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After months of troubleshooting, the plasma finally stayed lit.
Cal Poly aerospace engineering students are testing Pocket Rocket, a hand-sized plasma device that could have future applications in air-breathing electric propulsion.
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Five Cal Poly Engineering programs rank No. 1 or No. 2 nationally in the 2027 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings.
See students across the college put that strength into practice through NASA projects, aerospace innovation and more:
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Each week, the College of Engineering highlights an outstanding member of our engineering community. This week, we are introducing electrical engineering lecturer Zaid Pitafi.
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Cal Poly’s Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers chapter gives students space to build, test and debug hardware, from printed circuit boards to breathalyzers.
See how the chapter is helping students develop technical skills and confidence: calpoly.pulse.ly/hscdhdugq2
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Each week, the College of Engineering highlights an outstanding member of our engineering community. This week, we are introducing Nina Aliamus, full-time lecturer of civil and environmental engineering. Read more:
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A new CNC program took 12 Cal Poly engineering students to Spain this summer to study alongside international peers. For Will Fowler, the experience helped clarify where he wants his career to go.
Read about the Gene Haas Foundation-supported program.
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Vibe coding helped Cal Poly Engineering students build app prototypes in weeks. Human factors pushed them to keep refining. One project that began in Duha Ali’s course, SARA, is still moving forward as a search-and-rescue tool. Read more:
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A 21-member ABET team will arrive at Cal Poly next week for a three-day accreditation review.
See how the process helps engineering programs meet national standards and strengthen student learning over time.
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Four College of Engineering faculty members received universitywide honors from Cal Poly for excellence in teaching, scholarship, advising and philanthropic leadership.
Meet this year’s honorees and learn more about their impact:
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Cal Poly’s newest materials engineering students started WOW with a shoe design challenge.
Teams created footwear from an assortment of materials and pitched their designs “Shark Tank”-style to MATE faculty judges.
See the annual competition:
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Each week, the we highlight an outstanding member of our engineering community. This week, we are introducing Kuba Preis, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering whose Cal Poly journey has brought him from student to professor.
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Each week, the College of Engineering highlights an outstanding member of our engineering community. This week, we’re featuring recent computer engineering alumnus Gus Flusser.
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Gus Flusser had built software before. He had never seen a customer jump out of a chair.
Through Cal Poly’s Digital Transformation Hub, the computer engineering graduate used AWS technology to help public agencies tackle time-consuming problems.
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As aerospace activity grows around Vandenberg, a new Cal Poly workshop will help students and faculty explore the business opportunities emerging alongside it.
See how Bob Crockett is bringing aerospace and entrepreneurship together:
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Recent mechanical engineering graduate Donovan Furtado engineered a lightweight carbon fiber paddle that won SAMPE’s inaugural Student Pickleball Paddle Design Competition. Cal Poly students also claimed second place in the category.
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Biomedical engineering professor Kristen O’Halloran Cardinal has received Cal Poly’s Provost’s Leadership Award for Partnership in Philanthropy after generating more than $500,000 in support for research and student opportunities.
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A water system in Kenya became more than an engineering project for Cal Poly students.
Through Engineers Without Borders, they returned, listened and built alongside the Masogo Market community.
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EPIC counselors and lab assistants help younger students explore engineering. Through EPIC+SURP, some become researchers studying how to make the camp even stronger.
Discover the program’s double impact:
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Cal Poly mechanical engineering seniors won first place overall in NASA’s 2026 Human Lander Challenge with PHAT, a cold-water system designed for future lunar and Mars missions.
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Mechanical engineering teaching scholar Brian Davis once told Maddy Reedy he wanted to become a Muppet. Years later, she and a senior project team turned that wish into “The Brian Davis Show,” an animatronic puppet built in his likeness.
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