• PolyHouse - Receives Media Attention
• Bank of America Low-Income Housing Challenge - 1st Place
• Cal Poly SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) team - 2nd in national competition
• International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition - 5th place

POLYHOUSE - Extreme Makeover the Cal Poly Way!

The media supplied much deserved recognition for the "extreme makeover", performed as part of the PolyHouse Project. Professor Roya Javadpour lead Engineering Managment, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, and Industrial and Technical Studies graduate students through the intense technological project management class (IME 556). The result, a fantastic "Learn-by-Doing" experience that benefitted one local family.

Information about the course, project and clips of the media coverage can be found at www.polyhouse.org

1st place in the Bank of America Low-Income Housing Challenge

The competition, involving several prominent West Coast graduate schools (UC Berkeley, U C Davis, Cal Poly and Stanford), required that each university partner with community organizations and developers to identify a viable site and develop a proposal that includes and addresses design, finance, market and community support elements.

Cal Poly's 2005 team proposed one of the "most intensely challenging projects ever tackled in the B of A challenge" according to one competition judge.

Cal Poly SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) Team Wins Regional Competition and Takes First Runner-Up Honors at National Competition

After presenting a report of their six-month long community outreach projects to a panel of business leaders, the SIFE Cal Poly Team was named a SIFE USA Regional Champion in the overall competition and a finalist in all four of the individual topic competitions (Free Marketing Economics, Entrepreneurship, Personal Financial Success Skills, Business Ethics).

Cal Poly, competing against 1400 universities from over 40 countries, earned first runner-up honors in their league at the national competion in Kansas City.

5th place in the International Collegiate Business Strategy Competion

A team of seven MBA students from the Orfalea College of Business represented Cal Poly at the 41st Annual International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition held in April in San Diego, California.

In addition to making a broad range of business and ethical decisions, students were also required to complete a comprehensive business plan, annual report, and several other management reports reflecting goal attainment and strategy changes.