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Course Syllabus

Course No. & Title: ELR 4316L/EEL 5935 Wireless Circuits & Systems Design Laboratory (2) EN EGE

Term & Meeting Info: Spring 2008

Instructor Info:

Dr. Charles Baylis;

E-mail Address: baylis@eng.usf.edu

Office: ENB 362

Phone: (813) 974-1321

Office Hours (subject to change): Wednesdays, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m., or by appointment

Course Websites: (main site for WAMI materials)

(instructor’s site for announcements, tutorials, and additional materials)

The websites will serve as the main method of out-of-class communication and should be checked frequently.

Catalog Description:

PR: EEL 4471. An extensive hands-on introduction to wireless radio frequency and microwave circuits and systems, involving modern measurements, fabrication and computer-aided design experiences at both component and sub -system levels. Not available on an S/U basis.

Semesters Offered: Fall and Spring Each Year

Prerequisites: Electromagnetics – EEL 4472 (Transmission Lines, Electrodynamics, Maxwell’s Equations)

Suggested Co-requisites: EEL 4421 RF & Microwave 1

Courses that require this course as a direct prerequisite: EEL 4420 RF/MW Measurements

Level: UG, G Credits: 2 Class Duration: 1 Hour lecture + 4 hours lab

Text Info: Custom Notes Available from Local Copy Center (e.g Pro-Copy). Any additions or modifications to this material will be available on the web. You will be notified if new material is available. You are asked not to download and print regular course material (i.e. that found in the course pack) using the ENB 236 printing facilities. You are not granted permission to sell notes or tapes of class lectures.

Reference (supplemental reading): Related reading material is provided using web postings, handouts, and a course-pack “reference volume.”

Course Outcomes: Students will learn

1. Simplified transmission line theory in the context of RF & microwave measurement problems

2. The operational characteristics of many types of RF & microwave components through experimentation with them.

3. To design and conduct experiments and interpret data in the context of wireless circuit and system design.

4. To communicate clearly the results of each of 14 laboratory experiments in concise summaries that are well written abstracts for detailed laboratory procedures.

5. To design fabricate and assemble simple RF & microwave circuits, using CAD/CAM tools.

6. To apply modern RF & microwave instrumentation with a rudimentary understanding of operational principles, to many different types of wireless circuit and system measurement problems.

7. The interaction between microwave circuits and systems through a series of simulation and measurement experiences at both the circuit and sub-system level.

Test & Grading Info:

The following is tentative and subject to change: A cumulative final examination will be given. The format and specific date of this test will be announced in advance of the test. A pre-laboratory assignment is given for most labs. Post-laboratory reports should be completed and turned in to the teaching assistant according to the format specified in lecture and laboratory sessions. A quiz will be given each Monday (for on-campus lecture students) and prior to the laboratory session for APEX students covering the lecture and laboratory material from the previous week. The lowest quiz score will be dropped. The post-laboratory report from Lab 0 should be completed and will be counted towards the final score if this improves the grade of the student.

|Lab Reports |55% |

|Lecture Quizzes |15% |

|Final Exam |20% |

|Pre-Labs (& lab quizzes) |10% |

TA’s & Help Sessions: Open Lab hours are posted on the lab door (ENB 236.)

Course Topics and (Approx. # of Lectures):

|Topic |# Lecture Hours |# Lab Hours |

Lab 1 - Freq. & Time Domain Measurement 1 4

Lab 2 - Freq. & Time Domain, Simulation 1 4

Lab 3 - RF Subsystems Simulation 1 4

Lab 4 - Circuit Characterization 1 4

Lab 5 - Lumped Lowpass Filter 1 4

Lab 6 - Impedance Matching Circuits 1 4

Lab 7 - Distributed Lowpass Filter 1 4

Lab 8 - Directional Couplers 1 4

Lab 9 - Single Ended Mixer 1 4

Lab 10 - Frequency Conversion 1 4

Lab 12 - Dipole and Patch Antenna 1 4

Lab 13 - System Integration Part 1 1 4

Lab 14 - System Integration Part 2 1 4

Specialization: Required course for all EE Students.

Professional Component: Engineering Science - 20 % Engineering Design - 80 %

(Eng Science = math/science required for creative applications; Eng Design = decision making process of devising a system, component or process to meet a desired need)

Final Exam Info: Scheduled Per Published Exam Matrix

There will be an in-class final exam. Calculator rules will be published at a later date. If you have any questions about whether or not your calculator is acceptable, check with the instructor or your TA - prior to the exam, of course.

Late policy:

A lecture quiz will be administered in class each Monday to on-campus students. Quizzes must be taken during scheduled times and pre-labs must be completed before the beginning of the laboratory session. Late pre-labs or make-up quizzes will not be accepted unless pre-arranged and with good reason. Laboratory reports are due the beginning of the subsequent laboratory session unless otherwise announced. The report is at least one day late thereafter. Maximum achievable score drops by 1 point (out of 10) for each day the report is late. Students anticipating the need to take a test or quiz at a time other than that scheduled or to turn in an assignment late must make arrangements with the instructor or the teaching assistant in advance. In an emergency where advance notification is impossible, appropriate documentation supporting the excuse should be provided.

