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 2022
Fire Rebuild, Erin L. Dupree
Guastavino: Learn By Doweling, Audrey Luu, Gabrielle Favro, Robert Pulido, and Cameron Grant
Population Growth vs. Landfill Capacity vs. Recycling Mandates in California Counties, Thomas Soares
Team Torroja, Justine Teoh, Lindsey Brophy, and Brandon Watrin
Funicular Shell Exploration: Form Finding and Fabrication, Alexis Truong, Adria Burton, and Ethan Mach
Senior Projects from 2021
Chinese Timber Woven Arch Bridges, Owen M. Anderson and Kaleigh G. Kant
Reconceptualizing Mies' Glass House, Araceli Avelar, Armando Castaneda Jr, Madison Lam, Ignatius Malari, Alejo Favero, Augusta Orlauskaite, and Ella Gleason
Equilibrium Without Statics: The Modern Muller Breslau Method, Claire Tyler Ballard
The Glass House: An Architectural and Structural Analysis and Reimagining of Ludwig Meis van der Rohe's 50x50 House, Jackson Ernest Blake, William Clay Fry, Andrew Michael Hodge, and Gemma Susan Rizzuto
Glass Structures Redesigned - Summit Road Glass House, Destiny Marie Calderon, Alexander Ameri, Jake Baldauf, and Joseph Guzman
Structural Calculations for Take Heart School in Kenya, David Corona-Perales
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute 2021 Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition, Tomlinn Cox
High Rise: An Exploration of Structural Systems in Tall Buildings, Ian Dickson
Investigation into Excessive Deflections in a Concrete Flat Slab, Matthew Frydman
Makom Hillel: SLO Hillel Outdoor Event Space, Eli J. Greenberg
An Architectural and Structural Investigation and Reimagination of the 50x50 Glass House, Andrew Hensen, Ivan Avila, Donatas Krivicius, Sarah Navias, Sevilla Santana, Katherine Sheetz, and Michael Storti
Solar Energy in Relation to Structural Engineering, Rachel Keith
Structural Calculations for Salvation Academy School for Disadvantaged Children, Emma Constance Lambert
Haiti HAC Innovation Center, Claire Marie Leader
Design and Construction of Modular Concrete Footings and Testing Assembly for Use in Cal Poly's High Bay Laboratory, Thomas Little and Anders Johnson
Development of the CMACN Online, Asynchronous Course: An Exploration of Professional Practices for Dispersing Digital Information, Jacob B. Morgan
Comparisons of Concrete Slender Wall Software with Full-Scale Experiments, Gloriana M.L. Moua
Piles Redesigned: A Comparison of Concrete and Timber, Riley N. Mullen
Schematic Structural Design for Center for Centering (C4C), Jonathan Oberempt, Faith Sharp, and Samuel Buckman
49 X 49 Glass House, Daisy Penaloza, Emmanuel Corona Navarro, Chengbin Kuang, Blake Durham, Grace Lauer, and Augustas Lapinskas