This short course will present the state-of-the-art in understanding RF power phenomena that detrimentally affect space, aircraft and terrestrial communications. Dramatic increase in communications capacity, bandwidth, number of carriers and antennas poses new challenges in handling the high RF power. These problems become ever more acute and critical for emerging and future RF systems. The sho...

In this paper, I bring out the contrasts between two different approaches to student learning: that of computational learning scientists and socio-cultural anthropologists, and suggest some implications and directions for learning research in MOOCs. Computational learning scientists see learning as a matter of imbibing particular knowledge propositions, and therefore understand teaching as a wa...

THz technology development is a vibrant scientific field with new discoveries and techniques being utilized to advance the Stateof-the-Art. While novel material systems such as grapheme have shown promise in the THz range, fully functional systems in the THz range are also becoming more common. This workshop will bring together experts from various academic, national labs and commercial enterpr...

Despite the attention that strategic change as a topic of research has received, there remain considerable difficulties in conceptualizing the actual sources of strategic change. Strategy workshops represent one obvious and explicit research site since organizations often use such events as a means of effecting or initiating strategic change. This paper examines empirical data from ninety-nine ...

This workshop will cover SiGe HBT technologies as well as SiGe enabled mm-wave and THz applications. In fact, nowadays SiGe technologies have passed the 600 GHz barrier in terms of maximum oscillation frequency and the 700 GHz barrier is foreseen to fall in 2015. Intrinsic advantages of SiGe HBTs such as co-integration with CMOS permit to design compact, reliable and cost efficient systems for ...

The goal of this tutorial is to present our original methodology of Full Software Radio system design. The diversity of communication standards implies the use of multi-band and multi-mode radios. That is why Full Software Radio proposes to challenge a new way of integrating RF circuits and systems by tackling the main issue: transceiving concurrently any RF signal within a very wide band of in...

Filters and multiplexers are key building blocks in science, navigation, and earth observation and telecommunication applications. Satellite systems are in constant evolution to answer to new and changing needs in terms of throughput, coverage, flexibility, RF performances ... The following bullet points offer an overview of some of the different approaches to respond to the new system requirem...