Course Objectives: The objective of the course is to expose the students to various methodologies and concepts that are useful in tackling engineering problems encountered in the areas of electromagnetic wave propagation in natural environments and remote sensing.

Course Outline by Topical Areas:

Introduction: Maxwell's equations, material boundary conditions, radiation condition, Hertzian dipole, electromagnetic polarization, Stokes' vectors, Mueller matrices, Poincare's sphere. Complex integration: Cauchy's theorem, residue theorem, poles and surface waves, branch cut and space waves, saddle point and stationary phase methods. Dipole Radiation Over Half Space: Vertical electric dipole and horizontal electric dipoles over half-space, impedance boundary conditions. Multiple Scattering Formalism: Dyson's Equation for mean field, Bethe-Salpeter equation for the mutual coherence function, perturbation series, diagrammatic approach, discrete scatterers, continuous inomogeneties, Born approximation, Rytov approximation. Scattering and Propagation Over Random Rough Surface: Integral equation, scattering amplitude, perturbation theory, Kirchoff's approximation, parabolic equation. Propagation and Scattering through Random Media: One dimensional medium, multiple scattering theory, transport theory, parabolic equation method, weak fluctuation theory, strong fluctuation theory, propagation through turbulent media.

Course Requirements:

Computer Language: Familiarity with MATLAB, or MATHCAD, or FORTRAN will be needed to work out the computational part of the projects assigned.

Project: Five projects entailing detailed study of specific topics. The purpose of the projects is to gain a deeper understanding of the topics covered and this will be achieved by applying the theory to problems of practical interest in engineering. The projects will either be analytical or computational in nature. Grading is based on the project work turned in.

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: $75. Billed by NTU.

Degree Applicability:

CE[AA]	CH[NA]	CS[AA]	EE[BDE]	EM[E]	ESM[NA]	MAT[E]
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: 40 (50 minute) lectures
Days Class Meets on Campus: Monday/Wednesday/Friday

Contributing Scholar:
Ramakrishna Janaswamy
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Marcus Hall
Amherst, MA   01003
Phone: 413-545-0937

Fax: 413-545-1227
janaswamy@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: Electromagnetic Field Theory, or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Required background experience: Vector analysis, Complex analysis and partial differentiation, electromagnetic fields and Maxwell's equations, Probability and Random Processes.

Textbooks: (Order Materials)

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No Required Text: OPTIONAL TEXT: (Reference) Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves: Advanced Topics, L. Tsang and J. A. Kong, John Wiley & Sons, 2001. Wave Propagation and Scattering in Random Media, Vols. 1 & 2, A. Ishimaru, Academic Press, 1978. Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar, V. N. Bringi and V. Chandrasekhar, Cambridge University Press, 2001. Waves and Fields in Inhomogeneous Media, W. C. Chew, IEEE Press, 1995. Radiation and Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves, L.B. Felsen, IEEE Press. Probabilistic Methods in Applied Mathematics, A.T. Bharucha-Ried, Academic Press, 1968. Time Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields, R.F. Harrington, IEEE Press/John Wiley , 2001. Classical Electrodynamics, J.D. Jackson, John Wiley & Sons, 1975.