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Comdel, Inc.
Gloucester, MA
Tel: 800-468-3144

Comdel designs and manufactures RF and DC power supplies and process instruments for the semiconductor, flat panel, and industrial heating industries. Products include RF generators, auto-match impedance monitors, and electrostatic chuck power supplies that are in use worldwide by the industry's major equipment and IC fabrication manufacturers.

Comdel is ISO 9001:2000 certified.

Products

Capabilities

• Single Frequency
  
RF Generators

50 W to 100 kW
20 kHz to 81.36 MHz

• Dual Frequency
  
RF Generators

Master/Slave operation
Ideal for plasma apps.

• Impedance
   Matching

  
Networks
   (Tuners)

Match Pro adjusts input impedance to 50 Ω quickly, accurately and dependably, in response to changes in load characteristics - 50 W to 50 kW

• Electrostatic
   Chuck

  
Power Supplies

For electrostatic chucks used in semiconductor wafer transfer

• Radio Frequency
 
Fundamentals
 
Course

4-hour course, conveniently offered on-site at your location

3G Tutorial

120+ slide tutorial on 3rd Generation Mobile Wireless Systems, in PDF (2 MB) or PowerPoint *(6 MB) formats by Brough Turner and Marc Orange, NMS Communications.

AM Fundamentals

Give your students a head start on learning about modulation index, sidebands, frequency and time domain, and all the underpinnings necessary for a good grounding in communications from Agilent Technologies.

Analog Design Fundamentals

An introduction to analog circuit design Part 1: Transistors and Elementary Circuits, by PlanetAnalog

Analog University

22 archived and even live seminars, absolutely FREE!by National Semiconductor.

Antenna Basics

Very nice tutorial with graphs, tables and illustrations, by gigaAnt.

Applying S-Parameters to Amplifier Design

Part 1 of an 8-part series by Joseph F. White (JFW) in Microwaves & RF magazine.

The Art of RF System Design©

Instructor: Cornell Drentea

Description: Starting in January 2007, Cornell will offer an advanced three day course at your company specifically tailored to anticipate and remedy the problems discussed in the editorial Elegance in RF System Design©. This methodical course, taught by Cornell himself, focuses on the training needed to design a system from the ground up, and doing it well in advance of production, but still within the schedule. It is intended for the experienced as well as the novice RF engineer.

Audio Courses
+442078714760 / London, UK

AudioCourses is the world's largest Distance Learning Audio Recording School for Sound Engineering & Music Production. With sound engineers, audio recording addicts and music producers from all four corners of the World and bases in both London and Milan, our school graduates have gone on to work in every corner of the sound engineering.

Aveta Business Solutions
 Cleveland, OH

Six Sigma Online Black Belt, Six Sigma Online Green Belt, and Six Sigma Online Yellow Belt certifications are becoming an expectation in the business world. Six Sigma Online unlocks the door for those whose schedule demands a self-paced approach, rather than that of an on-site curriculum.

Bakken Museum

Located in Minneapolis, MN, the Bakken Museum hosts an amazing collection of early gadgetry & wizardry. Working models of Franklin's Bells (lightning detector) Leyden Jars, Tesla Coils, all with simple explanations of the phenomena.

Besser Associates
415-949-3300 / Los Altos, CA

Seminars on RF/Wireless technologies presented in San Diego, San Jose, Boston, Dallas, or your company facility. We offer significant discounts to unemployed IEEE members (we have no affiliation with IEEE). Reflectometer, Butterworth Filter Designer, and Smith Chart applets.

CAE Tool Demo

Eagleware's Genesys software video demonstrating design/layout environment.

Career Education

Our mission is to help career builders to improve their careers or to find career advice in order to implement a deep career change. Whether at the start of your career or you have already achieved a middle or even a relatively high level, improving your career is certainly a legitimate concern which needs to be addressed carefully.

CDMA Online Course

By Qualcomm - the inventors of CDMA.

CDMA Tutorial

On the UMTS World website.

Cellular Communications

International Engineering Consortium online tutorial.

Please click here to visit the CollegeandUniversity.net websiteVery extensive database of schools with wizards for finding the right college and for scholarships.