Attendance Policy and Open Lab Hours:

You are expected to view all lectures and be present for all 3 hours and 50 minutes of each laboratory session. Anyone wishing to leave early from lab must have his/her data checked for completeness before leaving. You should not leave early unless you have every part of the lab complete, including calculations, and only have the report SUMMARY (see below) to finish.

Laboratory hours:

You will receive a schedule that details the operating hours for the WAMI Lab (Wireless and Microwave Instructional Laboratory) in ENB-236. The schedule will also be posted on the door.

Graduate students and some undergraduate students who are working on Senior Design Projects also have special access to the lab. You are asked not to attempt entry into the lab outside the scheduled hours, even if you see that there are some other non-TA students in the room. This is a strict policy.

TA Signatures on Your Work:

A TA signature must be on your work (cover page and all graphs/printouts, at a minimum) else it will not be considered complete when you submit your lab report. You should have the TA review and sign your work before you leave the lab. If you must leave early on some occasion, the TA in charge of the make-up session that you attend must sign your work.

Cheating: Unfortunately, in previous semesters some students in this course have cheated. Don’t do it. You are cheating yourself as well as the faculty and TAs that work to make this course a strong educational experience for all students. To be clear, cheating includes improper use of course materials (e.g. old lab reports) acquired from previous semesters or unauthorized copying among students currently enrolled in the course. University Policies on cheating can be found in your student catalog. The standard minimum penalty for cheating is an automatic 2-letter reduction in the overall course grade; however, the instructor, at his discretion, may decide to give a “FF” to the student for the course on the first instance of cheating.

Do your own work, discuss the lab concepts with others as allowed, and learn everything you can.

Assignments of students not on the official course roster will be discarded without grading.

Laboratory Partners:

Typically students will work in teams of two. The team members will be rotated weekly when possible; in the case that multiple laboratory exercises are addressed in a single session, the partners will likely remain the same. The teaching assistant will make sure that on a given team, there is ~equal participation from each student and may make specific team assignments to address this point

Laboratory Assignments:

For many laboratories you will be required to complete a pre-laboratory assignment – this assignment must be turned in at the beginning of the lab period. For all laboratories you need to read over the previous lecture material and the laboratory assignment you are about to undertake. If you are not familiar with the background and procedures, you will have difficulty completing the laboratory on time. Short unannounced quizzes on this material may be given at the beginning of some laboratory sessions. You can work with your lab partner to complete the pre-laboratory assignments, but each of you must turn in your own work separately.

For each laboratory assignment you will also have to complete a post-laboratory report. For this report, you are strongly encouraged to collaborate with your partner and discuss the results, but the descriptions and conclusions must be completed individually. You will be graded primarily on the quality of the technical content, not the quantity or style of presentation. Your reports should be neat, accurate and concise (the Summary portion must be less than one page). Laboratory reports are due the week following the laboratory experiment, unless notified otherwise, and should be turned in to the TA at the start of the laboratory period. General instructions regarding the report format are included in this syllabus.

Most or all of the laboratory assignments have certain steps that are noted as being [Optional] or [Extra Credit]. Graduate students who are taking this course at the 5000 level are required to complete these steps. Undergraduate students who are taking this course at the 4000 level, and who complete the extra steps, will receive an additional 10% consideration on their laboratory reports, i.e., the maximum score is 11 out of 10. Partial credit is possible if the student completes half of the extra steps, i.e., a student can receive an additional 5% consideration.

General Instructions for Writing Your Laboratory Reports

1. Your completed laboratory assignment is to consist of your original laboratory procedure sheets (with data tables and blanks filled in), plus a short report.

2. Each report is to include a ½ to 1 page SUMMARY.

3. For some laboratories, specific questions are asked and specific plots and figures are requested. These figures, graphs, tables and answers to specific questions specified in the lab write-up are to be included as additional pages under “Discussion of Results”. Make sure all figures include a description of what the figure represents (title or caption), and that x- and y-axes of all plots are clearly labeled.

4. Some laboratory procedures ask you to make OBSERVATIONS based on the data that you have recorded, and to perform specific calculations within the procedure. Make sure that you make every effort to respond to all data and observation requests throughout the procedure. Comments should be hand-written (in the interests of saving time).

5. You may also want to make a few additional notes while completing the experiments: observe the graphs and data, and try to interpret them. These notes will help you to write a good summary.

6. Ask questions during the laboratory period to aid in your understanding.

7. Your reports should be generated using a word processor. Hand-written tables, figure captions, etc. are allowed, but avoid using hand-written summaries and discussion.

8. While you are encouraged to discuss issues and trade ideas with your lab partner and other students in the lab, your lab SUMMARY and (where applicable) DISCUSSION OF RESULTS must be in your own words.

