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Detailed Course Outline 

1.          Introduction to Electromagnetics & Microwave Engineering, Maxwell's equations, wave equations, propagation

2.          Trans lines: theory, high freq effects, sections of txn lines: spl cases

3.          Planar txn line examples: microstrip, design, CPW design

4.          S-parameter theory, ABCD, parameter extraction

TEST 1    (15)

5.          Microwave circuit design basics, Filter design theory, RF distributed filter design, band pass filter methods

6.          Active circuit design basic principles, amplifier design, oscillator design example, RFIC and MMIC design tools

TEST 2    (15)

7.          Basics of Antennas: standards, parameters, types of antennas, wire antennas, planar antennas: microstrip basics, microstrip antenna design & analysis,

8.          Advanced antenna topics, smart antenna concepts

9.          computational electromagnetics: basics, method of moments, FDTD, Advanced topics in FDTD

Lab/Homeworks (20 )

Final project demo/ evaluation/ report/ presentation (will be assigned after TEST 1)   15

1.    Multiband Microstrip Antennas

2.    2D FDTD for analyzing EBG

3.    Microstrip Band Pass Filter Desi20

4.    Design of MMIC Power Amplifier

5.    Design of MMIC LNA

6.    Smart/Adaptive Antenna Design

7.    MoM for a small antenna problem

Final exam. (in class) (35)