Spring 2006

Professor C. D. Cantrell, UT-Dallas

Syllabus

Textbook:
Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics, Sixth Edition, by Nannapaneni Narayana
Rao (Prentice Hall, 2004); ISBN 0-13-113961-4

Target Audiences:
l This is a required course for all degree-seeking undergraduate students in Electrical
Engineering.
l An understanding of the material in this course is necessary for all students who intend to
take EE 4302, Electromagnetic Engineering II, EE 4368, RF Circuit Design Principles, or
EE 6316, Fields and Waves.
l Others who can benefit from this course include employees of local high-technology
companies who need an introduction to RF engineering, electromagnetic engineering
and/or basic concepts of electromagnetic compatibility.

Syllabus (Concepts/tools to be acquired in this course):

ABET objectives of EE 4301:

l Ability to determine static electric and magnetic fields produced by charge and current
elements and distributions (ABET objective (a))
 l Ability to apply boundary conditions on fields at material interfaces (ABET objective (a))
l Ability to explain and determine capacitance, resistance and inductance of basic circuit
elements (ABET objectives (a), (e), (k))
l Ability to use integral form of Maxwell's equations (ME) to determine fields, charges and
currents (ABET objective (a))
l Ability to use differential form of ME to determine fields, charges and currents (ABET
objective (a))
l Ability to explain physical significance of elements of ME
l Ability to determine induced EMF (ABET objective (a))
l Ability to explain the physical significance of the wave equation (ABET objective (a))
l Ability to explain and manipulate plane EM waves in dielectric and conducting media
(ABET objectives (a), (e), (k))
l Ability to determine magnitude and direction of power flux (ABET objectives (a), (e), (k))
l Ability to determine skin depth and surface resistance (ABET objectives (a), (e), (k))
l Ability to determine capacitance, inductance and characteristic impedance of simple
transmission lines (ABET objectives (a), (e))
l Ability to determine reflection & transmission coefficients for V and I on a transmission line
(ABET objectives (a), (e), (k))
l Ability to determine input acceptance function for a transmission line (ABET objectives (a),
(e), (k))
l Ability to use bounce diagrams to analyze transmission lines (ABET objectives (a), (c), (e),
(k))
l Ability to determine electric and magnetic fields of Hertzian and long dipoles in the radiation
zone (ABET objective (a))
l Ability to explain and use directive gain and directivity of antennas (ABET objectives (a),
(e), (k))
l Ability to relate range, power and directivity of an antenna and antenna arrays in simple
designs (ABET objectives (a), (c), (e), (k))

Specific concepts and tools:

1. Static and low-frequency electric fields

¡ Static E fields in Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates
¡ Gauss's Law
¡ Electrostatic energy
2. Static and low-frequency magnetic fields
¡ Static H fields in Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates
¡ Stokes's Theorem
¡ Ampere's Law
¡ Kirchhoff's Laws
3. Maxwell's Equations in differential form
¡ Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates
¡ Circuit electromagnetics
¡ Maxwell's equations as a linear, shift-invariant system
4. Plane waves
¡ Single-frequency solution of linear, shift-invariant system
¡ Standing waves
¡ The scalar wave equation
¡ Traveling waves
¡ Visualization of traveling vector waves
 ¡ Wave properties:
n Frequency
n Wavelength
n Velocity
n Wave vector
5. Wave solutions of Maxwell's Equations in space
¡ Circular and elliptical polarization
¡ The Poynting vector
¡ Circuits and waves
6. Transmission lines
¡ Waves on transmission lines
¡ Characteristic impedance
¡ Equivalent circuit of a transmission line
¡ Reflection of waves at a discontinuity
7. Radiation and antennas

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