Students and officers from the Cal Poly ASHRAE club were lucky enough to tour Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in Avila Beach, just 30 minutes from Cal Poly! The group was given an extensive tour of the plant, seeing areas like the steam turbine deck, marina, and control room. Two HVAC engineers who work at […]
At the end of the first week of classes, five mechanical engineering students—Katherine Hennig, Ashley Corona, Madison Kai, Julia McMorrow, Roha Ali—and two faculty—Dr. Jennifer Mott and Prof. Lauren Rueda—attended the inaugural Women in ASHRAE Leadership Symposium in Chicago, IL. Over 200 women mechanical engineers, architects, and other professionals related to the heating, ventilation, air […]
The main goal of this project was to evaluate the indoor environment created by the Mount Shasta Institute for Job Creation and Restorative Technology, a proposed net-zero building using no mechanical heating or cooling, to be built in Mount Shasta, California. To do this, we modeled the building in DesignBuilder and ran several simulations. This […]
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We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2023–2024 ASHRAE Southern California Chapter Student Scholarships. These scholarships recognize exceptional students from four-year engineering programs who have shown a commitment to advancing their knowledge and careers in the HVAC&R industry. Katherine Hennig has been awarded the ASHRAE Engineering Scholarship, receiving $3,500 for her outstanding academic […]
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The Net-Zero Design/Construction-A-Thon had students teams compete on an engineering project with mentors from the industry at Cal Poly from January 26 to 28. There was a high level of student interest in the competition, as evidenced by the 75 applications we received for the 42 available spots. View pictures from the event here. […]
Dr. Mott along with her students was awarded $2,000 for their pioneering project, “Sustainable Energy From Organic Waste: Anaerobic Decomposition and Thermoelectric Generation.” In a competitive field of 43 outstanding submissions, 9 ASHRAE chapters, including the Southern California Chapter in collaboration with Cal Poly’s Student Branch and the San Jose Chapter, were selected to receive […]
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We had a strong representation at the 2024 ASHRAE Winter Conference in Chicago, with nine dedicated students proudly representing our HVAC&R Program. […]
Our senior design students were honored at 2024 ASHRAE Winter Conference for placing 2nd and 3rd in the 2023 ASHRAE Student Competition. […]
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We visited Western Allied Mechanical in the Bay Area, including a tour of their shop as well as a job site. On November 1st we attended the ASHRAE San Jose Chapter student night. Here are some of the student reactions: “Thank you Western Allied Mechanical! It was so kind of you all to allow us […]
We had a phenomenal Annual Event this October! We kicked off the our three day event on October 5th with a Women in ASHRAE dinner for our students. Our special guest was Karine Leblanc, author of “How to be Human in a Technical World”. On October 6, we had the HVAC&R career fair and industry […]
We kicked-off our Annual HVAC&R Event 2023 with the Women in ME dinner! Karine Leblanc presented The Power of EQ: bridging the gap between technical brilliance and human connections. Over 50 women students attended the dinner and made connections with one another, as well as with industry and faculty. […]
Click the link here to view the Cal Poly HVAC&R second and third place winners for the 2023 ASHRAE Competition. […]
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A total of 319 new students have used the three new refrigeration units in their first-year lab. Thanks to the HVAC&R IAB for sponsoring these units! The Building Automation System of the AHU in the HVAC&R lab will be upgraded to the newest state of the art hardware and software. The planning phase for the […]
A senior project team of four HVAC&R mechanical engineers were tasked with the design of a walk-in, partitionable climate chamber running with a transcritical CO2 refrigeration cycle. The chamber design is to be constructed as a future project, and then the chamber would be used for years to come to give students hands-on experience with […]
Design a portable IAQ health meter that will detect contaminants in a space and display the levels of different toxins to the user. The system should identify related IAQ issues and provide solutions and/or next steps to solve these problems. The system shall consider multiple system variables, including space temperature, humidity, contaminant level (as outlined […]
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Students were tasked to present the methods and decisions that went into selecting an HVAC system for a single-story laboratory facility in Cairo, Egypt. This 2,515 m2 (27,000 ft2) new construction contains a variety of rooms, including wet bench labs, dry bench computational labs, research support offices, a common area for circulation, a break room, […]
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