EE 513, Spring 2008

Advanced Electromagnetic Field Theory II

Time and Place: 1252 Howe Hall, Tuesday & Thursday, 2:10-3:30pm

Instructor: Jiming Song

• Office: Coover 2130
• Phone: 294-8396
• Email: jisong@iastate.edu

Office Hours: Coover 2130, Tuesday & Thursday, 11am-noon

Textbook, References, and Notes

• Textbook:  Weng Cho Chew, Waves and Fields in Inhomogeneous Media, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995 (reprint edition).
• C. A. Balanis, Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics, John Wiley and Sons, 1989.
• R. F. Harrington, Time Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields, McGraw Hill., 1961 & 2001.
• R. E. Collin, Field Theory of Guides Waves, IEEE Press, 1991.
• Nathan Ida, Numerical Modeling for Electromagnetic Non-Destructive Evaluations, Chapman and Hall, 1995.
• J. A. Kong, Electromagnetic Wave Theory, John Wiley and Sons, 1990.
• Class notes.

Homework and Projects: Homework or project assignments will be given almost every week.

Tentative Course Schedule

1. Introduction
2. Green’s functions (Balanis’ Chapter 14).
3. Waves and fields in layered media (Chew’s Chapter 2).
4. Surface integral equations, method of moments, modeling of interconnects (Chew’s Chapter 8 and Balanis’ Chapter 12).
5. Volume integral equations, inverse scattering (Chew’s Chapters 8 and 9).
6. Perturbational and variational techniques (Harrington’s Chapter 7 and Chew’s Chapter 5).
7. Other topics (electromagnetic NDE, etc.)

Final Grade Breakdown:

·         Problem sets -----------------------      30%

·         Projects and presentations ----------     70%

If you have a documented disability and anticipate needing accommodations in this course, please make arrangements to meet with me soon. Please request that a Disability Resources staff send a SAAR form verifying your disability and specifying the accommodation you will need.