ECE 5320/6322 – Microwave Engineering I
Course Taught: MWF
Professor: Cynthia
Furse, 585-7234, cfurse@ece.utah.edu
Scheduled Office Hours:
To be determined. Office:
MEB3102.
Open
Door Policy: When my door is open, you are welcome to come in.
ECE 5320 Website:
www.ece.utah.edu/~cfurse/ece5320
Lecture
notes, announcements, schedule, etc.
Text: Microwave Engineering, David M. Pozar,
John Wiley & Sons
Prerequisites:
ECE
3300 Introduction to Electromagnetics or
equivalent
Objectives:
After this course, the student should:
1.
Understand the
fundamentals of microwave devices and microwave measurement methods.
2.
Be able to design
basic passive microwave components including matching networks, couplers/power
dividers, and filters. Be able to
implement designs in HP/EESOF Libra software.
3.
Be able to
develop prototypes of passive microstrip devices, measure their
characteristics, and understand the measurements.
4.
Be able to
combine passive elements with commercial active elements (amplifiers, mixers, VCOs, etc.) to create a microwave circuit. The project for this class will be an FSK
WLAN.
Portfolios: Each
day you will be asked to answer a question associated with the lecture and do
1-3 related homework problems. The
question might be "How do you design a matching network?" Your portfolio for that day should include
instructions on how to design a matching network followed by the homework
problems assigned to practice this. The
instructions (typically about a page) should be written so YOU can understand
them. Exams will be open portfolio,
closed book, so include everything you need to solve the problems. You may include tables and figures copied
from the text, but please don't copy the text itself. Portfolios will be
checked for completeness only. You are
responsible for checking your own homework solutions. Solution manuals will be available in the
library on reserve and in the ECE office, and answers are in the back of your
book.
Portfolios are due at
Laboratory: Each student group will design and build an FSK
WLAN. Students will need a bound
laboratory notebook. Labs will not start
for at least two weeks. Schedule to be
announced.
Laboratory Notebook: Fill this notebook with sufficient instructions so
that another student of your level could QUICKLY, EASILY, ACCURATELY repeat
your results. Do this NEATLY enough that
you can proudly show it to an interviewer.
Leave one page in the front
of your lab book for a table of contents and grade summary.
Each lab must include
1.
A copy of the lab
handouts (copy and paste)
2.
All preliminary
calculations (if done on computer, paste a hard copy of your calculations,
programs, etc. in the book, and keep a disk in the back).
3.
Sketch of
equipment setup, including model #s of equipment.
4.
WELL-LABELED data
taken during the lab. Make tables,
graphs, specific notes, etc. Include
UNITS in all results.
5.
Conclusions
(approximately 1 page long) and SUPPORTING FIGURES/TABLES/GRAPHS for all
conclusions. For instance, if you say,
"The measured data agreed well with
predicted data," you need either a table or a graph where the results are
tabulated/plotted together. It would be
even better to say, "The measured data agrees with the predicted data with
less than 5% error."
6.
Also
include: name, date, signature at bottom
of each page.
7.
For your final
project, you should include all of your preliminary work and design work in
your lab book, and a final written report using this data. I will grade both the lab book and written
report.
Exams: Two midterm exams will be given during the quarter.
Dates are given on the schedule. If you
have conflicts with these dates, such as travel or an overburden of exams that
day, please let me know as soon as possible.
Grading:
Portfolio 15%
Lab 15%
Midterm I or Final Part I 35%
Midterm II or Final Part II 35%
(To do well in this
class: Keep up in class, study hard, do
well on your midterms, and you do not
have to take the final exam. But, if you
bomb a midterm, or all of them for that matter, all is not lost. You can completely erase mistakes made during
the semester and make up your grade on the final.)
Lab Grade
Theoretical designs meet spec
/ Analysis is correct 25%
Experimental Designs meet
specification / Measurement is correct 25%
Write up is complete,
well-documented, neat, etc. 50%
Make Up Credit for missing
homework assignments
Make
Up Credit can be used if you forget to turn in a portfolio, if you just don’t
do it, if you don’t want to attend the required class after Thanksgiving,
etc. These can be used to give you a
maximum of 100% on your portfolios.
Makeup credit assignment can be turned in to the HW box through the last
day of class.
Application Tutorial:
Make
Up Credit (for 2 days’ portfolios) will be given for a 1-page (single spaced,
1.5”margins, 12 point font) tutorial on an EM application and how basic EM
principles apply to that application.
Turn in to the HW box with a cover sheet indicating this is a makeup
credit for 2 days portfolios.
Extra Lectures:
There are several out of class guest lectures listed
on the lecture schedule throughout the semester for make up credit. Additional lectures will be posted as I find
out about them. These can be used to
replace 1 days’ portfolio score. To get credit for any of these lectures, just turn in a
short synopsis of the lecture you attended (handwritten paragraph is fine) in
the homework box with a note that this Make Up Credit for 1 days’ portfolio
score.
Work Load:
It is anticipated that a
typical student will need to spend
3
hours in class per week
3
hours in lab for 8 weeks
6-9
hours on homework each week
2-3
hours on lab writeup each week for 8 weeks
2-3
hours on the final report
Additional
time studying for exams.
17+ hours per week
PLEASE plan your schedule so that you
have time to learn the material. I am delighted to have the opportunity to
teach you about electromagnetics, a subject that is truly exciting and
magical. I am very confident that you
will find many times in your career when you will be able to apply this
material, and I hope that you will not only learn from the class but enjoy it
as well. J
Disability Accommodations: The
Your comments and feedback are appreciated !
Please drop a note in the
homework box, or talk to me in person, about what I can do to help you in this
course.
Cheating Policy:
Just don't
Here are some things that constitute cheating:
1)
Copying
someone else's work on an exam. If you accidentally see another student's
work on an exam, WRITE a NOTE in your exam and
tell me during the exam. Honesty is of
great value. You will not be penalized
for this. Do not pass any papers to
anyone for any reason during the exam.
Do not sit near your study partners during the exam. If you use any scratch paper for doing exam
problems, please just staple it at the back of your exam. Loose scratch paper could look like notes
passed between students.
2)
Copying
someone else's work on portfolio homework. I hope you
WILL work in groups on your homework, labs, software assignments, etc. And I hope that every team member will
contribute to this work. If you do not
contribute (had to work late and couldn't make the group meeting), then don't
copy their work.
3)
Copying
things (ANYthing) from a book, web, magazine, etc. Give a
complete reference and clearly "quote" anything that you want to
reference that someone else has done.
Even if you don't use their words, but you mention or discuss their
ideas, give them a reference. If you are
asked to write a report or essay, it must all be in your own work. Just rearranging the words is called
paraphrasing. (Paraphrasing is just
rearranging the words.) Paraphrasing is
also NOT your work.
What happens if you cheat?
Under UofU policy,
you could receive an F in the class, be suspended from school, be fined, or be
expelled from the university. So just
don't cheat.
What happens if someone else cheats?
Statistically, this could
lower YOUR grade. Please tell me or the
TA or any other professor or TA (anonymously is fine) if you see instances of
cheating in this or any other class. The
ECE Department is committed to reducing instances of cheating in our labs and
classes in order to provide the best possible education for all students.