EC ENGR 162A
Wireless Communication Links and Antennas
Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Basic properties of transmitting and receiving antennas and antenna arrays. Array synthesis. Adaptive arrays. Friis transmission formula, radar equations. Cell-site and mobile antennas, bandwidth budget. Noise in communication systems (transmission lines, antennas, atmospheric, etc.). Cell-site and mobile antennas, cell coverage for signal and traffic, interference, multipath fading, ray bending, and other propagation phenomena.
Letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 101B.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EC ENGR 162A
- EC ENGR 101BElectromagnetic Waves
- EC ENGR 101AEngineering Electromagnetics
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity2 more beneath
1 direct requisite. Showing 7 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
EC ENGR 162A
- EC ENGR 260AAdvanced Engineering Electrodynamics
- EC ENGR 260BAdvanced Engineering Electrodynamics





