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Peer Legacy for ECE311

All students who have previously taken ECE311 are welcome to use this page to leave comments/give advice to future students.

  • I never felt like I completely grasped the physics and "intuition" behind some of the fundamental concepts we learned about in ECE 311. However, the way the course was structured (at least when I took it), the exams did not emphasize whether you not you "understood the physics", but whether or not you could perform the math. So, for me, doing well in this course amounted to doing practice problems. If your lecturer doesn't do enough, I think the Sadiku textbook for the course is decent, but there are tons of additional materials out there. Check out MIT OpenCourseWare as well. To me, ECE 311 was just a glorified vector calculus class. --rscheidt
  • This course is basically Physics 272 with vector calc. Difficulty in this course varies depending on how much the professor decides to delve into the actual material (and how much vector calc is stressed). Unfortunately, you only reach electromagnetic waves towards the very end (which is where most of the applications lie), so your E&M knowledge is not really complete after taking this course. Consider this course a stepping stone. --weim
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