The University of Texas at Dallas Fall 2006

Electrical Engineering Department

EE4301 Electromagnetic Engineering I

Instructor: Dr. Ricardo Saad

Office: ECN2.506
Email: rsaad@utdallas.edu
Phone: (972) 883-4751

Course Syllabus
Class Schedule:
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.
Location: ECSN 2.110
Recitation classes (optional, but highly recommended): TBD
Pre-requisites:
Pre-requisite: PHYS-2326
Pre-requisite: EE -3300
Consultation:
Tuesdays-Thursdays: Friday, 8:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. (or by appointment)
Room: ECSN2.506
Exams:
Assignments: 15 %
Class notes: 15 %
Midterm Exam: 30 (Sept. 28, 2006)
Final Exam: 40%

Required Textbook
Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics, Sixth Edition, by Nannapaneni Narayana
Rao (Prentice Hall, 1999); ISBN 0-13-013201-2. (5th Edition can also be utilized).

Scholastic integrity
The value of an academic degree rests in large measure on the absolute integrity of the
work done by the student to earn that degree. It is imperative that each student maintain
a high standard of individual honesty and integrity in his/her academic work. Scholastic
dishonesty at the University of Texas includes, but is not limited to, plagiarism and/or
collusion. Scholastic dishonesty will not be tolerated under any circumstances.
Miscellaneous
Students that decide to drop the course should do it on the datelines
scheduled in the UTD Calendar. Drop forms are available from the
Undergraduate Office.

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

Course Content:
1. Mathematical Review
o Vector Algebra
o Cartesian, Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinate Systems.
o Scalar and Vector Fields
o Sinusoidally Time-Varying Fields.
2. Fields and Materials
o The Electric and Magnetic Field.
o Lorentz Force Equation
o Conductors, Semiconductors, Dielectric and Magnetic Materials
3. Maxwell Equations in Integral Form
o Line and Surface Integrals
o Faraday, Ampere and Gauss Laws
o Application of Maxwell Equations to Static Fields
o Boundary Conditions

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4. Maxwell Equations in Differential Form
o Faraday, Ampere and Gauss Laws
o Curl, Divergence, Gradient, Laplacian and Potential Functions.
o Energy Storage in Electric and Magnetic Fields
5. Uniform Plane Waves
o Uniform Plane Waves in Time Domain in Free Space
o Sinusoidally Time-Varying Uniform Plane Waves
o Wave Equation and Solution for Material Medium
o Power Flow in an Electromagnetic Field
o Reflection of Uniform Plane Waves.
6. Transmission lines
o Waves on transmission lines
o Characteristic impedance
o Reflection of waves at a discontinuity
o Impedance matching
o Smith chart
7. Guided waves and waveguides
o The parallel-plate waveguide
8. Radiation and dipole antennas
o Overview
o Dipole