EC ENGR 163A · EE 163AIntroductory Microwave Circuits
Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Transmission lines description of waveguides, impedance matching techniques, power dividers, directional couplers, active devices, transistor amplifier design.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 101B.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EC ENGR 163A
- 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 163A
- EC ENGR 261Microwave and Millimeter Wave Circuits
- EC ENGR 266Computational Methods for Electromagnetics
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.