Rajan Chandra, an electrical and computer engineering professor, died on March 23. Chandra called Cal Poly Pomona home for 35 years. He taught a wide variety of classes for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and supervised…
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Podcasts have never been more popular. Accordingly, Cal Poly Pomona has a growing list of podcast series produced by faculty, students and staff from various departments. Below are summaries of some of the podcasts currently being produced by the CPP…
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John “Jack” O’Neil, a longtime engineering professor who opened his home for nearly three decades to engineering students for a Thanksgiving meal and funded scholarships after retiring, died Feb. 12 after a long illness. O’Neil, a former aerospace engineer for…
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The Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs announced on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020, that Dean Joseph Rencis of the College of Engineering has decided to transition from his role as dean to a faculty role. This…
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Vache Garabedian got his foot in the door of the construction industry as an intern for the Student Housing Replacement Project. Now he’s putting the finishing touches on the residence halls as a project engineer. The 2018 Cal Poly Pomona…
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The funds provided by a municipal engineering firm, which specializes in civil engineering, design construction management, project management, traffic and transportation engineering, and land use, will be used to award $3,000 scholarships to five civil engineering students. Alumna Melissa Demirci…
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Recent aerospace engineering graduates won three international design competitions sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the professional organization for aerospace engineers. In the AIAA Graduate Missile Systems Competition, separate Cal Poly Pomona teams placed first and…
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Michael Thompson never expected that discussing basic engineering concepts with a Raytheon hardware manager would lead to a job in the systems department by the end of the day. Especially when he couldn’t find his business shoes and walked in…
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Joseph Rencis, dean for the College of Engineering, receives the 2019 Isadore T. Davis Award for Excellence in Collaboration of Engineering Education and Industry from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Selected for Rencis’ history of leadership in engineering…
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Two Cal Poly Pomona engineering professors have won a $149,000 grant from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to continue development of a low-cost energy storage system using reverse osmosis concentrate (ROC), the byproduct of water desalinization plants. As droughts increase,…
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