Georgia Tech: Antenna Engineering

Antenna Engineering

Program ID: ELEC 2001P
Program type: Short Courses (weekday)
CEUs: 3.0

Location/ (Accommodations)	Program Administrator	Start	End	Cost
Georgia Tech Global Learning Center (Georgia Tech Hotel)	Dr. Edward Joy	April 19, 2010	April 23, 2010	$1,945.00
Section ID: 10112/220410349 NOTES: -- On the first day, check in at least 30 minutes before the class start time. -- Discount available for companies that send 3 or more people to this course. Call 404-385-3501 to register your group. -- Georgia Tech employees should call 404-385-3501 to register by phone, and have their PeopleSoft number ready. Meeting time(s): •Monday, April 19, 2010 (8:15 AM-5:00 PM) •Tuesday, April 20, 2010 (7:30 AM-3:30 PM) •Wednesday, April 21, 2010 (7:30 AM-3:30 PM) •Thursday, April 22, 2010 (7:30 AM-3:30 PM) •Friday, April 23, 2010 (7:30 AM-11:45 AM)
Hotel Boulderado, Boulder, CO (Hotel Boulderado, Boulder, CO)	Dr. Edward Joy	September 20, 2010	September 24, 2010	$1,945.00
Section ID: 10113/220411036 NOTES: -- On the first day, check in at least 30 minutes before the class start time. -- Discount available for companies that send 3 or more people to this course. Call 404-385-3501 to register your group. -- Georgia Tech employees should call 404-385-3501 to register by phone, and have their PeopleSoft number ready. Meeting time(s): •Monday, September 20, 2010 (8:15 AM-5:00 PM) •Tuesday, September 21, 2010 (7:30 AM-3:30 PM) •Wednesday, September 22, 2010 (7:30 AM-3:30 PM) •Thursday, September 23, 2010 (7:30 AM-3:30 PM) •Friday, September 24, 2010 (7:30 AM-11:45 AM)

Course Description

Explore the theory and practice of antenna engineering, including a range of antenna types, applications, and electromagnetic properties from basic to state of the art. Study a wide spectrum of frequencies from 550 kHz to 550 GHz, with primary emphasis in the VHF, UHF, and microwave regions. Examine communications and radar, commercial, and military applications. Discuss related topics, such as radomes, antenna materials, computer modeling of antennas, and antenna-measurement techniques.

Who Should Attend

Engineers
Scientists
Engineering managers
Antenna technicians

How You Will Benefit

Master the definitions of radiation, gain, directivity, efficiency, effective area, pattern, impedance, antenna noise temperature, and polarization of antennas for wireless communications
Learn the Friis Transmission Equation
Understand the operation of a wide range of antenna types
Carry out an initial design of a wide range of antenna types
Select antenna types for specific applications
Learn to measure antenna performance on a variety of antenna measurement facility types

What You Will Cover

Fundamentals of Antennas
Dipoles and Monopoles
Loop Antennas
Slot Antennas
Microstrip Antennas
Portable Antennas
Spiral Antennas
Log Periodic Dipole Array
Helical Antennas
VHF and UHF Antennas
Mobile Antennas
Computer Modeling of Antennas
Antenna Materials
Reflector Antennas
Horn Antennas
Low-Noise Antennas
Phased Array Theory
Phased Array Technology
Radar Antennas
Antenna Measurement Techniques
Radomes
Cellular Base Station Antennas

Course Materials

Students receive the latest edition of the Antenna Engineering Handbook (McGraw Hill) and a complete set of course notes with the latest advances in antenna engineering and antenna types not covered in the text.

Certificate Program

This is the required course for the Antenna Engineering Certificate.

The Instructors

Ed Joy, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering, is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of the Antenna Measurements Techniques Association. He is the recipient of the 1999 Distinguished Achievement Award and the 1997 Georgia Tech Continuing Education Award.

Don Bodnar, vice president of MI-Technologies, former Air Force chief scientist, and a member of the Georgia Tech Research Institute research faculty, has more than 35 years of experience in reflector, microstrip, slotted waveguide arrays, horn antennas, and antenna measurement research.

Larry E. Corey, chief engineer and assistant director of Georgia Tech Research Institute's Systems and Electromagnetics Applications Laboratory, has more than 30 years of experience in antenna and radar research and design.

Jeff Kemp, GTRI senior research scientist, has more than 10 years of experience in modeling, analysis, measurements of antennas, and antennas in radar systems.

Jim Schuchardt, an engineering consultant and former director of engineering of the microwave and antenna division of BAE Systems, AEL Industries, Tracor and Marconi, has more than 35 years of experience in spiral, corrugated horn, millimeter wave, missile guidance, and low-noise antenna research, design and manufacturing.