EMRFD Message Archive 7012

Message	Date	From	Subject
7012	2011-12-13 22:09:34	Thomas S. Knutsen	OT: Good hands-on RF grad schools?
Hello. This may be a bit off topic, but I hope it's relevant. In about an year, I will have received my BSEE (bachelor Electrical Engineering). I'm considering getting an masters degree and Rick KK7B suggested some time ago that this may be an suitable question for the list. Where may I find a good hands-on RF electronics grad school? I would prefear to find some english speaking country, but since most classes at that level is in english anyway, so other country's may be fine. I would prefear somthing with microwave engineering, but most RF cources is interesting. The uni. college I'm with now only have masters and Ph.d in micro and nano science, localy the only avaible cource is highly teoretical, with little hands-on experience. 73 de Thomas LA3PNA/AE5YS. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
7013	2011-12-13 22:42:46	Tim Hills	Re: OT: Good hands-on RF grad schools?
Thomas, You might want to check out my Alma Mater <http://www.sdstate.edu/graduate/index.cfm>. I'm not sure what the program involves now but when I was an undergrad I was a Research Assistant working on RF projects and I understand they still have both thick and thin film Microelectronics labs as well as the RF Lab. I was working mostly with HF and VLF/ELF but they did have quite the array of microwave equipment and one of the Grad students then was working with Microwave amps and mixers in the microelectronics labs. We even have Lefse and Ludefisk in case you get homesick ;) Tim Hills Sioux Falls, SD
7015	2011-12-14 05:08:22	nm0s_qrp	Re: OT: Good hands-on RF grad schools?
> > Where may I find a good hands-on RF electronics grad school? > > I would prefear to find some english speaking country, but since most > > classes at that level is in english anyway, so other country's may be > > fine. I'd recommend U of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Zoya Popovic AC0XJ has a top-notch department. 73 Dave NM0S
7019	2011-12-14 10:04:20	michael taylor	Re: OT: Good hands-on RF grad schools?
7023	2011-12-14 12:48:50	steve white	Re: OT: Good hands-on RF grad schools?
Perhaps a good approach is to pick your area (Telecom, Avionics, Medical etc) find the industry leaders in your chosen field, talk with the HR organizations of those industries and find out who they recruit from, that to me is the best way to go since you get real life inputs based on hiring in the industry of your choice. Steve NU0P _____
7026	2011-12-14 21:08:28	drmail377	Re: OT: Good hands-on RF grad schools?
Two schools come to mind off-hand: The Ohio State University's Electroscience Laboratory and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Check out the list of "Microwave Colleges" here: http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/colleges.cfm Best 73's, David WB4ONA
7032	2011-12-16 16:52:37	wb8yyy_curt	Re: OT: Good hands-on RF grad schools?
Here in the east Univ Mass Amherst and Virginia Tech come to mind. KK7B wrote a rather interesting article on practical RF EE education in an IEEE publication - but I forget the schools that were illustrated in his article. Finding comm
7035	2011-12-16 20:28:20	michael taylor	Re: OT: Good hands-on RF grad schools?