ELEC4602 Microelectronic Design and Technology (UNSW Sydney): rated 4.1/5 overall across 6 reviews collected on UNSW Wall.
ELEC4602 is a UNSW Sydney course taught by the Faculty of Engineering in School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications. This page brings together its handbook details and what UNSW students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 微电子设计与技术
Type: Undergraduate course
Credit points: 6
Subject area: School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Level: Undergraduate Level 4
Handbook year: 2026
Microelectronics or integrated electronics is the miniaturised electronic circuits that make up Integrated Circuits (ICs) such as microprocessors, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, Flash-memories, operational amplifier, analogue-to-digital converters, SoCs, ASICs and many other devices. Most ICs today are implemented in various flavours of CMOS technology which is the focus of this course.
ELEC4602 has 6 scored reviews: overall 4.1/5 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 6 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 4.1/5).
On Reddit: "Course: ELEC4602 (Microelectronics Design & Technology) Lecturer:Torsten Lehmann Difficulty: 4/5 Overall Rating: 4.5/5 Comments: Very interesting course, you get to see how semiconductor devices are built from the ground up and learn about how they are fabricated. This course go…"
On Reddit: "ELEC3114: great. Easy to score high in if you put in the work. ELEC3106: ok but no real slides provided and taught in a ad-hoc unstructured way. ELEC4602: steer clear. Useless for Aus industry, marked hard (including 60% final), a lot of the content is not intuitive / logical an…"
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Q: Is ELEC4602 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 6 reviews: overall 4.1/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches ELEC4602, and when is it offered?
A: ELEC4602 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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