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
Design of High Efficiency Doherty Power Amplifier, Kobi G. Kelly and Severin Pindell
Power Controller for Insulated Solar Electric Cooker, Ryan Koshy and Justin Tae-Hoon Kim
X-Band Wireless Power Transfer System Using a Focused Array Lens, Jason Alexander Kunz, Tyler S. Bury, Oscar Damian Gonzalez, and Jaime Garcia
Advancing Embedded IoT Architectures for Space and Terrestrial Applications, Wuwei Douglas Liu, Nicolas Jesus Alvarez, and Eric Huang
Battery Energy Storage System, Alec C. MacLean, Kaylen H. Schwartz, and Kyle A. Begley
Energy-Efficient Path Planning for Vehicles Using Static Terrain and Elevation Data, Bolaji Alani Makinde
Exploration of Software Defined Radios to Increase Capabilities of Affordable Mesh Networks, Liam K. McCarthy
Multi-Hop and Automated Testing of Wide-Area Network Radio Systems, Zachary C. Numa and Joseph S. Nuccio
Ross Dam Micro Hydropower Project, Ryan Pospichal and Wilson Szeto
Modeling a Hydropower Plant Powerhouse Based on Hebgen Dam, James Savella and Paul De La Cruz
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