ELEC3115: ELECTROMAGNETIC ENGINEERING

2 midsession exams, each 12.5%, labs 15%, final 60%.

MATH2069, PHYS1231 (the first half on electromagnetism).

The content in this course was fantastic - very interesting and a lot of real world applications.

The first half deals with low frequency electromagnetics. The topics include capacitance, transmission cables, electrostatic problems, magnetic circuits and transformers. It's essentially a continuation of the first half of PHYS1231. I strongly recommend going through MATH2069 before the start of the course too - especially line integrals, Stoke's theorem, Divergence theorem, grad, divergence, curl, and cylindrical coordinates. These are used extensively in part A so know them well. Solving electrostatic problems was the hardest part of the course; those 2D laplacians are a nightmare to solve. Thankfully they didn't crop up in the final.

The second half deals with high frequency electromagnetics. This is quite new content that doesn't continue from PHYS1231. The main topics are wave propagation through transmission lines, Smith Charts and waveguides. Smith Charts are fun to use once you get the hang of them.

Rukmi did lots of worked examples for us in lectures and her explanations are pretty good. King Yuk Chan was good as well - he used the document camera a lot which I liked, we could see him actually derive equations for us which I found useful for understanding.

This course is normally renowned for being quite tough, though I'd say that part A is definitely harder and larger than part B. Each part had a midsession test, both were okay as long you study a bit for them. The labs were long but doable - lab demos weren't great though. The final was also well balanced.

4 hours lectures (2x2 hours / week), 1 hour tutorial, 3 hours lab every 2 weeks.

Part A: 4/5. Part B: 3/5

Yes.

Part A: Rukmi Dutta. Part B: King Yuk Chan.

Rukmi provides past papers (with no solutions), and there are some good summaries on ELSOC.

4.5/5

The 2 useful textbooks are Field and Wave Electromagnetics by David K Cheng, and Engineering Electromagnetics by Nathan Ida; though these aren't completely essential.

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