Antenna fundamentals, patterns, directivity, gain, impedence, polarization. Electrically small dipoles and loops, arrays, line sources, resonant antennas, and broadband antennas. ECE 451 Sampling theorem and pulse code modulation, Nyquist criteria and pulse shaping, information and entropy, source coding theorem, models for communication channels, Shannon channel coding and channel capacity theorems, introduction to error control coding, binary digital modulation schemes, synchronization and timing. ECE 323 Protocols and structures for computer networks, Circuit and Packet switch networks. Basic network performance issues.
Small groups design, build, and test realistic engineering systems under faculty supervision.
Projects include safety, economic, environmental, and ethical considerations and require written and oral reports. Small groups design, build, and test realistic engineering systems under faculty supervision. Projects include safety, economic, environmental, and ethical considerations and require written and oral reports. Small groups design, build, and test realistic engineering systems under faculty supervision. Projects include safety, economic, environmental, and ethical considerations and require written and oral reports.