Me - Trenton Rochelle
Education
University of California, Santa Barbara
September 2015 - June 2021
Master of Science, Computer Engineering
- VLSI & Computer Aided Design
- Computer Architecture
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering
Study Abroad Participant
July 2017 - June 2018
Lund University, Sweden
Folkuniversitet Lund, Sweden
Work Experience/Projects
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of California, Santa Barbara
September 2020 - Present
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Advise and teach 8 groups of undergraduate students in a year-long computer engineering capstone design project to achieve their design goals and constraints
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Hold multiple weekly meetings to measure progress and lend advise to overcome problems
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Help foster a healthy group dynamic for students who may be working within a team for the first time
Hardware Engineer
Aptitude Medical Systems Inc.
June 2020 - September 2020
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Designed and manufactured numerous different PCB prototype boards while optimizing for cost-effective mass manufacturing
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Reverse engineered hardware and open-source software to create a custom-built potentiostat to scan samples with square-wave voltammetry and sense nA changes in current
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Designed thermal-controlled heating pad to maintain a steady liquid sample temperature
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Created 3D models/renders/prints for PCB and electronics enclosure with constraints on manufacturing time and actions performed
ECE Senior Year Project | RTCM
Team Lead
September 2020 - June 2020
Improved a real-time blood sensor prototype from Aptitude Medical Systems Inc. that aims to detect coagulopathy in a pre-hospital environment
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Managed team and delegated roles to ensure responsibility consistency
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Created a temperature-controlled surface using a thin-film PT100 thermistor + amplifier, ARM Cortex M0+, a thermo-electric Peltier module, H-Bridge, and PID software to heat and cool a blood sample
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Implemented USB communication framework between microcontroller and custom rooted Android app while maintaining fast charging.
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Interfaced with an electrochemical reading potentiostat and analyzed the data on the Android app
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Designed and ordered a double-sided 4-layer PCB housing the electronics
Wireless Controlled Robotic Arm
May 2019 - June 2019
Designed an Android app that sent instructions via Bluetooth to a Raspberry Pi 3B which controlled a 6 D.O.F robotic arm and streamed low-latency POV video from the perspective of the claw back to the Android app. Control was enhanced through tilting the phone along 2 axis and interacting with virtual joysticks to control the position of the claw
Paxos Blockchain Ledger with Recovery
April 2019 - May 2019
Implemented Lamport’s algorithm, a distributed, contention-based protocol for mutual exclusion, to maintain a blockchain ledger for a simulated bank system with five servers connected through TCP/IP that can safely recover from crashes
SmashPad - An Electronic Drum
March 2019
Designed and created a piezo-sensitive electronic drum kit which connected to a micro-controller running custom state-machine driven software. Included an interactive LCD screen which customized the sound for each drum pad
Lund Carnival Electricity Group
April 2018 - May 2018
Helped determine, design, map, and install electricity infrastructure connected to the grid for a quadrennial carnival with over 400,000 visitors
Technical Skills
Programming Languages Used
| C | C++ | C# |
| Python | Java | Octave |
| HSPICE | VHDL | Verilog |
| HTML | CSS | Javascript |
Buzz Phrases That I Have Experience In
| Embedded Systems | PCB Design |
| Android Development | Website Creation (shown here) |
| Socket Programming | HSPICE Simulation |
| Data Structures/Algorithms | Object-Oriented Code |
| Cadence - VLSI Design | Machine Learning |
| 3D Modeling/Printing | Photoshop |