Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is rolling out a new Cybersecurity Center in collaboration with Northup Grumman and Raytheon with an eye toward training security experts for the defense industry and giving all of its engineering students a firmer grasp of how to make their creations secure against hackers.
An in-bottle wine aerator, a Spider-Man-like robot that can climb walls and a peach pit detector were among the projects on display at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s mechanical engineering expo on Nov. 21.
By Dana Olsen / Friday, July 12th, 2013 / Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Analysis: Region’s students take on less college debt than peers do
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Correction appended below] While the college debt crisis has been making national headlines in recent years, students who graduated from a California school are faring relatively well compared to their counterparts in other states. According to a report from CNBC, Americans now have more student loan debt than credit card debt, with a Read More →
Doug Cerf, area chair for accounting and business law at the Orfalea College of Business, will serve as interim dean starting July 1. Cerf has been area chair for accounting and business law since 2007, and a Cal Poly faculty member since 1990. The announcement was made in a news release from Cal Poly. Cerf’s Read More →
By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, June 7th, 2013 / Columns, Technology / Comments Off on Cal Poly engineers showcase their skills for employers at Project Expo
There’s one thing every tech company in the region has in common: They all need engineers.
A San Luis Obispo startup founded by Cal Poly students has been acquired by a Silicon Valley firm, marking the second sale of a student business from the school in two years. Quest.to, which was founded during a Startup Weekend event in 2012 and then attended the HotHouse summer accelerator program organized by the school’s Read More →
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