Courses in RF & Microwave Engineering Track:
EEL 5426 RF Circuit Design (3 credits): Transmission lines, guided EM propagation, microwave circuits, resonators, impedance matching, passive components, thin-film circuits, filters, two-port networks, measurements, advanced simulations. Prerequisites: EEL 3135 and EEL 3110.
EEL 5437 Microwave Engineering (3 credits): Microwave guides. Microwave tubes. Microwave solid state devices. Microwave integrated circuits, Microwave enclosures. Prerequisites: EEL 4410 or permission of the instructor. (S, every third year)
EEL 5467 Antennas for Wireless Communication (3 credits): Antenna principles, wire antennas, printed antennas, antenna arrays, and measurements. Full-wave simulation software is used for the design and analysis of antennas for wireless communication systems. Prerequisite: EEL 4410 or permission of the instructor.
EEL 5482 Fields and Waves Engineering (3 credits): Concepts and theorems in fields and waves, analytic techniques for guided waves, radiation and scattering, numerical techniques for analysis of electrical devices. Prerequisites: EEL 4410 or permission of the instructor. (S)
EEL 5563 Introduction to Optical Fibers (3 credits): Use of fiber optics as a communication medium. Principles of fiber optics; mode theory; transmitters, modulators, sensors, detectors and demodulators; fiber data links. Prerequisites: EEL 3514, EEE 4314 and EEL 4410 or permission of the instructor. (F, alternating years)
EEL 6463 Antenna Theory and Design (3 credits): Radiation patterns of dipoles and loops, array analysis and synthesis, self-impedance and mutual impedance, frequency independent antennas and antenna miniaturization, and reflectors and lens antenna. Prerequisite: EEL 4410. (S, alternating years)
