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 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
Punching Bag Trainer, Gian Delacruz
Protected IR Input System, Kevin Ersoy
Passivation of Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes, Stephen A. Fehrman
RFID for IBM Disk Drives, Jonathan Flutts
Solar Panel Experiment, John Hauger
Psuedo-Randomly Controlled Analog Synthesizer, Jared Huntington
Lab-Scale Thyristor Rectifier and Static VAR Compensator Circuits, Haroun Idris and Ibrahim Idris
On-Line Stability Detectors for Sequential Circuit Elements, Adam Jacobvitz
Wireless Pedometer, Jeffrey Lease
Energy Harvesting from Elliptical Machines: DC Converter Troubleshooting, Michelle Lum and Jonathan Yuen
Rotor Powered Battery Charger, Andrew Lund
Automated Basketball Return System, Victor Mendoza and Chris Chamberlain
Violin Note Detector Using Digital Signal Processing, Nathaniel Kyle Mopas
High Contrast Grayscale Object Tracking Embedded System Design, Scott Donald Neally
1.5 kW PWM Bipolar Inverter, Michael Newbry and Percy Vigo
Custom Design Rack Mount System for FTP Server, Himanshu Parmar
Overcurrent Coordination Study, Edwin Pho
MusicMan Communications System, Dan Strengier
DC-DC Converter for Harvesting Energy from an Exercise Bike, Henry Ureh and Chris Henry