Richard Smith

Electrical & Computer Engineering

smithri2@oregonstate.edu | 5033471060
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I am currently a 4th year student on the MECOP track in ECE here at Oregon State. I have known that I’ve wanted to pursue a career in EE ever since I started high school, as I have always found electrical systems to be fascinating. One of the aspects of EE that excites me the most is that it is the discipline that ties all other disciplines together. Electrical systems are responsible for acquiring, processing, and delivering the information of the world. I like that EE gives me the opportunity to work in many interdisciplinary places. I’m currently involved in several extracurricular activities where I’m exercising my skills that I’ve learned in the classroom and beyond. I’m involved with bio-electrical research at the Sensors and Integrated Microelectronics lab here on campus, the OSU Global Formula Racing team, and the OSU AIAA Hybrid rocketry team. I’m learning from these experiences that I’m really interested in embedded systems and control. This ranges from bare-metal C programming, to cabinets full of control relays, to high level Human-Machine Interface design. If there is one thing I would like to get out of my entire future engineering career is to be able to say that I worked ethically and honorably, and I understood the impact that my work had on the world.

Projects

AIAA Hybrid Rocket: Laun...

The purpose of this project is to design and implement a launch and flight control system to expand the capabilities of Oregon State's Hybrid Rocket team. A hybrid rocket uses both a solid fuel and liquid oxidizer allowing for ...

C
C#
Python
Embedded Systems
FPGA
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OpenCV-controlled Robot

Built as part of a hackathon challenge, this project was focused on building a combination of hardware and software to help a simple robot navigate a 2D plane. A computer running python OpenCV used a webcam to determine the cur...

Python Chore Manager

This project was built as a tool to assist reminding members of the household what chores to do and when. Chore reminders were sent as emails. The program was built using python using the smtplib library for mail management an...

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