Course Detail
Units:
4.0
Course Components:
Laboratory
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: "C-" or better in ((ECE 2260 OR ECE 2240) AND ECE 2280 AND (PHYS 2220 OR PHYS 3220 OR AP Physics C Electricity and Magnetism score of 4 or better) AND MATH 2250) AND Full Major status in (Electrical Engineering OR Computer Engineering).
Requirement Designation:
Quantitative Intensive BS
Description
In this course students will learn: (1) About transmission lines (what happens when the wires in a circuit are long relative to a wavelength) and how to use transmission lines to connect equipment (e.g. signal generators) to loads (e.g. antennas); (2) How to use Smith Charts; (3) How antennas radiate, including directionality, radiation patterns, etc.; (4) How electromagnetic waves radiated from antennas propagate via Maxwell's equations in various materials; and (5) What happens when electromagnetic waves encounter objects (reflection, transmission, absorption, etc).