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
Energy Harvesting from Exercise Machines: Bike Buck-Boost Converter, Monroe Diamond and Brian Vuong
Design of a Passive RFID System for Asset Tracking, Kyle James Dodson
Touch Screen Sound Controller, James Fenley and Jonathan Law
Ultrasonic Listener: Microcontroller Based Frequency Shifter, Troy Fredriks
Transmission Line Forecast Study, Ryan Garoogian
Wi-Fi Evapotranspiration Irrigation Controller, Ryan Goodman
Designing a Photovoltaic System Hybrid for a Health Clinic In Camilo Ortega, Nicaragua, Jeremy Holliman
XINS, Kyle Howen
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