Brad Funsten is an electrical engineering student at Cal Poly expected to graduate in June 2015 with a B.S. and M.S. He has a 3.76 GPA and has been on the Dean's List for 6 quarters. His coursework and areas of expertise include digital signal processing, microcontroller programming, VHDL/VLSI, and programming languages like C, C++, and assembly code. He has worked on projects involving ECG/phonocardiography characterization, a radar monitor for the elderly, a ping pong ball launcher, an FM radio transmitter/receiver, and more. He is currently working on his thesis involving neural networks, wavelets, and fuzzy logic to detect ECG abnormalities.

1. Brad Funsten Electrical Engineering (Graduation Pending)
1826 Canyon Circle, San Luis Obispo, CA 93410
btfunste@calpoly.edu
(626) 759 – 4275
Education:
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Major: Electrical Engineering
B.S. and M.S. (expected graduation date: June 2015)
GPA 3.76, Dean’s List: 6 quarters
Coursework:
Digital Signal Processing
Analog/Digital Filter Design
Microcontroller Programming
Computational Intelligence
VHDL/VLSI
Computer Vision
Digital Image Processing
Advanced Analog Circuits
Sales Engineering
Microelectronics/Amplifier Design
Control Systems/Mechatronics
Communication Systems
Areas of Technical Expertise:
Programming Languages: C, C++, Assembly Code
Test Equipment: Oscilloscopes, Function Generators, Power Supplies, Multimeters, Logical Analyzers, VNAs
Software Tools: Cadence Virtuoso, KATE, Xilinx, OrCad (Schematic Capture, PCB Layout), LTSpice, MATLAB
Experience:
Worked for Advanced Telesensors, Inc. (Ongoing) September 2014
Assisted with the filter design of a radar heart/respiration rate detector by reverse engineering a traffic radar gun.
Simulated filters of the traffic radar gun to obtain optimal filter responses.
Participated in weekly conference calls as well as meetings.
Gained valuable resources for further research into my thesis.
Hardware Engineer, PolySat, Cal Poly June – August 2013
Designed a PCB breakout for a WIFI chip.
Designed and vacuum tested a mechanism to open housing containing payload.
Undergraduate/Graduate Projects:
Thesis/Senior Project: Electrocardiography/Phonocardiography Characterization (Ongoing) June 2015
Initiated investigation of Neural Networks, Wavelets, and Fuzzy Logic for feasibility study for final design.
Simulated a neural network using MATLAB in order to detect abnormalities in ECG signals.
Radar Monitor for the Elderly (Ongoing) December 2014
In the process of developing a single-unit monitor capable of successfully capturing a silhouette of patients.
Proposed project to the Baker-Koob Endowment and CpConnect for funding.
Ping Pong Ball Launcher Project June 2014
Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to write software, implement, and debug design.
Designed a PID control system using a microcontroller to implement the control loop.
FM Radio Transmitter and Receiver June 2014
Simulated transmitter and receiver circuits for frequency modulation parallel resonance connection.
Demodulated signal with the combination of a diode and a power amplifier.
Bayes Classifier for Face Detection March 2014
Combined Photoshop and MATLAB programs to develop input feature vectors for skin pixels.
Developed Gaussian distribution function for a 2D feature space of pixels based on the hue values.
Digital Graphic Equalizer
Programmed for 9 adjustable frequency bands by frequency sampling-with windowing.
Added an echo effect to the equalizer through an FIR filter.

2. Designed a Luxmeter December 2013
Implemented a transmitter/receiver link using ASK and a PLL tone decoder.
Programmed a microcontroller to estimate the frequency of the detected light signal.
Thermostat System on the ATMega328 June 2013
Programmed with external interrupts and an ADC to read from a temperature sensor.
System was able to regulate the temperature of the room with a CPU fan and heating pad.
Most sustainable in the class.
Function Generator on the ATMega328 June 2013
Interfaced with SPI and programmed with timer interrupts to send data to a DAC
Capable of producing square, sinusoidal, and sawtooth waveforms with adjustable frequencies from 100-500 Hz.
Designed a Computer Processing Unit using VHDL February 2012
Wrote assembly programming instructions downloaded to an FPGA.
Re-engineered assembly program to machine code.
Constructed a Dual Channel Variable Power Supply February 2012
Designed PCB for power supply using DipTrace software.
Soldered and troubleshot electrical components.
Achievements:
► Cal Poly Presidential Award July 2012
► Honors Extraordinaire in Physics June 2011
► Eagle Scout Award May 2008