EECE 2530 — Fundamentals of Electromagnetics

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureusually offered: fall, springtypical days: M/ThBostonTraditional

Introduces electromagnetics and high-frequency applications. Topics include transmission lines: transmission line model with distributed circuit elements, transmission line equations and solutions, one-dimensional traveling and standing waves, and applications; electromagnetic field theory: Lorentz force equations, Maxwell’s equations, Poynting theorem, and application to the transmission line’s TEM waves. Also studies uniform plane wave propagation along a coordinate axis and along an arbitrary direction; equivalent transmission lines for TEM, TE, and TM waves; reflection and refraction of uniform plane waves by conducting and dielectric surfaces. Discusses applications to wave guides, resonators, optical fibers, and radiation and elementary antennas. Introduces modern techniques (computational methods) and applications (optics, bioelectromagnetics, and electromagnetic effects in high-speed digital circuits).

Prerequisites

all of:
- one of:
  - EECE 2150 (min D-)
  - EECE 2210 (min D-)
  - BIOE 3210 (min D-)
- one of:
  - MATH 2321 (min D-)
  - MATH 316M
- one of:
  - PHYS 1155 (min D-)
  - PHYS 1165 (min D-)
  - PHYS 1175 (min D-)

Corequisites (same term)

EECE 2531

Offering history

Term	Sections	Enrolled	Capacity	Full	Open seats/section
Fall 2023	2	41	60	68%	9.5
Spring 2024	2	45	60	75%	7.5
Fall 2024	2	41	60	68%	9.5
Spring 2025	2	61	72	85%	5.5
Fall 2025	2	47	60	78%	6.5
Spring 2026	2	78	78	100%	0.0

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 88% · T 12% · W 38% · Th 78% · F 0%

Common patterns: MR (40% of sections), MWR (38% of sections), T (12% of sections), M (9% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Edwin Marengo Fuentes (69% of students) · reviews
Hossein Mosallaei (31% of students) · reviews

Spring

Edwin Marengo Fuentes (57% of students) · reviews
Hossein Mosallaei (43% of students) · reviews

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Unlocks

EECE 4790, EECE 4791, EECE 5578, EECE 5647, EECE 5651, EECE 5652, EECE 5654, EECE 5680, EECE 5682, EECE 5686, EECE 5690, EECE 5692, EECE 5693

Courses that list EECE 2530 in their prerequisites.

Links

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