College of Engineering - University of Illinois - Online
800-252-1360 / Urbana-Champaign

Engineering and computer science online - Our distance learning program offers you not only complete online Master's degrees and certificates in Engineering and Computer Science, but also the opportunity to take online classes as a non-degree student for credit or non-credit. You do not have to be admitted to graduate school to enroll in our distance learning courses.

Continuing Education Partners Program

Education Partners, exclusively for IEEE members, offers on-line degree programs, certifications and courses at up to a 10% discount to members.

Cramster

A global online study community (bulletin board) comprised of students and teachers helping each other understand how to solve problems for mathematically-based subjects (e.g. Physics, Calculus, Stats, Chemistry, ME, EE, CS, etc). Cramster provides access to various types of study material (e.g. textbook solutions, topic notes, sample problems, practice exams) created by us, indexed from the web, or contributed by our members.

Electrical Engineering      Mechanical Engineering

Dual-Polarized Antennas - Basics of

International Engineering Consortium online tutorial.

EDGE Tutorial

3G Americas website

Educator's Corner

A collection of courseware by Agilent Technologies - includes cool Java animated applets.

Electrical Engineering Training Series

A host of EE training material available in print, CD, or free download in PDF format - courtesy of Integrated Publishing.

EE Tutorials

Huge array of Java applets from Johns Hopkins University.

Education Online

International Engineering Consortium online tutorials.

FM Fundamentals

presented in seven interactive modules covering basic modulation concepts, narrowband frequency modulation, frequency modulation versus phase modulation, basic frequency modulation parameters, and demodulation techniques by Agilent Technologies.

Frank Potter's Science Gems

Great links to great science resources. For students, parents, teachers, scientists, engineers and mathematicians. More than 14,000 science resources sorted by category, subcategory, and grade level.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Engineering Short Courses. Antenna Engineering, Electronic Warfare, Modeling & Simulation, Radar, Wireless, Infrared Technology - all taught by leading industry and academic professionals.

GSM Basics

International Engineering Consortium online tutorials.

Heathkit Educational Systems

Heathkit of yesteryear no longer offers electronics kits, but they do offer electronics training in many areas from basic electronics to wireless communications to computer networking.

Homework Help

Welcome to BrainMass, the global community of graduate-level students, teachers and professionals. 1400+ Master's/PhD experts offer 24/7 instant expert homework help, tutoring, essay editing help, and study guides in over 40 other subjects.

IEEE Communications Society Tutorials

This Enhanced Conference Tutorial Program presents a collection of recent tutorials given at ComSoc sponsored conferences -- INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, IM, NOMS, WCNC and ENTNET, SECON, PIMRC, CCNC . Each tutorial reviews currents communications topics in network management and computer and wireless communications, is 2.5 to 5 hours in length, and contains the original visuals and voice-over by the presenter.

Impedance Matching Tutorial

By Analog Devices.

Java Applets

From the Georgia Tech math department.

Java Applets for Engineering Education

A project funded by the National Science Foundation William Devenport, Rakesh Kapania, Kamal Rojiani, Kusum Singh (PIs).

LBA Group, Inc
252-757-0279 / Greenville, NC

RF and wireless telecommunications industry infrastructure products and services, resources, tools, and connections to the dynamic wireless industry and radio frequency communities worldwide;
RF Awareness & Antenna Co-Location Training.

Learning Measure

Las Vegas, NV

Started by owner, Dr. David Archer, due to his experience with new engineers and technicians who required more training beyond that provided by colleges and universities to be useful in the precision measurement field. Basic technical subjects are covered that any engineer or technician should benefit from. DC Circuit Theory, AC Circuit Theory, RF/Microwave concepts, Digital Circuit Elements, Semiconductor Devices, RF and Microwave Devices and Instrumentation, Passive Waveguide Components, RF and Microwave Attenuators, Circulators, Isolators, and Directional Couplers, Math Courses, Measurement Concepts, RF and Microwave Power and Noise Measurements, Antenna Measurement Concepts, Far-Field Antenna Measurement, Anechoic Chamber, Near-Field and Outdoor Ranges, Open Source Software, Programming Courses, Introduction to Radar, Radar Displays, Uncertainty, World Wide Web. FREE trial!

