Build Your Community
Your BioResource and Agricultural Engineering experience extends beyond the classroom. Through student clubs, professional organizations and hands-on projects, you’ll find your people, build industry connections and develop leadership skills while putting your knowledge to work.
Professional Development Clubs
Future Fuels Club
Connect with classmates who share your interest in renewable energy while working together on projects like biodiesel production, solar-powered EV charging and alternative fuels. You’ll build friendships, share ideas and connect with staff and industry professionals along the way.
Grow Crew
Connect with students who share your interest in sustainable agriculture and innovative growing technologies. Build friendships while working together on hands-on projects in hydroponics, aquaponics, aeroponics and other bioresource systems.
Contact Dr. Sara Kuwahara for more information
Competition Teams
Whether you’re a first-timer or aiming for a national championship, you’re invited to join a team, challenge yourself and find your community through competition.
Precision Agriculture & Automation Club
Build, experiment and solve alongside students who share your curiosity about agricultural technology. From robotics and programming to mechanical design, you’ll make friends while bringing innovative ideas to life through hands-on projects
Contact Jacob Reyes for more information
PolyBuilt Quarter Scale Tractor Team
Join a team of students who design, build and compete together. Each year, PolyBuilt creates a quarter-scale tractor from the ground up, giving you the chance to build friendships while gaining hands-on experience in design, fabrication and teamwork.
Contact Owen Rockemann for more information
Tractor Pull Team
Find your crew while working together to maintain, drive and compete with Cal Poly’s pulling tractors across California. Open to all experience levels, the team also brings students together through community outreach, educational events and Open House.
Contact Thomas Casillas for more information
agBot Challenge Team
Join a team of students from across campus in developing and creating an unmanned, robotic device that can autonomously plant 1,000 foot rows of corn. You'll gain engineering experience in research, development, design, fabrication, machining, prototyping, testing and competing.
Contact Bo Liu for more information
Professional Societies
Connect with classmates, industry professionals and the broader agricultural engineering community through student societies that help you build friendships, explore careers and grow your professional network.
Agricultural Engineering Society
Find your community in BRAE through weekly barbecues, social events, industry speakers and professional opportunities. You’ll build friendships, connect with faculty and professionals, and get involved through conferences, service and ASABE events.
Contact Melanie Orozco, president, for more information
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers - BioResource and Agricultural Engineering
Connect with fellow BioResource and Agricultural Engineering students while becoming part of a broader professional community. Through networking events, industry connections and the annual ASABE Student Rally, you’ll build friendships and explore where a career in agricultural engineering can take you.
Contact Alex Belles, ASABE president for more information
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers - Agricultural Systems Management
Connect with fellow Agricultural Systems Management students through social events, activities and professional opportunities. You’ll build friendships within ASM while becoming part of the larger BRAE, CAFES and agricultural industry communities.
Contact Clara Knight, president, for more information
Want More Clubs?
The College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences has more than 50 student clubs and organizations to help you get involved beyond the classroom.