Student Researcher

Cheyenne Tucson

Department of Physics and Engineering, Fort Lewis College
1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301

Major

Computer Engineering

Bio

Cheyenne became a student at Fort Lewis College (FLC) in the fall of 2018. She graduated high school in 2014 with her cosmetology license in South Carolina, and has recieved reciprocity in New Mexico and Colorado. Over the course of her career in the beauty industry, she began to realize that her love for hair was rooted in the science behind the sceen. She is no longer practicing cosmetology along side her studies as she has been working on projects relating to the computer engineering field. Her interest in the computer engineering field stems from her curiosity and infatuation with electronics as a teenager. Cheyenne started working for Dr. Yiyan Li's lab in the summer of 2020. She has worked on projects related to robotics, analog/digital circuit design, embedded systems, and web development. Through these projects, she has expanded her knowledge of DC circuitry, learned various practical skills for designing circuits, gained experience in designing for clients, and further realized her passion for robotics, circuit design, and embedded systems.

Projects and Related Presentations

This project involved deep learning (X)HTML and CSS to create an open source web repository of necessary resources to teach the Borders and Language course. The web site was created to the liking and requirements of Dr. Carolina Alonso with content provided by Dr. Alonso. She is also hosting the website on her faculty FLC webspace. You can visit the webpage here.

• Interactive Map for the Department of Gender and Sexualities  -  Summer 2020  -  PDF
• Interactive Map on Webpage for FLC Department of Gender and Sexualities  -  Summer 2020 -  PDF
• (X)HTML and CSS to Create a Web Page  -  Summer 2020  -  PDF
• Presenting Live Website with Various Stylings for Dr. Alonso to choose from  -  Summer 2020  -  PDF of screensnips/logos coming soon

This project involved completing the labs for the CE Junior Design class (CE315) to learn the basics of how to use ATMega328P MCUs how they work. This involved learning more about analog and digital circuit design, and how to use microcontrollers.

• Presenting Live Website Revision and Microcontroller Labs  -  Summer 2020 - 
• Youtube Channel with Demonstration Videos  -   Summer 2020  -   Playlist of CE 315 Labs

This project involved optimizing component placement for efficiency, analog-to-digital circuit design, creating an instruction manual/tutorial, and becoming aquainted with the PCB design process.

• Line Follwer V1 Tutorial
  
• Line Follwer V2 Tutorial
• Presenting live updates of circuit prototype and new component placement - No PDF available
• Presenting live update and the final circuit prototype with final component arrangement for Line Follwer V1 -  No PDF available
  

Course Work

• Lab 1 - Review Superposition, Thevenin's Equivalent Circuit, and LTSpice
• Lab 2 - Design a R-2R Ladder DAC
• Lab 3 - Layout a R-2R Ladder DAC
• Lab 4 - Building MOSFETs and Simulating IV Curves
• Lab 5 - Building a CMOS Inverter
• Lab 6 - Building NAND, NOR, and XOR Gates, and a Full Adder in Electric VLSI
• Lab 7 - Using Buses in Electric VLSI
• Lab 8 - Design a MUX and a High Speed Full Adder
• Lab 9 - Design a Simple 8-bit ALU

• 8-bit Succesive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter VLSI Simulation
  
• 8-bit Succesive Approximation Register SPICE Simulation
  

• Homework 1 - Creating a Power Supply and DC Regulators on a PCB
• Homework 2 continued as Final Project - IoT Based Temperature Monitor
  
• Homework 3 - IoT Based Wearable Accelerometer
  
• Homework 4 - MSP430 and ST32