The Electrical Engineering Department offers a Bachelor of Science (BS) and Master of Science (MS) Degree in Electrical Engineering and a BS degree in Computer Engineering. The Electrical Engineering Department jointly sponsors the Computer Engineering Program with Computer Science. The department is distinguished for its laboratory-intensive curriculum, faculty-student interaction, and innovative hands-on educational methods. The department offers 35,000 square feet of well-equipped undergraduate laboratory space, unparalleled among other universities. It makes contributions to contemporary applied research, collaborates with industrial partners, sponsors award-winning student projects, and provides extensive outreach efforts with elementary and secondary schools.
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Senior Projects from 2023
Photophoretic Optical Trapping, Essa Ababseh
Development of Multiple Input Single Output DC-DC Converter, Ryan Bailey, Miguel Carmona, and Jose Velez-Lopez
Industrial Automation and Controls Lab: Smart LED Dimmer Control, Trevor J. Beck
DC to AC Inverter for a Microgrid-Inspired Power Distribution Architecture for Electric Vehicles, Bryan A. Carrillo Martinez, Eli Blacklock, Paul A. Samson, and William S. Holt-Hillis
SPICE Modeling of Biosensing Field-Effect Transistor, Alex Castro
Paired Storage Distributed Energy System Design for a Local Community Farm, Neil Albert Collison and Lily Goldman
Low-Cost Portable Laser Communication Device, Tom Elkayam and Basile Louis Scoffie
Emulating the Doppler-Shift for LoRa based Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communication, Ariel Freiman and John Stephen Gharib
Alzheimer's Detection via Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Ryan Patrick Geisen, Kaylyn Tran, and Ronit Singh
Cal Poly CubeSat Lab Next Generation SystemBoard, Austin S. Gnecco
Cybersecurity in Industrial Automation Lab Design for EE 435, Jules Khalil Emile Hajjar and Emily Zhou
Programmable and Modular DC-DC Converter, Joshua C. Hutchinson and Elijah M. Gordon
Energy Storage and Communication System, Noah R. Johnson and Marc Wong
Instrumented Control Column for Optionally Piloted Aircraft, Andrew J. Klein
Hybrid Wall Outlet for AC or DC Power Delivery, Garrett Knoller, Kerr Allan, and Greg Perini
Current Source DC-DC Converter for Undersea Fiber Optic Sensors, Richard Anthony Esplana Kwan, John Charles Rodinec, and Andrew Armstrong
Detecting Alzheimer's Disease using Artificial Neural Networks, Sally Lee and Mia Keegan
Smart Bottle Firmware and Wireless Charging Integration, Khanh Thy Chau Le and Justin Truong
CubiCom: Noisy Office Environment Communication Device, Nicholas Alan Maley, Joshua Michael Heeren, and Alejandro Peña
Hybrid AC/DC House, Nicholas Everett McAdams
Sky Survey Radio Telescope, Jack E. McGuigan
Variable Frequency Motor Drive Application, Jason G. Milne and Nick Mark
Development of Cal Poly’s Hybrid AC/DC House, Eduardo Andres Muñoz and Giovanni Ramirez Angel
Automotive Collision Warning System Retrofit, Ethan Clark Najmy
Linear Induction Motor Design, Alexander Hallett Neiman, Colin Sharif McFadyen, and Joseph Drake Washburn