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 2016
Solar-Powered Hot Tub, Jonathan Peterson and Anthony Zepeda
Cal Poly Supermileage Electronic Fuel Injection, Alexander Pink
Active Contact Lens - Low Power Backscattering Sensor-to-Antenna Integration Circuitry, Caleb B. Porter
Micro-Inverter Improvement For The Energy Harvesting From Exercise Machine Project, James Ralston
Critter Sitter: Weight Sensing Pet Door, Shelby Richardson
Rapid Battery Exchange (RBX), Daniel Rostom
Automatic Water Pump Controller, Alam D. Salguero and Kyle Russell Marquez Weeks
Power Distribution:Protection Analysis, Avneet S. Samra
USB-Powered Turntable "Turn T", Gerardo Sevilla and James Lougaris
Cal Poly Sustainable Power for Electrical Resources Microcontroller Integration, Eric Skinkis
Tilt-Rotor Drone, Benjamin Stone and Zachary Crandall
Wild Stallion Distortion Pedal, Levi E. Sullenger
RF Power Harvesting Rectenna, Jimmy Tang, Raymond Phu, Tom Geranios, and Benjamin Muñoz
Exertion Control, Travis Taylor
User to Exoskeleton Sensing, Amanda Toan, Brian Fiumara, Carolyn King, Ryan Takatsuka, and Taylor Downey
Electric Smart Load Meter, Johnny Tran
Transformer and Motor Protection Scheme, Bijan Vakilifathi
Car Safe, David Van Workum
Designing a Power Distribution System for the ARCE 257 Revit Structural Model, Reid Wilhelm
Computational Circuit for use in Real Time Color Amplification, Andrew Yokubaitis and Vinayak Pandu Raju
Senior Projects from 2015
Voltage Protection System for EHFEM Project, Calvin Abshier and Calvin Xu
Smart Power Strip, Dannie Alfaro
Fluid MIDI Ribbon Guitar, Noah Baker
Sun-Tracking Solar-Powered LED Street Light, Wesley Ballar and Harrison Wong
Lightweight Silver Ink Printed Circular Ring Microstrip Patch Antenna for WLAN Applications, Bobak Beheshti