Education Offered

The following is a list of courses related to the Illinois Program for Photonics and Optoelectronics. Prospective graduate students should apply for graduate programs in the Department of ECE and Department of Physics through each department’s graduate admission offices.  Most professors also offer research assistantships for graduate students studying for M.S. and Ph.D. degrees.

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE Courses Page)

Undergraduate Level:
ECE340 Solid State Electronic Devices
ECE341 Physics and Modeling of Semiconductor Devices
ECE344 Theory and Fabrication of Integrated Circuits
ECE345 Senior Design Project Laboratory
ECE347 High-Frequency Circuit Design Using Scattering Parameters
ECE350 Lines, Fields and Waves
ECE351 Automated Microwave Measurements
ECE352 Electromagnetic Fields
ECE355 Optical Electronics
ECE357 Microwave Devices and Circuits
ECE359 Communications, I
ECE360 Optical Imaging
ECE361 Communications, II
ECE368 Optical Remote Sensing
ECE371GP Fiber Optic Communication Systems
ECE387 Introduction to Quantum Electronics for Electrical Engineers
ECE388 Compound Semiconductors and Devices
ECE397 Projects and Lectures in Quantum Electronics

Graduate Level:
ECE420 Electromagnetic Waves and Radiating Systems
ECE423 Gaseous Electronics and Plasmas
ECE431 Theory of Guided Waves
ECE432 Compound Semiconductors (Optical Devices)
ECE434 Random Processes
ECE435 Theory of Semiconductors and Semiconductor Devices
ECE436 Integrated Optics and Optoelectronics
ECE439 Advanced Theory of Semiconductors and Semiconductor Devices
ECE447 Image Processing
ECE456 Coding Theory
ECE458 Digital Imaging
ECE469 Diffraction, Coherence and Information
ECE470 Nonlinear Optics
ECE472 Quantum Electronics

PHYSICS (Physics Course Page)

Undergraduate Level:
PHYCS 301 Classical Physical Lab
PHYCS 303 Modern Experimental Physics
PHYCS 335 Electromagnetic Fields and Sources, I
PHYCS 336 Electromagnetic Fields and Sources, II
PHYCS 343 Electronic Circuits, I
PHYCS 344 Electronic Circuits, II
PHYCS 361 Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
PHYCS 371 Light
PHYCS 383 Atomic Physics and Quantum Theory
PHYCS 386 Atomic Physics and Quantum Mechanics, I
PHYCS 387 Atomic Physics and Quantum Mechanics, II
PHYCS 389 Introduction to Solid State Physics
PHYCS 398IPR Introduction to Physics Research

Graduate Level:
PHYCS 435 Theory of Semiconductors and Semiconductor Devices
PHYCS 442 Classical Electromagnetic Radiation
PHYCS 462 Statistical Mechanics and Kinetic Theory
PHYCS 480 Quantum Mechanics, I
PHYCS 481 Quantum Mechanics, II
PHYCS 489 Solid State Physics, I
PHYCS 490 Solid State Physics, II
PHYCS 498BEC Bose-Einstein Condensation and Trapped Atomic Gases
PHYCS 498ESM Liquid Helium and Other Exotic States of Condensed Matter
PHYCS 498MMA Mathematical Methods in Physics I
PHYCS 498MMB Mathematical Methods in Physics II
PHYCS 498QOI Topics in Quantum Optics/Quantum Information
PHYCS 498TDS Topics of One- and Two-dimensional Systems