Electrical and Computer Engineering
ECE
750 - Course Information
COURSE: ECE 750: Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics (Fall 2003)
INSTRUCTOR: Professor M. Bakr
SUPPORTING INSTRUCTOR: Professor N. Nikolova
DETAILS: Office: CRL 224, Tel: 525-9140, ext 24079; e-mail:
mbakr@mail.ece.mcmaster.ca
RECOMMENDED TEXT(s):
R.E. Collin, Field Theory of Guided Waves, 2nd ed., IEEE Press, 1991.
R.F. Harrington, Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1961.
M.N.O. Sadiku, Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetics, CRC Press, 1992.
R.C. Booton, Jr., Computational
Methods for Electromagnetics and Microwaves, John Wiley & Sons, 1992.
ADDITIONAL TEXT: A selection of
literature papers.
CLASSES: Monday
10:0 -12:0, CRL B102
Wednesday
OFFICE HRS: Thursday 12:0-3:0
Course Outline
This
course provides a solid understanding of electromagnetic phenomena related to
microwave and millimetre-wave engineering, antenna engineering and wireless
technology. Strong emphasis is given to
computational electromagnetic techniques, which form the core of contemporary
CAA/CAD tools. We adopt a systematic approach in which the complexity and
dimension of the explained techniques are increased starting with simple 1D
problems. Lectures will cover the
following topics:
1. Fundamentals of electromagnetic theory-revision.
2. Electromagnetic properties of matter.
3. Auxiliary vector potentials and construction of solutions.
4. Radiation and scattering.
5. Basic theorems of electromagnetics.
6. Green’s functions in electromagnetic equations.
7. Method of Moments (MoM) and applications.
8. Huygen’s principle and the time domain Transmission Line Modeling (TLM) method.
9. Variational approaches in electromagnetics and the Finite Element Method (FEM).
10. The Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method.
11. Recent advances in numerical electrodynamics-open discussion.
Detailed Course
Outline with Lecture Notes
Grading:
4 Projects 80%
Final Examination 20%
Final Exam: The final exam
is comprehensive and will help in the determination of your final grade.
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