RF and Microwave Courses
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Transmission Lines and Electromagnetic waves | Junior level course that introduces basic concepts of transmission lines, electrostatic fields and electrodynamic waves in addition to applications related to RF/microwaves, optics, and magnetics topics. |
| Senior Design Project | This a required capstone course for all graduating students that is implemented as a team project. The project is assigned by the advising faculty and the students are instructed by the class instructor on project management principles. | |
| EE 4981/82 | Honors Project | This project is a two term course that allows students with demonstrated top performance an opportunity to perform a reserach project with a faculty member. The project topic is defined by the supervising faculty member. The course is managed by the class instructor. |
| EE 5601 or old EE 5604 | Passive Circuit Applications |
Senior/graduate student level course that teaches fundamentals and design of design passive microwave. Course improvements include introduction of microwave CAD tools use in the curriculum for on-campus and off-campus students, participation in video streaming lectures, and on-line web access to course materials. |
| EE 5602 or old ECE 5605 | Active Devices and Circuit Applications |
Senior/graduate student level course that teaches design of microwave circuits with active devices. Course improvements include the use of commercially available microwave CAD tools into the curriculum for on- and off-campus students. |
| EE 5613 |
RF/Microwave Test Laboratory (Drayton Development Course-Spring 2000) |
Senior/graduate level course that offers practical design, simulation, and characterization experience of passive RF/microwave test circuits presented in ECE 5601. Industrial lectures and a tutorial seminars are part of this course offering. |
| Antenna Laboratory Development (New-Spring 2003) |
Developed the RF antenna measurement system, in collaboration with Bob Sainati (Adjunct Faculty). We installed a new rotating stage and data collection system with compatibility with a pre-existing Agilent Network Analyzer in the research RF/Microwave Test and Measurement facility. Capital equipment support was provided by the ECE department and system test and installation is by Prof. Drayton and her research team with consultation from Dr. Sainati. |
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| EE 4940 | Introduction to RF, Optics, and Magnetics (Special Topics Spring 2007) |
Initiated and lead development of a senior level course to provide undergraduate students with an application based course on information technology systems with Profs. Leger and Victora. This modular course will be team taught by Prof. Drayton (RF), Leger (Optics) and Victora (Magnetics). The student will have three 5-week modules that are project based on a specific topic for each section according to the instructor. |
| EE 4607 | RF/Microwave Wireless Systems (Fall 2009) |
Developed guest lecture modules and instituted class participation into the NSF MUSE project. Also introduced the use of CAD tools for system modeling. |
| CSE 1001 | First Year Experience (Fall 2015) |
Team taught freshman course with myself (faculty), a College of Science and Engineering (CSE) staff instructor and teaching assistant. Exposed the students to areas of college experiences (i.e. exploring majors, engagement, etc.) and soft-skills development (i.e. communications, project development, team building). The project theme was to develop a module for science teachers to demonstrate one principle of the MN science standards for 4-8th grade. The demonstration created a physical device, video demonstration, and build instructions for the teachers. I arranged for my class collaborated with Roseville Area Science Lead and teachers in 4th and 6th grade. The teachers served as the consultants and provided feedback to the 8 teams on how to make their demonstrations more feasible for teach use and implementation in a classroom setting. Each team had 5 freshmen members. |