Lecture	Date	Topic	Related Reading	HW Due
	Tue 1/21	NO CLASS
	Thu 1/23	NO CLASS
1	Tue 1/28	Review of Electromagnetics, Plane Waves in Free Space and Materials	1.1-1.9
2	Thu 1/30	Transmission Lines and Wave Equations for Voltage and Current	2.1
3	Tue 2/4	Reflection, Transmission, and Standing Wave	2.2-2.3
4	Thu 2/6	Transmission Line Configurations and Design Guidelines	2.7, 3.5-3.8	1
5	Tue 2/11	Impedance, Admittance, and Smith Chart	2.4-2.6, 5.1
6	Thu 2/13	Impedance Matching	5.1-5.7	2
7	Tue 2/18	Impedance Matching cont.	5.1-5.7
8	Thu 2/20	Series and Parallel Resonant Circuits	6.1-6.2, 6.6	3
9	Tue 2/25	Z, Y, and ABCD Parameters	4.1-4.2, 4.4
10	Thu 2/27	S Parameters and Applications	4.3	4
11	Tue 3/3	Examples with S Parameters	4.3
	Thu 3/5	MIDTERM 1
12	Tue 3/10	Introduction to ADS, Project 1 Discussion
13	Thu 3/12	Signal Flow Graphs	4.5	5
	Tue 3/17	NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK
	Thu 3/19	NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK
14	Tue 3/24	Characterization of Microwave Networks	4.6
15	Thu 3/26	Network Synthesis and Design	8.3	Project 1
16	Tue 3/31	Insertion Loss Method using Lumped Elements	8.3
17	Thu 4/2	Transformation from Lowpass to Bandpass/Bandstop	8.4	6
18	Tue 4/7	Filter Designed based on Distributed Circuits	8.5
19	Thu 4/9	Filter Designed based on Coupled Resonators	8.8	7
20	Tue 4/14	Project 2 Discussion
21	Thu 4/16	Matched Two-way and Four-way Power Dividers and Combiners	7.1-7.3	8
22	Tue 4/21	Branch-line and Ring-hybrid Couplers	7.5-7.8
23	Thu 4/23	Noise and Nonlinear Distortion in Microwave Circuits	10.1
	Tue 4/28	NO CLASS		Project 2
24	Thu 4/30	Diode Rectifiers, Detectors, and Mixers	11.1
25	Tue 5/5	Project 2 Review and Discussion		9
	Mon 5/11	Final Term Paper Due		Term Paper
	Fri 5/15	Project 1&2 Post-mortem Due		Project Post-mortem