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Hi! Welcome to my page — this is a compilation of engineering projects I've done over the years.
I'm a recent UC Santa Cruz graduate in Electrical Engineering, and I'm experienced in hardware, embedded systems, and electronics development. Passionate about solving complex problems and adaptable to a wide range of engineering challenges.
linkedin.com/in/micaela-house/
Engineering Capstone
UCSC | ECE129
Oct 2024 - Jun 2025
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Thermal management
Python
OpenCV
Systems engineering
'Seeing-Eye' Sensor
UCSC | ECE167
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
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Computer Hardware & Architecture: ARM
Designed and built an urchin harvesting ROV. Along with being the team lead for a 6-person senior engineering team, was the machine learning and automation subteam lead.
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Final Design Defense (slides)
During final project for ECE 167, worked on a 3-person team to develop a wearable "seeing-eye" device, which consisted of ultrasonic sensors, haptic feedback and audio output through an STM32 microcontroller.
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Final Presentation (slides)
Design of Integrated Circuits -- Multiply-Accumulate Operation Unit
UCSC | CSE100
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
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Verilog HDL (Digital Circuitry)
AIM-Spice (Analog Circuitry)
Robot PCB Re-Design
Oct 2025 - Present
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PCB Planning
Analog Circuit Design
Altium Designer; KiCad
Designed and modeled low-power approach to the Multiply-Accumulate Operation (MAC) unit, using AIM-Spice to model analog circuitry and Verilog HDL to model digital circuitry spanning transistor implementations and finite state machines to model behavior.
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Post-university, re-designed the electronics board onto a PCB platform for better signal integrity and interfacing with multiple sensors.
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Bottle Dropper
Jan 2023 - June 2024
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Autodesk Fusion
PCB Planning
Arduino
Mechatronics
UCSC | ECE118
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
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Analog Circuit Design
Embedded Programming (C)
Computer Hardware & Architecture: ARM, MIPS
DMM, Oscilloscope
Built upon pre-existing bottle drop mechanism to include dual-speeds (one speed for initial drop, slower speed for last meter for a gentle drop) for Ascend's SUAS 2024 competition drone, Skøll. Shrank overall footprint, did several rounds of testing for ease, speed of mechanism.
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As part of my mechatronics course this last spring, I was also in charge of electrical design for my team's final project - which involved designing and soldering 1.5kHz and 2.0kHz beacon detectors, as well as handling wiring of our various sensors on our team's robot.
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FPV Drone
Personal Project
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
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Documentation
NeuroTechSCx
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
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Autodesk Fusion
OpenBCI Cyton
I designed and built a functional drone as a personal hobby project! I based my drone's design off a design available online, called the "Toothpick," as I was looking for something light and small and yet versatile enough for the kind of playful flying I had planned for it. Throughout this process, I had to pore over documentation and research different drone components in order to ensure compatibility, as well as test and calibrate these components in order to ensure everything worked properly.
The Hardware Team was responsible for recording brain activity and developing systems to do so. The Hardware Team used an 8-channel OpenBCI Cyton board. Beginning the summer before my freshman year, I was a part of the Hardware sub-team, where I 3D designed and printed various headset designs for our silent-speech interface that took in a user's facial EMG signals.
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FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC)
Monterey High School | FRC #4255 Robodores
Sep 2016 - Jun 2020
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Collaboration
Leadership
Strong, verbal communication
Litter Bot
Monterey High School | Oceanography and Marine Biology
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
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Collaboration
From business leader to co-captain my senior year, I did a lot here. As a part of FRC, I did some machine learning, fabrication, and facilitated communication between technical and non-technical groups. Communicated with sponsors, community leaders. My responsibilities were extensive: from writing up documentation for our business practices, to editing and submitting for team awards.
In my Oceanography course, worked in a team to come up with a solution to ocean plastic pollution. Presented design of a litter-collecting robot with a poster and presentation.
Fixed Wing
Flower Mouse Speaker
Personal Project
Nov 2023
Made a fixed wing for testing with the controls group. After initial tests, we decided to focus on quadcopter-drone style for further development.
I just thought it would be fun to build a little mouse that runs around belting country music with a built-in flower on top. After detection with an obstacle, turns around - also capable of path-following.
Aluminum Levitator
Monterey High School | Physics
Dec 2019
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Collaboration
Physics Boat
Monterey High School | Physics
Jan 2020
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Collaboration
Made aluminum "levitate" with a coil of wire. Was just a genuinely fun project, and had a lot of fun.
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Lab Report (slides)
Made a boat for physics lab when we went over water displacement, and needed something simple enough that could be welded together with minimal effort.
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Lab Report (slides)
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