The mission of the Architectural Engineering Department at Cal Poly is to educate students to enter and be successful in the practice of structural engineering. The program focuses primarily on the California practice of structural engineering, that emphasizes seismic design. The curriculum goes beyond traditional structures program to give students an understanding of architecture and construction management as it relates a total project design.
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Senior Projects from 2024
Implementation of Fluid Viscous Damper for 2023 EERI Seismic Design Competition, Dalton J. Muck, Payton S. McGee, Payton R. Filippin, and Tynan Castro
Senior Projects from 2023
The Leaf for Leaning Pine Arboretum, Maria Boyle, Shelby Holmquist, and Andrew Duong
Investigation of Natural Pozzolans: Analyzing the Practicality of Natural Pozzolans as a Partial Substitute for Cement in Grout Production, Jadyn I. Breien, Andrew J. Baro, and Logan T. Marino
The Design and Construction of a Radio Telescope, Avery Elizabeth Bunting and Kira Hope Tolman
Evaluation of Structural Retrofit of a Hillside Home, Cameron C. R. Cunningham
Concrete Masonry Program (CMD21) Usability, Allie G. Decker
SLO Botanical Garden Deck, Noah E. Demer
PYTHON MANUAL: A LEARNING GUIDE FOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS, Aaron Dewey, Kennedy Gomez, and Meileen Yee
Timber Box Header Using BamCore Side Panels: A Senior Project Study, Jonathan Frank Herrera
Crescent: Proposed Arboretum Shade Structure, Hayle Jones, Ian Kelly, Emilie Phuong, and Brooke Heitman
Precious Plastics - Plastic Brick Machine Fabrication, Timothy Ukaobasi Kanu and Evi Paraskevi Troulis
Polymöbi: Single-Surface Timber Polyshell Shade Structure, Ryan Khieu, Tom Sesin, Gabriel Garfias, and Evan Brooks
Xenabloom, Sophia Maglabe, Ryer Lauth, Elizabeth Shaw, and Sheyna Rongong
The Center for Centering Dome, Olek Piechaczek and Ryan M. Scharf
ARCE 415 Portfolio: The Green Bird of Paradise, Kristofer R. Rickansrud, Ryan Chan, Brendan Peers, and Joel Santoyo
Mbesese Build 2023, Ben Stewart, Matthew Chung, and Ian McConnell
Senior Projects from 2022
Dynamic Response of Elastic Two-Story Steel Moment Frame Scaled Structure Equipped with Viscous Dampers, Garrett L. Barker and Alexander L. Poirier
Exploring the Post-Funicular at Cal Poly, Spencer Bazer and Kieran McCullough
Center for Centering: Analysis of a Modular Timber Dome, Lucas J. Brown
Increasing Strength of Plywood Shear Walls, Elizabeth Claypool and Michelle Dennin
Schematic Design and Peer Review of Gayaza Medical Center and Walk-In Clinic, Abigail Coffing and Alexis Buhr
Paso Robles Residence, Kaylie DiPaola
Fire Rebuild, Erin L. Dupree
Reciprocal Frames: The Flat Beam Grillage, Cesar Noe Jimenez Ramirez and Nicholas Sowatzke
Sage Garden Pavilion Shade Structure, Anthony Razouk Karroum, Manuel Bermudez, Matthew Kilbride, Sarah Holt, and Marisa Martineau