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
Improvements of Hybrid AC/DC House Prototype, Arden Abude
Echoes of Nature: Using Biodata Sonification to Model Electrical Communication in Plants, Penelope Anna Alioshin
High-Power Microwave Antenna Design, Luke C. Chase
GPS/IMU Board, Luke Chen and Steve Tran
Autonomous Apple Harvester Robot, Jack Ryan Cline, Tyus Green, and Devon Woolston
Analog Speech Recognition Circuit, Celeste Correa, Alyssa Lam, and Grace Paladichuk
2-Bit Schiffman Phase Shifter, Tavita Dayton and Enrique Ruiz
Motor Controller Board for CubeSat Reaction Wheels, Tanner Ehlers
Light Based Wireless Communication, Nick Ghaffarian and Gibson Puckett
Software Defined Radio Applicability Investigation for OWL Integrations Inc., Daniel J. Gharib
PLC Course Development, Leonard Hernandez and Jacqueline Grace Radding
Solid State Thermoelectric Generator for Remote Applications, Patrick Jackson, Drew Thomas, and Bennett Pearce
Design of High Efficiency Doherty Power Amplifier, Kobi G. Kelly and Severin Pindell
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
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
Drone Swarm Search and Rescue, Rushabh Shah, Christopher Short, Anderson MacMillan, and Wyatt Colburn
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
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