Patrick Cote

Electrical Engineer

Projects

A collection of Patrick's academic and personal projects.

IoT Pool Monitor
Wireless pH and temperature monitor

QAM Modem w/ FEC
M-QAM modem built in MATLAB. GUI control interfaces with AWG for transmit and a DSO for receive.

RF Communication in Drill Pipe
Master's Thesis Research to determine the feasibility of using the inner diameter of drill pipe as a waveguide to propagate RF signals for downhole communication in oil and gas drilling applications.

Berkeley Pit Unmanned Research Boat
Graduate Research Project to design an unmanned system to profile water characteristics of precise locations within the Berkeley Pit, a former open pit mine, and collect water samples at depths of 700 feet.

Autonomous Canary Mining Drone
Senior Design Project to create an autonomous quadcopter equipped with gas monitoring and imaging capabilities for use in safety inspections of underground mines.

RocketCurve
The RocketCurve – Thrust and Impulse DAQ was designed to interface with a load cell, microcontroller and ADC setup to record and plot the thrust-time curve as well as calculate the total impulse delivered by model rocket engines.

Robotic Arm
A robotic arm controlled with serial communication and a TI MSP430 microcontroller. The build consists of 3-D printed parts and four servos. The arm can move forward/back, left/right, up/down and has an opening and closing claw.

Fujifilm x100s Thumb Rest
A 3D-printed thumb rest for the Fujifilm x100s camera. Modeled in Solidworks.

NASA Robotic Mining Challenge

About

Patrick Cote is a graduate student studying electrical engineering at Montana Tech. Originally from Spokane, Washington, he studied journalism at the University of Montana and worked as a newspaper photographer in Northwest Montana before coming back to school at Montana Tech. As an undergraduate research assistant, Patrick developed an unmanned research vessel to collect water samples from the Berkeley Pit. For his undergraduate senior design project he developed an autonomous quadcopter to monitor air quality in underground mines. Patrick is now working on his master’s degree focusing on RF engineering and wireless communication.

Education

M.S. Electrical Engineering - Montana Tech - 2019
B.S. Electrical Engineering - Montana Tech - 2018
B.A. Journalism - University of Montana - 2009

Languages

MATLAB
C
Python

Skills

Wireless Communication
RF Engineering
Embedded Systems
Autonomous Vehicles