ECE 458 Class Calendar

January 2017
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
      1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

Course objectives and outline

18

19

Huygens-Fresnel principle, apertures

20

21

22

23

24

Apertures, diffraction, Fresnel zones

25

26

Plane wave spectrum

27

28

29

30

31

Space-wave links, ground waves

     

February 2017
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
  1

2

Rayleigh fading channels, spatial correlation, field correlation

3

4

5

6

7

Frequency spread, coherence bandwidth, delay spread

8

9

4G, FDMA, OFDM, MIMO

10

11

12

13

14

4G, FDMA, OFDM, MIMO

15

16

Ionospheric propagation, sky-wave links, GPS

17

18

19

20

21

Ionospheric phase and group delay

22

23

Vertical incidence ionospheric sounding, VIPIR

24

25

26

27

28

Oblique incidence, ray tracing, sky wave links

     

March 2017
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
  1

2

EXAM 1

3

4

5

6

7

Secant law, Breit and Tuve thm, Martyn's law, MUF, skip distance

8

9

Tropspheric refraction

10

11

12

13

14

Troposcatter

15

16

Ionospheric coherent and incoherent scatter

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

Incoherent Scatter Spectrum - non-magnetized

29

30

Incoherent Scatter Spectrum - magnetized and collisional

31

  

April 2017
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
     1

2

3

4

Incoherent Scatter measurements and data analysis

5

6

Magnetized plasma, magnetoionic theory

7

8

9

10

11

Parallel Propagation, Faraday rotation

12

13

EXAM 2

14

15

16

17

18

Perpendicular propagation, Cotton-Mouton effect

19

20

Appleton-Hartree equation,oblique propagation

21

22

23

24

25

Differential phase, Valley results

26

27

Differential phase, Valley results

28

29

30

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May 2017
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
1

2

REVIEW

3

4

FINAL

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31