// Electrical Engineering Student

Natalie
Silcox

Designing circuits, embedded systems, and signal processing solutions. Currently pursuing B.S. in Electrical Engineering at State University.

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MCU ATmega
3.9
GPA
8+
Projects
2
Internships
5
Awards
01

Resume

// Education
2022 — Present
B.S. Electrical Engineering
State University · Dean's List
Focus on embedded systems, power electronics, and signal processing. Senior capstone: autonomous drone navigation system.
2021
High School Diploma
Lincoln High School · Valedictorian
AP Physics, AP Calculus BC, AP Computer Science — all 5s. Founded robotics club.
// Experience
Summer 2024
Hardware Engineering Intern
Acme Electronics · San Francisco, CA
Designed PCB layouts for IoT sensor nodes. Reduced board footprint by 22% while maintaining full functionality. Wrote VHDL test benches.
Summer 2023
Embedded Systems Intern
TechStart Inc. · Remote
Developed firmware for ARM Cortex-M4 microcontrollers in C. Implemented I2C/SPI drivers and RTOS task scheduling for a wearable sensor platform.
2023 — Present
Lab Teaching Assistant
State University EE Department
Lead weekly circuits lab sections for 24 students. Assist with oscilloscope usage, breadboarding, and lab report grading.
// Technical Skills
Hardware
PCB Design KiCad Altium Soldering Oscilloscope Multimeter
Firmware & HDL
C / C++ VHDL Verilog ARM Cortex FreeRTOS STM32
Simulation & Tools
MATLAB Simulink SPICE Python Git FPGA
02

Projects

Hardware + Firmware
Autonomous Drone Navigation System
Senior capstone project. Designed a custom flight controller PCB with STM32H7, integrating IMU, barometer, and GPS modules. Implemented PID control loop for attitude stabilization and GPS-guided waypoint navigation. Achieved ±2m positional accuracy.
STM32H7 PCB Design PID Control FreeRTOS IMU GPS
✈
Hardware
Solar MPPT Charge Controller
Buck-boost converter with perturb-and-observe MPPT algorithm. Achieves 94% efficiency across a wide input range. Custom PCB with gate drivers and current sensing.
Power Electronics MPPT SPICE
☀
Firmware
RTOS-Based Wearable ECG Monitor
Real-time ECG acquisition on ARM Cortex-M4. DSP filtering pipeline removes motion artifacts. Bluetooth LE streaming to companion app.
ARM Cortex-M4 BLE DSP
♥
RF
2.4 GHz Patch Antenna Array
Designed and simulated a 4-element microstrip patch antenna array for 2.4 GHz. Achieved 8.5 dBi gain with 45° half-power beamwidth. Fabricated and tested on FR4 substrate.
RF Design HFSS FR4 PCB
📡
FPGA
FPGA-Based FFT Accelerator
Implemented a 1024-point pipelined FFT in VHDL on Xilinx Artix-7. Achieves 10× speedup vs software. Used for real-time audio spectrum analysis.
VHDL Xilinx FFT
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03

Contact

Let's Build
Something.

Open to internships, research opportunities, and collaborative projects. Especially interested in power electronics and embedded systems roles.

@ [email protected] <> github.com/alexchen-ee ↓ Download Resume (PDF)
natalie@portfolio ~
$ whoami
Natalie_Silcox — EE Student & Maker

$ cat skills.txt
Hardware · Firmware · RF · FPGA

$ echo $STATUS
→ Seeking Summer 2026 Internship

$ ping natalie.silcox
PING natalie.silcox ... response time: fast

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