EE 648 - Microwave Engineering

Prerequisites: Undergraduate Electromagnetics; programming experience, preferably in MATLAB; Graduate standing or permission of instructor. This course is designed to familiarize the students with microwave components and their operating principles. This course covers transmission line, including microstrip and coplanar waveguides, impedance matching, S parameters, Smith chart, couplers/dividers, waveguides, EM simulators, and antennas. Some homework assignments may require use of computer-aided design software.
3 credits