouse project in 2004 as part of the […]

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Engineers navigate recession successfully

Students graduating as industrial and manufacturing engineers from Cal Poly are not having problems finding jobs, engineering department chair Jose Macedo said. Companies such as Raytheon and Solar Turbines look for Cal Poly students, especially in the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, because the students have the confidence and experience to work in a company such […]

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