Extensive instructor's notes.

This course is designed for first year engineering graduate students or senior undergraduate students planning to pursue graduate study. Familiarizes the student with jargon and conceptual framework of classical and modern physical descriptions of dynamic systems. Emphasis on theoretical structure, exposure to jargon (in context), and interrelationships among various theories rather than establishing mastery of any specific topic(s). Presentation stresses how the various theories are part of interrelated continuum, rather than disparate unrelated topics, thereby encouraging multi-disciplinary approach to systems modeling. Specific demonstration of how conventional engineering topics of circuits and power systems, photonics, electromagnetic waves, solid state device physics, and controls are logical subsets of a larger unified whole.

The following statement indicates which of the following considerations are included in this course: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability.