ECE 457 – Microwave Devices & Circuits

Fall 2026

Calendar

Lecture Date Topic
1 Aug 24th, 2026 Course Logistics
2 Aug 26th, 2026 EM and Motivation for Learning RF/Microwave
3 Aug 28th, 2026 Plane Waves and their Characteristics
4 Aug 31st 2026 Plane Waves Reflections
5 Sept 2nd 2026 Lossy media
6 Sept 4th 2026 Classification of plane waves
Sept 7th 2026 No Class-Labor Day
7 Sept 9th, 2026 Oblique Incidence Reflection
8 Sept 11th, 2026 Wave guiding
9 Sept 14th, 2026 Transmission lines
10 Sept 16th, 2026 Telegrapher's Eqs
11 Sept 18th 2026 Transmission lines Examples
Sept 21st 2026 In-lecture Midterm 1
12 Sept 23rd 2026 Power on T-lines
13 Sept 25th 2026 Smith Charts
14 Sept 28th 2026 Smith Chart Application Examples
15 Sept 30th 2026 Impedance Matching lumped -I
16 Oct 2nd 2026 Impedance Matching lumped -II
17 Oct 5th 2026 Wideband Impedance Matching Techniques using lumped
18 Oct 7th 2026 Impedance Matching with TLines
19 Oct 9th 2026 Impedance Matching with Stubs
20 Oct 12th 2026 Broadband Impedance Matching Techniques I
Oct 14th 2026 In-lecture Midterm 2
21 Oct 16th 2026 Broadband Impedance Matching Techniques II
22 Oct 19th 2026 Broadband Impedance Matching Techniques III
23 Oct 21st 2026 Microwave Networks and S-parameters-I
24 Oct 23rd 2026 Microwave Networks and S-parameters-II
25 Oct 26th 2026 Signal Flow Graph
26 Oct 28th 2026 Mason's Rule for SFG
27 Oct 30th 2026 Property of Gamma
28 Nov 2nd 2026 Filter Design_IL Method I
29 Nov 4th 2026 Filter Design with Distributed Elements
30 Nov 6th 2026 Filter Design with Distributed Elements II
31 Nov 9th 2026 3Port Microwave Device Design
32 Nov 11th 2026 Power dividers and Combiners
33 Nov 13th 2026 Even-Odd Mode Analysis I
34 Nov 16th 2026 Even-Odd Mode Analysis II
35 Nov 18th 2026 Branch line Couplers I
36 Nov 20th 2026 Branch line Couplers II
37 Nov 30th 2026 Applications of Couplers
38 Dec 2nd 2026 Coupled Transmission Lines
39 Dec 4th 2026 Coupled Transmission Lines II
40 Dec 7th 2026 Course Review
41 Final Exam TBD