OSU ElectroScience Laboratory

Course List



Prof. John Volakis, Director
ElectroScience Lab
The Ohio State Univ.
1320 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212
V: (614) 292-6191
F: (614) 292-7297

EE300-

Electrical Circuits

Prequisite

Physics 132, Math 254, CPHR of 2.0+, ENG major

Professor

Newman

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

Course Description

Introduction to circuit analysis; circuit analysis concepts and their extension to mechanical and thermal systems by analogy; electrical instruments and measurements.

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EE311-

Electromagnetics I

Prequisite

204 or 205, Math 415

Professor

Teixeira, Reano, Pathak

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/~johnson/311/ee311.html

Course Description

Waves and pulses on transmission lines including reflections, line impedance, and impedance matching. Static fields including dielectric and ferrite materials, and resistance, inductance and capacitance.

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EE312-

Electromagnetics II

Prequisite

311

Professor

Johnson, Teixeira, R. Lee

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

Course Description

Introduction to time varying fields including Maxwell's Equations and plane wave propagation, reflection and transmission; applications to antennas, guided waves, and radar and communication systems.

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EE331-

Introduction to Materials for Elec. Engineering

Prequisite

Chem 121, Mth 415, Phys 133, CPHR 2.0+, ENG major

Professor

Anderson

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

Course Description

Introduction to the interrelation of the structure, properties, and processing of materials, with emphasis on electronic properties.

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EE614-

Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility

Prequisite

323

Professor

Newman

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

Course Description

Basic knowledge of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) fundamentals including government EMC regulations, grounding, shielding, and crosstalk.

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EE682-

Organized Group Project for ECE Design II

Prequisite

582 and Sr. standing

Professor

R. Lee

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

Course Description

This design course integrates ECE specializations into a real design project with implementation. The department chooses topics and the teams meet during regular classes.

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EE694H-

Integrated Optics

Prequisite

ECE 312; or grad standing

Professor

Reano

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee694H.htm

Course Description

Fundamentals of planar lightwave circuits and guided wave devices; propagation in anisotropic media; electrooptic and nonlinear optical effects; emerging concepts in RF photonics and nanobiotechnology

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EE694Y-

Intro to Numerical Methods for Electromagnetics

Prequisite

301 and Math 568 or 571; or grad standing

Professor

Volakis

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee694Y.htm

Course Description

Provides an introduction to a set of numerical methods (intregal equation, finite difference, and finite element methods) used to solve electromagnetic-related problems.

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EE710-

Microwave Circuits

Prequisite

EE312 or equiv or grad standing

Professor

Reano

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee710.htm

Course Description

Theory of microwave passive devices, transformers, couplers, filters, resonators, and circulators; computer-aided design of microwave circuits; microstrip realization and testing with a network analyzer.

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EE711-

Radiation from Antennas

Prequisite

EE312 or equiv or grad standing

Professor

Rojas

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee711.htm

Course Description

Dipole, loop, aperture, reflector, lens, surface wave, and other antennas; array theory; radiation resistance, directivity, and input impedance.

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EE713-

Elements of Radio Wave Propagation

Prequisite

EE312 or equiv or grad standing

Professor

Johnson

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee713.htm

Course Description

Practical methods for predicting tropospheric, groundwave, and ionospheric propagation, including refraction, reflection, and extinction effects.

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EE714-

Radar Systems

Prequisite

EE613 or graduate standing

Professor

Newman

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee714.htm

Course Description

Study of radar systems and their applications; emphasis on measurement of target parameters by means of radar with applications to ranging tracking mapping, and navigation.

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EE716-

Optics with Laser Light

Prequisite

EE352 and EE312 or grad standing in engineering

Professor

Anderson

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee716.htm

Course Description

Wave equation, ray optics, optical matrices, near and far-field diffraction theory, diffraction integra with lenses, Fourier optics, optical computing, holography, polarization, birefringence, applications.

