UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
College of Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Sciences

T. K. Gustafson

                                             Overview

EECS117 

Objectives:

  1. Destributed circuit principles and analysis techniques.

  2. Application of electromagnetics  to various sensing, activation, and communications applications.

  3. Basic knowledge of electromagnetic concepts.

  4. To develop a knowledge of the implementation of various electromagnetic systems

  5. Principles of electromagnetics applied to, the fundamental elements of high frequency electronics

  6. Frequency concepts and the basic limitations imposed on circuits

  7. Develop a  basic knowledge of guided electromagnetic waves, radiation, and diffraction

Course content and expected outcomes- knowledge of:

  1. Destributed high frequency circuit abstraction:
    small number of simple elements to describe a wide variety of wave propagation phenomena

  2. Time and frequency domain representations
    steady state analysis, energy storing elements, power transmission

  3. Analog and digital signal propagation limitations imposed by electromagnetics
    reflections, dispersion, matching

  4. Engineering tradeoffs
    power, speed, accuracy

Specific subjects learned:

  1. Electromagnetic variables
    (charge, current, power, energy, resistance, impedance, frequency, and basic electomagnetic fields and potentials)

  2. Termination and boundary conditions.
    (including sources and  amplifiers with the use of scattering parameters )

  3. Operational amplifier based gain-stages
    (ideal opamps, concept of negative feedback, no stability analysis)

  4. Energy storing devices
    (capacitors and inductors)

  5. Time-domain analysis
    (1st order RC and RL response of terminated transmission lines)

  6. Steady state frequency domain analysis
    (phasors, impedance, matching, reflection and transmission)

  7. Analog / Digital signals
    (signal propagation distortion due to dispersion, reflections and loss)

  8.  Simulation
    (SPICE /HFSS, dc, ac, transient analysis and field configurations)

  9. Laboratory
    (basic electromagnetics such as Faraday's law, slotted line measurements, network analyzer,  function generator,
    hand’s on experience with all topics listed above)

Textbook:

Fawwaz T. Ulaby  “Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics ”, Prentice Hall, 4th edition

Prerequisite knowledge  assumed

  1. Linear algebra

  2. Quadratic equations

  3. Transcendental functions
    trigonometric, natural (ln) and base 10 (log) logarithm

  4. Differentiation

  5. Integration

  6. Ohm’s law (voltage, current, resistance)

  7. Complex numbers
    addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
    real & imaginary part, absolute value
    Euler’s relation, polar – Cartesian conversion

Organization:


Grading:


 

EECS117


Homework

10 %


Midterms (2)

17 % each


Final exam

41 %


Lab reports

15 %