Computer Engineering | |||||
Bachelor | Length of the Programme: 4 | Number of Credits: 240 | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF: Level 6 |
School/Faculty/Institute | Faculty of Engineering | ||||
Course Code | EE 472 | ||||
Course Title in English | Antennas and Propagation | ||||
Course Title in Turkish | Antenler ve Yayılım | ||||
Language of Instruction | EN | ||||
Type of Course | Seçiniz | ||||
Level of Course | Seçiniz | ||||
Semester | Spring | ||||
Contact Hours per Week |
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Estimated Student Workload | 150 hours per semester | ||||
Number of Credits | 6 ECTS | ||||
Grading Mode | Standard Letter Grade | ||||
Pre-requisites |
EE 304 - Electromagnetic Fields |
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Expected Prior Knowledge | None | ||||
Co-requisites | None | ||||
Registration Restrictions | None | ||||
Overall Educational Objective | |||||
Course Description | |||||
Course Description in Turkish |
Course Learning Outcomes and CompetencesUpon successful completion of the course, the learner is expected to be able to:1) Comprehend fundamental principles of antennas; 2) Analyse and design antennas and antenna arrays for some given specifications; 3) Describe fundamental principles of electromagnetic wave propagation. |
Program Learning Outcomes/Course Learning Outcomes | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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1) An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics | |||
2) An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors | |||
3) An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences | |||
4) An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts | |||
5) An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives | |||
6) An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions | |||
7) An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies. |
N None | S Supportive | H Highly Related |
Program Outcomes and Competences | Level | Assessed by | |
1) | An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics | H | Exam,HW |
2) | An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors | H | Exam,HW |
3) | An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences | N | |
4) | An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts | N | |
5) | An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives | N | |
6) | An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions | N | |
7) | An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies. | N |
Prepared by and Date | CAGATAY ULUISIK , |
Course Coordinator | EGEMEN BİLGİN |
Semester | Spring |
Name of Instructor |
Week | Subject |
1) | Introduction : Review of coordinate systems, vector algebra and Maxwell’s equations |
2) | Basic antenna definitions and terms: directivity, efficiency, gain, polarization, beamwidth, isotropic radiator, far-field region, Voltage Standing Wave Ratio |
3) | The Electric (Hertzian or Ideal) Dipole: magnetic vector potential, magnetic and electric field vectors, complex poynting vector |
4) | The Electric (Hertzian or Ideal) Dipole: radiated power, radiation resistance, antenna efficiency, gain, directivity, radiation pattern |
5) | The Magnetic Dipole: magnetic vector potential, magnetic and electric field vectors, complex poynting vector, radiated power, radiation resistance, antenna efficiency, gain, directivity, radiation pattern. |
6) | Image theory, small antennas & short dipoles, resonant antennas and their radiation patterns. |
7) | Travelling wave antennas : Rhombic antennas and their radiation patterns |
8) | Log Periodic Dipole Arrays (LPDA) |
9) | Uniformly excited, equally spaced linear arrays. Element pattern, array factor, pattern multiplication, Half-Power BeamWidth (HPBW) and BeamWidth between First Nulls (BWFN) for the broadside and endfire cases |
10) | ANTEN-GUI : A Matlab-based visualisation package for planar arrays of isotropic radiators. The antenna simulator : NEC-WIN Professional |
11) | Fundamentals of radiowave propagation: polarisation, reflection, refraction, diffraction Free space propagation, Friis formula and free space path loss |
12) | Ground reflection and 2-ray model, knife edge diffraction. |
13) | Numerical propagation simulators: Ray approaches, Split Step Parabolic Equation (SSPE) method, Method of Moments (MoM) |
14) | Microstrip filter design, microstrip lines |
15) | Final Exam/Project/Presentation Period |
16) | Final Exam/Project/Presentation Period |
Required/Recommended Readings | 1. C. A. Balanis, Antenna Theory - Analysis & Design, 2nd Ed., John Wiley & Sons, NY 1997 2. J. D. Kraus, Antennas, 2nd Ed., MacGraw-Hill Book Co., NY 1988 3. R. E. Collins, Antennas and Radiowave Propagation, MacGraw-Hill Book Co., NY 1985 4. D. K. Cheng, Field and Wave Electromagnetics, Second Ed., Addison-Wesley, New York, 1992 | ||||||||||||
Teaching Methods | Lectures/contact hours using “flipped classroom” as an active learning technique | ||||||||||||
Homework and Projects | None | ||||||||||||
Laboratory Work | None | ||||||||||||
Computer Use | None | ||||||||||||
Other Activities | None | ||||||||||||
Assessment Methods |
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Course Administration |
Instructor’s office: TBD office hours: TBD email address: culuisik@dogus.edu.tr Rules for attendance: : - Missing a midterm: Provided that proper documents of excuse are presented, a make-up exam will be given for each missed midterm. Missing a final: Faculty regulations. A reminder of proper classroom behavior, code of student conduct: YÖK Regulations Statement on plagiarism: YÖK Regulations |
Activity | No/Weeks | Hours | Calculation | ||||
No/Weeks per Semester | Preparing for the Activity | Spent in the Activity Itself | Completing the Activity Requirements | ||||
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 3 | 84 | |||
Homework Assignments | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | |||
Midterm(s) | 3 | 17 | 2 | 57 | |||
Total Workload | 150 | ||||||
Total Workload/25 | 6.0 | ||||||
ECTS | 6 |