Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE 579 Microwave Engineering II

Analysis and design of passive and active devices at microwave frequencies. Topics include: power dividers, couplers, filters, ferrite devices, noise, noise effects in detectors, mixers, modulators, amplifier and oscillator design, and an introduction to microwave systems.

Credit Hours: 3 Lecture

Prerequisites: ECE 479

Course Coordinator: Fran Harackiewicz

Textbooks:

1. Microwave Engineering, 3rd edition, David M. Pozar, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN No. 0-471-44878-8.

References:

1. Besser and Gilmore, Practical RF Circuit Design for Modern Wireless Systems, Volume I: Passive Circuits and Systems, Artech House, 2003.

2. Gilmore and Besser, Practical RF Circuit Design for Modern Wireless Systems: Active Circuits and Systems, Artech House, 2003.

Goals:

1. To provide electrical and computer engineering graduates with the ability to analyze and design microwave circuits.

2. To familiarize the students with the design of passive and active microwave multi-port networks.

3. Introduction to microwave systems.

Projects:

1. Microwave Filter Design.

Computer Tools: Ansoft Designer, Ansoft HFSS

Last Review: Spring Semester 2004