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Microwave and Wireless Engineering

Certificate

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Application Requirements

Faculty

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Application Deadlines

Fall: Jun 1 (international); Aug 1 (domestic)
Spring: Sep 15 (international) and Dec 15 (domestic)
Summer: n/a

School/Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Format

On-campus

Commitment Options

Full-time
Part-time (Daytime)

Average Duration

12 - 24 months

Credits

5 courses

Contact

gradadmissions@tufts.edu

Overview

In this certificate program administered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, professionals learn exciting new uses of microwave and wireless technology through extensive lab and project work.

Program Highlights

The five-course certificate program in microwave and wireless engineering is open to students with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or physics or with equivalent preparation, including a background in general physics and intermediate circuit theory.

Students interested in earning a graduate degree can often apply these certificate courses toward a Tufts master's degree in electrical engineering. All of our certificate programs can be taken on a part-time basis.

Career Outcomes

With the availability of relatively inexpensive microwave components and improved digital communications, commercial opportunities in the microwave and wireless engineering industry have few limits.

To develop faster computer circuits, computer hardware researchers and designers need to know more about microwave engineering concepts. Radar, satellite, wireless radio and optical communication, and collision avoidance radar are just a few areas which utilize microwave technology. As engineers explore low microwave frequencies and even lower radio frequencies, this technology will be applied to cable, broadcast, television, medical, and other commercial uses.

Application Requirements

Application Fee
Resume/CV
Personal Statement
Transcripts
One letter of recommendation
Official TOEFL, IELTS, or Duolingo test scores (if applicable)

Tuition and Financial Aid

We recognize that attending graduate school involves a significant financial investment. Our team is here to answer your questions about tuition rates and scholarship opportunities.

Please contact us at gradadmissions@tufts.edu.

Faculty

Mohammed Afsar

Professor

Precision microwave, millimeter, terahertz, and submillimeter wave, far-infrared, and infrared wave measurement techniques and instrumentation; millimeter and submillimeter wave sources, detectors, and systems; solid, liquid, and gaseous state physics, spectroscopy, material characterization and studies, complex dielectric permittivity, and complex magnetic permeability measurements of dielectric and magnetic materials; and theoretical studies of polymeric, glassy, amorphous, and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown materials, ceramic, and semiconductor materials, thin films, liquids and fluids, electronic, biological, and magnetic materials.

Shuchin Aeron

Associate Professor

data science, statistical signal processing, inverse problems, compressed sensing, information theory, convex optimization, machine learning, algorithms for geophysical signal processing, compressed sensing architectures and evaluation, video and image data acquisition and processing

Steven Bell

Assistant Teaching Professor

Engineering education, embedded systems, camera systems and computational photography

Chorng Chang

Associate Professor

Computer architecture, parallel processing, computer networking, hardware description languages, simulation and programmable logic design, engineering education.

Dante DeMeo

Research Assistant Professor

thermophotovoltaics, optoelectronics, energy harvesting, nanofabrication

Marco Donato

Assistant Professor

emerging technologies, non-volatile memories, SoC design, hardware for machine learning, noise modeling and reliability

Kevin Grossklaus

Research Assistant Professor

Electronic Materials; Semiconductor Materials; Semiconductor Devices; Materials Characterization; Thin-film Deposition; Optical Properties Electronic Materials; Photonic Materials; Nanofabrication; Electron Microscopy

Mark Hempstead

Associate Professor

computer architecture, computer systems, power-aware computing, embedded systems, mobile computing, computer systems for machine learning, workload characterization, quantum computing, learning sciences and computer systems for human subjects research

Jeffrey Hopwood

Professor

microwave circuit design for microplasma generation, microplasma-based environmental sensors and other microsystem applications, plasma diagnostic methods, characterization, and modeling

Usman Khan

Professor

Optimization and Control, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Graph Theory, Decentralized Algorithms

Valencia Koomson

Associate Professor

design of silicon-based mixed-mode VLSI systems (analog, digital, RF, optical), analog signal processing, and optoelectronic system-on-chip modeling and integration for applications in optical wireless communication and biomedical imaging

Ronald Lasser

Professor of the Practice

digital image processing, computer animation, swarm robotics, innovation, engineering method & design

Eric Miller

Professor

Signal and image processing, tomographic image formation and object characterization, inverse problems, regularization, statistical signal and imaging processing, and computational physical modeling. Applications explored include medical imaging and image analysis, environmental monitoring and remediation, landmine and unexploded ordnance remediation, and automatic target detection and classification.

Academic Leave

Aseema Mohanty

Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor

nanophotonics, optical beam shaping, neuroengineering, chip-scale imaging and microscopy, quantum information systems Research Website: https://sites.tufts.edu/amohanty/

Karen Panetta

Professor and Dean of Graduate Education

Signal processing; image processing; simulation modeling

Sameer Sonkusale

Professor

Flexible bioelectronics, Biomedical microdevices, Biomedical circuits and systems, micro and nano fabrication, lab-on-chip microsystems, global health and precision medicine, CMOS image sensors for scientific imaging, analog to information converters, active metamaterial devices, circuits, and systems, terahertz devices and circuits

Aleksandar Stankovic

Alvin H. Howell Endowed Professor in Electrical Engineering

modeling, control, and estimation in electric energy processing, power electronics, power systems, and electric drives

Academic Leave

Thomas Vandervelde

Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Interaction of light with matter, physics of nanostructures and interfaces, metamaterials, material science, plasmonics, and surfactants, semiconductor photonics and electronics, epitaxial crystal growth, materials and devices for energy and infrared applications.

Mai Vu

Professor

wireless communications, millimeter wave communications, 5G/6G systems and techniques, energy-efficient communications, machine learning techniques, applied convex optimization