EE 372 Engineering Electromagnetics Spring 2014
Text: Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics, Sixth Edition, by F.W. Ulaby
Lesson
Topic
Reading
Problems Homework
Homework
(Chapter.Problem)
Week of 6 Jan
1
1
Course Introduction
1.4
1.16a,c,d,e 1.17a,b
Traveling Waves
1.19,1.26a,b,c
1.27a,b,c,e
2
Traveling Waves
2.1 - 2.3
1.3, 1.6, 1.9, 1.13(a)
3
Lumped Element Model
2.4
1.13(b), Handout
Lab
Working session - Section
4311
Week of 13 Jan
2
4
Wave propagation
2.5,2.6
2.1, 2.4
5
Lossless Transmission
2.6.1
2.16,2.18 (You must derive the
Lines
equations from Table 2-2 if you
choose to use them)
6
Reflection Coefficient
2.6.2
Lab
Lab 1 Introduction to
Sonnet
Week of 20 Jan (ML King Jr Day on 20 Jan)
3
7
Standing Wave
2.7
2.19,2.21
8
Wave Impedance
2.8
2.27,2.28,2.31 (U=c for air lines)
Lab
USNA closed - SNOW
Week of 27 Jan
4
9
Special Cases
2.9
10
Power Flow
2.36,2.39,2.40
11
Practice Problems
2.10
2.42, 2.44
Lab
Lab 2 Sonnet Microstrip
Capacitor Design
Week of 3 Feb
5
12
Smith Chart
2.10
13
Smith Chart
14
Smith Chart
2.11
2.47, 2.49, 2.53, 2.58, 2.59
Lab
Lab 2 Continued
Week of 10 Feb
6
15
Matching Circuit
16
Matching Circuits
2.11
17
Matching Circuits
3.1,3.2,3.3
2.63, 2.68,2.72
Lab
EXAM 1 (Lessons 1-14)
Tuesday sections, Snow
closure Thursday
Section
Week of 17 Feb (President’s Day on 17 Feb)
7
18
Coordinate Systems
3.1,3.5a,b,c,d ,3.16,3.20a,e,f
Wk
19
Coordinate Systems
Lab
Lab 3 Sonnet Matching
Exercise. EXAM 1
Thursday Section
Week of 25 Feb
8
20
21
22
Lab
Gradient
Divergence
Curl, Laplacian Operator
3.22c, 3.25a,3.26b, 3.28,3.34a
3.5
3.6-3.7
4.1 - 4.2
3.36b,f,g, 3.38,3.40
3.46, 3.48
3.52
4.3
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.7, 4.13
4.25, 4.27
4.6
4.7
4.32, 4.36(a)
4.41, 4.43
Lab 3 Sonnet Matching
Exercise
Week of 3 March
9
23
Charge and Current Dist.
24
Coulomb’s Law
25
Gauss’s Law
Lab
Lab4/5 Tuner Design
Week of 10 March (SPRING BREAK)
Week of 17 March
10
26
SNOW –USNA CLOSED
27
Electric Scalar Potential
28
Materials - Conductors
Lab
Lab 4 Tuner Design
Week of 24 March
11
29
Materials - Dielectrics
30
Boundary Conditions
Maxwell’s Magnetostatic
Equations
Lab
Lab 4/5 Tuner
Design/Introduction to
clean room
Week of 31 March
12
32
Boundary Conditions
33
Faraday’s Law
34
Displacement Current
Formal report:
Introduction, Theory
(including simulation)
Sections- Due Friday 4
April
Lab
EXAM 2 (Lessons 15-28)
Week of 7 April
13
35
Time Harmonic Fields
31
3.4
4.8
Chapter 5
Overview, 5.3
5.6
6.1-6.2
6.7-6.9
7.1
7.2
4.48
5.22, 5.24
5.32,5.33
6.5
6.16, 6.18
36
37
Plane Wave Propagation
Plane Wave Propagation
Lab
Lab 6 Tuner Fabrication
Week of 14 April
14
38
Plane Wave Polarization
39
Power Density
40
Wave
Reflection/Transmission
Formal Report:
Procedure section
(Fabrication process) –
Due Friday 18 April
Lab
Lab 6 Tuner Fabrication
Week of 21 April
15
41
Wave
Reflection/Transmission
42
ECE Conference
43
Antenna Chamber Demo
Formal Report:
Abstract, Procedure
(Description of Tests),
Test Results, Discussion
and Conclusion Sections
– Due Friday 25 April
Lab
Lab 7 Tuner Testing
Lab 8 Polarization
Week of 28 April
16
44
Course Wrap-up
Lab
Working Session Sections
2211, 3311
Formal Report: Revised
final version due COB
Tuesday 29 April
7.2
7.3
7.1
7.3,7.5
7.6
8.1
8.1
7.8 (text sol’n is incorrect), 7.10
7.27, 7.31
9.1,9.2
8.1,8.3,8.6, 8.11(Hint:use eqn
2.79)