McMaster University

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):    

 

C.A. Balanis, Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics, John Wiley & Sons, 1989.

 

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 10:30-12:30, JHE A113

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.

 

Policy Reminders: Senate and the Faculty of Engineering require all course outlines to include the following reminders:
"The Faculty of Engineering is concerned with ensuring an environment that is free of all adverse discrimination.  If there is a problem, that cannot be resolved by discussion among the persons concerned, individuals are reminded that they should contact the Department Chair, the Sexual Harassment Officer or the Human Rights Consultant, as soon as possible."
"Students are reminded that they should read and comply with the Statement on Academic Ethics and the Senate Resolutions on Academic Dishonesty as found in the Senate Policy Statements distributed at registration and available in the Senate Office."

“Academic dishonesty consists of misrepresentation by deception or by other fraudulent means and can result in serious consequences, e.g. the grade of zero on an assignment, loss of credit with a notation on the transcript (notation reads: “Grade of F assigned for academic dishonesty”), and/or suspension of expulsion from the university”

 

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