EE101A Engineering Electromagnetics

UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering Winter 2014 Lectures: Mon/Wed 8:00-9:50 AM Franz 1260 Introduction to basic concepts in engineering electromagnetics, including transmission line theory, Smith charts, impedance matching, Maxwells equations in differential form, electrostatics and magnetostatics, Maxwells equations for time harmonic field, planewave propagation, plane waves incident on planar boundaries. Instructor: Benjamin Williams 68-117 Engineering IV bswilliams@ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-6961 Office Hours: (see courseweb) Teaching Assistants: Po-Yen Chien pychien@ucla.edu Bor-Chau Juang bcjuang@ucla.edu Office Hours: (see courseweb)

Discussion Sections are held for 1 hour each week. You are assigned to one of 4 times on either Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday. Attendance is mandatory, as important material will be covered by the TAs. Course website: https://courseweb.seas.ucla.edu/classView.php?term=14W&srs=190306200 Textbook: Fawwaz T. Ulaby Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics 6th edition Other useful references: David J. Griffiths Introduction to Electrodynamics John D. Jackson Classical Electrodynamics (advanced) H. M. Schey Div, Grad, Curl, and All That H. A. Haus and J. R. Melcher Electromagnetic Fields and Energy (http://web.mit.edu/6.013_book/www/) Supplementary E&M applets: http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html

(useful for visualization of fields and waves)

Quiz: Midterm: Final:

Monday January 27 (in class approx 20 minutes) Monday February 10 (in class) Thursday March 20, 8:00AM-11:00AM (location TBA)

Grading Policy The final numerical grade will be determined according to the following percentages. 8 Homeworks: 20% 1 Quiz: 5 % 1 Midterm: 34% 1 Final: 40% Survey: 1% The final letter grade will be derived from the final numerical grade. However, the instructor reserves the right to use his judgment rather than strict formulae when assigning final letter grades. If there are any graduate students who take this class, they will be graded identically to undergraduates. However, their grades will be omitted from any distribution when determining the undergraduate letter grades, and thus the presence of graduate students will not skew grading for the undergraduates. Exams There will be a midterm and a final exam. Homework You may work together on homeworks, but you are required to write up your own solutions. Copying solutions, either from another student, or previous solution is not permitted. Answers presented without indication of showing your work, or explanation of your answer are likely to be marked down. There will be 8 homework assignments over the quarter. In general, they will be turned in at the beginning of class (within 10 minutes of start). It is your responsibility to turn in the homework on time. No late homework will be accepted, unless for true emergency reasons (illness, etc.), and in these cases you must present supporting documentation (from a doctor, dean, etc.). The lowest score out of 8 homeworks will be dropped. The purpose of this policy is to give an opportunity to skip one homework when necessary for whatever reason, so that asking for extensions is not necessary. Each week, only about half of the homework problems will be graded in detail, selected by me. You will not be told which ones. Your homework grade will be based upon those graded. Nonetheless, I strongly recommend you do all problems, since this is essential to understand the material and perform well on exams.