EE 491 Antennas and Radiation Systems

1996-97 Catalog Data: 3 credits

Basic antenna analysis and design. Fundamental antenna concepts and radiation integrals. Study of wire antennas, aperture antennas, arrays, reflectors and broadband antennas.

Textbooks:

Antenna Theory and Design, Warren L. Stutzman and Gary A. Thiele, John Wiley & Sons, 1981.

Reference:

None.

Coordinator:

Gary Hancock, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Goals:

To introduce students to microwave antennas and analysis techniques. The magnetic vector potential is developed and applied to the analysis of a variety of antenna structures. A blend of analysis and practical applications should result in the student being able to design an assortment of antennas by the end of the class. Homework assignments and class projects include tasks in which engineering design trade-offs must be made. The course culminates in a final project which includes design, analysis, fabrication and test of an antenna.

Prerequisites by topic:
  1. Vectors and phasors
  2. Maxwell's equations and plane wave propagation
  3. Transmission line and waveguide theory
Topics:
  1. Antenna Fundamentals and Definitions (Antenna Parameters and Introduction of the magnetic vector potential analysis technique). (3 classes)
  2. Antenna and Wave Polarization and Link Analysis. (2 classes)
  3. Simple Radiating Systems (Dipoles and Loops). (2 classes)
  4. Array of Point Sources and Line Sources. (4 classes)
  5. Input impedance to the finite length dipole, feeding considerations, the folded dipole and traveling wave wire antennas. (3 classes)
  6. Broadband Antennas (Helices, Spirals and Log-periodics). (4 classes)
  7. Aperture Antennas (Electric Vector Potential, Horn Antennas and Parabolic Reflectors). (6 classes)
  8. Conformal Arrays and Microstrip Antennas. (4 classes)
  9. Exams. (2 classes)
Project:

In addition to homework assignments and in-class exams this course includes a semester design project. This project involves the design (to specifications), analysis, fabrication and test of a microwave antenna such as a pyramidal horn or microstrip array..

ABET Category Content:

Engineering Science: 0.5 credit or 16.7%
Engineering Design: 2.5 credits or 83.3%

Prepared by:

Russell P. Jedlicka
Date: April 26, 1994
Maintained by eeoffice@nmsu.edu Last update 12-12-96
Antennas and Parabolic Reflectors). (6 classes)
  • Conformal Arrays and Microstrip Antennas. (4 classes)
  • Exams. (2 classes)
    • Project:

     

    In addition to homework assignments and in-class exams this course includes a semester design project. This project involves the design (to specifications), analysis, fabrication and test of a microwave antenna such as a pyramidal horn or microstrip array..

     

    ABET Category Content:

     

    Engineering Science: 0.5 credit or 16.7%
    Engineering Design: 2.5 credits or 83.3%

     

    Prepared by:

     

    Russell P. Jedlicka
    Date: April 26, 1994

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