OSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECEN 3613 Electromagnetic Fields

Fall 2011 - Syllabus
CLBN 101
MWF 8:30 a.m. – 9:20 p.m.
1. Textbook
Elements of Electromagnetics, 5th Edition by M.N.O. Sadiku (2010), Oxford University Press

2. Instructor
Dr. C.F. Bunting, ES 307, 744-1584, [email protected]

3. Electromagnetic Fields. Prerequisite(s): ENSC 2613, MATH 2163 and MATH 2233. Time-harmonic and
transient response of transmission lines. Maxwells equations and their applications to engineering problems in
electrostatics, magnetostatics, time-harmonic fields and plane wave propagation.

4. Drop Policy
Official OSU regulations regarding drop policies will be followed without exception.

5. Special days:
No class: Monday, Sept 5 Labor Day
Friday, Oct 14 Fall Break
Wed & Fri, Nov 23-25 Thanksgiving

Final Exam: Friday, Dec 16, 2011 from 8 – 9:50 a.m. (Comprehensive)

6. Grading
Your course grade will be determined as follows:

3, 50 minute tests (I) 40 %

Final exam (I) 20 %
Team Exercises/Projects (G) 20 %
Homework + Quizzes (I and G) 20 %
100 %

No make up exams will be given (The final exam will replace a missed exam).

7. Exam Rules
(a) Calculators will be permitted for exams. They cannot be shared.
(b) All exams are closed book, closed notes – with one formula sheet permitted in your own handwriting (no
reduction copying).
(c) Other exam policies will be printed on the exam cover sheet.
(d) Three (3) tests will be given throughout the semester that will take an entire class period. There will be NO
make up tests under any circumstances. Any missed test will count toward the final exam if confirmed by the
professor as an allowable absence. If you miss one test then the final is worth 30 % of your total grade with the
other two tests are worth 15% each.
(e) No test grades will be dropped, but the lowest test grade will count 5 % and your best test grade will count 20 %
if 3 tests were taken.
8. Schedule
The schedule is found on the course webpage and also provides the information you need to read from the text
prior to the lecture. Homework assignments and due dates are also shown. Test dates will be confirmed at the
end of week 3.

9. Disability
If you have a disability and need special accommodations of any nature whatsoever, I will work with you and the
University Office of Disabled Student Services to provide reasonable accommodations to ensure that you have a
fair opportunity to perform in this class. Please advise me of such disability and the desired accommodation as
early as possible.

10. Homework/Quizzes:
(a) Homework will be assigned on a regular basis and you are responsible for the content in all assigned problems
as a minimum. All problems are to be done on engineering paper - one or two problems to a page with all
schematics neatly drawn.
(b) Homework will be collected for an “inventory score” at the start of class on the days it is due (see schedule
online). Late homework, no matter what the reason, will NOT be accepted by the TA (it must be turned in to the
instructor).

Problem scoring:
Reasonable and complete attempt = 2
Reasonable but incomplete attempt = 1
No attempt = 0

(c) Answers to homework problems will be provided.

(d) Your homework paper should be prepared with a COVER SHEET as follows.

Staple
Your name and
any study group
members
Initial of last Course
name Assignment
Circled Number and
Due date

(e) Problem Quizzes will be based on Problems assigned and can be expected at least once a week. These
closed-book summative quizzes will always be individually performed without the benefit of notes or formula sheets.
(f) Formative Quizzes will be typically done by informal teaming arrangements and will be intermittently used
throughout the semester.
(g) All grades will be made available on Desire to Learn. You are responsible to monitor your grades and to report
discrepancies in a timely manner.

