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Full-Text Articles in Engineering
Power Protection Analysis For A Ten Bus System, Sean Hanna
Power Protection Analysis For A Ten Bus System, Sean Hanna
Electrical Engineering
Each power system built in the industry requires a protection plan. Undetected faults in a power system can contribute to hazardous conditions, overheating of power devices, low or high system voltages, unbalanced conditions, and blackouts. This senior project is the design of a protection plan for a power system using the software Electric Transient Analyzer Program (ETAP). With ten buses, five transformers, two generators, two motors, and six transmission lines, there are many possibilities for a fault to occur. The Load flow and fault analysis are studied before the system is protected. All components of the system are protected using …
Platform For Environmental Sensing Of Algae, Alex Wu
Platform For Environmental Sensing Of Algae, Alex Wu
Electrical Engineering
No abstract provided.
A Feed Forward Circuit For Jitter Attenuation On High-Speed Digital Signals, Eric Rule
A Feed Forward Circuit For Jitter Attenuation On High-Speed Digital Signals, Eric Rule
Electrical Engineering
In the age of high-speed digital circuitry, there exists a need for clean, precise clock signals. In generating and distributing clock signals throughout a circuit, unwanted jitter can become a serious issue. A common technique for attenuating jitter uses phase-locked-loops to treat the signal, but as the clock frequency increases, so does the cost and complexity of the designs. Following the research completed by Dr. Tina Smilkstein [1], this project examines a purely feed-forward technique for attenuating jitter that is low-complexity and robust, and aims to design an integrated circuit that implements the technique.
Force Transducer For Inventory Management, Trever Hoye, Austin Adee
Force Transducer For Inventory Management, Trever Hoye, Austin Adee
Electrical Engineering
Inventory management for small parts such as electronic components remains time consuming and costly to implement, yet required for efficient business operations. Currently there exists no solution to this problem that is both automated and inexpensive. This project provides a solution by developing an accurate and wireless force transducer for automated inventory management systems. The device works by laying on the bottom of an inventory storage container and measuring the total weight of the items. The device then wirelessly transmits this weight to a receiver where it is stored in a database. Afterwards, the database compares the most recent weight …
Mohat Tool To Illustrate Diode And Transistor Modes Of Operation Using Ltspice, Getu D. Engdaw
Mohat Tool To Illustrate Diode And Transistor Modes Of Operation Using Ltspice, Getu D. Engdaw
Electrical Engineering
This project develops a tool to identify the modes of operation of diodes and transistors in a circuit. The MoHAT tool receives schematics or circuit files generated from LTspice, and it determines the state of each diode and transistor. This tool illustrates diodes, BJT and MOS regions of operations using text or graphics accordingly. The tool also suggests necessary adjustments to switch from one mode of operation to another upon users request. Furthermore, the tool specifies if a transistor functions in amplification region. The MoHAT tool compares the nodal voltages of an element and determines the mode of operation.
Utilization Of High Efficient Single Phase Motor, Kevin Hua
Utilization Of High Efficient Single Phase Motor, Kevin Hua
Electrical Engineering
A Smith Motor is a three phase induction motor that has shunt capacitors parallel to its induction coils. The shunt capacitors provide balance and allow the motor to operate using a single phase power supply. Preliminary studies show that the Smith Motor is more efficient than a single phase induction motor powered by a single phase power supply, but less efficient than a three phase induction motor powered by a three phase power supply. The Smith Motor’s advantage is its ability to operate from a single phase power source instead of having a three phase power source installed. Its limitation …
Midfield Rf Signal Detector, Dawei Zhang
Midfield Rf Signal Detector, Dawei Zhang
Electrical Engineering
This project is part of a Master’s thesis which looks at alternative ways to measure blood glucose. The Master’s thesis uses mid-field signals in order to match impedance and therefore lose less power as they travel through flesh. The goal of this senior project is to build a receiver for those signals and give accurate RSSI (received signal strength indicator) measurements. Mid-fields were originally explored by Stanford professor Dr. Ada Poon [3] who used the signaling technique to recharge the batteries of deeply implanted devices. Devices implanted near the surface of the skin were able to have their batteries recharged …
A Paramedic Method Drill Master To Improve Student Writing, David Braun
A Paramedic Method Drill Master To Improve Student Writing, David Braun
Electrical Engineering
Engineering instructors have students write reports in order to help learn difficult concepts, data analysis, challenging problem solving, communication skills, and critical thinking. Sadly, many students seem to prefer obfuscating the subject matter and key ideas by using painfully unclear writing. An instructor dismayed by poor prose in submitted assignments has numerous familiar options available. Consider just a few:
1. Ignore the poor writing
2. Mark every error directly
3. Mark every error with a marginal comment
4. Give general feedback about the poor writing over the entire assignment
5. Expect students to rewrite and resubmit work
6. Change careers …
The Zephyr Charge: A Wind-Powered Usb Charger, James Dean Carson, John Pina Lopez Iii
The Zephyr Charge: A Wind-Powered Usb Charger, James Dean Carson, John Pina Lopez Iii
Electrical Engineering
The Zephyr Charge project is to design and build a cell phone charger using a small wind turbine generator that can be useful to the fishermen community, namely fishermen of third world countries. The generator will output to USB for ease of charging capability. The size of the whole system should be light enough to move around, and the turbine itself will be mountable onto an edge of a wall. The goal of this project is to design and build a compact and easy to use cell phone charger, which is also efficient.
