Electrical Engineering · University of Manitoba

Electrical
Engineer

Fourth-year Electrical Engineering (Co-op) student at the University of Manitoba. I enjoy working across all parts of a project — from simulation and circuit design to hands-on building and testing.

Kousha Farhoudpour
About Me

Curious about the
whole picture.

I'm a fourth-year Electrical Engineering (Co-op) student at the University of Manitoba. My program covers a lot of ground — circuits, systems, simulation, controls — and I've genuinely enjoyed all of it. I use tools like PSCAD and LTSpice to simulate and understand how things behave before touching any hardware, which makes the hands-on work go a lot smoother.

I like getting into the details of how something actually works, not just getting it to function. Whether I'm running a simulation or building something on a bench, I want to understand the why behind what's happening. I don't consider a design done until it's been tested against real conditions.

Looking for Co-op and internship opportunities in electrical engineering — open to simulation, hardware design, controls, or wherever there are interesting problems to solve.

4th
Year Co-op
Kousha at engineering workbench
Projects

Selected Work

A mix of projects across simulation, embedded electronics, analog circuits, and audio hardware — each one taken from idea all the way to something that actually works.

UMATT competition tractor — full build
UMATT electrical wiring detail UMATT build in progress
UMATT Tractor Team · Sep 2025 – Present
UMATT Competition Tractor — Electrical Subteam

Member of the University of Manitoba's SAE-affiliated competition tractor team, contributing to the full electrical design and integration of the vehicle. Designed sheet metal mounting brackets in AutoCAD and prepared files for laser cutting. Built custom wiring harnesses from scratch and configured a CAN bus network connecting four onboard controllers and sensors. Applied power tools and hands-on mechanical skills to build and integrate three critical vehicle subsystems throughout the active build season.

AutoCAD CAN Bus Wiring Harness Sheet Metal Design Laser Cutting Vehicle Electronics
LTSpice full PI controller schematic LTSpice simulation — feedback (red) vs setpoint (green) Oscilloscope — no load, feedback tracking setpoint Multimeter reading 117.30 mA under heavy load
Analog Controls · Sep – Dec 2025
DC Motor Cruise Control — PI Speed Regulation

Designed a closed-loop DC motor speed controller maintaining constant RPM (2000–2400) under varying mechanical loads. Used a Hall-effect sensor and F-to-V converter for speed feedback, a difference amplifier to compute error, and a tuned PI controller driving a PMOS transistor — all simulated in LTSpice before physical build. The physical circuit hit 117.30 mA under heavy load, exceeding the 100 mA spec, with ±10% steady-state accuracy confirmed on the oscilloscope.

LTSpice PI Controller PMOS Driver Hall Sensor Closed-Loop Control Oscilloscope
LTSpice woofer equivalent circuit and impedance response Final crossover frequency response — LP and HP at −3dB at 3kHz Physical crossover network on breadboard Close-up of crossover network components
Signal Processing · Jan – Apr 2026
Speaker Design & Crossover Network

Modelled a two-way loudspeaker system (woofer + tweeter) as RLC equivalent circuits in LTSpice and designed a crossover network splitting frequencies at 3 kHz, with first-order LP and HP filters each verified at −3 dB at the crossover point. Designed impedance correction circuits for both drivers to flatten the impedance curve. Assembled and tested a Class-AB amplifier and physical crossover network on breadboard, and designed the speaker chassis enclosure in Autodesk Inventor.

LTSpice Autodesk Inventor Class-AB Amplifier Crossover Network RLC Modelling Impedance Correction
Skills

Technical Toolkit

Design & Drafting
  • AutoCAD — schematics & layouts
  • Autodesk Inventor
  • Altium Designer (PCB)
  • Sheet metal & bracket design
  • Blueprint interpretation
  • Laser cutting preparation
Simulation & Analysis
  • PSCAD — power fault simulation
  • LTSpice — analog circuit sim
  • MATLAB
  • Multisim
  • Frequency response analysis
  • Fault condition modelling
Hardware & Embedded
  • CAN bus networking
  • Wiring harness fabrication
  • Soldering & circuit assembly
  • Oscilloscope & bench instruments
  • PI / PID control systems
  • Power tools & mechanical build
Power Systems
  • Transmission line analysis
  • Fault detection & protection
  • Breaker control systems
  • High-side MOSFET drivers
  • Feedback control loops
  • Sensor interfacing
Programming & Tools
  • Python
  • MATLAB scripting
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Google Workspace
  • Technical documentation
  • Git version control
Professional
  • Engineering report writing
  • Cross-functional teamwork
  • Presentation to engineer panels
  • Hardware debugging
  • Requirements verification
  • Class 5 Driver's Licence
Contact

Let's Connect

Looking for Co-op and internship opportunities in electrical engineering — simulation, hardware, controls, or anything in between.