Course Spotlight - Spring 2026

Professor: Aleksandar Stankovic

Schedule: T TH 10:20AM - 12:00PM

Description: Electric drives are where power electronics, machines, and control come together to make real systems move. This course shows how motors, converters, and controllers work as an integrated whole, connecting theory to applications like EVs, robotics, and renewable energy. You'll understand the systems that convert electrical energy into motion (and vice versa).

Prerequisite(s) Skills / Prior Knowledge: ECEN 50 with a grade of B- or better.

Course Spotlight - Spring 2026

Professor: Dr. Zefram Marks

Schedule: T/Th 8:30 AM – 10:10 AM

Description: Fundamental principles of processes essential for fabricating micro- and nano-electronic hardware ranging from Integrated circuits, MEMS and biosensors to power, control and optoelectronic devices. Physical and chemical models of semiconductor crystal growth, thermal oxidation and diffusion, ion implantation, Lithography, etching and cleaning, epitaxy, chemical and physical vapor deposition, metallization, etc. Process integration and simulation using TCAD. (4 units)

Faculty Spotlight - February 2026

The research, led by Adham Naji, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and, by courtesy, of applied mathematics at Santa Clara University, represents an advancement in the analysis and modeling of scattering field phenomena within overmoded iris lines. It generalizes preexisting theories that describe these wave phenomena and includes back-scattered waves, which are often ignored in calculations.

Department Updates

Dragoslav Siljak, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, passed away on November 16. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering remembers him fondly, and would like to recognize his full life and his many gifts.