Our BEng (Hons) Electronics students will soon be benefiting from the use of Microwave Office® software from Applied Wave Research. Microwave Office is being installed in our technology computing suite in Cambridge.

Microwave Office is a computer simulation package with a wide range of capabilities, and is often used in the design and analysis of electronic circuits operating at from DC to microwave frequencies. The software incorporates a component-tuning tool, which enables users to vary the value of a component, and demonstrate the effects in real time. Primarily to be used as a teaching aid, and our students will also be able to use it to explore the operation of filters, resonators and passive circuits. It will be of great value for our Masters and final year project undergraduate students.

Dr James Kelley, Lecturer in Electronics, further commented: ''The AWR software will be particularly helpful to students on our BEng (Hons) in Electronics. I think the AWR Graduate Gift Initiative is a great idea, and the free use of AWR software for will greatly enhance our efforts to help graduates succeed in starting engineering businesses.''