EL E 561 - Microwave Circuit Design
2001 Catalog Data: ELE 561. MICROWAVE CIRCUIT DESIGN. Design projects on passive and active microwave circuits (self-paced). Prerequisites: ELE 433, 523, or consent of instructor. (6 alb hours) (2).
Textbook: Foundation for Microstrip Design by T.C. Edwards: Wiley and Sons, 1981, ISBN 0-471-27944-7.
Reference: All Electrical and Engineering Textbooks
Coordinator: Dr. Charles E. Smith, Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering
Goals: To provide an opportunity for each student to participate in complete microwave circuit design projects including planning, problem analysis, fabrication, and presentation of his work in both written and oral forms. These investigations are individual projects under the direction of a member of the Department staff.
Prerequisites by Topic: The Electrical Engineering graduate electromagnetic Curriculum places strong emphasis upon fundamental concepts by providing for the students courses which have rich theoretical foundations in physics and mathematics. With this background a student is encouraged to develop his individual initiative and creative ability to enable him to derive useful engineering results from basic principles. An important vehicle, through which the student interested in microwave circuits practices this, is the course, Microwave Circuit Design.
Not only is a student provided an opportunity to be creative in this course, but also he gains valuable insight into the evolution of theory into practice. Microwave Circuit Design is to be operated in accordance with the outline below.
1. Each student will be assigned several microwave circuits projects by the instructor.
2. The student then will design and evaluate these circuits and submit a typewritten report to the instructor.
3. Office hours for Microwave Circuit Design will be during the scheduled class period. Attendance during the 2 to 5 pm period is required as the instructor may not be available at other times during the week for design questions. Additional laboratory time may be scheduled to make the laboratory available for your use as required.
4. Short project presentations on progress, course topics, and/or project completion will be made around mid-term and before finals.
5. Final reports on each project, will normally be due two weeks after assignment.
6. A portion of the course grade will be determined from the quality of the project's execution as well as the final report.
7. A student should make arrangements with the instructor and the Department Electronics Technician if he needs supplies, materials, and equipment. The Department cannot leave facilities open for use at all time. No equipment and/or supplies should be taken from other laboratories without permission.
Students should bring their own basic tools, such as screwdrivers and electrician's pliers/ Spare parts like transistors, resistances, capacitances and diodes may be borrowed from the Department's supplies if available. Special integrated circuits, not available in the Department's supplies, should be acquired by the students. Most practical work is facilitated by the use of universal type microwave breadboards for mounting the circuit elements since the same working areas is used by several groups of this laboratory, students are responsible for cleaning the benches after each laboratory session, and storing the breadboards. No food or drinks are allowed in the laboratory and the no smoking regulations of the University are enforced.
Final reports are to be written and typed in an acceptable style and in accordance with correct grammar, approximately 3 single space pages plus figures. Third-person past tense is generally accepted as the grammatical style for technical reports, and this style is required in all formal reports. The use of personal pronouns is prohibited for these reports.
The above procedures and guidelines are offered only to render Microwave Circuit Design more effective and more efficient. Any modifications of the above procedure agreed upon by the instructor and students in individuals cases are encouraged, if such is necessitated by the peculiar nature of a project.
Estimated ABET Category Content: Engineering Science: 2 credits or 100%