7/23/2019 ECE357 Lecture Schedule

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ECE357 Course Schedule 2015 (subject to change)

Lecture Lecture content Ulaby section(s) Week of

1 Course introduction, transmission lines 9-1 6-Jan-2015

2 Transmission line equations 9-3 to 9-3.1 7-Jan-2015

3 Transmission line equation in phasor domain, basic quantities, lossless transmission lines 9-3.1 9-Jan-2015

4 Transmission line parameters, attenuation, low-loss line 9-3.1, 9-3.2 13-Jan-2015

5 Wave characteristics of finite transmission lines 9-4 14-Jan-2015

6 Transmission lines as circuit elements 9-4.1 16-Jan-2015

7 Tranmission lines with resistive / arbitrary terminations, SWR 9-4.2 to 9-4.4 20-Jan-2015

8 Multiple reflections, introduction to Smith chart 9-4.4, 9-6 21-Jan-2015

9 Smith chart 9-6 23-Jan-2015

10 VSWR circles, basic operations 9-6, 9-6.1 27-Jan-2015

11 Quarter-wave transformer, single-stub matching 9-7.1, 9-7.2 28-Jan-2015

12 Double-stub matching 9-7.3 30-Jan-2015

13 Transients on transmission lines 9-5, 9-5.1 3-Feb-2015

14 Bounce diagrams 9-5.1, 9-5.2, 9-5.4 4-Feb-2015

15 Review of vector operations 2-6, 2-7, 2-8, 3-4, 6-2 6-Feb-2015

16 Maxwell's equations - fundamentals, integral form 7-2, 7-3 10-Feb-2015

17 Maxwell's equations - differential form, boundary conditions 7-3, 7-5 11-Feb-201518 Time-harmonic fields: phasors, wave equation 7-7 13-Feb-2015

Reading week - no lectures 17-Feb-2015

Reading week - no lectures 18-Feb-2015

Reading week - no lectures 20-Feb-2015

19 Time harmonic fields: source-free fields, the electromagnetic spectrum 7-7 24-Feb-2015

20 Plane waves in lossless media, polarization 8-1, 8-2.1, 8-2.2 25-Feb-2015

21 Polarization 8-2.3 27-Feb-2015

22 Plane waves in lossy media 8-3 3-Mar-2015

23 Dispersion 8-3, 8-4 4-Mar-2015

24 Power flow concepts, power densities 8-5 6-Mar-2015

25 Power flow concepts, power densities 8-5 10-Mar-2015

26 Reflect ion and transmission at a dielectric/conducting boundary (normal incidence) 8-6, 8-8 11-Mar-2015

27 Reflect ion and transmission at a dielectric/conducting boundary (oblique incidence) 8-7, 8-9 13-Mar-2015

28 Reflection and transmission at a dielectric/conducting boundary (oblique incidence), multiple reflections 8-7, 8-9, 8-10 17-Mar-201529 Guided waves, TE, TM waves 10-1, 10-2 18-Mar-2015

30 TE, TM, TEM modes; parallel-plate waveguide 10-2, 10-3.1 20-Mar-2015

31 TE, TM modes, parallel plate waveguide 10-1, 10-2, 10-3.1 24-Mar-2015

32 Parallel plate waveguide: dominant mode, propagating / evanescent waves 10-3.1, 10-3.2 25-Mar-2015

33 Parallel plate waveguide: energy transport velocity, attenuation 10-3.3, 10-3.4 27-Mar-2015

34 Rectangular waveguide I 10-4 31-Mar-2015

35 Rectangular waveguide II 10-4 1-Apr-2015

Good Friday - no lecture 3-Apr-2015

36 Rectangular waveguide III 10-4 7-Apr-2015

37 Antennas and radiating systems, elementary dipoles 11-1, 11-2 8-Apr-2015

38 Antenna patterns and parameters 11-3 10-Apr-2015