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 2024
Digital Audio Synthesizer, Philip A. Schremp and Alexander J. Elliott
Drone Swarm Search and Rescue, Rushabh Shah, Christopher Short, Anderson MacMillan, and Wyatt Colburn
Prosthetic Forearm Controller, Claire Tylutki, Kevin Lopatka, Sofia Zaletel, and Hardit Singh
Feedback Control System Analysis and Simulation for Laboratory Development, Andrew Christopher Valles Jr. and Jason Cole Leventis
Cal Poly Gen 2 BattleBot Electrical System, Kelvin C. Villago
Senior Projects from 2023
Photophoretic Optical Trapping, Essa Ababseh
Design and Modeling of a Hybrid-Electric Drone System for Conversion, Mark Atttaalla
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
Multi-Effects Analog Guitar Pedal, Carson J. Bryan
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
Electronic Note-String Detector, Gavin Garcia-Rossi and Tommy Smail
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
4-Band Personal EQ Device, Carson Kellerman
Design of an Angle Measurement Device Using Ultrasonic Pairs, Shadi Khanpour Doustkar
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