ELEC-E4430 - Microwave Engineering II D, Lecture, 21.3.2023-6.6.2023

Topic outline

• Welcome to the course Microwave Engineering II
  The course has ended. , the first contact session of this course was held on March 21, 2023. All contact sessions are held in Maarintie 6 ("OIH"), room A113 ("SimuLab").
  
  

  After learning the basics of microwave engineering, you can now apply your knowledge and start designing real microwave components and radio systems.

  Radio systems consist of passive and active components (such as filters, couplers, resonators, microstrip-lines, amplifiers, mixers, oscillators etc.) which need to be combined properly (remember especially the topic impedance matching) and evaluated for their performance (losses, non-linear effects, noise). In this course you discuss and practise the design of passive and active components. You will carry out computer-aided component design assignments using AWR Design Enviroment software, which facilitate the design of a small radio system that is part of your final project. The AWR software (v. 16) is available in the PC class in Maarintie 8 (room 1621 AS5) - which is accessible both physically as well as through https://vdi.aalto.fi/*. Alternatively, students can download and install AWR to their own PC, along with a 180-day student license, from https://awrcorp.com/register/customer.aspx?univ (please mention prof. V. Viikari in the form). (*To access the workstations in the above mentioned PC class please follow the instructions by the university found at https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/remote-access-to-windows-classroom-computers.)

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    Lecture slides of the first contact-session held on March 21, 2023, with an introduction to the contents, practicalities and grading principles of the course.
    

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    You return your exercise answers during one of the contact sessions. Each student presents his/her answers (one problem at a time) to one of the course teachers. Based on this discussion, the teacher decides the number of points for the exercise. Grading criteria and a checklist for preparing your problem answers can be found in the attached PDF file, please read!
    

    You can return answers latest two weeks after publishing of the problem set (during the first lecture on that topic). Check the correct deadline in the homework excercise sheet. There is the option to return answers later, but the maximum available points is then 60 % of the original points. The final deadline for all returns is May 25, 2023, no return after this!
    

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