Faculty adviser:
Professor Mohammed Afsar, Electrical and Computer Engineering
In today's changing economy, the microwave and wireless engineering industry is moving
away from developing traditional military applications and toward exploration of 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 communications, 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, broadband, television, medical, and other commercial uses.
In collaboration with the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science offers this five-course, graduate-level certificate in microwave and wireless engineering. The certificate program educates professionals in the exciting new uses of microwave and wireless technology through extensive laboratory and project work. The program can be pursued on a part-time, nondegree basis by professionals seeking advanced development and training or as an intermediate step to a master's degree. In most cases, courses taken as part of a certificate program can be transferred into a graduate-degree program in electrical engineering. 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.
For more information and an application, contact the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies at 617-627-3395.