[2024 S2 Teaching] ELEC3100: Fundamentals of Electromagnegtic Waves and Fields

Undergraduate course, The University of Queensland, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2024

In 2024 Semester 2, I’m lecturer of this third-year compulsory course (usually 150 students) and co-teach with senior colleagues (Prof. Aleksandar D. Rakić and Dr. Karl Bertling). See course profile

My teaching duties (12 teaching weeks + 1 swotvac week + …):

  • deliver lectures (EM Potentials, Radiation, and Antenna) [2 hrs / wk],
  • prepare weekly 6 new oral examination problems and solutions (offer on-site help) [4 hrs / wk],
  • prepare and deliver weekly contact-hour session with 6 solved problems [1 hr / wk)],
  • prepare final exam and supplementary exam problems, solutions, and step-by-step marking criteria,
  • prepare and coodinate oral examination (tutorial) with tutors to update weekly marking progress,
  • deal with posted questions on online Ed discussion boards (Q&A sessions) [> 5 hr / week].

Before that (2020 - 2023), I’m a teaching assistant on this course with teaching duties:

  • examinig students for weekly one-to-one oral examination [4 hrs / wk],
  • deliver weekly contact-hour session with 6 solved problems [1 hr / wk)],
  • marking final exams,
  • Help Dr. Karl Bertling to prepare weekly oral examination problems, final exam questions, and corresponding solutions.

Course Curriculum

  • Transmission Line Theory
  • Phasor Representations, Vector Calculus, and so on
  • Wave Equations and Maxwell Equations
  • Boundary Conditions
  • Plane wave in lossless and lossy media
  • Wave in dispersive media
  • Group and Phase Velocity
  • Polarisation
  • Poyting Theorem and Power
  • Interface
  • Metallic Waveguide and Rectangular Resonators
  • EM Potentials (Static and Retarded)
  • Radiation and Antenna

Textbook