Course Description: Antenna parameters; polarization of electromagnetic waves; basic antenna types; antenna arrays; broadband antenna design; and antenna measurements.

Course Objectives: In this course, you will learn about phenomenological description of antenna links, electromagnetic antenna principles, antenna arrays, and practical antennas.

Course Outline by Topical Areas:

Antennas: A Practical Point of View

Introduction

Review: phasors, vectors, Maxwell's equations and plane waves

Phenomenological description of Antenna Links

Transmitting antennas: description of fields radiated by an antenna

Transmitting antennas: antenna pattern, directivity

Transmitting antennas: beamwidth, side lobe level,

Receiving antennas: general properties

Receiving antennas: the Friis formula

Antennas: Theory

Electromagnetic Principles of Antennas

Maxwell's equations and source-field relationships

Hertzian dipoles

Small loop antennas

Dipoles of arbitrary length

Line sources

Ground planes and monopoles

Arrays

Introduction: array factors

Uniformly excited, equally spaced arrays: general theory

Uniformly excited, equally spaced arrays: broadside and endfire arrays

Uniformly excited, equally spaced arrays: beamwidth, directivity, side lobe level

Pattern multiplication 1

Pattern multiplication 2

Two dimensional arrays

Advanced topics

Antennas: Different Antenna Types And Applications

Wire antennas: practical aspects

Dipoles: efficiency, different types (V-dipole, inverted V dipole, sloping dipole)

Monopoles: efficiency, ground planes, grounded verticals

Loops: efficiency, large loop antennas

Feeding wire antennas

Other wire antennas: Yagi-Uda Antennas

Broadband antennas

Principles of broadband antennas

Biconical antennas, spiral antennas

Log Periodic antennas: Basic Principles

Log Periodic antennas: Dipole Arrays

Aperture and reflector antennas

Aperture antennas: general introduction

Horn antennas: basic principles

Waveguide slot antennas

Reflector antennas: Basic principles

Reflector Antennas: Different types

Microstrip Antennas

Microstrip antennas: basic principles

Microstrip antennas: different types and applications

Antennas in Wireless Applications

Overview of Wireless Technology

Course Requirements:

Computer Facilities: Visit http://online.engr.uiuc.edu and click on System Requirements. Students must use a PC with Internet Explorer 5.0 (or higher), Windows Media Player 6.4-8.0 and Acrobat Reader installed. A cable modem connection or higher is required to adequately view the online video lectures (56K modem connections are not guaranteed to provide sufficient bandwidth to view courses with streaming video lectures. Students with only a modem connection should contact the Office of Continuing Engineering Education before registering for courses.).

Homework: Yes

Examinations: There will be two midterms and one final exam.

Computer Language: A working knowledge of Mathematica is desired though not required.

Website: http://online.engr.uiuc.edu/webcourses/ece354

Degree Applicability:

CE[AA]	CH[NA]	CS[AA]	EE[BDE]	EM[E]	ESM[NA]	MAT[NA]
MBA[NA]	ME[E]	MES[BE]	MSE[E]	SE[NA]	SY[AA]

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NTU Semester Credit Hours: 3
Number of Lecture Hours: 35 (50 minute) lectures
Days Class Meets on Campus: NA

Contributing Scholar:
Eric Michielssen
Department of Electrical and Computer Engr
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1406 West Green Street
Everitt Laboratory, #453
Urbana, IL   61801
Phone: 217-333-3803

Fax: 3217-333-5962
emichiel@uiuc.edu

Note: Contributing Scholars are responsible for the design, organization, content, and presentation of NTU courses. Online classroom management, student management, and other matters related to academic administration of courses are the responsibility of support "Faculty". Either person is often called "Instructor". To identify and differentiate between these roles, we use the terms "Contributing Scholar" and "Faculty".

Academic/Administrative Contact:  
Ms. Laura Miller
Phone: 217-333-6634
          800-252-1360 x-36634
Fax: 217-333-0015
ocee@uiuc.edu


Prerequisites: A thorough understanding of basic electromagnetic principles, transmission lines, and plane waves is indispensable.

Textbooks: (Order Materials)

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None required. Course notes will be posted in the Video Lectures area of the website. Recommended Texts: Antenna Theory and Design, W. Stutzman and G. Thiele, John Wiley and Sons, 1998; Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design, C. Balanis, John Wiley and Sons, 1982; Practical Antenna Handbook, J. Carr Tab Books, 1994; Antenna Handbook, Y. T. Lo and S. W. Lee, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988.