EE 330 - Engineering Electromagnetics

Designation:

Required for Electrical Engineering students

Catalog Data:

Static electric and magnetic fields, solutions to static field problems, Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic waves, boundary conditions; engineering applications. Prerequisite: EE 210, Math 230 or 232.

Prerequisites by topic:

1. Electrical circuit analysis
2. Three-dimensional analytic geometry
3. Vectors in space
4. Partial differentiation
5. Integral vector calculus

Course Objectives:

This course provides electrical engineering students with an understanding of fundamental electricity and magnetism concepts and enables them to use these concepts in applications. Upon successful completion of this course students will:

1. be able to use complex number algebra and complex vectors,
2. be able to interchange time-domain and frequency-domain views of a problem,
3. understand the coupling between electric and magnetic fields through Maxwell’s equations,
4. understand constitutive parameters and boundary conditions and be able to analyze the relationships between fields and flux densities in material media,
5. be able to analyze electromagnetic waves in material media, and the reflection and transmission of these waves between different media
6. be able to interpret the energy and power associated with electromagnetic fields,
7. be able to analyze and design basic transmission lines and waveguides,
8. be able to analyze and assess antennas and radiation from antennas.

Topics:

1. Complex Vectors (3 classes)
2. Maxwell’s Equations (4 classes)
3. Uniform Plane Waves (5 classes)
4. Reflection and Transmission of Waves (7 classes)
5. Waveguides and Resonators (4 classes)
6. Transmission Lines (6 classes)
7. Antennas (7 classes)
8. Electrostatic Fields (5 classes)
9. Electric Force and Energy (4 classes)
10. Magnetostatic Fields (5 classes)
11. Magnetoquasistatic Fields (3 classes)
12. Tests and review sessions (7 classes)

Class Schedule:

Four 50-minute lectures per week.

Contribution to meeting the professional component:

This course contributes to both the engineering science and design professional components.

Relationship to program outcomes:

Course objectives relate to the following program outcomes:

1. Graduates will understand fundamental concepts in electromagnetics and be able to use them in applications. [Ref: Outcome O.2.4]
2. Graduates will posses mathematical skills valuable for electrical engineering. [Ref: Outcome O.1.1]
3. Graduates will have a theoretical and practical background in physics. [Ref: Outcome O.1.2]