9. Do your best to reflect your understanding of the concepts related to the lab, and discuss the main results you achieved. The clear communication of your understanding of the relevant concepts of the experiment is the most important aspect of your report.

The following is a template to help you write your reports. Note that for some of the experiments, there may be additional guidelines.

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LABORATORY REPORT

Lab # and Title: Date:

Name: Lab Partner:

SUMMARY (Required for all labs - 1 page maximum): Discuss the main conclusions/findings from the experiments or simulations, using the comments you recorded while doing the experiment. Address the concepts addressed in the tutorial lecture and experimental procedures. For example: how did theory and experiment agree or disagree? What results have been suggested by the data? What have you learned? Each conclusion should include some numbers that are taken from the data in your procedure. The TA should be able to correlate each summary with specific data in each student’s procedure. This is not a summary of the procedures you followed; rather it is a summary of the results you achieved and the lessons that were learned.

DISCUSSION OF RESULTS (Not required for all labs): Here you can address specific questions or instructions required in a particular lab, and attach any plots and figures. This should not include any extended discussion, but should be well organized and labeled.

Wireless and Microwave Instructional Lab (WAMI) Course Schedule – Spring 2008

|Lecture Date |Lecture |Lab Activity |

|1/7 |Lab 0 – Introduction |Lab 0 |

|1/14 |Lab 1 - Freq. & Time Domain |Lab 1 |

|1/211 |Lab 2 - Freq. & Time Domain, Part II |Lab 2 |

|1/28 |Lab 3 - RF Subsystems |Lab 3 |

|2/4 |Lab 4 - Circuit Characterization |Lab 4 |

|2/11 |Lab 5 - Lumped Lowpass Filter |Lab 52 |

|2/18 |Lab 6 - Impedance Matching Circuits |Lab 6 |

|2/25 |Lab 7 - Distributed Lowpass Filter |Lab6, 7 |

|3/3 |Lab 8 - Directional Couplers |Lab7, 8 |

|3/10 |SPRING BREAK | |

|3/17 |Lab 9 - Single Ended Mixer |Lab 9 |

|3/24 |Lab 10 - Frequency Conversion |Lab 10 |

|3/31 |Lab 12 - Dipole and Patch Antennas |Lab 12 |

|4/7 |Lab 13 – System Integration |Lab 13 |

|4/14 |Lab 14 – System Integration, Part II |Lab 14 |

|4/21 |Final Exam Review3 |Make-ups? |

|4/28 |FINAL EXAM WEEK | |

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Notes:

1The Lecture #2 will be prerecorded and available for viewing due to the Martin Luther King Day holiday. 2There will be an in-lab training session for soldering that the teaching assistant will present. The demonstration will include examples of good, and not-so-good, soldering jobs from previous semesters.

3 There may be an optional extra lab assignment. If made available, students may elect to complete this lab and receive up to 10 points of extra credit for the laboratory portion of the course grade.

Additional Course Features: This course utilizes University of South Florida’s well-equipped Wireless and Microwave Instructional Laboratory (WAMI Lab). Students work in 2 person laboratory teams that change throughout the semester.

Relation of Course to EE Dept. Program Outcomes:

Outcome a – An ability to apply knowledge of basic math, science and engineering

Outcome b – An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data

Outcome c – An ability to design a systems, component, or process to meet desired needs

Outcome g – An ability to communicate effectively

Outcome k – An ability to use techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice

Outcome l – Knowledge of probability & statistics and advanced mathematics (e.g., calculus, DE, linear algebra, complex variables & discrete mathematics)

Actions Taken to Improve the Course: The USF Wireless and Microwave (WAMI) faculty team has a dedicated commitment to continual improvement of this course and the laboratory facilities that support it. Effective feedback mechanisms have been in place since the course’s incipience in Spring 1997. A twofold approach is taken that includes regular inputs from a student Excellence Team or "E-Team”, and the WAMI External Advisory Board. The student “E-Team,” typically comprised of certain students taking the class each semester, get together periodically and critique each lecture/laboratory module as well as the overall course. A report is written by the E-team summarizing improvement suggestions, and the faculty treat them to lunch at the end of the semester to solicit informal feedback. The WAMI External Advisory Board is comprised of about 14 individuals, mostly from companies across the nation, but also includes a few from universities and government agencies. Each year USF hosts an annual WAMI External Advisory Board meeting. WAMI External Advisory Board was formed specifically to solicit inputs from the wireless and microwave industry on the new laboratory class that was created in 1997. The board now advises USF EE faculty on the overall undergraduate and graduate “WAMI Program”. Many improvements to the course have been implemented based on suggestions from both the E-Team and the WAMI External Advisory Board. WAMI students also get together with the Advisory Board at the annual meeting for an informal exchange about the course.

Standard Syllabus Prepared by:

Thomas Weller, Charles Baylis

Date of Approval of Standard Syllabus by Area:

December, 2006

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