EC ENGR 260A
Advanced Engineering Electrodynamics
Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Advanced treatment of concepts in electrodynamics and their applications to modern engineering problems. Vector calculus in generalized coordinate system. Solutions of wave equation and special functions. Reflection, transmission, and polarization. Vector potential, duality, reciprocity, and equivalence theorems. Scattering from cylinder, half-plane, wedge, and sphere, including radar cross-section characterization. Green’s functions in electromagnetics and dyadic calculus.
Letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 101B, 162A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EC ENGR 260A
- EC ENGR 101BElectromagnetic Waves
- EC ENGR 101AEngineering Electromagnetics
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity2 more beneath
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
EC ENGR 260A
- EC ENGR 260BAdvanced Engineering Electrodynamics
- EC ENGR 263Reflector Antennas Synthesis, Analysis, and Measurement
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.





