Computer simulation of electromagnetics using the finite-difference, time-domain (FDTD) method; theory of finite-difference simulation, techniques for modeling EM propagation in lossy and dispersive media, boundary conditions for time-domain simulation. Cooperative course taught by UI (EE 538).

Development, current state and future of high speed computing application of existing commercial supercomputers to engineering problems. Cooperative course taught by UI (EE 504)

Available energy resources; energy issues; economic analysis of energy alternatives; energy future.

Frequency selective digital filtering, least squares filtering, adaptive filtering, multirate signal processing.

May be repeated for credit; cumulative maximum 6 hours. Advanced topics of current interest in wave propagation (electro magnetics, acoustics, or optics).

Antenna fundamentals, analytical techniques, characteristics and design procedures for selected types of wire, broadband, and aperture antennas. Cooperative course taught jointly by WSU and UI (EE 533).

Graduate-Level counterpart of EE 426. Credit not granted for both.

Instruction set architectures, pipelining and super pipelining, instruction level parallelism, superscalar and VLIW processors, cache memory, thread-level parallelism and VLSI.