Cal Poly San Luis Obispo College of Engineering

The College of Engineering
The Engineering IV Building
Motto Learn By Doing
Type Public
Dean Amy Fleischer
Academic staff
 238 (2017 Fall) [1]
Students 6,448 (2017 Fall)[2]
Undergraduates 6,124 (2017 Fall)[2]
Postgraduates 324 (2017 Fall)[2]
Location San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Campus Suburban
Website www.ceng.calpoly.edu

The Cal Poly San Luis Obispo College of Engineering is the engineering college of the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. It has over 200 faculty members and more than 6,000 students enrolled in fourteen bachelor's and in eleven master's degree programs through nine engineering departments.[1] Its facilities house more than 80 classrooms, laboratories and work spaces occupying more than 160,000 square feet.

General information

The Engineering West Building

The College of Engineering is the largest of Cal Poly's six colleges, with 6,448 students (6,124 undergraduate and 324 graduate students) of the 21,306 enrolled at the university in Fall 2016.[2] For engineering freshmen entering Fall 2017, Cal Poly accepted 26.7% of applicants (4,466 accepted/16,697 applied); admitted freshmen had an average GPA of 4.08, average ACT composite of 30.4, and average SAT composite score of 1450 (out of 1600) for reading and math.[3] According to U.S. News & World Report's 2017 America's Best Colleges report, the College of Engineering isranked No. 7 for undergraduate engineering schools in the U.S. whose highest degree is a Master's.[4] Cal Poly San Luis Obispo offers 4+1 Master (5-year) programs for some engineering majors. The College of Engineering has almost 80 student clubs which offer project, leadership, service, conference and competition opportunities. According to the college, 90% of graduates are employed or enrolled in graduate school within a year after graduation.

Departments

Aerospace Engineering

The Aerospace Engineering program was ranked by U.S. News & World Report's 2018 America's Best Colleges report (includes both private and public universities) as #2 (of the 2 programs at engineering schools whose highest degree is a Master's).[5]

Civil and Environmental Engineering

The Bachelor of Science degree program stresses the team design concept and systems approach to problem solving and is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).[6]

Civil Engineering offers curses specializing in

Environmental Engineering offers courses specializing in:

Prior to 1977, there was no Civil Engineering Department. The Transportation Engineering Department offered civil engineering courses as well as courses in transportation engineering. The Environmental Engineering Department began in 1969, but when Warren Baker was hired as president of the university, in 1979, he combined the Environmental Engineering and Transportation Engineering departments into the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department.

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department also includes the 2008, 2009, 2010 Robert Ridgway Award-winning Society of Civil Engineers (student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers) and the American Society of Civil Engineers 2010, 2011 and 2012 National Concrete Canoe Competition champions. The Society of Environmental Engineers placed 2nd for best chapter in AWMA in 2009. The Chi Epsilon Honors Society chapter won the inaugural Chi Epsilon (Pacific District) Cup, and are now ranked as the #1 chapter in California and Hawaii.

The Civil Engineering program was ranked by U.S. News & World Report's 2019 America's Best Colleges report as #3 overall (of 9 [programs in engineering schools whose highest degree is a Master's).[7]

Clubs/Organizations Affiliated with the Department:

  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Chapter
  • Society of Environmental Engineers (SENVE)
  • Engineers Without Borders (EWB) - Cal Poly
  • Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
  • Cal Poly RainWorks
  • Cal Poly Biodiesel Project

Computer Engineering

The Computer Engineering major is an interdisciplinary program resting on the foundations of two departments: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and it is fully accredited by ABET.[8]

The Computer Engineering program was ranked by U.S. News & World Report's 2019 America's Best Colleges report as #2 overall (of the 8 programs in engineering schools whose highest degree is a Master's).[9]

Electrical Engineering

The Electrical Engineering Department offers Bachelor of Science and Master of Science programs in electrical engineering, which are accredited by the ABET. The department supports interdisciplinary programs such as Computer Engineering and many graduate as well as undergraduate students are served by the department.[10]

Specializations:

The Electrical Engineering program was ranked by U.S. News & World Report's 2019 America's Best Colleges report (includes both private and public universities) as tied for #3 overall (of those eight program in engineering schools whose highest degree is a Master's).[11]

General and Biomedical Engineering

In the past, Biomedical Engineering was a concentration within the general engineering major. In 2005, the program was implemented with its own stand-alone curriculum.el.

Specializations:

Clubs/Organizations Affiliated with the Department:

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME)

The program was established in 1956, the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department trains students to design, install, and improve systems that integrate people, technology, materials, and information. U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges 2019 listed the university's Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department as the only program in non-PhD offering undergraduate engineering schools.

Degrees offered:

  • B.S. Industrial Engineering
  • B.S. Manufacturing Engineering
  • M.S. Industrial Engineering
  • 5 Year B.S.+M.S. Industrial Engineering Blended Program

Mechanical Engineering

The Mechanical Engineering program was ranked by U.S. News & World Report's 2018 America's Best Colleges report (as #3 overall (of the 12 programs in engineering schools whose highest degree is a Master's).[12]

The program is affiliated with ASME.[13]

Centers and Institutes

  • Center for Sustainability in Engineering
  • Electric Power Institute
  • Global Waste Research Institute
  • National Pool Industry Research Center
  • Poly GAIT (Laboratory for Global Automatic Identification Technologies)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "College of Engineering Basic Facts". Cal Poly. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Cal Poly Registration Monitor Fall 2016 Final Census" (PDF). Cal Poly Institutional Planning and Analysis.
  3. ↑ "Student Profile - Admissions - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo". Cal Poly Admissions. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  4. ↑ "Best Colleges Specialty Rankings: Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on 2016-09-30. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  5. ↑ "Best Colleges Specialty Rankings: Undergraduate Engineering Specialties: Aerospace / Aeronautical / Astronautical". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
  6. ↑ "Mission and Objectives". Cal Poly Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
  7. ↑ "Best Colleges Specialty Rankings: Undergraduate Engineering Specialties: Civil". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
  8. ↑ "About Computer Engineering". Cal Poly Computer Engineering Department. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
  9. ↑ "Best Colleges Specialty Rankings: Undergraduate Engineering Specialties: Computer". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
  10. ↑ "About Electrical Engineering". Cal Poly Electrical Engineering Department. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  11. ↑ "Best Colleges Specialty Rankings: Undergraduate Engineering Specialties: Electrical / Electronic / Communications Rank". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
  12. ↑ "Best Colleges Specialty Rankings: Undergraduate Engineering Specialties: Mechanical". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
  13. ↑ "Cal Poly American Society of Mechanical Engineers". ASME. Retrieved December 21, 2012.

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