EEE 340 Electromagnetic Engineering I (4) [F, S]

Course (Catalog) Description: Static and time varying vector fields, boundary value problems,
dielectric and magnetic materials, Maxwell’s equations, boundary conditions.

Course Type: Required for all electrical engineering majors.

Prerequisite: ECE 201; MAT 362; PHY 131, 132.

Textbook: Cheng, Field and Wave Electromagnetics.

Supplemental Materials: None.

Coordinator: Elbadawy Elsharawy, Associate Professor

Prerequisites by Topic:
1. University physics
2. Complex numbers
3. Partial differentiation
4. Multiple integrals
5. Vector analysis
6. Fourier series

Course Objective:
1. Students can apply fundamental electromagnetic theory to solution of practical problems

Course Outcomes:
1. Students understand the fundamentals of Electrostatics
2. Students understand the fundamentals of Magnetostatics
3. Students understand the characteristics of materials and their interactions with electric and
magnetic fields
4. Students recognize Maxwell’s equations
5. Students understand electromagnetic wave concepts
6. Students are introduced to transmission lines

Course Topics:
1. Review of vector and fields (1 week)
2. Fields and materials (2 weeks)
3. Maxwell's equations in integral form and boundary conditions (2 weeks)
4. Maxwell's equations in differential form, potential functions, and energy storage (2 weeks)
5. Topics in static and quasistatic fields (2 weeks)
6. Uniform plane waves (2 weeks)
7. Transmission Lines (3 weeks)

Computer Usage:
Students use MATLAB or MathCAD to develop and visualize solutions to moderately
complicated field problems.

Laboratory Experiments: None.

Course Contribution to Engineering Science and Design:
This is a core course required of all EE majors. Electricity and magnetism is a necessary
foundation for all subsequent courses in circuits, power, electromagnetics, and solid-state
electronics.

Course Relationship to Program Objectives:

Electricity and magnetism are necessary foundations of current critical technology such as
wireless communication, biosensors, semiconductor devices, etc. Therefore this class contributes
to both the breadth of knowledge (area A) and the technical competency objectives of our
program (area D). In addition the specific objectives regarding advanced mathematics, vector
differential calculus and understanding solutions of differential equations are all addressed in this
class.

Person preparing this description and date of preparation: R.E. Diaz, Mar. 2003.