Microwave and Wireless Engineering

Certificate Program

In today's changing economy, the microwave and wireless engineering industry is moving away from traditional military applications and toward commercial opportunities.

With the new availability of relatively inexpensive microwave components and improved digital communications, these opportunities have few limits. Radar, satellite, wireless radio and optical communication, and collision avoidance radar are just a few areas which utilize microwave technology.

In addition, computer hardware researchers and designers are finding that some microwave engineering concepts are necessary to develop faster computer circuits. As engineers explore low microwave frequencies and even lower radio frequencies, this technology will be applied to cable, broadcast, television, medical, and other commercial uses.

The certificate program educates professionals in the exciting new uses of microwave and wireless technology, by preparing students through extensive lab and project work.

Who Should Apply?
The program is open to students with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or physics or with equivalent preparation, including a background in general physics and intermediate circuit theory.

Students interested in earning a graduate degree can often apply these certificate courses toward a Tufts master's degree in electrical engineering.

Program of Study
The certificate requires five courses:

1. Two required courses:
   • EE 107 Communications Systems I
   • EE 117 Introduction to Microwave Devices
2. One or both of the following:
   • EE 118 Microwave Semiconductor Devices and Circuits
   • EE 160 Computer-Aided Design of Microwave Circuits
3. Two graduate-level elective courses in microwave engineering or related fields:
   • EE 108 Communications Systems II
   • EE 136 Antennas for Radar, Avionics, and Communications
   • EE 137 Radar Engineering
   • EE 161 Microwave Integrated Circuits
   • EE 193SBC Satellite-Based Communications
   • EE 194W Wireless Communications
   • EE 227 Information Theory

(Students may substitute other Tufts graduate courses, subject to the approval of the certificate faculty advisor.)

This certificate is offered in collaboration with the Tufts Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Tuition:
Certificate students pay a course rate for each required certificate course of $3,430 per course (2012-2013).

For a course information, contact:
Certificate faculty Advisor:
Mohammed N. Afsar, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
(617) 627-3217

For Application Forms for the certificate program.

Course numbers/titles are subject to change. Course descriptions are available at http://ase.tufts.edu/bulletin/