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 2014
Wideband Balun Design with Ferrite Cores, Paul R. Biggins
Energy Harvesting From Exercise Machines: LT8705 DC-DC Conversion for Elliptical Trainers, Braden Burk, Raj Bhula, and Nathan McKay
Early Forest Fire Detection System, Princepal Singh Buttar and Arshdeep Singh Gill
Human-Powered Swing Generator, Danny Cai, Timothy Lai, and Brandon Wong
Bike Safe: An Automatic Turn Signal System, Betty He Chan and Ricardo Alberto Duran
MBARI swFOCE Shallow Water Free Ocean Carbon Enrichment Experiment: Oceanographic Instrument Simulator, Amy Chen, Byungjin Bae, and Matthew Mitchell
Bipolar Pulse Width Modulation Inverter, Xin Chen and Ryan Harada
EEG Classification with Discrete Wavelet Transforms and Energy Distribution, Miguel Contreras and Javier I. Suarez
Analog Violin Audio Synthesizer, Brandon E. Davis
Battery Management System, Michael DeSando and Kyle Woody
The Garage Band Lightshow, Jason DeScenzo
FPGA Based Bitcoin Mining, Philip Dotemoto
Piezoelectric Powered LED Street Reflector, Collin Shane Douglass
Portable Nano Hydro Generator for the DC House Project, Caleb David Fink, Victor Olusoji Ojewole, and Christopher Mapua Tan
Rapid Battery Exchange Safety and Sensing, Ben John Froelich and Isaac Sungjin Kim
Protection System For the Energy Harvesting from Exercise Machines (EHFEM) Project, Eric Funsten and Cameron Kiddoo
Sonar Walking Stick, Cornelio A. Furlan and Vivian Su
Wirelessly Controlled Smart Outlet, Andrew Godsil and Ariel Dubinsky
Boosty-bit: Power for Pint-Sized Projects, Timothy Grijalva
Clear Circuit Contact Lens, Paul Hecker II, Phillip Azar, Alexander Do, Benny Ng, and Errol Leon
Low Voltage CMOS SAR ADC Design, Ryan Hunt
Power System Fault Detection Using the Discrete Wavelet Transform and Artificial Neural Networks, Kevin Keegan
St. Jude Medical - R&D Robot for Sensor Testing, Andrew Chanul Kim, Stanley Logan Laszczyk, Edgar Nava, and Nathan Gall
Singing Arc, Justin Kis
Transimpedance Amplifier for Polymer Photodiodes, Sheridan Knighton