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Microwave Engineering

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    Provide students with deep knowledge of the transmission lines used in the microwave range of frequencies. Introduce the students to basic applications of these transmission lines in some microwave passive components.
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Requirements

ECE242

Description

  • English Description

    Guided waves between two conducting parallel plates, TE and TM waves and their characteristics, Velocities of propagation, Attenuation and quality factor, Wave impedance, Basic closed waveguides, TE and TM waves and their characteristics in rectangular wave guides, Waves solution in cylindrical coordinates, Microstrip transmission line, Attenuation and quality factor of a waveguide, Symmetric and asymmetric dielectric planar waveguide, effective index and normalized parameters, Propagation in multimode waveguide. Equivalent circuit of waveguides, N-port circuit, Circuit description, Scattering parameters, Passive devices: Terminations, Attenuators, Phase shifters, Directional couplers, Hybrid junctions, non-reciprocal devices resonators.
  • Arabic Description

    Guided waves between two conducting parallel plates, TE and TM waves and their characteristics, Velocities of propagation, Attenuation and quality factor, Wave impedance, Basic closed waveguides, TE and TM waves and their characteristics in rectangular wave guides, Waves solution in cylindrical coordinates, Microstrip transmission line, Attenuation and quality factor of a waveguide, Symmetric and asymmetric dielectric planar waveguide, effective index and normalized parameters, Propagation in multimode waveguide. Equivalent circuit of waveguides, N-port circuit, Circuit description, Scattering parameters, Passive devices: Terminations, Attenuators, Phase shifters, Directional couplers, Hybrid junctions, non-reciprocal devices resonators.
  • Department
    Electronics and Communications Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Major Assessment (25 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 5% , tr.Self_learning 5% , tr.Seminar 20% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + tr.Oral/Practical (10) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 1
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
  • David M. Pozar, “Microwave engineering”, 4th Edition, John Wiley and sons, Inc., ISBN 978-0-470-63155-3, 2011.
  • William H. Hayt, Jr., and John A. buck, “Engineering Electromagnetics”, 9th Edition, McGraw Hill, ISBN10: 0078028159, ISBN13: 9780078028151, 2019. - David M. Pozar, Microwave engineering, 4th Edition, John Wiley and sons, Inc., ISBN 978-0-470-63155-3, 2011.