Applied Electromagnetics
ECE541 · Colorado State University
Fall 2025 | Fort Collins, CO · Accelerated MSEE credit
Why I took it
Dual-counted toward the accelerated MSEE during the BSEE. FIRST RF was multilayer RF boards and a phased array — I wanted EM past ECE340/342, the applied layer: waves, radiation, scattering, and guided-wave systems you can actually compute, not just write Maxwell for.
What I learned
Applied fields
High- and low-frequency electromagnetics, wave propagation, radiation and scattering, and wireless and guided-wave systems — the catalog core, used as the setup for the computational work.
Method of Moments
Point-matching and Galerkin MoM on microstrip and finite ground-plane geometries: impedance matrices, surface charge density, and capacitance per unit length you can plot and argue about.
Scattering
Thin-wire scatterer analysis in MoM — turning a radiation and scattering problem into a linear system, then debugging the discretization until the physics stops lying.
Selected work
Polar RCS of a thin-wire scatterer, 300 MHz.
Galerkin MoM surface charge on a finite ground plane.
Current on a thin-wire scatterer at 300 MHz.
Ansys Electronics Desktop GCPW cross-section.