| 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 | Select | ||||
| Level of Course | Select | ||||
| Semester | Spring | ||||
| Contact Hours per Week |
|
||||
| Estimated Student Workload | 150 hours per semester | ||||
| Number of Credits | 6 ECTS | ||||
| Grading Mode | Standard Letter Grade | ||||
| Pre-requisites |
EE 304 - Electromagnetic Fields |
||||
| Co-requisites | None | ||||
| Expected Prior Knowledge | Prior knowledge in Electromagnetic Fields | ||||
| Registration Restrictions | Only Undergraduate Students | ||||
| Overall Educational Objective | Upon successful completion of the course, the learner is expected to be able to: 1. Gain knowledge about fundamental principles of antennas 2. Analyse and design antennas and antenna arrays for some given specifications 3. Describe fundamental principles of electromagnetic wave propagation | ||||
| Course Description | This course provides a a comprehensive understanding of antennas and propagation. The following topics are covered: Basic antenna definitions and terms: directivity, efficiency, gain, polarization, beamwidth, isotropic radiator, far-field region, Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR), beam steering, broadside, endfire, phased arrays, array factor and pattern multiplication. The electric dipole and the magnetic dipole, image theory, small antennas & short dipoles, resonant antennas and their radiation patterns, travelling wave antennas, rhombic antennas, Log Periodic Dipole Arrays (LPDA), uniformly excited-equally spaced linear arrays, free space propagation, Friis formula and free space path loss, ground reflection and 2-ray model, knife edge diffraction, Split Step Parabolic Equation (SSPE) method. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1) The ability to recognize and apply basic principles and theories of law, legal methodology, and interpretation methods. | |||
| 2) The ability to follow, evaluate, interpret and apply the current developments and legislative amendments. | |||
| 3) The ability to locate and use legal resources; to follow and evaluate current legislative amendments, legal science, and court decisions. | |||
| 4) The ability to internalize social, scientific and ethical values while evaluating legal information. | |||
| 5) The ability to recognize, examine and resolve legal issues with respect to general principles of law, de lege feranda and de lege lata; to take into consideration both national and international aspects of law; and to acknowledge the importance of personal conviction while making decisions. | |||
| 6) The ability to critically analyze legal disputes, legislation, court decisions and different views in the legal science; to form his/her own opinions; to detect legal lacuna and suggest alternative solutions. | |||
| 7) The ability to understand issues regarding different fields of law; to characterize and propose solutions to complex issues arising from legal practice. | |||
| 8) The ability to participate in and organize legal projects and activities as a socially responsible individual; to put his/her legal knowledge and skill to use efficiently (in the public or private sector). | |||
| 9) The ability to use a foreign language at least on a B2 Level on the European Language Portfolio, to follow legal developments and communicate with colleagues in that language; to use computer software and information and communication technologies necessary in the law field at an Advanced Level of the European Computer Driving License. | |||
| 10) Adoption of a positive approach to the concept of lifelong learning. | |||
| 11) The ability to understand the development, evolution, and problems of the society and to contribute to the solution of these problems by legal methods. | |||
| 12) The ability to understand the structure, organization, and functioning of law on the national and international level; to contribute to the development thereof. |
| N None | S Supportive | H Highly Related |
| Program Outcomes and Competences | Level | Assessed by | |
| 1) | The ability to recognize and apply basic principles and theories of law, legal methodology, and interpretation methods. | S | |
| 2) | The ability to follow, evaluate, interpret and apply the current developments and legislative amendments. | N | |
| 3) | The ability to locate and use legal resources; to follow and evaluate current legislative amendments, legal science, and court decisions. | N | |
| 4) | The ability to internalize social, scientific and ethical values while evaluating legal information. | S | |
| 5) | The ability to recognize, examine and resolve legal issues with respect to general principles of law, de lege feranda and de lege lata; to take into consideration both national and international aspects of law; and to acknowledge the importance of personal conviction while making decisions. | N | |
| 6) | The ability to critically analyze legal disputes, legislation, court decisions and different views in the legal science; to form his/her own opinions; to detect legal lacuna and suggest alternative solutions. | N | |
| 7) | The ability to understand issues regarding different fields of law; to characterize and propose solutions to complex issues arising from legal practice. | N | |
| 8) | The ability to participate in and organize legal projects and activities as a socially responsible individual; to put his/her legal knowledge and skill to use efficiently (in the public or private sector). | N | |
| 9) | The ability to use a foreign language at least on a B2 Level on the European Language Portfolio, to follow legal developments and communicate with colleagues in that language; to use computer software and information and communication technologies necessary in the law field at an Advanced Level of the European Computer Driving License. | S | |
| 10) | Adoption of a positive approach to the concept of lifelong learning. | H | |
| 11) | The ability to understand the development, evolution, and problems of the society and to contribute to the solution of these problems by legal methods. | N | |
| 12) | The ability to understand the structure, organization, and functioning of law on the national and international level; to contribute to the development thereof. | N |
| Prepared by and Date | , |
| Course Coordinator | EGEMEN BİLGİN |
| Semester | Spring |
| Name of Instructor | Assoc. Prof. Dr. CAGATAY ULUISIK |
| 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 |
|
||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||