Welcome to ELEG 648
ADVANCED ENGINEERING ELECTROMAGNETICS
Fall 2003

Instructor: Dennis W. Prather, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Office: Evans Hall Room 217A, phone: (302)-831-8170

Email: dprather@ee.udel.edu

Text: C. A. Balanis, "Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics", Wiley 1989

Overview: This course will focus on the development and application of Maxwell's equations as they apply to the analysis of guided wave, radiation, and scattering problems. Topics covered include, wave propagation, reflection and transmission, transmission lines and cavities. Special emphasis will be given to antennas and scattering structures.

Prerequisites: ELEG Undergraduate Electromagnetic Fields and Vector Calculus

Course Agenda: We will cover the following chapters and their corresponding sections:

Ch. 1 - All Sections
Ch. 2 - All Sections
Ch. 3 - All Sections
Ch. 4 - All Sections
Ch. 5 - All Sections
Ch. 8 - Sections 8.1-8.3 and 8.7-8.9
Ch. 9 - Sections 9.1-9.3 and 9.5
Ch. 11 - Sections 11.1-11.5
Ch. 12 - Sections 12.1-12.3

Grading:
Mid Term Exam - 50%
Final Exam - 50%

General Comments:

Homeworks are for your benefit, problems will be discussed in volunteer review sessions and used as the basis for both exams.

Exams are closed book, closed notes (unless indicated otherwise).

No make-up exams will be given without prior arrangements.

Midterm Exam - 11/06/2003

The format for the midterm will be as follows:
  • 1 Derivation problem
  • 2 Homework-like problems
  • 1 Difficult problem

One two-sided, handwritten page of notes will be allowed.

Homework
Note: homework solutions are kept in .pdf format.

Homework 1: 1.3, 1.4, 1.7, 1.8, 1.12, 1.16, 1.20, 1.23, 1.29
Solutions (pdf)

Homework 2: 2.1, 2.3, 2.6, 2.9, 2.15, 2.18, 2.20, 2.21
Solutions (pdf)

Homework 3: 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 3.9, 3.15
Also, plot the following in Matlab: Pnm, Qnm, jn, yn, Jn, and Yn.
Solutions (pdf)

Homework 4: 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 4.10, 4.11, 4.20, 4.21, 4.26, 4.27
Solutions (pdf)

Homework 5: 5.2, 5.3, 5.5, 5.6, 5.10, 5.17, 5.25, 5.26, 5.27
Solutions (pdf)

Homework 6: 8.2, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.11 TEz only, 8.13
Solutions (pdf)

Homework 7: 9.1, 9.4, 9.11, 9.13, 9.14, 9.15, 9.20
Solutions (pdf)

Homework 8: 11.1, 11.27
Also, plot the Ez (TM) and Ex, Ey, and Hz (TE) components of a PEC cylinder for:
a) rho=a
b) Z=1,2,5 lambda
Solutions (pdf)