ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
CaliforniaPolytechnicStateUniversity
EE 442 Signal Transmission Laboratory (1) Winter 2006
Instructor: James G. Harris
Prerequisite: EE 335. Concurrent: EE 402.
Objective: The overall educational objectives are to give the student the ability to measure transmission and reflection coefficients, VSWR, and impedance in radio frequency transmission lines, and to apply the Smith Chart to transmission line characterization and the design of impedance matching networks. In addition, this section of laboratory will used a revised EE 442 manual and schedule of experimental projects. The student will be introduced to the time domain analysis of transmission lines through the study of the step response of different loads. In addition the student will be introduced to the sinusoidal steady-state analysis of transmission lines .
Textbook: EE 442 Laboratory Manual(revised Winter 2006) – available on course website
Reference: HP 8754A Network Analyzer Operating Information and HP 8502A Transmission/Reflection Test Set Operating and Service Manual[both available from senior project lab window].
T. S. Laverghetta, Handbook of Microwave Testing, Artech House, 1981.
Course Website Reference: and/or Blackboard (tbd)
Laboratory Reports: Students will work in teams, and turn in one report for each experiment. The report will be due on the Friday following the laboratory period devoted to that experiment.. The reports will be graded and available to the students before the next laboratory period. Students are to keep their own personal laboratory notebooks, which will be used as a reference for the laboratory final.
Grades: The grade will be based upon the following proportion:
Experiment reports80%
Laboratory performance/prelabs 5%
Laboratory final exam15%
Improvement or degradation in student performance over the quarter will be used to resolve borderline cases.
Office Hours: MWF 1010-1100; MW 1110-1200; 20-305 x65708; email: . Other times available by arrangement.
Notes to the student:
1. There may be times that the instructor must be absent from the class participating in national engineering education activities; other assistance will be provided during these periods. Your patience and understanding are appreciated.
2. There are six stations, and it is expected that there will be three students working together at each station. The instructor reserves the right to change lab partners as the course progresses.
3. Students are requested to understand that while all of the equipment they will use has intrinsic pedagogic value, some of the equipment is old and subject to failure. If there are problems, then with the cooperation of the students, we can minimize the inconvenience on the entire class and maintain student learning of the material.
EE 442 COURSE OUTLINE - tentativeWinter 2006
DateExperimentComments
R 1/5Introduction; assignment of computer accounts; review of lab equipment
R 1/12ATime Domain Transmission Line Analysis
R 1/19BSinusoidal Steady-State Transmission Line Analysis
R 1/261The Network Analyzer
R 2/2CTransmission Line Reflection Coefficient, Impedance and the Smith Chart
R 2/9 3Transmission Line Parameters
R 2/164Use of the Smith Chart for Line-Length and Line-Loss Corrections
R 2/235The Slotted Line Technique in Impedance Measurements
R 3/2DImpedance Matching with Single- and Double-Stub Tuning
R 3/9Lab Final