ECE 458 Class Calendar

January 2020
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21 1. Introduction and overview	22	23 2. Space-wave links above PEC and good conducting ground	24	25	26
27	28 3. Plane wave decomposition of spherical waves and Sommerfeld integrals	29	30 4. Method of steepest descent and ground-wave links	31

February 2020
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
					1	2
3	4 5. Huygens principle and Fourier optics	5	6 6. Fresnel zones in space-wave links	7	8	9
10	11 7. Knife edge diffraction and edge waves	12	13 8. Diffracted radio links, scintillations	14	15	16
17	18 9. Scintillations, partial reflections, spaced antenna drifts	19	20 10. Ray tracing in plane stratified troposphere	21	22	23
24	25 11. Ray tracing and ducting in spherical stratified troposphere	26	27 12. Ionospheric propagation and dispersion	28 TAKE HOME 1	29

March 2020
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
						1
2	3 13. Phase and group delays, TEC	4	5 14. Ionospheric reflections at normal incidence	6	7	8
9	10 15. WKB and full-wave solutions	11	12 16. Ionosondes and ionograms	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24 17. Sky-wave links in plane stratified ionosphere	25	26 18. Sky-wave links in spherical geometry	27	28	29
30	31 19. Ionospheric absorption

April 2020
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
		1	2 20. Radar equation, RCS, antenna noise, SNR	3 TAKE HOME 2	4	5
6	7 21. Soft-target radar equation, coherent and incoherent scatter radars	8	9 22. ISR spectrum measurements and estimation	10	11	12
13	14 23. ISR spectral theory and spectral fitting	15	16 24. Anisotropic propagation and magneto-ionic theory	17	18	19
20	21 25. TEM waves, Appleton-Hartree equation, O- and X-modes	22	23 26. Cutoffs, resonances, vertical sounding	24	25	26
27	28 27. Ionogram inversions	29	30 28. QL- and QT-propagation and Faraday rotation

May 2020
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
				1	2	3
4	5 29. Radar differential phase measurements	6	7	8	9	10
11	12 FINAL	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Assigned Reading: sections from Stutzman and Thiele (1998) - Antenna Theory and Design - 2nd Edition

Supplementary Reading: Kraus (1988) - Antennas - 2nd Edition, Kildal (2015) - Foundations of Antenna Engineering, Collin (1995) - Antennas and Radiowave Propagation, Haslett (2008) - Radio Wave Propagation

Antenna Simulation with FEKO: Elsherbeni ETAL. (2014), FEKO Videos and Resources