Teaching

Undergraduate and graduate courses in circuits, semiconductor physics, electronic devices, and optical materials.

Undergraduate

Courses

ECE 159H1

Fundamentals of Electric Circuits

DC linear circuit elements, KCL/KVL, Thévenin and Norton equivalents, nodal analysis, operational amplifiers, transient and sinusoidal steady-state response, phasors, power, frequency response, and resonance.

ECE 330H1

Quantum and Semiconductor Physics

Principles of quantum physics applied to semiconductors: wave–particle duality, Schrödinger’s equation, energy quantization, tunnelling, electrons in crystalline semiconductors, and concepts underlying microelectronics and optoelectronics.

ECE 335H1

Introduction to Electronic Devices

Semiconductor materials, carriers, and transport; operation and design of PN and Schottky diodes, MOSFETs, bipolar transistors, and optoelectronic devices, including TCAD-based design projects.

MSE 435H1

Optical and Photonic Materials

Light–matter interaction for optical and photonic materials, spanning wave optics, lasers, interference, fibre optics, diffraction, photonic crystals, metamaterials, and plasmonics.

Graduate

Courses

ECE 1336H

Semiconductor Physics

Solid-state physics with emphasis on semiconductors: crystal symmetry and dynamics, electrons in periodic lattices, transport theory, excess carriers, and semiconductor surfaces.

ECE 1333H

Selected Topics in Semiconductor Physics

Topics vary by year; generally covers elements of solid-state physics relevant to semiconductor devices.

MSE 1035H

Optical and Photonics Materials

Graduate treatment of optical and photonic materials for telecommunications, sensing, spectroscopy, and related fields, including lasers, coherence, fibre optics, photonic crystals, metamaterials, and plasmonic materials.

MSE 1074H

Atomic Energy Materials Systems & Sustainability — Fundamentals I

Nuclear science, engineering, and applications: atomic and nuclear physics, nuclear materials, reactor physics, radiation fundamentals, radioisotopes and nuclear medicine, advanced materials for next-generation reactors, SMRs, fusion, and energy sustainability.

MSE 1075H

Atomic Energy Materials Systems & Sustainability, Fundamentals II

Nuclear engineering fundamentals including thermal hydraulics and power systems, corrosion chemistry and materials degradation, structural requirements, non-destructive evaluation, and nuclear systems operations, robotics, and AI.

Related programs