I would like to ask for recommendation about which oversea university has established reputation in the following areas of wireless communication engineering in terms of teaching professors, facilities, and research output.

1. Mobile radio propagation including radio wave propagation mechanisms, link budget analysis, network planning using propagation models, small-scale multipath fading, etc

2. Transmitter and receiver system architectures, on block and circuit levels. It's design procedures from specification formulation, system level simulation, and synthesis of systems components

3. Radio frequency circuit specifications such as dynamic range, receiver sensitivity, selectivity, spurious and intermodulation distortion, frequency stability, etc

4. Design of transceiver components such as low noise amplifier, mixer, duplexer, power amplifier, etc based on specification requirements by computer simulation as well as parasitic extraction on IC layout

5. Passive microwave circuit elements such as quarter wavelenghts transformer, directional coupler, impedance transformation network, etc

6. Various radio frequency and microwave measurements including spectrum and network analysis, power, noise, scattering parameters, etc

Curently planning to pursue a graduate degree in the above area. I am searching in US, UK or Japan.

Anyone has any idea and recommendation?

Currently working as engineer in wireless industry for about 3 years, most of my experience are RF/MW discrete semiconductor test and measurements and wireless system on chip parametric measurements on Tx/Rx chain.

It's hard to move on to RF system design such as transceiver system on IC design without a graduate degree. Worse is this kind of job is so rare in Malaysia.

And hence my hunt for foreign sponsorship and technological universities.

Gosh, got to say something before this sinks further.

TYK,

Actually, you can find out the answer better than anyone of us. All you have to do is talk to people that supply the chips to you and find out where their designer come from.

Dreamer

Noted, thanks for the comment.

This post has been edited by TYK: Apr 20 2006, 11:45 PM