Lightwave Fundamentals

This interactive tutor discusses the types of fibers, modes of transmission, light sources, and more from Agilent Technologies.

Logic Analysis Fundamentals

Five modules covering Logic Analysis, Microprocessor Basics, State Analysis, Timing Analysis, and Review/ Quiz are included. Interactive and runs on Windows PC's.

RF Cafe Education Forum

Discuss experiences, future plans, rate your school...

Maxwell's Equations Primer

By Conformity magazine - follow the six links at the top of the page.

Maxwell's Equations Presentation

Another great presentation from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, by Professor Amanogawa.

Mentoring, The Many Faces of - IEEE

Everyone benefits when engineers teach and counsel their younger (and older) colleagues.

MIT Open Courseware

A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world.

Morse Code Tutorial

Online tutorial and interactive code test by 1728 Software Systems.

Net Seminar

A very nice collection of online courses.

OFDM for Mobile Data Communications

IEC online tutorial.

Online Seminars

Self-study training, free online seminars, symposiums & other events by Tektronix.

Professional Engineer Exam Prep

Study materials by Professional Publications, Inc.

Quadrature Modulation

Besser online tutorial by Richard Lyons.

Please click here to visit Radio-Electronics.Com for free tutorials, data and articles.

Radio-Electronics
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1784 455511

 Ian Poole, founder of Adrio Communications
 and prolific author of many technical books and
 articles, presents Radio-Electronics.com:
     The online resource centre for free radio and
         electronics tutorials, articles and data.

 

Topics Include:

• Antennas

• Cellular Telecoms

• Satellites

• Wireless Technologies

• Radio History

• Test & Measurement

• Circuits & Design

• Electronic Components

• Radio Receivers

• Radio Signal Propagation

• Latest News & Technology

• Radio Broadcast Technology

R. A. Wood Associates

On-site and area symposiums.

Radio & Electronics School

This place has an incredible collection of useful items that includes video and audio lessons, calculators and articles.

Rate My Professor

Comments on instructors. Posts range from highly comical to downright scary. As of this writing, here are the stats on the site:

   Total Ratings   Total Professors   Total Schools
    6,750,000+       1,000,000+           6,000+

Retool-to-Work

Cadence's free courses for helping unemployed engineers learn CAD tools - held at their training centers.

RF Cafe Quizzes

A few multiple choice quizzes on RF engineering topics.

Satellite Communications History

From the NASA website.

SHF Communication Technologies

Many tutorials.

Smart Antenna Systems

International Engineering Consortium online tutorial.

Tapping America's Potential

"Our goal: Double the number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics graduates with bachelor's degrees by 2015.

TDMA Tutorial

From 3G Americas.

TechNote Time Watch Co
352-694-2744 / Ocala, FL

Manufacturer of  informative Ohm's law wrist watches and clocks  geared towards tradesmen in the electrical and electronics fields. Specialty wall and desk clocks and analog wrist watches, for men or women, which incorporates Ohms law, power formulas and a resistor color reference chart, for AC or DC power.

TECHtionary

"World's first and largest rich media source on technology." More than 2,672 tutorials on seemingly every aspect of technology - RF, microwaves, antennas, optics, data transmission, mathematics, chemistry, physics. All presentations are done in LiquidMotionβ„’. This is an incredibly extensive and well-done work.

Top Online Colleges Website

The schools listed on this site are the top online colleges and online universities in their respective fields. Just about every major course of study is covered.

Transmission Lines

Transmission-Line Fundamentals download by Agilent Technologies.

Waveguide, Parallel Plate

Presentation from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, by Professor Amanogawa.

Unsolved Math Problems

Your chance for fame and fortune.

UWB Online Symposium Lecture

Introduces the relevant characteristics of UWB technology and will describe its advantages over other wireless technologies, especially for short-range, high-performance communication applications.

UWB TX & Rx Design

A PowerPoint presentation from Tennessee Technological University

Waveguide Tutorial

Fast Neutron Research Facility's Ion Beam Technology Center.

Wireless Fundamentals

Online course by Agilent.

World Lecture Hall

Online course material from University of Texas.

ZigBee Overview & Products

This course, compliments of Freescale (Motorola) discusses the ZigBee Alliance and its goals, target markets and applications.

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