Course Number & Title: ESE 112, Engineering Electromagnetics
Credit Unit: 1.5 CU
Instructor: Nader Engheta
Textbook: Edward M. Purcell and David J. Morin, “Electricity and Magnetism“, 3rd Edition (Jan 21, 2013), Cambridge University Press.
Co-requisite: Math 114
Course Objectives: The goal of this course is to teach students concepts essential in engineering electromagnetics. Students will learn:
- electric field and potential distributions and electric energy of collections of charge particles as used in capacitors in electrical circuits and their roles in circuit RC time constants and dynamics of circuit functions
- electric potential in the presence of conductors and insulators, particularly with attention to the current flows in electric circuits and connection to the RC time constant important in the circuit dynamics.
- capacitance of capacitors, and how one can engineer the circuit time constants
- magnetic fields of electric current distributions, and their connection to inductance engineering
- Faraday’s Law for engineering applications
- how inductors operate and what roles they play in circuits’ quality factor and time constants
- how alternating currents (AC) and voltages are related in capacitors, inductors, and resistors, and basic rules for circuit resonance and filters
- impedance and admittance of circuit elements, and how to engineer resonance
- physical meanings of the gradient, divergence, curl and Laplacian operators and their use in electromagnetic and circuit laws.
- complex numbers and phasors, with use in circuit and electromagnetic engineering
- Maxwell’s equations and some of their properties in wave engineering
- simple plane-wave solutions of Maxwell’s Equations, with a view towards photonic and antenna engineering concepts.