UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS

ERIK JONSSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

EE 4302

ELECTROMAGNETIC ENGINEERING II

PROF. C. D. CANTRELL

COURSE OUTLINE

TEXT:

Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics, Third Edition, by Simon Ramo, John R. Whinnery and Theodore Van Duzer (John Wiley & Sons, 1994). Dr. Ramo is the "R" in TRW, Inc.

TARGET AUDIENCES:

This is an elective course for Junior or Senior undergraduate students in Electrical Engineering.
EE4301, Electromagnetic Engineering I, is a recommended prerequisite. Students who have not yet taken EE4301 should discuss their readiness for EE4302 with Dr. Cantrell before signing up.
An understanding of the material in this course is recommended for all students who intend to work in wireless or fiberoptic communications engineering.
Others who can benefit from this course include employees of local high-technology companies who need an overview of the principles of waveguides, resonators, and transmission lines.

CONCEPTS/TOOLS TO BE ACQUIRED IN THIS COURSE:

Review of static electric fields
1. Integral forms of the laws of electrostatics
  1. Coulomb's Law
  2. Gauss' Law
  3. Field lines
  4. Capacitance
2. Differential forms of the laws of electrostatics
  1. Gradient and divergence
  2. Laplace's and Poisson's equations
  3. Static fields due to steady currents
  4. Boundary conditions
3. Special techniques
  1. Method of images
  2. Visualization of fields
  3. Numerical solutions
4. Electrostatic field energy
Review of static magnetic fields
1. Integral forms of the laws of magnetostatics
  1. Ampere's Law
  2. Line integral of magnetic field
  3. Inductance from flux linkages
2. Differential forms of the laws of magnetostatics
  1. Curl
  2. Vector potential
  3. Hertz vector potentials
  4. Boundary conditions
3. Magnetic field energy
Review of Maxwell's Equations
1. Integral and differential forms for time-varying fields
2. Examples
Electromagnetic treatment of circuits
Review of transmission lines
Review of propagation, reflection and refraction of plane waves
Boundary-value problems
1. Numerical treatment
2. Classical treatment
  1. Separation of variables
  2. Cylindrical coordinates; Bessel functions
  3. Spherical coordinates; spherical Bessel functions and spherical harmonics
3. Cylindrical waveguides
4. Special types of waveguides
5. Resonant cavities
6. Radiation and scattering
7. Propagation in anisotropic media
8. Optics
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