ANTENNAS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: E C E 740 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Perform wireless system analysis, including link budget calculation for wireless communications and radar systems Audience: Graduate 2. Use Maxwell’s equations to solve basic radiation problems from electric and magnetic current distributions in space Audience: Graduate 3. Analyze and design basic types of wire antennas, including dipole and loop antennas, and aperture antennas, including horn, reflector, patch, slot, lens, and reflectarray antennas Audience: Graduate 4. Analyze and design basic types of antenna arrays, including linear and planar arrays Audience: Graduate 5. Synthesize antennas and antenna arrays to achieve a given desired radiation pattern in the far field Audience: Graduate 6. Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of antenna measurement techniques including common techniques used to measure the radiation pattern, gain, directivity, polarization, and bandwidth of an antenna under test Audience: Graduate 7. Determine a suitable antenna to use for a given application from the system level performance metrics desired including, bandwidth, gain, radiation pattern, frequency of operation, etc. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Perform wireless system analysis, including link budget calculation for wireless communications and radar systems Audience: Graduate 2. Use Maxwell’s equations to solve basic radiation problems from electric and magnetic current distributions in space Audience: Graduate 3. Analyze and design basic types of wire antennas, including dipole and loop antennas, and aperture antennas, including horn, reflector, patch, slot, lens, and reflectarray antennas Audience: Graduate 4. Analyze and design basic types of antenna arrays, including linear and planar arrays Audience: Graduate 5. Synthesize antennas and antenna arrays to achieve a given desired radiation pattern in the far field Audience: Graduate 6. Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of antenna measurement techniques including common techniques used to measure the radiation pattern, gain, directivity, polarization, and bandwidth of an antenna under test Audience: Graduate 7. Determine a suitable antenna to use for a given application from the system level performance metrics desired including, bandwidth, gain, radiation pattern, frequency of operation, etc. Audience: Graduate