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 2019
Evaluating Prescriptive Design Requirements through the Lens of Low-Income Housing in Huntington, West Virginia, David H. Hsu
Axial Testing of Makeshift Buckling Restrained Braces, Daniel T. Item and Corey Huang
Wine History Project Moving Pavilion, Rachel A. Jakel
Succulent Pavilion, Abigail King
Characteristics of a Viscous Damper: Finding the Damping Coefficient, Roman Lara IV and Tiffany Wang
A Structural Approach to Architecture (With an Emphasis on Thin-Shell Forms), Ansel Man
Timber-Strong Design Build Senior Project, Corbin S. Morisada
Same Polytechnic College: Structural Design Exploration, Emma Morley
Cable Suspended Structure-Antanas Panavas, Roger Pena, Dean Seydel Becker, and Tracy Destiny Doan
Damage Detection of Identical Structures, Garrett M. Peterson and Kira Deguchi
Heavy Timber Buckling-Restrained-Braces, Kaylee Pit and Junning Liu
Retrofit of Concrete Moment Frames with Masonry Infill in High Seismic Zones, Patricia Francis Pope, Madeleine Rasmussen, and Zorana Tat
Bridge House Restoration, Adam McPherson Pruitt, Ben Christopher Sykes, Samantha Sophia Solow, Christopher Ryan Levy, and Severin Bechtel Elste
The Timber Buckling Restrained Brace Frame, Jessica Resta
Steel Test Set-Up for Non-Ductile Concrete Shear Walls, Colin S. Ridgley
Reduce, Reuse, Reengineer, Neil Ryan Robertson and Anthony James Beers
Pedestrian Bridge in Tanzania, Maja Sagaser and Karina Rosales
Form Finding Architecture, Anna Eliza B. Sy
Wine History Project Pavilion: Primitivo Edition, Erick A. Vazquez
Rubagabaga Village : Empowering Villages Center and Agricultural Training Center, Jenna M. Williams and Julia R. De Hart
Architectural Engineering Institute: 2019 Student Design Competition - Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts, Mark W. Wright and Logan D. Wright
Senior Projects from 2018
Karambo Micro-Industrial Complex Structural Design, Sophia E. Abshire and Stella M. Bates
Poly Canyon Entryway Redesign, Antonio Emiliano Baldazo
Heavy Timber Buckling-Restrained Brace Frame, Gideon Baum
Automation of Post-Earthquake Civil Infrastructure Reconnaissance, Jack Bergquist