Ethan Chiu

Student

I am studying for a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Hawaii. I expect to graduate in 2027.


Interests: Embedded Systems, Sensors, Signal processing


Projects

Wavelens 2025

A wearable device and auxiliary mobile application for measuring and reporting environmental dynamics.

Environmental Sensing C Zephyr Dart Flutter

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RIBows 2025

A website to easily search for, discover, and join Registered Independent Organizations (RIOs) at UH Manoa.

React Bootstrap Typescript

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Nanosystems Lab Cookiecutter 2024

A Cookiecutter template for the Nanosystems Lab's Python packages.

Templating Python

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Essays

Software Engineering Reflection

19 Dec 2025

Concepts++ As I’ve discovered through the ICS 314 course I have taken this semester, software engineering is a very broad field brimming with countless concepts and terms. In this class, we’ve touched on topics such as open source software development,...

Reflection Software Engineering

Estimating

13 Dec 2025

I wonder how long this will take? When I think about software engineering, a few things immediately come to mind: programming, teamwork, designing. Nowhere in there is effort estimation. But after learning about Issue Driven Project Management (IDPM) Effort Estimation...

Effort Estimation IDPM

Orientation

03 Dec 2025

P Pa Pat Patte Patterns The einstein tile, as pictured to the right, is a deceptively ordinary-looking 13-sided shape. However, if you went and printed out a hundred, a thousand, even a trillion of them, laid them out, and fit...

Design Patterns

Bootstrap Bootcamp

08 Oct 2025

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel For the past week I’ve been learning the basics of Bootstrap 5, a popular CSS UI framework, in my software engineering class. A UI framework is essentially a software package that allows you to easily import...

Software Engineering UI Design Bootstrap

Cookiecutter

22 Sep 2025

Did I Format This Right? As someone who has experience templating and formatting Python code, I understand the importance of having standardization when creating programs. For me, it is useful to have a “ground truth” when programming since it eliminates...

Formatting Templating

Questing for Better Questions

10 Sep 2025

Questions vs. Answers “It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.” This quote from playwright Eugène Ionesco highlights the profound value that questions provide. While getting answers may ease a temporary itch, it is the practice and skill...

Questions Stack Overflow

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