In order to be a practical product, …
Emg Prosthetic Finger: "Gogo Finger", Omar Garibay, Ernesto Bermudez, Shane O'Neil
Emg Prosthetic Finger: "Gogo Finger", Omar Garibay, Ernesto Bermudez, Shane O'Neil
Electrical Engineering
No abstract provided.
Shark Alert: Early Warning System, Cory Peterson, Marc Rauschnot, Taylor Mcclain
Shark Alert: Early Warning System, Cory Peterson, Marc Rauschnot, Taylor Mcclain
Electrical Engineering
The Shark Alert Early Warning System is a device geared toward avid beach goers such as surfers, divers, and swimmers. The system is composed of an ultrasonic transmitter mounted on a shark’s dorsal fin and a receiver worn by the user around the ankle. The receiver alerts the user to the presence of a shark upon ultrasonic signal detection.
The receiver warns the user through both visual and tactile (vibration) alerts to ensure user notification. This circuit was built and tested in the EE labs and Recreation Center pools to determine transmission range. The receiver detects the transmitted signal up …
Sun-Tracking Solar-Powered Led Street Light, Wesley Ballar, Harrison Wong
Sun-Tracking Solar-Powered Led Street Light, Wesley Ballar, Harrison Wong
Electrical Engineering
Street lighting is an essential utility especially in urban and industrialized areas because it provides illumination and safety for vehicles and pedestrians throughout the night. However, street lights are relatively inefficient; they consume large amounts of power from electrical grids and have predetermined operation times that are often non-optimal for the surrounding environment. The Sun-Tracking Solar-Powered LED Street Lamp is a self-sustaining device, built to replace the current lighting sources. The device features sun-tracking capabilities for maximum energy gathering and darkness recognition to establish optimal operation times. The project provides a reliable and enhanced alternative to current street lighting systems.
M-1: The Mealy Open Source Custom Midi Controller, Garrett Leung, Darren O. Mistica
M-1: The Mealy Open Source Custom Midi Controller, Garrett Leung, Darren O. Mistica
Electrical Engineering
With the high price of large mixing consoles, aspiring artists are restricted to using a mouse to control digital facsimiles of knobs, faders, switches, and buttons. Though using the software controls is considered a simple task, dedicated hardware allows for tactile, visual, and utility. At a low cost, the heart of the MTech M-1 can be customized and placed into any shell with any combination of controls as possible with the underlying platform.
Modern MIDI controllers require significant physical space due to their preset button layout and space consuming setups. Despite their high price, modern MIDI controllers have only one …
Phase Locked Loop Integrated Circuit, Scott Buchanan, Jonathan Bonello
Phase Locked Loop Integrated Circuit, Scott Buchanan, Jonathan Bonello
Electrical Engineering
No abstract provided.
Fluid Midi Ribbon Guitar, Noah Baker
Fluid Midi Ribbon Guitar, Noah Baker
Electrical Engineering
This project was developed to create a new electronic instrument based off of a guitar. The design will give the user more chord combinations than are available on a typical guitar, the ability to retune each “string”, and customizable MIDI controller outputs, while trying to retain a similar playing style. The initial design for this project included implementing an onboard synthesizer (analog or digital). This idea was scrapped for time and cost considerations and replaced with MIDI output which will yield user customizable sound through virtual instruments, such as Massive.
