ECE 475Radio-Wave Systems

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• Pretty much a graduate level course so you'll most likely be taking it with some master's/phd students. Course focuses heavily on general EM theory, antennas, and wave propagation as the outline says. One major thing to note: Ramahi's notes are all handwritten and terribly illegible. No midterm. Just some antenna simulations with HFSS and an open book final exam. Easiest 85 of my life.

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• Kind of unclear what this course was going to be until the last couple weeks.

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• The course had 4 assignments, a final project, and a take-home final (which was added a bit later in the term). However, the course was disorganized - no rubrics or solutions, due dates were up in the air, and the course pacing was inconsistent (slow at the beginning and then rushed in the last month (3/4 assignments and the final project was due)). Overall, the course felt like a rehash of the fundamentals taught in previous EM and RF courses but repackaged with a focus on antennas. I wish we went beyond.

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• Overall the course was an introduction to antenna theory. Focused heavily on the conceptual side and understanding the physics rather than math. One minor assignment, one major project and a take-home final made for fairly light workload. However, the project instructions / grading breakdown should have been more clear.

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• Very disorganized course; did not even receive a course syllabus.
  This course pretty much just about antennas. You review electromagnetics and transmission line theory from ECE375 and see how these concepts are used to design antennas. Our professor doesn't really like any of the popular antenna textbooks out there, so he doesn't follow any of them and just has his own course notes which are hard to read unless you are really good with cursive handwriting.
  We had no deliverables and assessments in this course except for a final project and a take-home exam. We didn't receive a project rubric and we had to beg the professor for weeks after the term ended to be able to see our project…

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