10-13: Lab Schedule
Hello All,
Labs will be 50 minute sections held Monday-Thursday in Room 1704 of Jacobs Hall. See times in a Google Sheet that will be posted later this week. Please see the grading policy regarding lab attendance.
Here are the subjects we will be covering each week.
Week of October 13, 2025 (Week 3) Make lab sessions using Google Sheets
Week of October 20, 2025 (Week 4) Lab 1: Introduction: Tools of Microwave Engineering
Week of October 27, 2025 (Week 5) Lab 2: S-Parameters, Amplifiers, Power Meters
Week of November 3, 2025 (Week 6) Lab 3: Switches, Couplers, Filters and other Passive Components
Week of November 10, 2025 (Week 7) Lab 4: Keysight ADS Lab (must attend) – will be in a different room
Week of November 17, 2025 (Week 8) Lab 5: NOISE and Noise Figure Measurements
Week of November 24, 2025 (Week 9) No Lab. Thanksgiving week.
Week of December 1, 2025 (Week 10) Lab 6: Mixers, Local Oscillators and Receivers (optional)
Week of December 8, 2025 (Finals Week) No Lab. Final Exam Week.
Please keep an eye out for further announcements regarding lab later this week.
Best,
Oliver
10-07: No Office Hours Today, 5-6pm
Hello All, due to an off-campus meeting, Professor Rebeiz will not hold office hours today (October 7). All other hours today will be held as normal, and Professor Rebeiz's office hours will resume as usual on Thursday. Best, Oliver
10-07: Recitation Section #1 Notes Posted
Hello All, the notes for last week's discussion section have been uploaded to the course website under the Recitation Sections tab for 2025. In the future I expect to have the notes uploaded to the website much sooner following the section, apologies for the delay on this one. The notes contain the conversion for dB to Nepers which is useful for your homework. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the notes please feel free to reach out. Best, Oliver
09-30: Monday Office Hour Location Change
Hello All, the location for Morris' Monday office hours has changed to Jacobs Hall 4506. Please take note that, unlike the other office hours, this is not in the ECE Tutoring Center and is on the 4th floor. Best, Oliver
09-28: Prof. Gudem's ECE166/ECE164 Review Session Format
Dear Students, after discussions with Prof. Rebeiz (ECE166 instructor) and Prof. Hall (ECE164 instructor), we agreed on the following format for my review sessions.
1. Merge ECE166 & ECE164 into 2 hour session: Timeslot: 6pm - 8pm Mon/Wed, Location: WLH 2206
2. My review sessions will cover the fundamentals i.e. pre-ECE166 & pre-ECE164. I will not cover HW or lecture material but focus on topics leading up to coarse material in ECE166/ECE164. This avoids duplication of effort with instructor office hours & TA office hours. Examples of topics that I will be covering are: KVL, KCL, Calculating DC bias point, Complex numbers, Thevenin and Norton Theorems, Maximum Power Transfer, RC and RL circuit, Equivalent impedance, etc.
The target audience for my review sessions are students struggling in ECE166 & ECE164. There is a strong correlation between student’s grade in ECE102 / ECE100 and ECE166 / ECE164.
Thanks.
Prasad Gudem, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
UCSD
09-27: Exam Calculator Policy
Hello All, there will be two allowable calculators for the midterm and final exam for this course: TI-30XA and TI-30XIIS. You are required to get one of these calculators for the midterm and final exam, no other calculators will be allowed on the exam. Here are some links to places to purchase the calculators: TI-30XA Target, TI-30XA Amazon, TI-30XIIS, TI-30XIIS Amazon. Best, Oliver
09-27: Week 1 Lecture Content
Hello all, this upcoming week in lecture Professor Rebeiz will be covering content corresponding to Lecture 1 and Lecture 2 notes on the course website. Please take some time to read the lecture notes before coming to lecture, and bring a copy of the notes to reference and annotate during lecture. Best, Oliver
09-27: Welcome to ECE 166 - Fall 2025
Welcome to ECE166. The course website is https://sites.google.com/eng.ucsd.edu/ece166 where you can find all the material for the class, the homework assignments and the homework solutions. We will use Canvas only for homework solution submissions and for communicating with you. It is best that you download the lectures from the website and read them before going to class, as I will skip on several of the mathematical steps on the board (but discuss them). Please come to office hours, please be engaged and ask questions, and we are here to help you in any way we can. Take this class seriously as it can be a lot of work.
– Prof. Rebeiz, rebeiz@ece.ucsd.edu
PS: Do not forget to attend Prof. Gudem review sessions on M/W in Warren Lecture Hall.