Having successfully completed this course, the student will be able to:

1) Identify, analyze and interpret the fundamental parameters of antennas (radiation pattern, beamwidth, radiation power density, radiation intensity, directivity, beam solid angle, beam efficiency, gain, antenna efficiency, polarization, effective area, Friis transmission equation, radar range equation and radar cross section (RCS), input impedance, radiation resistance, bandwidth, antenna noise temperature).

2) Formulate the radiation fields of an antenna, at both near- and far-zone; and identify the duality and reciprocity principles.

3) Formulate and analyze the radiation from wire antennas (dipoles, monopoles, loop antennas). Utilize the image theory to analyze an antenna near an infinite conducting ground.

4) Formulate and analyze the antenna arrays.

5) Formulate and analyze the aperture antennas. Identify the field equivalence principle.

6) Identify and analyze the basic modes of EM wave propagation (Direct wave, grounded reflected wave, Fresnel formulas, surface wave, tropospheric refraction, effective earth radius, ionospheric waves).