CCLI:EMD: Matlab Antenna Toolbox

该项目为全国教育界提供了一个天线工具箱，用于说明与天线设计有关的复杂现象，以及无线通信系统的物理特征、电磁场传播特性和物理层的重要方面。正在开发的教材的独特之处在于，它使用计算平台MatLab提供全波电磁解决方案，MatLab是全球大多数电气工程学生唯一能理解的通用计算语言。其他计算教育材料提供了用Fortran编写的软件，因此本科生不容易访问。其他可用的基于MatLab的天线分析和设计软件使用近似值，因此，它们不包括与特定设计相关的所有物理信息。这个MatLab天线工具箱代表了一个独特而有价值的贡献，对于在本科生水平上任教的教员来说，这是一个教育聚宝盆。此外，此工具箱将与学生熟悉的其他分析工具和代码互补使用。因此，通过将天线设计和分析这门困难的课程以熟悉的形式(例如，一个MatLab工具箱)，并利用MatLab的全部功能来集成图形用户界面、高效的计算和图形输出，预计教员将更好地回应所有参加天线设计和分析课程的学生的不同学习风格。因此，学生在这些课程中的留存应该会更好。

This project provides the national educational community with an Antenna Toolbox that is used with the MATLAB package to illustrate complex phenomena related to the design of antennas, and with the physical features, the propagation characteristics of electromagnetic fields, and the important aspects of the physical layer for a wireless communication system. The educational material being developed is unique in that it provides full-wave electromagnetic solutions using a computing platform, MATLAB, which is the only universal computational language understood by the majority of electrical engineering students worldwide. Other computational educational materials provide software written in Fortran, and hence are not readily accessible to undergraduate students. Other available MATLAB-based software for antenna analysis and design utilize approximations and hence, they do not include all the physics associated with a particular design. This MATLAB ANTENNA TOOLBOX represents a unique and valuable contribution to the educational cornucopia that is available to faculty who teach at the undergraduate student level. Furthermore, this toolbox is to be used in a complementary fashion with other analysis tool and codes that the students are familiar with. Therefore, by casting the difficult subject of antenna design and analysis in a familiar form (e.g. a MATLAB Toolbox) and to utilize the full capabilities of MATLAB to integrate graphical user interface, efficient computation, and graphical output, it is expected that the faculty will better respond to the different learning styles of all students taking antenna design and analysis courses. Hence, student retention in these courses should be better.