Wireless Sensor Mesh Network For Irrigation Systems, Rosana Cheruvelil, Oswaldo Garcia, Nabil Haque, Justin Ignacio, Stanley Thomas
Wireless Sensor Mesh Network For Irrigation Systems, Rosana Cheruvelil, Oswaldo Garcia, Nabil Haque, Justin Ignacio, Stanley Thomas
Electrical Engineering
Pepper Oak Farms, a company that grows their own olives for olive oil and has approximately 40,000 olive trees, is in need of an efficient way to monitor the soil and atmospheric conditions that are critical to the cultivation of their trees. The company at the moment only has two sensors and has to manually place the sensors at different locations to collect data on soil moisture and temperature. This is expensive, time consuming, and a lot of effort on the owner’s part to go out on the fields to collect this data. As a solution, the company would like …
Wireless Led Motorcycle Jacket, Sean O'Brien
Wireless Led Motorcycle Jacket, Sean O'Brien
Electrical Engineering
In 2013 there were over 120,000 motorcycle fatalities in the U.S. alone, 73% of which were in the evening or during poor lighting conditions. Motorcyclists are at a disadvantage when it comes to their visibility on the road due to their size and location of lighting indicators. Because of this, motorcyclists are 82% more likely to be in an accident than other automobiles. One of the most common phrases among drivers involved in car vs motorcycle collisions is “I just didn’t see him."
Many products exist on the market to assist with visibility of motorcyclists including high-visibility clothing and gear …
The Electric Reel For Soccer Fields, Stephen Taylor
The Electric Reel For Soccer Fields, Stephen Taylor
Electrical Engineering
Painting a soccer field consumes too much time. The process of reeling the string after laying out string along the field needs to improve. As a result, my project addresses improvements in how the workers retrieve the string through the production of an electric reel. This electric reel allows the worker to have control of the speed, direction, and on/off state of the device. Direction control allows the user ability to reel and unwind the string. Variable speed allows the user to control how fast the reel unwinds and reels the string. The device gathers string in an orderly manner …
Uav Avoidance System, Zachary Stargensky
Uav Avoidance System, Zachary Stargensky
Electrical Engineering
This is an ongoing design project being funded by Northrop Grumman in which Cal Poly SLO is working in collaboration with Cal Poly Pomona to complete a working design at the end of each academic school year. The project consists of two UAVs that can navigate around a given area without running into each other or other obstacles. There are sensors to be mounted on the vehicles that can detect objects within a given distance and a microcontroller is used to control how the vehicle responds to an object being detected. The avoidance code has been written for previous years’ …
Permanent Magnet Display System, Xenia Leon Rodriguez
Permanent Magnet Display System, Xenia Leon Rodriguez
Electrical Engineering
Pacemakers can malfunction when exposed to high magnetic fields. This becomes especially problematic for patients with pacemakers who need MRI scans as MRI machines can subject the pacemaker to damaging magnetic fields. St.Jude Medical, one of the leading biotech companies, is working to make their pacemakers MRI-safe. In order to test their MRI-safe pacemaker designs, they need an automated test apparatus that will collect and report the magnetic field the pacemaker is being exposed to. This report describes the design of such a test system that reads the Tesla intensity the pacemaker is exposed to and wirelessly transmits the data …
Rocket Cam: Low Frequency Analog Transmission Of Digital Video, Thomas J. Higdon
Rocket Cam: Low Frequency Analog Transmission Of Digital Video, Thomas J. Higdon
Electrical Engineering
The camera module provides data for improving models of dynamic events on Orbital ATK Corp. rockets and aids in troubleshooting, if necessary. Video images provide a valuable addition to the strain, vibration, shock, and acoustic data used for modeling dynamic events, such as stage separations. The cameras can record a duration of video data suitable for capturing a dynamic event and of high enough quality to aid in its modeling. The module readily integrates into the rocket’s current analog data collection systems. The project has further relevance to any other application that necessitates video data transmission over similar limited-bandwidth, analog …
Color Amplification, Jose Carrillo, Cynthia Barajas
Color Amplification, Jose Carrillo, Cynthia Barajas
Electrical Engineering
The goal of this project is to design and implement a hardware version of MIT’s and Cal Poly’s color amplification system. MIT created a software based system named the “Eulerian Video Magnification” that can reveal small variations that cannot be seen with the naked eye by processing the input sequence of the video. The process consists of using a Gaussian pyramid with a Gaussian kernel in order to do spatial decomposition. This process continues until there is one pixel left which then gets amplified and added back onto each pixel of the original frame for reconstruction. The reconstructed signal can …
Design Of A High Powered Led Driver, Omar Renteria
Design Of A High Powered Led Driver, Omar Renteria
Electrical Engineering
Research has shown that LED lighting products have greater energy efficiency, longer lifespans, and lower heat outputs than compared with traditional lighting technologies. An estimated growth of 45 percent per year through 2019 for the LED lighting market should provide a wider variety of LED related products to consumers. The goal of this project; to create a driving circuit that powers a set of high powered LEDs. The implementation of LEDs significantly reduces the power consumption in comparison with other types of light such as incandescent bulbs or CFLs, therefore saving the consumer money.
