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ECEN 4634 - Transmission Laboratory

Elective - 2 credit hours
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Catalog Description: This course includes experiments verifying and extending concepts learned in ECEN 3410, Electromagnetic Waves and Transmission. The experiments emphasize concepts in transmission lines, waveguides, waves, time-domain reflections, frequency domain measurements, matching, antenna pattern measurements, and simple nonlinear concepts such as harmonics and square-law detection.

Prerequisite: ECEN 3410, Electromagnetic Waves and Transmission

Textbook: Instructor's notes.

Course Objectives: To reinforce the student's understanding in basic wave and transmission concepts.

Topics:

  1. The artificial transmission line.
  2. Time-domain reflectometers.
  3. Microwave power measurements.
  4. The slotted line.
  5. The network analyzer.
  6. Impedance matching.
  7. The directional coupler.
  8. Antennas.
  9. Superheterodyne receiver.
  10. Microwave oscillators.
  11. Nonlinearities in time, frequency, and power.
Class Schedule: 1 hour of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week.

Contribution of course to meeting Criterion 4, the professional component: This course provides 2 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: Electromagnetics group and V. Heuring
May 16, 2005