COURSE INFORMATION Course Title: ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES

Code	Course Type	Regular Semester	Theory	Practice	Lab	Credits	ECTS
ECE 303	B	5	2	0	2	3	6

Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature)	NA
Main Course Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	Assoc.Prof.Dr. Arban Uka auka@epoka.edu.al , Fri 9:00-11:00
Second Course Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	NA
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours:	NA
Language:	English
Compulsory/Elective:	Compulsory
Study program: (the study for which this course is offered)	Bachelor in Electronics and Digital Communication Engineering (3 years)
Classroom and Meeting Time:
Code of Ethics:	Code of Ethics of EPOKA University Regulation of EPOKA University "On Student Discipline"
Attendance Requirement:	N/A
Course Description:	To fully understand time varying fields and Maxwell Equations, to analyze them in time and frequency domain. To learn the concept of uniform plane waves in lossless and lossy media. To understand the operation of transmission lines. To understand the wave behaviour in waveguides and cavity resonators.
Course Objectives:	To fully understand time varying fields and Maxwell Equations, to analyze them in time and frequency domain. To learn the concept of uniform plane waves in lossless and lossy media. To understand the operation of transmission lines. To understand the wave behaviour in waveguides and cavity resonators.

BASIC CONCEPTS OF THE COURSE

1	Understanding the concept of wave propagation
2	Understanding the use of wave concepts in imaging
3	Understanding the use of wave concepts in microscopy
4	Understanding the reciprocal domains (spatial and frequency)
5	Understanding the use of wave in antennas

COURSE OUTLINE

Week	Topics
1	Review of Maxwell Equations
2	Time harmonic fields, Phasors
3	Electromagnetic spectrum, Plane waves in Lossless media
4	Plane waves in Lossy media, Group velocity
5	Flow of electromagnetic power, Poynting vector
6	Normal and Oblique incidence of waves at boundaries
7	General Transmission line parameters
8	Review
9	Wave characteristics on infinite and finite transmission lines
10	Waveguides, general wave behaviour along guiding structures I
11	Waveguides, general wave behaviour along guiding structures II
12	Rectangular waveguides
13	Cavity resonators
14	Review

Prerequisite(s):	ECE 202
Textbook(s):	Electromagnetic Waves Umran Inan, Aziz Inan; Fundamentals of Engineering Electromagnetics, David K. Cheng, 2nd Edition.
Additional Literature:
Laboratory Work:
Computer Usage:
Others:	No

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	To understand the principles of the Transmission lines and waveguides
2	Understanding Wave Propagation

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES (Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)

No	Program Competencies	Cont.
Bachelor in Electronics and Digital Communication Engineering (3 years) Program
1	Engineering graduates with sufficient theoretical and practical background for a successful profession and with application skills of fundamental scientific knowledge in the engineering practice	5
2	Engineering graduates with skills and professional background in describing, formulating, modeling and analyzing the engineering problem, with a consideration for appropriate analytical solutions in all necessary situations.	5
3	Engineering graduates with the necessary technical, academic and practical knowledge and application confidence in the design and assessment of machines or mechanical systems or industrial processes with considerations of productivity, feasibility and environmental and social aspects.	5
4	Engineering graduates with the practice of selecting and using appropriate technical and engineering tools in engineering problems, and ability of effective usage of information science technologies.	5
5	Ability of designing and conducting experiments, conduction data acquisition and analysis and making conclusions.	4
6	Ability of identifying the potential resources for information or knowledge regarding a given engineering issue.	5
7	The abilities and performance to participate multi-disciplinary groups together with the effective oral and official communication skills and personal confidence.	4
8	Ability for effective oral and official communication skills in foreign language.	3
9	Engineering graduates with motivation to life-long learning and having known significance of continuous education beyond undergraduate studies for science and technology.	4
10	Engineering graduates with well-structured responsibilities in profession and ethics.	4
11	Engineering graduates who are aware of the importance of safety and healthiness in the project management, workshop environment as well as related legal issues.	3
12	Consciousness for the results and effects of engineering solutions on the society and universe, awareness for the developmental considerations with contemporary problems of humanity.	4

COURSE EVALUATION METHOD

Method	Quantity	Percentage
Homework	2	5
Midterm Exam(s)	1	35
Quiz	2	5
Final Exam	1	45
	Total Percent:	100%

ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)

Activities	Quantity	Duration(Hours)	Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	16	4	64
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	1	16	16
Mid-terms	1	20	20
Assignments	2	10	20
Final examination	1	30	30
Other			0
Total Work Load:			150
Total Work Load/25(h):			6
ECTS Credit of the Course:			6

CONCLUDING REMARKS BY THE COURSE LECTURER

To be completed at the end of the semester