Announcement for Senior Project
and MS Thesis for Cal Poly SuPER Project (AY2009-10)
White Paper, James G. Harris, July 15,
2005
Fall 2005 Annoucement
EE 563 Graduate Seminar presentation 9/30/05:
Development of Sustainable Power for Electrical Resources - SuPER System
Spring 2006 photos of team members and
super prototype (powerpoint)
Fall 2006 Announcement
EE 563 Graduate Seminar presentation
10/6/06: Cal Poly SuPER Project: Progress Report and Plans
Fall 2007 Announcement
EE 563 Graduate Seminar presentation 10/5/07
This presentation was identical (except for a discussion of research opportunities
for students) to the invited seminar presentation given to Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, Environmental Energy Technologies Division on August
16, 2007 by Jim Harris and Ali Shaban
Solar 2008 paper and presentation:
James G. Harris, Ali Shaban, Tyler Sheffield, and Eran Tal; "Cal Poly
Sustainable Power for Electrical Resources (SuPER) Project"; Solar 2008;
San Diego, CA; May 3-8, 2008
Presentation: PV System Performance session
MS Thesis:
Fall 2005 This thesis was not performed within the SuPER project, but has
been very useful to the project for laying a foundation for its work.
Akihiro Oi, "Design and Simulation of Photvoltaic Water Pumping System",
September 2005 (pdf file)
Summer 2006
Eran Tal, "SuPER System Prototype Design and
Implementation", July 2006 (pdf file)
Spring 2007
Tyler Sheffield, "Cal Poly SuPER System Simulink
Model and Status of Control System", April 2007 (pdf file)
Spring 2008
Joseph Witts, "Cal Poly SuPER System Photovoltaic Array Universal DC-DC
Step Down Converter", June 2008 (pdf file)
Senior Projects:
Winter 2006
Tyson DenHerder, "Design and Simulation of Photovoltaic
SuPER System using Simulink", March 2006 (pdf file)
Spring 2006
Gustavo Vasquez Jr., "Data Acquisition and Sensor
Circuits for the SuPER Project", June 2006 (pdf file)
BUS 454 Client Report Presentation - June
2006 Student Team - Jessica Hickey, Richard Huskey, Heather McGinnis, Nick
McMillan; Faculty Supervisor -Dr. Lynn Metcalf (PowerPoint)
Summer 2006
Alexander Gee, "Printed Circuit Board Design and
Construction for the SuPER Project", August 2006 (pdf file)
Fall 2006
Jennifer Cao, "SuPER Project Wiring and System Protection", December 2006
(pdf file)
Winter 2007
Joseph A. Zukowski, "Implementation of High Powered
LED Load into the SuPER System", March 2007 (pdf file)
Independent study project to interface pyranometer:
EE senior student Slavic
Orzhakovsky (see Tyler Sheffield MS thesis for details of integration into
SuPER system prototype)
Spring 2007
Kaha Sariashvili, "Heavy Load Switchboard Design and Construction for SuPER
Project", Spring 2007 (pdf file)
Thaddeus Guno, Kunal Shaw, and Koosh Shaw, "SuPER System DC-DC Converter",
Spring 2007 (pdf file)
EE 400 Special Problems for Advanced Undergraduates (1 unit):
Shane Murphy and Juan Uribe, "Cal Poly SuPER Project Thermocouple Temperature
Measurement", Spring 2007 (pdf file)
Winter 2008
Gavin Baskin, "SuPER System Safety", Winter 2008 (pdf file).
Alexander Liang, "Cal Poly SuPER Project Electrical Power Analysis of Cal
Poly Organic Farm", Winter 2008 (pdf file).
Presentation for Cal Poly Sustainable Agriculture Research Consortium
(SARC) March 21, 2008 [PowerPoint summary of Senior Project]: " Electrical
Power Analysis of the Cal Poly Organic Farm for the Cal Poly SuPER Project"
(pdf file).
Joseph Witts, 4+1 Interim Report: "SuPER Cart DC Motor Model and Ultra-Capacitor
Addition", March 18, 2008 (pdl file).
Spring 2008
Brian Estrada and Patrick Mariano; "Development of UCLinux Platform for
Cal Poly SuPER Project"; June 2008 (pdf file)
Fall 2009
Alex Diaz, "Development of UClinux SPI Interface on Spartan 3e Development
Board for Cal Poly SuPER Project", December 2008 (pdf file)
Tony Wonsyld, "Proof of Concept Implementation with the Spartan 3e Evaluation
Board for the Cal Poly SuPER Project", December 2008 (pdf)
Spring 2009
Khanh Nguyen, "Development Tools for the Cal Poly SuPER Project using the
Digilent Spartan 3E FPGA Board", June 2009 (pdf)
Frank Scarfo, "Implementation of an Analog Multiplexer for Xilinx Spartan
3e Starter Board", June 2009 (pdf)
Matt Staniszewski, "Implementation of a SPI Driver in UCLinux for Cal Poly
SuPER Project", June 2009 (pdf)