Bronco Ember, a miniature satellite designed by students to detect nascent wildfires, passed its final inspection in the NASA TechLeap Challenge and is scheduled for a suborbital flight test at the end of June. The team has also earned $500,000…
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The Department of Interdisciplinary General Education (IGE) hosted alumna Rebecca Mikhaylov as its Professor for a Day. Mikhaylov talked to students about her journey from IGE to her position as an assistant section manager at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in…
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Luis Dominguez has waited seven months to see his work on the Mars rover Perseverance come to fruition. The rover, produced by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is expected to touch down on Mars Feb. 18 and employ the electronics and software crafted by the team Dominguez led. Dominguez (‘09, mechanical engineering) served as the deputy electrical integration…
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Cal Poly Pomona will host the 99th annual Pacific Division Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on June 12-15, 2018. The meeting will include public lectures, technical sessions, posters, workshops, several sessions focused on science…
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Some of Southern California’s brightest thinkers and doers gathered on the Cal Poly Pomona campus on Aug. 27 to tackle one of California’s thorniest issues — water. The SoCal Water Forum, hosted by the university and Congresswoman Grace Napolitano, brought…
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A new partnership between the College of Science and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is aiming to take research opportunities for Cal Poly Pomona’s graduate students to greater heights.
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Two mechanical engineering seniors took first and second place at the NASA JPL Glenn Tsuyuki Student Poster Awards, which was part of the Thermal & Fluids Analysis Workshop hosted by NASA JPL/Caltech. Matthew L. Samson’s “Thermal Management of an Unmanned…
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¿The Universe in 10 Weeks¿ is a popular class on campus, but most students aren¿t aware that astronomy is also an available field of study within the physics department at Cal Poly Pomona. Better marketing is one reason that the…
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Climate change rains down on JPL undergrads…
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