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EET 328: Electronic Communications

Credits and Contact Hrs. (Lecture/Laboratory): 3 credits, 3 contact hours per week.

Course Description: Principles of operation of filters, modulators, demodulators, and converters.

Prerequisites/Co-Requisites:EET306, EET306L/None

Textbook: Young, Paul H. Electronic Communication Techniques, 3rd Ed., Merrill.

Reference(s): None.

Course Coordinator: Douglas A. Hanneman, Professor

Goals/Objectives: To help the student verify experimentally the theory covered in the lecture.  

Course topics and lecture hours devoted to each topic:

  • Circuit Q (3 hrs.)
  • Impedance matching networks (3 hrs.)
  • Single and double tuned amplifiers, varactor tuned (3 hrs.)
  • Amplitude modulation and detection (3 hrs.)
  • Frequency modulation and detection (3 hrs.)
  • Radio receivers, noise, modern receiver construction (3 hrs.)
  • Data communications , and various pulse modulation systems (3 hrs.)
  • Transmission lines, smith chart analysis, impedance matching (6 hrs.)
  • TEM and waveguide transmission lines and components (3 hrs.)
  • Microwave generation , electron tube (3 hrs.)
  • Solid state microwave generation (3 hrs.)
  • Antennas and radio wave propagation (3 hrs.)
  • Tests (5 hrs.) 
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    Computer usage: SPICE analysis of problems including RF amplifiers, Oscillators, Transmission lines. 

    Laboratory projects: None

    Oral and written communication requirements: None

    Calculus usage: None

    Library usage: None