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 2010
Solar Panel Tracker, Andrew Hsing
Pre-amp Equalizer and Distortion Control, Brian Jackson
Analog Electric Guitar Distortion Effects and Headphone Amplification, Michael Alexander Jenkins
Simulation of Cal Poly SuPER System SimuLink Model using Insolation Variation, Jacob Kory
Design of a High-Low Unipolar Pulse Width Modulated Inverter, Danny Li and Christian Ramos
Auto Dialer Wireless Smoke Detector/Alarm System, Manny Linhares
Single-Ended Tube-Based Guitar Amplifier, Joseph (Joe) Linn
OFDM Simulation in MATLAB, Paul Guanming Lin
Class-D Power Amplifier, Joseph Maldonado and Jeovany Vega
Modular Electronic Load, Jason March
DC Power Supply with Constant Voltage-Current Proportion, Joseph Payette
Power losses associated with stand-by chargers, Robert Peralta
Fuzzy Logic Control of an Inverted Pendulum Robot, Kyle Reid
Optical to Electrical Converter, Dietrich Reimer
Mixing Digital and Analog Audio Signals, David Robison
An Expandable Micromotor DC Drive System, Michael Ruelan and Justin Gragg
Dual Axis Solar Tracker, Weston Sapia and Jason Birnie
Directional Patch Antenna Array Design for Desktop Wireless Internet, Noah Snyder
Prediction of Wind Speeds with an Artificial Neural Network, Justin Tracy
Circular Polarized Splatch Antenna, Cynthia Truong
Global Positioning System, Vladimir Villalba
Transmission System Construction and Analysis, Siyuan Wang
Senior Projects from 2009
Switching Circuit for a Permanent Magnet DC Motor, Alex Boatman
PIC Controlled Two-Band Stereo Audio Equalizer, Tim Brown
RFID Modeling, Characterization, and Optimization, Joseph A. Cudrnak