Courses Description
Electrical Engineering 1:
Physics for Electrical Engineers
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; self-study, eight hours

Prerequisite or corequisite: Math32B, Math33C, Physics 1A, Physics 1B.

This course will provide you with a solid foundation for the electromagnetics that is essential for modern electrical engineering disciplines, including, wireless communication, optics, solid state, power electronics, integrated circuits, and high speed computing. You are also encouraged to consult Appendix 1 of the textbook as needed.

Electrical Engineering 164AL:
Microwave Measurements Laboratory
Lecture, two hours; laboratory, four hours; outside study, six hours. Prerequisite or corequisite: course for active and passive microwave components; cavity resonators, waveguides, wavemeters, slotted lines, directional couplers. Design, fabrication, and characterization of microwave circuits in microstrip and coaxial systems.
Electrical Engineering 261:
Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Circuits.
Prerequisite: course 163A or consent of instructor. Rectangular and circular waveguides, microstrip, stripline, finline, and dielectric waveguide distributed circuits, with applications in microwave and millimeter-wave integrated circuits. Substrate materials, surface wave phenomena. Analytical methods for discontinuity effects. Design of passive microwave and millimeter-wave circuits.
Electrical Engineering 266:
Computational Methods for electromagnetics.
Prerequisites: courses 162A, 163A.  Computaional techniques for partial differential and integral equations: finite-diufference, finite-element, method of moments.  Applications include transmission lines, resonators, integrated circuits, solid-state device modeling, electromagnetic scatterubgm abd antennas.
Electrical Engineering 296:
Seminar: Research Topics in Electrical Engineering (2 units)
Lecture, two hours; outside study, four hours.   Advanced study and analysis of current topics in electrical engineering.   Discussion of current research and literature in research specialty of faculty member teaching course.  May be repeated for credit.  S/U grading.
::Direct converter receiver using a quasi-Yagi antenna

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