ECE 546 - Spring 2026

Course Outline

Instructor
José Schutt-Ainé - 5042 ECEB (jesa@illinois.edu)

Class Time
1 -1:50 pm, MWF, 4070 ECEB

Textbook - Required
S. Hall and H. Heck, Advanced Signal Integrity for High-Speed Digital Designs, IEEE-J. Wiley, 2009.

Textbook - Recommended
W. C. Chew, Lectures on Electromagnetic Field Theory, Purdue University Press, 2025.

Grading Policy
Homework.................30% of total
Midterm Exams........30% of total
Project.........................30% of total
Participation..............10% of total

Homework Policy
Problems are assigned every Friday and are due the following Friday at the end of the day. Homework is to be the student’s own work, not a collaborative or plagiarized work. However, students are permitted and encouraged to help one another by engaging in discussion of course material and approaches to solving the homework problems. Homework solutions will be posted on the course web page.

Teaching Assistant
Tahsin Shameem (shameem2@illinois.edu)

WWW Home Page
The course internet home page can be found at http://emlab.illinois.edu/ece546