Instructor: Bob Bond; Office: 213 Workman; x5411: rhb@ee.nmt.edu

Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M,W,F in Speare 24

This course builds on the field theory concepts presented in EE333. The theory developed in EE333 will be applied to various transmission media including free space, two conductor transmission lines, wave guides, and fiber optic systems. Then simple radiating systems (antennas) will be analyzed.

In the various transmission systems we will look at propagation rate (phase and group), attenuation, dispersion, and reflection. In a general fashion, we will analyze both transient and steady state behavior of these transmission systems.

The antenna portion of the course will deal with techniques for finding the radiation fields of various antenna types. We will then define and calculate directivity, gain, radiated or received power and antenna input impedance. After dealing with single antennas the course will look at the results of combining multiple antennas into arrays.

Much of the course will be dealing with mathematical descriptions of the above phenomena, but the goal is for physical understanding.

Course Structure:

Homework will be given on a regular basis and graded. Late homework may or may not be graded, and will not count toward the semester's grade.

There will be three tests plus a final. Homework will count the same as one test.