Current Protection For The Energy Harvesting From Exercise Machines (Ehfem) Project, Colton Crivelli
Current Protection For The Energy Harvesting From Exercise Machines (Ehfem) Project, Colton Crivelli
Electrical Engineering
The Energy Harvesting from Exercise Machines (EHFEM) project intends to create an exercise machine that recycles the energy expended by an athlete operating the machine by sending it to the electric grid. The work done by the user goes through a DC-DC converter and an inverter in order to prepare it for delivery to the grid. A protection circuit ensures that the inverter does not try to pull too much current from the DC-DC converter. The project implements a current protection system that ensures the system doesn’t experience an overcurrent condition.
Voltage Protection System For Ehfem Project, Calvin Abshier, Calvin Xu
Voltage Protection System For Ehfem Project, Calvin Abshier, Calvin Xu
Electrical Engineering
The EHFEM project aims to convert the energy generated by exercise in a gym to electrical power and transport said energy to the grid. At the top level, this project includes several components including: a voltage and current protection system, a DC-DC converter, and an inverter. This project improves upon past voltage protection systems [1] [2]. The DC-DC converter takes the user-generated energy from the elliptical trainer and passes it to the grid. The user can generate voltage spikes upwards of 100V, far above the current DC-DC converter’s maximum limit. The voltage protection circuit sits between the energy harvesting machine …
The Dc House Project: Electrical System Design & Construction, John Bradley
The Dc House Project: Electrical System Design & Construction, John Bradley
Electrical Engineering
This project entails the design and assembly of the photovoltaic system, switchboard panel enclosure, and battery enclosure for the DC House’s main electrical system. The intended purpose of this project is to provide the electrical framework necessary for future students to easily modify and add to this rendition of the DC House. The principle design implements a variety of renewable energy sources, however this senior project only uses solar power in order to maintain a manageable scope. Each of these renewable energy sources are stepped down to a voltage of 24V and input to a Multi Input Single Output DC …
Chipper: Capacitive Bed Occupancy Sensing For An Intelligent Alarm Clock, David Levi
Chipper: Capacitive Bed Occupancy Sensing For An Intelligent Alarm Clock, David Levi
Electrical Engineering
What if your alarm clock knew when you got out—and stayed out—of bed? Current alarm clocks happily let you go back to bed after turning them off. In this project, I build an alarm which only stops ringing when you get out bed, and starts ringing again if you lie back in bed.
This project uses capacitance to detect bed occupancy. A person on or near the bed creates a tiny, picofarads level increase in capacitance, as seen by a sensor placed under the mattress. A microprocessor interprets this signal, and also drives an audio alarm. Shielding of the sensor …
Smart Power Strip, Dannie Alfaro
Smart Power Strip, Dannie Alfaro
Electrical Engineering
The Smart Power Strip revolutionizes all common power strips. Users have the ability to remotely toggle the individual outlets on the Smart Power Strip from a smart phone app and can also monitor how much energy the devices connected to the Smart Power Strip consume.
Audio Dsp Amplifier, William Saba, Nicholas Barany
Audio Dsp Amplifier, William Saba, Nicholas Barany
Electrical Engineering
The key concept of this project is to create a microcontroller system that serves as an interface between a DSP board and a total of 4 amplifier channels. The fully integrated system will provide a fully inclusive audio DSP amplifier for use in 2.1 or bi-amplified stereo speaker setups. The project will focus on developing an intuitive interface that is operable from the device or a computer that programs the DSP board for various speaker applications. The finished design will provide a custom computer sound amplifier in one package, eliminating the need for multiple components by interfacing two stereo amplifiers, …
Dual Channel Matrix Switch Audio Receiver, Austin Fox
Dual Channel Matrix Switch Audio Receiver, Austin Fox
Electrical Engineering
The Dual Channel Matrix Switch Audio Receiver controls 2 separate audio output channels. Each channel plays any of the system's 3 inputs. This controller enables a user to play two separate audio signals through two separate speaker channels. The system design allows audio input from 2 RCA sources or 1 RCA source and a phono source. The system outputs an audio signal for each output simultaneously at up to 36W on each channel for an 8Ω load. The device allows a user to control the audio input and the volume of each output channel. An Arduino Uno R3 microcontroller interfaced …