High voltage-high power phenomena; design and measurements associated with electrical transmission, current interruption, insulation, transformation, lightning, and corona.

Concepts and practices of modern power engineering, including faults, stability, cables, dc transmission and overvoltage phenomena.

Electro magnetics, kinetic theory, and fluid mechanics of plasmas in space, arcs, plasma processing, coronas, and fusion reactors.

Exact solutions to canonical electromagnetic diffraction problems, high and low frequency limits, foundations of numerical solutions to electromagnetic scattering problems.

Electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic theorems and concepts, solutions to the wave equation in rectangular, cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Cooperative course taught by WSU, open to UI students (EE 530).

Graduate-level counterpart of EE 417. Credit not granted for both.

Radiative transfer theory; rough surface scattering; scattering in random media; scattering by random discrete scatterers; the T-matrix method; inverse scattering.

Experiments with optical systems; imaging interference coherence, information storage/processing, gas and solid state lasers, optical fibers, and communication systems. Same as Physics 514.