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ECEN 3410 - Electromagnetic Waves and Transmission

Elective - 3 credit hours
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Catalog Description: Studies reflected and transmitted plane waves in layered media, Poynting's theorem of electromagnetic power, hollow waveguides, and two-conductor transmission line theory and practice; Smith chart and impedance matching and elements of antenna theory.

Textbook: Ramo, Whinnery, and Van Duzer, Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics, Wiley, 1994.

Prerequisite: ECEN 3400, Electromagnetic Fields and Waves.

Course objectives: To establish a baseline knowledge of the basic principles needed to understand wireless technology and high speed digital design. To establish a solid background in wave reflection and transmission processes and in wave transmission on uniform devices such as waveguides and transmission lines.

Topics:

  1. Plane wave propagation, wave reflection (conductor, dielectric, lossy), normal and oblique incidence transmission at plane boundaries, wave polarization
  2. Transmission lines, standing waves, wave equations, transients and skin effect.
  3. Waveguide and cavity resonators; TE TM TEM lossy
  4. Antennas, potential functions, Hertzian dipole, magnetic dipole, short dipole antenna arrays, efficiency; Friis equation, satellite communication

Class schedule: 3 hours of lecture per week

Contribution of course to meeting Criterion 4, the professional component: This course provides 3 semester hours of electrical engineering topics consisting of engineering sciences and engineering design.

Relationship of course to program outcomes: This course is not required and is not included in outcomes assessment.

Prepared by: Staff, V. Heuring
May 16, 2005.