Cal Poly Pomona’s student racing and engineering team is bound for Europe after continuing its winning streak in June by coming in fourth in a competition in Nebraska. The Formula SAE team’s performance in Lincoln placed it alongside teams from…
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Cal Poly Pomona’s rocketry team has come in fifth in a nationwide competition sponsored by NASA, placing it among schools that include Vanderbilt and Notre Dame. As part of the Student Launch Initiative, the team spent months designing and building…
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Much of modern Southern California can be traced to a mid-century boom in the aerospace and defense industries. Manufacturing plants sprouted across the region practically overnight, replacing an avocado and citrus-driven economy with a tech-based one that supported millions of…
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Some students come to Cal Poly Pomona to get a learn-by-doing education. Joy Chang got that experience without setting a foot into a classroom. When Chang was 18, her parents began preparing for divorce. Wanting her mother to be fully…
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It might be easy to forget sometimes, but engineering isn’t just aircraft and bridges. It can encompass everything from seawater desalination to robots for stir frying food. Those projects and many, many more were on display when the College of…
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Cal Poly Pomona’s Formula SAE team has achieved a top ranking in an international race and design competition held in Michigan in May. The team placed 14th out of 120 in the Formula SAE Series, beating out all other California…
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A Cal Poly Pomona architecture student has been awarded a top prize at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s second annual ECO Innovators Showcase competition for designing an eco-friendly public healthcare center. Samantha Schieldge tied for top individual honors…
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Roads, freeways, bridges and rail lines don’t just happen. Even the most humble pieces of transportation infrastructure involve months of planning and design. Underlying that planning and design work is an enormous body of research. And Cal Poly Pomona, which…
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Art, history and graphic design will converge later this month when the students of the art department show off the best of their work at a trio of year-ending exhibitions. Collectively dubbed Poly-Kroma, the exhibitions open Monday, May 19, and…
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Months of tinkering and brainstorming came to fruition last week when hundreds of students from more than a dozen elementary schools gathered on the Cal Poly Pomona campus. Under massive canopy tents on the Engineering Meadow, hundreds of youngsters made…
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