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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - EEL6936
Tracking Number - 1745
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2006-09-03
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- College: EN
- Budget Account Number: 2106000000
- Contact Person: Tom Weller
- Phone: 9742440
- Email: weller@eng.usf.edu
- Prefix: EEL
- Number: 6936
- Full Title: RF & Microwave Circuits II
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): RF/Microwave II
- Course Online?: -
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R - Regular
- Prerequisites: EEL 6935 RF & Microwave Circuits I (new course number applied for)
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: This course presents the design theory and analysis of microwave transistor amplifiers and oscillators. Lectures, homework, and CAD projects develop an understanding of the design and performance issues for this class of circuits.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: This course provides fundamental background information to students interested in the field of RF/microwave circuits. This is one of the key classes in the EE Departments wireless and microwave curriculum.
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This class, paired with RF/Microwave Circuits I, is one of the possible 6000-level sequences and is taken by nearly all graduate students in the wireless and microwave program. Students from mechanical and chemical engineering, with interests in fundamental RF theory, have taken this course.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, it has been offered each Fall semester since 1995. (We previously applied for a course number but the paperwork was somehow lost in the system.) The typical enrollment is ~25 students
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Expertise in the RF/microwave field, particularly in the fundamental aspects of network analysis and transistor amplifier design.
- Objectives: Learn active microwave circuit analysis and design techniques in the context of bipolar junction and field-effect transistor implementations. Network analysis techniques introduced in RF/Microwave Circuits I will be expanded upon. The design of amplifiers for noise, bandwidth and power performance will be emphasized. Basic oscillator design methods will be covered.
- Learning Outcomes: Ability to use modern software and instrumentation in EE analysis and design problems; Ability to apply knowledge of basic math, science and engineering; Ability to design and conduct experiments, and analyze and interpret data relevant to electrical engineering; Ability to design complex EE devices and/or systems to meet desired needs.
- Major Topics: Design of microwave impedance matching networks; design of transistor amplifiers; design of transistor oscillators; microwave network theory.
- Textbooks: Microwave Transistor Amplifiers – Analysis and Design, 2nd Edition, copyright 1997. Author: Guillermo Gonzalez, ISBN 0-13-254335-4.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.