CERTIFICATE IN WIRELESS ENGINEERING

WAMI: Wireless and Microwave Research and Instruction Program
Contact: Larry Dunleavy, Electrical Engineering 4-2574 or dunleavy@eng.usf.edu

SPAR: Signal Processing Applications Research Program
Alternate Contact : Ravi Sankar, Electrical Engineering 4-4769 or sankar@eng.usf.edu

"IEEE Microwave" magazine article on EE Wireless Certificate Program

Instructions for Applying to the Wireless Certificate Program.

  1. Non-Degree Seeking Student Information. This site includes the information and forms in PDF format plus a link to Student Health Services Forms Page for the medical history form (mandatory!). NOTE: If you are a USF graduate and have not been enrolled for 3 or more semesters, you will have to fill out the non-degree seeking application and medical history form before you can be accepted and register. Applicants must also possess a bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university. Please note that applicants that are not current degree seeking students will be charged a $20.00 application fee by the University. Mail this form (and check) directly to the Registrar's office at USF - Not to the EE Department or the Graduate School.

  2. USF Graduate Certificate Site Application Form Site. Please fill the graduate school's certificate application out and mail to the EE Graduate Secretary, Electrical Engineering, ENB 118, Tampa, Fl 33620. Do NOT mail this form to the Graduate School. Non Degree seeking and current master students will need this form. Current master's students do not have to pay the $20.00 application fee.

  3. Download the Electrical Engineering Wireless Certificate application in MS Word* or download the application in the Adobe Acrobat PDF Format.

  4. summing up: Nondegree seeking students have 3 applications to fill out and currently enrolled EE Master students have two application forms to fill out
Also - Students interested in obtaining their certificates through the College's "APEX" (remote learning) department must also register their courses through that department. See their Academics Web Site.

Please note that it is imparative that students apply for the Wireless Certificate program as soon as they start, NOT after completion of the Certificate. Then - AFTER COMPLETION OF THE CERTIFICATE there is the formal request to receive your certificate ("Completion Form") that must be filled out and mailed to the Electrical Engineering Department for departmental and college approval and then forwarded to the Graduate Certificate Program (with your transcripts) for approval. It takes about six weeks for your certificate to be printed and signed and mailed to the address on your completion form.

Brief Description: This certificate recognizes post-bachelors preparation for engineering of modern wireless circuits, antennas and communication systems. The applicable course list allows significant flexibility to accommodate variability in student preparation and course scheduling. The program allows emphasis to be placed in either circuits and antennas or systems and networks, while requiring exposure to both.

Applicable courses: Under the supervision of a certificate faculty advisor, students will select 12 credits of course work from the following options,  The plan will allow 4 approved 3 credit courses (per Certificate information on WAMI web page) to suffice. Alternately,one of these 3 credit chunks could be comprised of Wireless Seminar combined with either the WAMI Lab or the 2 credit (lecture only) version of the RF & MW Meas. offered each Spring. (Note: Upon departmental certificate advisor approval, substitution may be allowed for a course not on the below list, if consistent with the certificate’s intent. )

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Graduate Course schedule for 2002/2003/2004 (html)
and in Microsoft Word and in PDF format

Table 1. Applicable Courses

RF & Microwave Courses (minimum 3 credits,  maximum 9 credits)

Credits
Course Availability
(No Regularly Scheduled WAMI Graduate Classes in Summer
See schedule of classes above)

 

Fall Spring Summer Fall
ELR 5316L Wireless Circuits and Systems Laboratory  2        
EEL6xxx: RF& Microwave Circuits I  3        
EEL6xxx RF & Microwave Circuits II  3        
EEL6xxx: RF & Microwave Measurements  3        
EEL6xxx ; Monolithic Microwave IC Design  3        
EEL5462: Antenna Theory  3        
EEL 6481: Numerical Techniques in EM  3        
 Wireless Communications and Systems Courses
(minimum 3 credits,  maximum 9 credits)

EEL 5437: Wireless Systems Design and Analysis  3        
EEL6xxx:; Wireless & Mobile Communication Network Architectures II  3        
EEL 5572C: Local & Metropolitan Networks  3       
EEL 6509: Satellite Communications  3       
EEL 6593: Mobile and Personal Communication  3       
EEL 6506C: Broadband Communication networks

OR

EEL 6531: Broadband Telecommunications

 3       
 
 3       
EEL 6502   Digital Signal Processing I  3       
EEL 7931: Selected Topics in Communication  3       
 Independent Study – OR–  Wireless Seminar
EEL 6908: Independent Study/Project  1   S/U       
EEL 5935   Special Topics - Wireless Seminar  1   S/U       

Table 2. Example Set of Courses for Certificate in Wireless Engineering
RF & Microwave Courses

(minimum 3 credits,  maximum 9 credits)

Credits

 Course Availability
No Regularly Scheduled Classes
Summer Semester

 

Fall Spring Summer Fall
EEL6xxx: RF & Microwave Circuits I  3        
EEL6xxx:; RF & Microwave Circuits II  3        
 Wireless Communications and Systems Courses
(minimum 3 credits,  maximum 9 credits)
EEL6xxx: Wireless & Mobile Communication
Network Architectures II		  3        
EEL 6593; Mobile and Personal Communication  3        
 Independent Study – OR–  Wireless Seminar
EEL 6908:; Independent Study/Project  1        
Total  13