Course Learning Outcomes: At the end of this course, you should be able to 1. Explain the equations, approximations and techniques available for deriving a model with specified properties, for a general device characteristic with known qualitative theory 2. Apply suitable approximations and techniques to derive the model referred to above starting from drift-diffusion transport equations (assuming these equations hold) 3. Offer clues to a qualitative understanding of the physics of a new device and conversion of this understanding into equations 4. Simulate characteristics of a simple device using MATLAB, SPICE and ATLAS /SYNOPSYS 5. Explain how the equations get lengthy and parameters increase in number while developing a compact model 6. List mathematical functions representing various non-linear shapes