Cal Poly Pomona’s Baja SAE team captured the third place design award in the Baja SAE Illinois Competition from a field of 99 teams. This marks the first time that the team has captured a top design award, and the…
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A project designed to prevent water used in sinks, showers and washing machines from going to waste has earned Cal Poly Pomona engineering students a second-place prize at the Metropolitan Water District’s 10th annual Spring Green Expo. Bowen Du, Crystal…
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Jose Comi isn’t just a graduate student; he’s also a high school teacher. He’s not just an inventor; he’s also an aspiring surgeon. The 24-year-old is pursuing a graduate degree in mechanical engineering while teaching chemistry full time at Garey…
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Engineering students struggling through tough courses, or who just have an interest in learning, have a brand-new resource thanks to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Faculty members from the department have launched a new website called ME Online, which hosts…
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In light of National Engineers Week, mechanical engineering Professor Mariappan Jawaharlal discusses gender bias in the engineering field. This story appeared on the Huffington Post on Feb. 23, 2015.…
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Last year, Mechanical Engineering Professor Paul Nissenson did something that no one had ever done before in Cal Poly Pomona history. He created the university’s first MOOC. MOOCs, also known as massive online open courses, use web-based technologies to bring…
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In Professor Linchi Kwok’s Hotel, Advertising and PR class, a call for students to get ready to take a quiz prompts them to pull out smartphones, not pen and paper. Lectures that once would have been delivered from a podium…
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Here are some of the projects in which faculty members are engaged: Recycling food waste to feed livestock — ALLEN PETTY, animal and veterinary science Utilizing dairy-waste-fed algae to produce livestock feed — SHELTON MURINDA, animal and veterinary science Utilizing 3-D…
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It’s 6 a.m. in the middle of nowhere, and the students unload tables, laptops and huge television screens from the trailer. They look up at the cloudless San Luis Obispo sky and ask each other: Is it too windy? Too…
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During his childhood, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering William Stine was not allowed to see his father’s war memorabilia. Harold Stine, a World War I reconnaissance pilot from 1917-19, only ever talked about the airplanes he flew. “It was hidden…
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