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 2011
One-Pin 32 kHz Low-Power Crystal Oscillator, Aaron Plata-Ruiz
Wireless Sensor Network for Energy and Environmental Monitoring: Helping Old Buildings Go Green, Jacob Power
Automatic Clownfish Hatchery, Laura Quesada
Exercise Bicycle DC-DC Converter for the Energy Harvesting from Exercise Machines Project, Ryan Rickard and Logan Stowe
Solar Powered Backpack, Saagar Sabharwal and Tom Poonsopin
Portable Solar Desalination System, Genaro Sanchez, Alan Galarza, and Erick Del Real
Wireless Energy Transfer, Ryan Sasur
Formula Hybrid Primary Electrical Systems Senior Project Report, Gregg Schultz and Matthew (Matt) Tolman
140 New Montgomery Power Distribution Design, Stephen Shaffer
Constant Conduction Angle Experimental Generation for RF Power Amplifiers, Michael Spahn
Controller Board Prototype Development for the Cal Poly SuPER Project, Clifford Susa
Multicore, Multithreaded, Phase-Synchronous FM Sound Synthesizer, Justin Tomlin
LED Spotlight, Eric Toussaint
A Self-Oscillating Parallel Audio Amplifier, Max Ullrich
Air Scratch: An Innovative Touch-Free DJ Controller, Nixon Vandel
Terrain Classification for Autonomous RMAX Helicopter Search and Rescue, Erin West
MP3 Player System Design, Eric Wu
Development of Wind Tunnel for Laboratory Wind Turbine Testing, Danny Alexander Zepeda
Wireless Passive Power Transfer Using Wire Antennas, Sheng Da Zhang
Senior Projects from 2010
Energy Harvesting From Exercise Machines Cal Poly Recreation Center Implementation, Justin Arakaki, Praveen Lawrence, and Audrey Nakamura
Wireless Sensing of Epileptiform Activity, Wade Barnes
PolyEnvi, Stephen Beard, Josh Engel, Paul Fake, Diego Flores, Alvaro Nunez, and Miguel Wong
Intelligent Irrigation Zone Splitter, David Boeck
Sign Language Glove, Nicholas Born
High Voltage Switched-Mode Power Supply for Three-Phase AC Aircraft Systems, John Brewer Jr. and Kamaljit Bagha