Many courses at the undergraduate and graduate level are taught by faculty in the EMRG. Below are the current courses regularly offered and taught by EMRG members and brief descriptions of them. If you are an undergraduate at MSU interested in one of the graduate level courses, you can contact the faculty member teaching that course for the semester you are interested to request an override.
Undergraduate Courses
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ECE 305 - Electromagnetic Fields and Waves I
This course covers transient and time-harmonic transmission lines, smith charts, two-port networks, Maxwell's Equations, force, energy, power, electromagnetic waves, and guided waves.
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ECE 404 - Radio Frequency Electronic Circuits
This course covers radio frequency passive and active circuit design; impedance matching for bandwidth; analysis of tuned amplifiers, filters, mixers, and oscillators; and high-frequency measurements and equipment.
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ECE 405 - Electromagnetic Fields and Waves II
This course covers microwave networks, scattering parameters, solutions to Coulomb's Law, Gauss's Law and the wave equation. It also covers planar transmission lines, antennas, waveguides, cavities, and the measurement of the properties of antennas and microwave networks.
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ECE 407 - Electromagnetic Compatibility
This course covers the electromagnetics for electrical systems, signals and spectra, regulations, radiated and conducted emissions, conducted and radiated immunity, and mitigation techniques.
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ECE 476 - Electro-Optics
This course covers operating principles and applications of high frequency and photonic devices including impatt, Gunn, photodetector, light-emitting diodes, and semiconductor laser devices, as well as photonic device applications to fiber optic systems.
Graduate Courses
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ECE 835 - Advanced Electromagnetic Fields and Waves I
This course follows the first four chapters of material in "Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields" by Harrington. Topics covered include electrostatics, magnetostatics, electrodynamics, Maxwell's Equations, potential functions, eigenfunction expansion, Green's functions, radiation of EM waves, EM boundary-value problems, TEM waves, and Maxwell's equations with magnetic sources.
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ECE 836 - Advanced Electromagnetic Fields and Waves II
This course follows the last four chapters of material in "Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields" by Harrington. Topics covered include theory of guided transmission systems, microstrip lines, metallic and dielectric waveguides, EM cavities, excitation and discontinuities of waveguides, surface wave and radiation modes, integrated optics, and scattering of EM waves.
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ECE 837 - Computational Methods in Electromagnetics
This course covers numerical methods and linear spaces, finite difference time domain methods, Yee Algorithm, boundary truncation methods, perfectly matched layers (PMLs), finite element method (time and frequency), scalar basis functions, vector basis functions, boundary truncation using PMLs, integral equation methods, and surface and volume integral equations.
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ECE 802 (Selected Topics) - Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Circuits
This course covers the material from "Microwave Engineering" by Pozar. For more information on this special topic course, contact Dr. Chahal.
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ECE 802 (Selected Topics) - Radar Principles
This course covers fundamental concepts in radar. For more information on this special topic course, contact Dr. Nanzer.
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ECE 929B - Antenna Theory
This course covers antennas and Em scattering, radiation by currents and surface fields, equivalence principle, receiving antennas, arrays and synthesis, integral equations, current and impedance of wire antennas, slot, aperture, and reflector antennas, and the singularity expansion method.
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ECE 929C - Geometrical Theory of Diffraction
This course covers fourier expansion and asymptotic evaluation of two-dimensional electromagnetic fields, scattering from half-planes, wedges and cylinders, geometrical optics and ray-tracing, reflection and transmission matrices, and geometrical diffraction theory.
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ECE 929D - Fast Computational Methods in Electromagnetics and Acoustics
This course covers computation cost and complexity, structed matrices and polynomials, Fourier methods on uniform and non-uniform grids, fast multipole methods for the Laplace equation, fast multipole methods for the Helmholtz kernel, plane wave time domain methods for the retarded potential, rank deficiency, and SVD based methods.