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EE719-

Electromagnetic Field Theory I

Prequisite

EE312

Professor

J.F. Lee

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee719.htm

Course Description

Maxwell's equations; constitutive relations; boundary conditions; wave equation;plane wave solutions in planar multilayered media; Doppler shift; vector potentials and fields of simple sources.

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EE731-

Fiber Optics

Prequisite

312 and 323; or grad standing

Professor

Reano

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

Course Description

Waveguiding in optical fibers, fiber losses, coupling and power launching, detectors, sources, noise, receiver, and transmitter design, link analysis, intoduction to fiber sensors.

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EE732-

Quantum Electron Devices: Lasers

Prequisite

432 and 312, or grad standing in eng, chem or phys

Professor

Anderson

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

Course Description

Atomic interaction with radiation, cavities with gain, pumping techniques, semiconductor lasers.

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EE810-

Electromagnetic Field Theory II

Prequisite

EE719

Professor

Teixeira

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee810.htm

Course Description

Electromagnetic field theorems with applications; separable guided wave and scattering boundary value problems; one-dimensional Green's functions with applications; multiconductor transmission lines.

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EE811-

Electromagnetic Field Theory III

Prequisite

EE810

Professor

Teixeira

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee811.htm

Course Description

Multi-dimensionall potential Green's functions for solving separable electromagnetic problems with arbitrary excitation; integral equation formulation for more general wave problems of practical interest.

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EE812-

Applied High Frequency Methods in Electromagnetics

Prequisite

EE719 and EE810

Professor

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee812htm

Course Description

Introduction or fay and wave optical concepts leading to the uniform, geometrical and phyusical theories of diffraction; Gaussian beam method; appllication ot modern antenna and scattering problems in EM

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EE813-

Finite Elements for Electromagnetics

Prequisite

EE810

Professor

J.F. Lee

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee813.htm

Course Description

Introduction to finite element, finite difference, and finite volume methods from the viewpoint of researchers in electromagnetics

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EE814-

Method of Moments in Electromagnetics

Prequisite

EE719

Professor

J.F. Lee

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee814.htm

Course Description

Method of Moments solution of integral equations of electromagnetic radiation and scattering; applications to conducting and material bodies, apertures, thin wires, microstrip, etc.

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EE815-

Advanced Antenna Theory

Prequisite

EE810

Professor

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee815.htm

Course Description

Mutual impedance; moment method, aperture antennas; ground plane effects; horn and reflector antennas; pattern synthesis; antenna measurements.

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EE816-

EM Scattering from Random Media and Rough Surfaces

Prequisite

EE810 and Stat 427 or Math 530

Professor

Joel Johnson

Meeting Time/Room

MWF 12:30pm

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee816.htm

Course Description

Analytical theories of scattering from statistically described meda; independent scattering, radiative transfer, and analytical wave theory. Phusical optics and perturbation theories of rough surface scattering.

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Not open to students with credit for 894J.

EE819-

Advanced Electromagnetic Theory III

Prequisite

818

Professor

Pathak

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

Course Description

Use of asymptotic methods to obtain high-frequency solutions; geometrical optics and the propagation through inhomogeneous media; geometrical theory of diffraction and its application to antenna and scattering problems.

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EE894K-

Discrete Electromagnetics

Prequisite

Graduate Student Standing

Professor

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee894K.htm

Course Description

Introduction to discrete formulations of electromagnetics and associated numerical methods with emphasis on finite difference, finite volume, and finite element techniques.

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EE894P-

Advanced Integral Equation Methods

Prequisite

EE810

Professor

Jin-Fa Lee

Meeting Time/Room

Course Link

http://www.ece.osu.edu/abet/std_syl_ee894P.htm

Course Description

Formulations for solving 3D scattering and radiation problems, layered media applications, matrix solution techniques, Fast Multiple Multipole (FMM), and integral equation method with SVD.

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