Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

ECEN 3400 - Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

Required - 5 credit hours
On-Line Course Materials

Catalog Description: Electromagnetic fields are covered at an introductory level, starting from electrostatics and continuing with DC current, magnetostatics, time-varying magnetic fields, waves on transmission lines, Maxwell's equations, plane waves and basics of guided waves and antennas. 10-12 labs cover EM effects in circuits, four-point probe, ammeters, motors, inductive and capacitive coupling on a pc-board, time-domain reflectometry and antennas.

Prerequisites: APPM 2350 , Calculus 3; PHYS 1110, Physics 1; and ECEN 2260, Circuits/Electronics 2.

Textbooks: Introductory Electromagnetics, Popovic and Popovic, Prentice Hall, 1999; Introductory Electromagnetics: Practice, Problems, and Labs, Popovic and Popovic, Prentice Hall, 2000.

Course Objectives: To introduce students to introductory electromagnetics concepts, and to get them to understand where circuit theory concepts are derived from. In particular, concepts like capacitance, inductance, Faraday's law (transformers, motors, and generators), transmission lines, and wave propagation are emphasized.

Lecture Topics:

Introducing electromagnetics (4 lectures)
Time-invariant electric fields (7 lectures)
Time-invariant magnetic fields (7 lectures)
Slowly time-varying electromagnetic fields (6 lectures)
Transmission lines (8 lectures)
Maxwell’s equations and their applications (6 lectures)
Waves and propagation (7 lectures)

Lab Objectives:

Attain concrete demonstrations of the theories learned in lecture.
Get experience in the use of “real world” laboratory instruments.
Learn about the sources and manifestations of experimental error.

Lab Topics:

Measurement of EM effects in circuits
DC currents and resistivity measurement
Ammeter
Capacitive and inductive coupling
Shielding and grounding
Motor
Transmission lines (time-domain)
Transmission lines (frequency domain)
Plane wave reflection and refraction
(optional) 2-week project assigned near the end of the semester, at the discretion of the instructor.

Class/Laboratory Schedule: 3 hours of lecture per week, 4 hours of lab per week

Contribution of course to meeting the professional component: Contributes 3 semester hours to criterion 4(a), “One year of a combination of college-level mathematics and basic sciences, and 2 semester hours to criterion 4(b) “one and one-half years of engineering topics, consisting of engineering sciences and engineering design appropriate to the student's field of study.”

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Prepared by: ECEN3400 Assessment Team: Edward Kuester (chair), Dejan Filipovic, Rafael Piestun, Melinda Piket-May, Zoya Popovic, Jon Sauer, and by V. Heuring, P. Wheeler, R. Elliott
May 17, 2005.

ECEN Courses

ECEN 3400 - Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

Required - 5 credit hours On-Line Course Materials

Required - 5 credit hours
On-Line Course Materials