The primary goal of this curricular unit is to provide undergraduate students skills in fundamental knowledge on electromagnetic field phenomena, with a scientifically founded and unified basis (rejecting ready-made recipes or rote procedures), which will enable them to grasp advanced topics and specialized applications that will be dealt with in their later electrical engineering courses, orthat they will come across in their professional lives as engineers. This is a balanced foundation course with a broad scope,covering subject matters from stationary to rapid time-varying electromagnetic field phenomena. The emphasis is given on basicprinciples, concepts and governing laws that can be used indistinctly by electrical engineering students pursuing studies in diversesub-areas ranging from power systems to telecommunications.
Static electric fields. Stationary electric current fields. Electrostatics. Stationary currents. Magnetic field of stationary currents. Magnetic induction phenomena (rest and motion bodies). Electric induction phenomena. Lumped parameters circuit analysis(sinusoidal steady state and transient regimes). Time-varying electromagnetic field phenomena (electromagnetic waves; frequencydomain). Transmission line analysis (distributed parameters).
Teaching methodologies intend to promote learning based on solving problems and on laboratory works increasing the practical component, the active learning, the independent work and the student accountability. The assessment model includes continuous evaluation elements in the scope of the active learning (dimesion and scale problems, laboratory reports and mini-tests) in order togive a significant reduction in the examination weight (50%): 50% continuous evaluation / 50% non-continuous evaluation.
Electromagnetic Foundations of Electrical Engineering, J. A. Brandão Faria, August 2008, Wiley & Sons (ISBN 978-0-470-72709-6);Coletânea de Problemas de Electrotecnia Teórica, V. Maló Machado, february 2018, Author edition, IST, Lisbon
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