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
Smith Property Pre-Engineered Metal Barn, Trent Arjay Olmstead
Innovations to Increase Plywood Shear Wall Design Capacity and Resiliency, "MeGa Walls", Through Ductile Metal Strapping, Trevor Douglas Reichenberg, Tara Suzanne Reich, and Katelyn Marie Lowry
Polypropylene as Partial Fine Aggregate Substitute in Concrete, Samuel E. Royston, Chrisitan G. Achkar, and Nicholas B. Tabarez
Cardboard Concrete Column Formwork, Danny Shrestha and Joelle Schalesky
Earning Engagement as a Graduate Student Instructor, Matthew Sloss
Restoration of the Cantilever Deck Structure, Calvin P. Vigeant, Roger G. Biddle, and Calvin S. Morgan
Chioma di Ulivo - Courtyard Canopy, Lilla J. Vigh and Claudia A. Geist
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