Engineering Project

Emmett Edward Perl

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering May 2016 (Expected)

University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA

NSF Graduate Research Fellow Bowers Research Group

B.S./B.A. in Electrical Engineering May 2011, Summa Cum Laude

University of San Diego San Diego, CA

Minors: Mathematics & Physics GPA: 3.9

Major Team Projects

Senior Design Project: Engineering a Brighter Sudan Sept 2010 - Present

Designed and built a solar power generation and storage system for the developing world

Scheduled to install the system during the summer of 2012 in the Theou Village of Southern Sudan

Design Project: Solar Tracker May 2010

Designed, built, and programmed (in C) a tracking system for solar panels

Design Project: Digital Audio Processing System May 2010

Designed and programmed FPGA (in VHDL) to process an audio signal from a microphone

Design Project: Maze Solving Robot Dec. 2009

Built and programmed robot (in C) to navigate through a random maze

EXPERIENCE

Hollings Program Intern Summer 2010

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Boulder, CO

Applied data from a space-based LIDAR to detect plankton layers in ocean

Made suggestions for future space-based LIDAR systems to improve oceanographic studies

Presented work at the 2010 International Symposium on the A-Train Satellite Constellation

SURF Scholar Summers 2008 & 2009

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gaithersburg, MD

Worked on the Electronic Kilogram Experiment; goal is to redefine the kilogram with respect to Planck s constant

Presented work at the SURF Colloquium, Creative Collaborations Poster Session, and the 2010 Postdoctoral Poster

Symposium in Boulder, CO

Co-author of paper for the 2010 Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements

Helped develop standard performance requirements for Through-Barrier Radar Systems

Presented work to NIST Researchers at the SURF Colloquium

Tutor/ Teaching Assistant 2007 - 2011

University of San Diego San Diego, CA

Tutored undergraduate students at the USD Math Center and Engineering Tutoring Center

Graded four sections of Calculus I for two professors

AWARDS & HONORS

NSF Graduate Research Fellow Graduate Fellowship awarded through the National Science Foundation

Hollings Scholar National Scholarship awarded by NOAA

NSF STEM Scholar USD Engineering Scholarship

Trustee Scholar USD Merit Scholarship

Tau Beta Pi-Alpha Zeta Inducted April 2010 (Top 12% of Engineering Junior Class)

Eta Kappa Nu Inducted April 2010 (Top 25% of Electrical Engineering Junior Class)

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