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 2026
Elevate Grill, Brady Alexander
Wireless Communication in Autonomous Vehicles, Kaylie Bao, Nicholas Andrews, and Mark Negus
Autonomous Vision-Based Litter Collection Rover, Dante Michael Benedetti, Benjamin Scott Tavares, and Nathan Heil
Test Bench PCB Design for a VLSI Grid Cell Chip, Nicholas Bruk and Jason Alexandar
PV Performance Evaluation Study at Cal Poly Solar Farm, Eva Paola D. Calderon
LoRa Radio Propagation & Antenna Design for Freight Trains, Cesar Chavez and Marlon Jennson Hernandez
Estimation and Control for Physical-AI Aerial Robots, Joshua S. Crain
Computational Analysis of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Antoni Gonzalez
Vision-Guided Motion Planning for Autonomous Catch with a Robotic Arm, Kayla Go-Oco, Ashik K. Islam, and Raegan Gritzmacher
Foundation for a Digital Beamforming System Using Software Defined Radio, Daniel Cruz Guerrero, Shiron Bendrihem, and Benjamin Tucker
Performance Evaluation of Roadside Unit-Assisted Wireless Communication for Connected Vehicles, Keyrollos A. Hanna and Ethan M. Nguyen
Develop & Test Radar Assignments for Future Graduate Curriculum, Thomas Ky Hong and Christopher William Hoferer
Improving the Hybrid AC/DC House for Future Net Zero Energy Homes, Connor Hurban, Jacob P. Larson, and Zachary Lee
Simulation of Silicon Neurons with Memristive Synapses for AI Accelerators, Marcus Ivey and Kelvin Shi
Central Pattern Generator Test Bench Report, Stephanie Wing-Yee Lee, Dustin Wong, and Joseph Hernandez
Autonomous Rover Solar and Battery Management System: Team B, Karla Jazmin Lira Gonzalez, Paige Ambriz, Kunj Shah, and Elhom Delasa Sheykhi
UAV Trio Formations for Aerial Pest Deterrence with Vision-Based Bird Monitoring, Benjamin Andrew Ly, Chris Kwon, and Christian Joseph Macaranas
VLSI Spike Encoder for Spiking Neural Networks with 4-Bit SAR ADC, Jack Marshall, Wyatt Tack, Cameron Young, and Ryken Thompson
Design of a Microwave Power and Control Unit for Treatment of Infected Strawberry Crowns, John Ephraim Mort, Mara Lyn Moore, and Bernardo Alonzo Flores
Cal Poly Mars Rover Battery Management System, Lawrence Nichols, Caleb Michael King, Thomas Anh Khoa To, and Angel Soto
A Battery Charging System for Wind Turbine Power Generation, Ivan Nieto, Hunter Pinkstaff, Ryan Abraham, and Tatiana Ribay
UGV-Based Vertebrate Pest Deterrence in Vineyards: Vision-Guided Row Patrol and Navigation, Candace Qualls, Karina Wilson, and Ben Badhorn
PCB Design for PLACE Cells VLSI Chip, Gavin Reaksecker, Alex Krier, and Joshua Lin
Sustainabake, Kevin Kunta Swanson II
An Experimental Testbed for Safety-Critical Formation Control and Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance in Coordinated Mobile Robot Systems, William Taing, Kyle Khojasteh, and Chase McGarity