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 2026
Elevate Grill, Brady Alexander
Wireless Communication in Autonomous Vehicles, Kaylie Bao, Nicholas Andrews, and Mark Negus
Autonomous Vision-Based Litter Collection Rover, Dante Michael Benedetti, Benjamin Scott Tavares, and Nathan Heil
LoRa Radio Propagation & Antenna Design for Freight Trains, Cesar Chavez and Marlon Jennson Hernandez
Computational Analysis of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Antoni Gonzalez
Foundation for a Digital Beamforming System Using Software Defined Radio, Daniel Cruz Guerrero, Shiron Bendrihem, and Benjamin Tucker
Develop & Test Radar Assignments for Future Graduate Curriculum, Thomas Ky Hong and Christopher William Hoferer
Improving the Hybrid AC/DC House for Future Net Zero Energy Homes, Connor Hurban, Jacob P. Larson, and Zachary Lee
VLSI Spike Encoder for Spiking Neural Networks with 4-Bit SAR ADC, Jack Marshall, Wyatt Tack, Cameron Young, and Ryken Thompson
Design of a Microwave Power and Control Unit for Treatment of Infected Strawberry Crowns, John Ephraim Mort, Mara Lyn Moore, and Bernardo Alonzo Flores
Cal Poly Mars Rover Battery Management System, Lawrence Nichols, Caleb Michael King, Thomas Anh Khoa To, and Angel Soto
A Battery Charging System for Wind Turbine Power Generation, Ivan Nieto, Hunter Pinkstaff, Ryan Abraham, and Tatiana Ribay
Sustainabake, Kevin Kunta Swanson II
Senior Projects from 2025
Optimizing Object Detection for Remote Monitoring with OWL DuckLink Radios, Colin Ren-Jin Babian
Field Deployable Mobile Manipulator for Autonomous Apple Harvesting, Gabriel K. Basus, Antonio Bowen, and Andrew Daouda
Digital Drone Arrays: Two-Tone Communication, Armin Behbahani, Alejandro Martin Cosper, Landon Leroy John Foster, and Mont Ziadoon Murad
Sorting Recycling with Neural Networks, Lukas Boehm, Atsada Ploypray, Owen Clevenger, and Maks Velikanovs
Prepare LORA Physical Layer for Testing in Low Earth Orbit on a CubeSat, Sammy Brunton
OWL Integrations Soil Monitor, Derek Chau and Armaan Kahlon
High-Frequency Current and Voltage Sensing Buck Converter Compatible with Model Predictive Control, Cathy G. Chen and Lani K. Nguyen
Leader-Follower Platooning with Turtlebot3: A Low-Cost ROS Test-Bed Using Vision-LiDAR Fusion, Patrick Kelly Crandall and Kalon Ma Bienz
A TurtleBot3 Hardware Testbed for Distributed Kalman Filter Localization, Dmitri Dobrynin and Indigo T. Garcia
Direction Finding from Aerial Platforms with Amateur Radio Arrays, Ben Duval III and Esteban Perez
DC to AC Voltage Source Converter Control System, Mohummad Tark Elgassier, Jordan M. Reichhardt, and Brayden Richard Young
Expeditionary Ocean Power Generator, Ethan Gossard, Julian Steele, Alex Gray, and Hunter Herring-Alderete