This standalone set of lecture notes was prepared for a single-semester advanced-level graduate course on computational electromagnetics offered in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. The course assumes that the students have already completed a typical introductory graduate-level course on electromagnetic theory; although, many concepts are reviewed as needed throughout the course. These lecture notes focus primarily on the fundamental concepts concerning the three major classes of computational electromagnetics techniques; namely, the finite difference and finite element methods for solving partial differential equations and the method of moments for solving integral equations. Fast algorithms for accelerating the solution of integral equations discretized with the method of moments are also briefly discussed. Descriptions of coding projects to reinforce each of the three major computational electromagnetics techniques are also presented.

Thomas E. Roth is an Assistant Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received all his degrees in electrical and computer engineering, with the B.S. degrees from Missouri University of Science and Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining Purdue, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in the Radar Electromagnetics & Sensor Technologies department where he was named a 2019 Up & Coming Innovator. He is the recipient of Young Scientist Awards at the 2023 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium and the URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory 2023 (1^st place), a recipient of the 2023 IEEE Ulrich L. Rohde Innovative Conference Paper Award on Computational Techniques in Electromagnetics, as well as the 2023 Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award at Purdue University. His research focuses on multiscale and multiphysics computational electromagnetics techniques, particularly for analyzing and designing quantum information processing devices.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Thomas E Roth (2024), "Introduction to Computational Electromagnetics," https://nanohub.org/resources/38968.

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1. Applied Electromagnetic
2. Applied Electromagnetism
3. classical electromagnetism
4. computational electromagnetics
5. educational materials
6. electromagnetic fields
7. electromagnetic optics
8. electromagnetics
9. electromagnetic simulation
10. electromagnetic waves
11. high frequency electromagnetic and circuit design