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Course Catalog 2011-2012
ELE-3506 Antenna Basics, 2 cr |
Additional information
Courses ELE-3506 Antenna Basics, SMG-8506 Antennas, and ELE-6216 Antenna Project are intended to support each other. They are all given during spring semester.
Person responsible
Jouko Heikkinen
Lessons
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Requirements
Passed final examination.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation
Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning
The course is administrated using the MOODLE learning platform, providing the students course information, lecture material, assignments, grading and discussion groups.
Learning outcomes
After passing the course the student (1) knows the fundamental antenna concepts and the language of antennas (2) has prerequisites for advanced antenna studies
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | Basic antenna parameters Antenna patterns Beam solid angle Radiation intensity and beam efficiency Directivity and gain | Notation variations between different antenna books Directivity and resolution | Antenna fabrication and measurement |
| 2. | Antenna apertures Effective height Fields from oscillating dipole Antenna field zones Shape-impedance considerations | The radio communication link | |
| 3. | Linear, elliptical and circular polarization Poynting vector for elliptically and circularly polarized waves The polarization ellipse and and the Poincaré sphere |
Evaluation criteria for the course
In order to pass the course the final examination must be passed. Accepted final examination requires adequate control of the core content of the course.
Assessment scale:
Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course
Partial passing:
Study material
| Type | Name | Author | ISBN | URL | Edition, availability, ... | Examination material | Language |
| Book | Antennas for All Applications, 3rd ed. | Kraus | 0-07-112240-0 | English | |||
| Lecture slides | Lecture slides | JHe | English |
Prerequisites
| Course | Mandatory/Advisable | Description |
| SMG-1400 Electromagnetic fields and waves II | Advisable | 1 |
1 . SMG-8146 RF-electronics preparatory II or Previous equivalent knowledge from another university.
Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)
Correspondence of content
There is no equivalence with any other courses
More precise information per implementation
| Implementation | Description | Methods of instruction | Implementation |
| Course implementation for the spring 2012. | Lectures Excercises |
Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 % |