Undergraduate Electromagnetics Laboratory With Computer Control

设备的购置，设置和编程，以介绍工业质量实验室的经验，学生在电磁学的核心课程。三个站（加上一个公用事业站）用于三个领域的测量：光学，微波（频域）和瞬态响应。所有的实验都是在计算机控制下进行的，学生们负责一些编程，从基本的核心程序集开始。核心课程要求学生进行四项规定的调查，外加一项他们自己设计的调查。在课程结束时，他们应该熟悉计算机控制仪器，并熟悉电磁信号在时域和频域的一些基本性质。主要设备包括：(1)光学元件、检测器、运动控制器和光纤；(2)微波网络分析仪；(3)时域反射计。所有工作站都采用计算机控制。

Equipment is acquired, set up, and programmed to introduce an industrial quality laboratory experience to students in the core course on electromagnetism. Three stations (plus a utility station) are used for the conduct of measurements in the three areas: optics, microwaves (frequency domain), and transient response. All experiments are under computer control, and the students are responsible for some of the programming, starting with a basic core set of programs. Students in the core course are required to carry out four prescribed investigations plus one of their own design. At the end of the course, they should be comfortable with computer control of instruments, and with some fundamental properties of electromagnetic signals in time and frequency domain. The principal equipment consists of: (1) optical components, detectors, motion controllers, and fibers; (2) microwave network analyzer, and (3) time-domain reflectometer. Computer controls are used for all stations.