APPLIED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: E C E 320 and 340 , graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply high-frequency transmission line theory to modeling microwave networks Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Use ideal and real transmission lines to design and execute impedance matching networks Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Use scattering and noise parameters to design for trade-offs among gain, noise figure, bandwidth, and reflection coefficients in amplifiers Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Apply lumped and distributed elements in transistor amplifier design, including design of bias networks Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Design and execute filters using microstrip transmission line elements Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Apply mixers and directional couplers to microwave measurement principles Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Apply negative-resistance amplifier concepts to oscillator design Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply high-frequency transmission line theory to modeling microwave networks Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Use ideal and real transmission lines to design and execute impedance matching networks Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Use scattering and noise parameters to design for trade-offs among gain, noise figure, bandwidth, and reflection coefficients in amplifiers Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Apply lumped and distributed elements in transistor amplifier design, including design of bias networks Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Design and execute filters using microstrip transmission line elements Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Apply mixers and directional couplers to microwave measurement principles Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Apply negative-resistance amplifier concepts to oscillator design Audience: Graduate