Antenna Engineering Training:

Antenna Engineering Training Course (Online, Onsite, and Classroom Live!)

Antenna Engineering Training covers the theory and practice of antenna engineering, communications, radar, and commercial and military applications. Learn how to system engineer, design, and build different practical antenna types.

Antenna applications and properties include EM, the spectrum of frequencies covering HF, VHF, UHF and microwave, radar, and space antennas anything from 50 kHz to 300 GHz.

Antenna Engineering Training is a hands-on course and everyone will design and build a simple antenna and verify and validate the properties in the class.

What’s Included?

• 4 days of Antenna Engineering Training  with an expert instructor
• Antenna Engineering Training Electronic Course Guide
• Certificate of Completion
• 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

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• If you are familiar with some aspects of this Antenna Engineering Training course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
• We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the Antenna Engineering Training course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
• If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the Antenna Engineering Training course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.

Audience/Target Group:

• RF engineers
• Scientists
• Software engineers
• Testing engineers
• Analysts
• Engineering managers
• Antenna technicians
• Field measurement technicians
• Project planners.

Course Outlines:

Introduction to Antenna Theory

• Antenna Basics
• Basics of Electromagnetic Theory
• Radiowave Propagation
• Physics and Applications
• Antenna Basics: Radiation, gain, directivity, efficiency, effective area, pattern, impedance, VZWR, Return Loss, antenna noise temperature, and polarization
• Introduction to Smart Antennas
• Antenna Arrays
• Phased Array Antennas

Basic Antenna Concepts

• Antenna properties
• The basics of sinusoids (sine and cosine waves), wavelength, frequency and the speed of light
• Impedance, VSWR, RL, bandwidth, directivity, gain, radiation patterns, polarization,
• Fundamental antenna elements
• Frequency bands
• Radiation pattern
• Field regions
• Directivity
• Efficiency and Antenna Gain
• Beamwidths and Sidelobes
• Impedance
• Bandwidth
• Types of antennas
• The monopole
• The dipole
• The loop
• The folded dipole
• The slot
• Resonant antennas
• Traveling wave antennas
• Frequency independent antennas
• Aperture antennas phased arrays
• Electrically small antennas
• Circularly polarized antennas
• Classification of antenna types
• By frequency
• By size
• By directivity

Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design

• Polarization of Waves
• Polarization of Antennas
• Effective Aperture
• Friis Transmission Equation
• Antenna Temperature
• Why do Antennas Radiate?
• Types of Antennas
• Antenna Arrays
• Antenna Measurements
• Smith Charts and Impedance Matching
• Antenna Design
• Review of basic antenna types
• Radiation pattern, gain, polarization
• Equivalent circuit & radiation efficiency
• Smart antennas
• Types of Antennas
• Radiation Mechanism
• Thin Wire Antenna

Fundamental Parameters of Antennas

• Radiation Pattern
• Radiation Power Density
• Radiation Intensity
• Beamwidth
• Directivity
• Numerical Techniques
• Antenna Efficiency
• Gain
• Beam Efficiency
• Bandwidth
• Polarization
• Input Impedance
• Antenna Radiation Efficiency
• Antenna Vector Effective Length and Equivalent Areas
• Maximum Directivity and Maximum Effective Area
• Friis Transmission Equation and Radar Range Equation
• Antenna Temperature
• Linear Wire Antennas
• Infinitesimal Dipole
• Small Dipole
• Region Separation
• Finite Length Dipole
• Half-Wavelength Dipole
• Linear Elements Near or on Infinite Perfect Conductors
• Ground Effects
• Computer Codes
• Multimedia
• Loop Antennas
• Small Circular Loop
• Circular Loop of Constant Current
• Circular Loop with Nonuniform Current
• Ground and Earth Curvature Effects for Circular Loops
• Polygonal Loop Antennas
• Ferrite Loop
• Mobile Communication Systems Applications

Antenna Arrays: Linear, Planar, and Circular

• Two-Element Array
• N-Element Linear Array: Uniform Amplitude and Spacing
• N-Element Linear Array: Directivity
• Design Procedure
• N-Element Linear Array: Three-Dimensional Characteristics
• Rectangular-to-Polar Graphical Solution
• N-Element Linear Array: Uniform Spacing, Nonuniform Amplitude
• Superdirectivity
• Planar Array
• Design Considerations
• Circular Array

Phased Array Antennas

• Basics of Phased Array Antennas
• Functional Principle
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Possible Arrangements
• Linear Array
• Planar Array
• Frequency Scanning Array
• Calculation of the Phase Shift
• Calculation Example

Antenna Engineering Workshop and Case Studies

• Calculations of antenna radiation, gain, directivity, efficiency, effective area, pattern, impedance, noise temperature, and polarization
• Friis transmission equation and radar range equation.
• Operation of selected antenna types.
• Analysis, design and OT&E of selected antenna types.
• Consideration of transmission lines, antenna materials, impedance mismatch, VSWR, Return Loss for selected antennas.
• Testing, verification and validation of electromagnetic measurement and diagnostics.

Antenna Selection Workshop

• Antenna Arrays
• Antenna Computer Modeling
• Antenna Design and Simulation
• Antenna Gain and Polarization
• Antenna Materials and Lens Antennas
• Antenna Measurement Techniques
• Axial Mode Helical Antennas
• Antenna Components, Construction and Cost
• Design the antenna to match the system criteria
• Dipole and Monopole Antennas
• EMC/EMI
• Far-Field
• Anechoic Chamber
• Compact and Near-Field Antenna Measurements
• Friis Transmission Equation
• Horn Antennas
• Log-Periodic Dipole Arrays
• Loop Antennas
• Low Noise Antennas
• Microstrip Antennas
• Modeling and Simulation of Antennas
• Near-Field Antenna Measurement Techniques
• Phased Array Antennas and Adaptive Techniques
• Phased Array Antennas for Radar and Communications
• Phased Array Technology
• Phased Array Theory
• Planar antennas
• Portable (Small) Antennas
• Radar Antennas
• Reflector Antennas
• SAR simulation
• Slot Antennas
• Spiral Antennas
• Vehicle Mounted Antennas
• VHF and UHF Antennas
• Yagi-Uda Antennas

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