ECEN 3410: Electromagnetic Waves and Transmission

M/W/F 11-11.50am ECCR 150

Spring 2012

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Instructor: Prof. Dejan S. Filipovic

Office Hours

(303) 735-6319

dejan@colorado.edu

ECOT 243

M/W/F 12-1pm or by appointment


Course Information

General

This course deals with rapidly varying electromagnetic fields and is continuation of ECEN3400 Electromagnetic Fields and Waves. Topics include Maxwell’s and wave equations, Poynting theorem, skin effect; transmission line theory and analysis; plane wave propagation, reflection and refraction; waveguides and resonators; antennas. This class is essential for students' fundamental understanding of wireless technologies, radar, complex electronics systems, etc.  

Textbook

B. Notaros: Electromagnetics, Prentice Hall, 1st edition, 2011.  

Other Readings

Additionally, the following Internet resources may be of interest:
Grades

Your grade for the course will be determined as follows:

Homework

30%

Two 30min In-Class Quizzes

10% each

Midterm

20%

Final Exam

30%

To pass the course your cummulative score must be above 60%. Specifically, your grade will be assigned according to the following score table:

Cummulative Score Final Grade
93-100 A
90-92.9 A-
85-89.9 B+
80-84.9 B
75-79.9 B-
70-74.9 C+
65-69.9 C
60-64.9 C-
50-59.9 D
<50 F

Homework

Homework assignments are due every Monday before the start of the lecture. They will be graded and returned to you as soon as possible. You can turn homework in early by either putting them in my mailbox in the ECE office (make sure to put them in the slot below his name) or sliding it under my door.

Exams

There will be two in-class (30min) quizzes, one in-class midterm and a 2h 30min final exam. The quizees, midterm and final exam are closed-book and closed-notes, but you may have one page-face (for midterm) and two page-faces (for the final exam) of 8-˝" by 11" sheet(s) of notes and a calculator. Quizees will be composed of theoretical questions, no problem solving. You will be given a list of questions a week before. Over 50% questions on the quizees will be from this list. Notes or calcuators will not be allowed. The final exam (2-˝ hours long) will be held in room ECCR 150. The final exam will test the complete material, however the emphasis will be on the material covered after the midterm.  Two page-faces of notes and calcuators are allowed.

If you have 3 or 4 final exams on the same day, you need to see the instructor(s) of the course(s) which have their final exams in the third (and possibly fourth) time slots of that day in a timely manner, to make arrangements to take those exams on a different day in accordance with University rules. The deadline for doing so is April 1st.

Some Free Programs of Interest

XLPlot

Windows Freeware. From the website: "Create your graphs for scientific publication with XL-Plot. It reads ascii files and it outputs a vector drawing. XL-Plot is for Windows 95,98, 2000 and XP. The primary purpose of XL-Plot is to create a figure for scientific publication rapidly. It contains a few basic statistical functions, such as Students t-test and linear correlation of two sets of data (two columns in a spreadsheet). XL-Plot has a number of built-in functions that can be fitted to the data in columns on a spreadsheet or to a curve in a graph. The user can easily add fitting functions of his own design.Additional options are Fourier Transformation, (de-)convolution and Matrix inversion." It is a modest piece of software that does a surprising number of tasks well.

Winplot

Another freeware plotting program for Windows, concentrating on the display of functions. This one can do 3D (surface) plots. It has some animation capabilities as well.

Euler

A freeware numerical mathematics program similar in many ways to Matlab. It is available for Windows, Linux, Unix and OS/2 (this latter is no longer maintained). May be worth a look, though I haven't really used it myself.

Scilab

A free mathematical software package for various Unix flavors and for Windows, somewhat more advanced in capabilities than Euler. It aims to do many of the same things as Matlab. From its website: "Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations in a user-friendly environment. It features:

Classroom Behavior

  1. Cell phones and pagers must be turned off before entering the classroom.
  2. If you are late and the classroom door is closed, do not enter the room. 
  3. Questions are encouraged, however, they have to be specific to the lecture / material at hand. Leave other questions for outside the lecture.

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