EE525 ANTENNA ENGINEERING
| Course Code: | 5670525 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Electrical and Electronics Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. HATİCE ÖZLEM AYDIN ÇİVİ |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
To familiarize the student with the engineering aspects of antenna systems for
communications, broadcasting, radar, direction finding, navigation applications.
Course Content
Review of field equivalence principles, surface wave antennas, microstrip antenna elements and arrays, broadband antennas, introduction to reflector antenna systems, smooth walled and corrugated horns.
Course Learning Outcomes
Student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:
deal with the analysis and design of
- Microstrip antennas
- Wideband, Multiband, UWB Antennas including spiral and log periodic structures
- Parabolic reflector antennas
- Feed networks for phased arrays (beam-forming networks)
- ELF, VLF, LF, MF, HF antennas
- Traveling Wave Antennas
combine theoretical approaches with CAD (Computer Aided Design) tools
perform antenna far-field and near field measurements
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | No | Yes | ||
| 1 | Depth: Our graduates acquire in depth knowledge in one of the various specialization areas of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, they are informed about current scientific research topics and they implement innovative methods. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Breadth: Our graduates get familiarized in other subspecialty areas related to their specialization in Electrical and Electronics engineering and/or relevant areas in other disciplines. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Research: Our graduates acquire the skills to conduct and to complete scientific research by accessing contemporary knowledge in their specialty areas. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Life-long learning: Our graduates develop their life-long learning habits. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Communication skills: Our graduates concisely communicate their ideas and work related results in written and oral form. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Ethics: Our graduates internalize rules of research and publication ethics as well as professional ethics. | ✔ | |||