11. On-Line quizzes via Desire to Learn:

You will be asked to take short on-line quizzes typically based on the reading assignment before the beginning of
several class periods (about 1/3 of the semester). These quizzes are taken on-line using Desire to Learn. These
may be short numerical problems, or a concept based multiple choice questions. The quiz is based on the reading
assignment for each class but anything is possible including experimental work. You will typically be able to take
the quiz up to 5 times with the highest score counted as the final score for that quiz.
12. Project activity:
(a) You will be asked to perform several team-based group activities starting around week 4 or 5. You will be
assigned a group around the fourth week (immediately after Test 1) of school and you will be then assigned a team
for the remainder of the semester. These Team Exercises will be performed in class and submitted for a grade.
(b) Peer evaluation – You must be able to work with others! Your team will evaluate your team performance on the
project and it will have an impact on your Group (G) grade.
(c) Hands-on activities – successful performance/short report.
(d) Case studies – The projects will be introduced in a case study (short story) that that will involve engineers
making decisions and building stuff.

13. Academic Conduct:

Oklahoma State University is committed to the maintenance of the highest standards of integrity and ethical
conduct of its members. This level of ethical behavior and integrity will be maintained in this course. Participating in
a behavior that violates academic integrity (e.g., unauthorized collaboration, plagiarism, multiple submissions,
cheating on examinations, fabricating information, helping another person cheat, unauthorized advance access to
examinations, altering or destroying the work of others, and fraudulently altering academic records) will result in
your being sanctioned. Violations may subject you to disciplinary action including the following: receiving a failing
grade on an assignment, examination or course, receiving a notation of a violation of academic integrity on your
transcript (F!), and being suspended from the University. You have the right to appeal the charge. Contact the
Office of Academic Affairs, 101 Whitehurst, 405-744-5627, academicintegrity.okstate.edu.

14. Miscellany:
• Attendance: Regular class attendance is expected, and you are responsible for all material in the lecture and the
reading assignments. Material in the lecture includes both written and verbal discussions/developments. The
reading assignments may contain material that will not be covered explicitly in the lecture. If you are absent from a
team activity you will receive a zero on that assignment unless you receive a special waiver from the instructor (not
a TA)

• Office hours - My office hours are posted on-line, are dynamic, (http://cbunting.okstate.edu/) and subject to last
minute changes. In the event of canceled office hours I will make every attempt to give advanced notice.
Unavoidable appointments may force cancellations without notice. My office hours are for your convenience and
you should take advantage of them.

• Lost Grades - It is possible that an exam grade could be misreported, lost, stolen, etc. It is your responsibility to
keep all quizzes and exams until course grades are final.

• Email – I am happy to reply to questions via email. Any email that you expect me to read must have “ECEN 3613
Question” in the Subject line otherwise it will be considered spam.

• Dropping grades – I allow you to drop your lowest grades according to the recipe:

o Problem Quizzes/Formative Quizzes – lowest 2 grades

o D2L quizzes – lowest 2 grades
o Homework – lowest 2 grades
o Team Exercises – lowest 2 grades
o Project grades – none dropped
o Exams – see 7 (e) above
Course Topic List
• Coulombs law describing force between charges.
• Biot-Savart law giving force between currents.
• Maxwell's equations for static fields.
• Potential and energy stored in static fields.
• Time-dependent Maxwell's equations.
• Transmission of energy in uniform plane waves.
• Derivation of transmission line equations from circuit model.
• Reflection and transmission of power at mismatched loads.
• Radiation of energy as found from the retarded potentials.

In ECEN 3613, upon completion of the course students will be able to:
• ...use basic vector integral and differential operations to find electromagnetic fields.
• ...describe how material conductivity, permittivity, and permeability affect an electromagnetic
field.
• ...calculate the capacitance and/or inductance of simple structures.
• ... perform transmission line analysis – calculating refection coefficient and standing wave ratio
• ...calculate power delivered to a load in a transmission line circuit.
• ...design simple transmission line based devices including impedance matching and filters.
• ...calculate power in a uniform plane wave and power transmitted across a dielectric boundary
• ...find the electromagnetic field radiated by simple structures.
• ...use computational electromagnetics to solve basic electrostatic or magnetostatic problems,
perform visualization of electric and magnetic fields and determine energy dissipation and storage
in various media