TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	5
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Professor Sedat Nazlıbilek
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Understand of the basic issues related to transmission lines and waveguides. 2) Design and analysis the passive microwave components and circuit impedance adaptation devices. 3) Will be able to use the Smith chart effectively. 4) Learn the structure of the wave propagation characteristics corresponds to different modes at transmission line. 5) Will be able to solve the problems about microwave circuits and systems.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	This course gives concepts of antenna engineering. Fundamental parameters of antennas, and antenna types, vector potentials and radiation integral, wire and loop antennas, analysis and synthesis of linear, planar and circular arrays, antenna measurements, and radio wave propagation topics are covered.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Transmissiom lines, losses, propagated waves 2nd Week Analysis of transmission lines as distributed parameter circuits 3rd Week Propagated waves over lossless lines, reflections and voltage reflection coefficient 4th Week Sinusoidal waves, non-reflected lossless lines, decibel and neper, power flow, reflection loss 5th Week Standing waves, standing wave ratio, input impedance 6th Week Complete solution of voltage waves over lossy lines and insertion loss 7th Week İmpedance matching and Smith Chart 8th Week MIDTERM EXAM 9th Week İmpedance matching with reactive elements, single stub, double stub, triple stub 10th Week Quarter wave transformers, impedance match with dielectric loading 11th Week Microwave measures 12th Week TEM lines and Waveguides 13th Week Some TEM lines, TEM, TE, and TM waves 14th Week Power dividers, directional couplers, resonators
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Pozar, D.M. (1997) Microwave Engineering, Addison Wesley.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Presentation,Questions/Answers,Practice
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Assignment 2 5 Quiz 2 25 Practice 1 15 Project 1 10 Total(%) 85 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 85 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 15 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam 1 2 2 Preparation for Quiz 2 4 8 Individual or group work 14 3 42 Preparation for Final exam 1 12 12 Course hours 14 4 56 Preparation for Midterm exam 1 12 12 Laboratory (including preparation) 0 0 0 Final exam 1 2 2 Homework 2 8 16 Total Workload 150 Total Workload / 30 5 ECTS Credits of the Course 5
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No