Thomas Gaul and the PrISUm solar car at Formula Sun Grand Prix 2022
Thomas Gaul
I’m a Computer Engineering Graduate Student who has an interest in firmware, embedded systems, computer architecture, and logic design. I am studying to get a Master's degree at Iowa State University with a Spring 2025 graduation date. I completed my computer engineering undergrad Spring 2024.
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About Me
I was raised in Pella, Iowa, and graduated from Pella Community High School in 2020. Growing up I enjoyed building Legos, playing soccer, running, woodworking, playing saxophone in band, and computers. Those experiances led me to choose to study computer engineering at Iowa State University.
Throughout my time at Iowa State, I have been active with the Solar Car Club, Prisum, exposing me to electrical hardware design, electrical system debugging, project management, embedded systems, and team leadership. During my work experiances, I learned about electrical harness design, electrical manufacturing, testing, and firmware through an internship at Weiler and two with IBM, and a Co-Op at Collins Aerospace.
My Projects
PrISUm Solar Car
While at Iowa State I have been very active on the solar car team PrISUm. I worked started working on embedded systems and hardware design and then moved onto leadership roles.
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Senior Design
Batteryless sensor nodes are an emerging technology that enables low-cost, low-maintenance, and long-lifetime embedded sensing. Rather than being wired into a continuous power supply or provisioned with a battery, these sensor nodes survive solely on harvesting energy from ambient sources available in their environment, such as RF signals, solar, vibrational, or thermal. As such they are a challenge to design since these sources are often highly variable and very low power. Our team has been tasked with creating a testbed for researchers to use for the battery-less nodes they are developing.
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Maker Projects
I have worked on personal projects using and expanding upon the knowledge I have gained from my classes at Iowa State
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Class Projects
There have been many final projects that I enjoyed working on and am particularly proud of how they turned out.
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Woodworking
When I was in middle school my family acquired my grandpa's woodworking equipment. Since then I have worked on many woodworking projects both on my own and with my dad learning a lot of skills and designing almost all the projects along the way.
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