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
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
Portable Food Pasteurization Using Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF), Thomas E. McMillan III
Maximum Power Point Tracking for Photovoltaic Cells, Rodrigo Menchaca-Ramirez, Jesus Martinez, and Steven Rodriguez
Design of a Microwave Power and Control Unit for Treatment of Infected Strawberry Crowns, John Ephraim Mort, Mara Lyn Moore, and Bernardo Alonzo Flores
Wildlife Tracking via UAV&RF, Nam Ah Nguyen
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
Remote Controlled Pushcart, William B. Rakoz, Logan M. Beard, Jesus B. Galindo, and Jacob Anderson
PCB Design for PLACE Cells VLSI Chip, Gavin Reaksecker, Alex Krier, and Joshua Lin
Design and Characterization of a Pulsed Electric Field Chamber for Microalgae Lysis, Connor Strutin
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
Design and Parametric Testing of a Transimpedance Amplifier for Low-Power Biomedical Applications, Stanlon Tan, William Chung, and Brandon Wu
Cooperative Localization for Micro-UAV Swarm Formation Flight in GPS-Denied Environments, Evan Quoc Hai Tran, Bryan George Lew, and Alexandre Thucong Nguyen
DC/DC Converter for a Solar Module, Stella Uribe, Richie Zaragoza, Olivia Grace Tran, and Phillip Tyler Rich
Solving Linearly Constrained Quadratic Programs Using Field Programmable Analog Arrays, Tyler Wynn and Alonzo Arroyo
Senior Projects from 2025
Optimizing Object Detection for Remote Monitoring with OWL DuckLink Radios, Colin Ren-Jin Babian
Field Deployable Mobile Manipulator for Autonomous Apple Harvesting, Gabriel K. Basus, Antonio Bowen, and Andrew Daouda
Digital Drone Arrays: Two-Tone Communication, Armin Behbahani, Alejandro Martin Cosper, Landon Leroy John Foster, and Mont Ziadoon Murad
Sorting Recycling with Neural Networks, Lukas Boehm, Atsada Ploypray, Owen Clevenger, and Maks Velikanovs
Prepare LORA Physical Layer for Testing in Low Earth Orbit on a CubeSat, Sammy Brunton
OWL Integrations Soil Monitor, Derek Chau and Armaan Kahlon