Stories
The canoe in Engineering 13’s courtyard is made out of this material.
What is concrete?
The number of CENG majors.
What is 13?
The number of tours a CENG Ambassadors is required to give every quarter.
What is 2?
This is Johanna’s major.
What is Industrial?
The types of majors that can work in the machine shops.
What are all majors?
The effect the rubber ducks had on the water tanks in the Controls Lab.
What is no effect?
A major that a student should apply to as if they don’t know what type of engineering they’d like to pursue.
What is Mechanical Engineering?
This many minutes is how early you should arrive before the tour starts.
What is 10 minutes?
This is Trevor’s favorite song right now.
What is Autumn Leaves by Nat King Cole?
This is the largest major in CENG.
What is Mechanical?
The class of Cal Poly's clean room.
What is 1000?
A Mechanical Engineering concentration.
What is General, Manufacturing, HVAC&R, Mechatronics, and Energy Resources?
How to respond to a tour question you don’t know the answer to.
What is: Say you don’t know and refer them to a source that can answer the question
A challenge that involves three hikes in a single morning, then eating at Firestone.
What is the Tri-Tip Challenge?
Lecturers are required to provide this service to students.
What are office hours?
Cal Poly students constructed what original machine with stolen McDonald’s straws.
What is the wind tunnel?
Order of majors of electrical spectrum (most hands-on to least hands-on).
What are: EE, CPE, CS, SE?
A major that is not included in this tour but has engineering in its name.
What is ARCE, Agricultural Engineering, LAES?
This restaurant is “Coming Soon!” next to Vons on Broad Street.
What is Wingstop?
The number of classrooms in the Bonderson Project Center.
What is 0?
According to a lesson some ME students learned, this frequency equals that at which ice breaks.
What is the frequency at which helicopter blades break?
Two examples of General Engineering disciplines.
What are Chemical, Audio, Tissue, Product Design, Alternative Energy, Pre-Med?
The keys to the labs are found here.
What is the CENG Dean’s Office?
This store recently opened a large headquarters downtown.
What is Thrifty Beaches?
These three Engineering majors do not have concentrations
What are IE, Mfg, MATE, ENVE, CPE.