Teaching

The course's goal is to teach the methods of modern electromagnetic design using the software commonly used in academic and industrial settings. HFSS and FEKO will be the main focus of this class. The class starts with fundamental of electromagnetics, including the basics of Maxwell's equation, numerical modeling leading up to use of commercial tools. Use of boundary conditions, ports, radiation boxes, periodic structures, coordinate systems, radiation field related topics are covered. Class would have in-class demonstration and exams are actually all projects.

Spring 2018

EEL 5482 Fields and Waves - II

EEL 4413L Wave Propagation for Wireless Communication

(new cross-listed course)

The course is designed to introduce fields and waves concepts to new graduate students and senior level undergrad students. The main objective of the course is to develop foundational concepts of fields and wave-propagation. The course will prepare the students for job-market as well as for advanced research related to radio frequency design, antenna design, electromagnetic analysis, weather /defense radar systems, among others. In past, students well-versed in above areas have been able to secure jobs in wireless hardware design industry. For students seeking to pursue masters and Ph.D. degrees, in addition to above areas, the course will prepare them for research in nano-electromagnetics, bio-electromagnetics and computational electromagnetics, mm-wave communication and terahertz communication. Furthermore, the course will be foundational and serve to be a pre-requisite for students seeking to take other antenna, RF-design and communication courses available at FIU. Overall, the course will be an excellent opportunity for undergraduate students to be exposed to these fundamental concepts and prepare them for industry and academia alike.

The goal of this course is to introduce the basic devices of the semiconductor device technology for integrated circuit design. The course starts with fundamentals of physics related to solid state technology and then leading up to concepts needed to engineer several basic devices used in IC design. These basic devices covered in the course are Diodes, Solar-cells, photodiodes, LEDs, Lasers, CMOS capacitor, CMOS transisors and BJTs. The course will talk about basic operation, analytical formulas and operation related concepts.

The course is introductory first class to introduce the concepts of digital electronics to udnergraduate students. The course includes Boolean Algebra. Binary number systems. Combinational logic design using SSI, MSI and LSI. Sequential logic design. Corequisites: EEL 3712L or EEL 3110.