Course Description: In this course, the student will acquire the following skills: Know and use standard antenna characterization parameters such as gain, directivity, impedance, bandwidth, efficiency; Understand electromagnetic radiation from currents and be able to compute radiation from several common antenna structures; Design simple antennas such as dipoles, microstrip patches, and waveguide horns to achieve specified performance; Design antenna arrays with required radiation pattern characteristics; Understand self impedance and mutual impedance and the use of MoM numerical analysis for antenna simulation; Be able to critically evaluate requirements and potential design options for antenna applications.

Course Outline by Topical Areas:

Definitions, EM radiation, Friis and radar equations

Basic antenna elements (dipole, loop)

Arrays

Aperture antennas

Antenna measurements

MoM, integral equations, self and mutual impedance

Practical antennas (Yagi-Uda, LPDA, slots, horns, baluns, microstrip patch, etc)

Antenna pattern synthesis

Course Requirements:

Homework: Graded homework

Examinations: One midterm and one final

Computer Facilities: The software PCAAD - Personal Computer Aided Antenna Design (Antenna Design Associates) will be used for some in-class demonstrations and may be used by students for homework. Some computer analysis using PCAAD and/or general-purpose CAD tools (MathCad, Matlab, etc) will be necessary for homework and the design project.

Project: One project

Note: This course is available on DVD. DVS's are viewable on computer or set-top DVD players that are capable of playing DVD-R discs.

UMail - University of Massachusetts Email Account - REQUIRED

All students are required to activate a University email account known as Umail. This is a FREE service to all students. As an NTU student, if this is your first time registering for a course from UMass you will receive instructions from the Office of Information Technologies (OIT) on the process to activate your account. You should act upon this immediately. Please note this account must be activated for UMass Administrative purposes, as well as for your class. All notes and files pertaining to your class will be mailed to the UMail address the University has identified for you. You may choose to forward files from that address to a personal account. As always, free email services such as yahoo mail will not be robust enough for the volume we send. Do not rely upon these types of accounts. Your UMail account, which is free of charge to you, will have the necessary capacity to handle the incoming volume of mail associated with your academic class. If you need assistance contact UMass via email, peeas@ecs.umass.edu or by telephone 413-545-0063.

Notes:

Delivery Charge: Non-refundable DVD duplication and delivery: $50. Billed by NTU.

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: Approximately 40 (50 minute) lectures
Days Class Meets on Campus: Monday/Wednesday/Friday

Contributing Scholar:
Daniel H. Schaubert
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, MA   01003
Phone: 413-545-2530

Fax: 413-545-1227
schaubert@ecs.umass.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. Barbara Barnett
Phone: 413-545-0063
Fax: 413-545-1227
bbarnett@ecs.umass.edu


Prerequisites: Basic EM analysis, plane waves, transmission lines, rectangular wave--guides and resonators, and radiation from current filament.

Textbooks: (Order Materials)

1.	Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design, C. A. Balanis, J. Wiley and Sons, 2nd edition, 1997