TY - GEN
T1 - Antenna theory education tool using an interactive and movie-based electronic book
AU - Anguera, Jaume
AU - Subías, Carlos
AU - Pérez, Daniel
AU - Cabedo, Arnau
AU - Jordan, Vanessa
AU - Sorlí, Juan J.
AU - Carroza, Xavier
AU - Miquel, Albert
AU - Pérez, Antonio
AU - Badia, David
AU - Margalef, Jordi
AU - Vicent, Lluís
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - A virtual tool (electronic book) for antenna theory and electromagnetic propagation is presented. A variety of radiation and electromagnetic problems ranging from linear antennas to arrays, radiation in time domain, microstrip antennas, smart antennas, and reflectors can be simulated. The material is useful both at undergraduate and graduate engineering courses. The education tool uses a user-friendly interface thanks to Mathcad® software package which has been used to develop the electronic book. Moreover, navigation throughout the book follows the same rules used by internet users, therefore, no extra knowledge have to be introduced on how to use the present tool. Besides the user-friendly interface, the book also features visualization capabilities, 3D representations and videos, which play a significant role in teaching. The electronic book comes with several exercise sections having twofold objectives: first, students can check their own progress, and second, data from such exercises is provided to professor/mentor. This data is extremely useful to determine whether a given section can be considered completely understood or some extra emphasize needs to be done. AU the material presented in the book can be complemented by extra peer review scientific papers given at the end of each section, most of them can be downloaded (obviously, depending on the contract between university and editorial). The book has been tested using objective data resulting in good acceptance.
AB - A virtual tool (electronic book) for antenna theory and electromagnetic propagation is presented. A variety of radiation and electromagnetic problems ranging from linear antennas to arrays, radiation in time domain, microstrip antennas, smart antennas, and reflectors can be simulated. The material is useful both at undergraduate and graduate engineering courses. The education tool uses a user-friendly interface thanks to Mathcad® software package which has been used to develop the electronic book. Moreover, navigation throughout the book follows the same rules used by internet users, therefore, no extra knowledge have to be introduced on how to use the present tool. Besides the user-friendly interface, the book also features visualization capabilities, 3D representations and videos, which play a significant role in teaching. The electronic book comes with several exercise sections having twofold objectives: first, students can check their own progress, and second, data from such exercises is provided to professor/mentor. This data is extremely useful to determine whether a given section can be considered completely understood or some extra emphasize needs to be done. AU the material presented in the book can be complemented by extra peer review scientific papers given at the end of each section, most of them can be downloaded (obviously, depending on the contract between university and editorial). The book has been tested using objective data resulting in good acceptance.
KW - Antenna-theory education
KW - On-line courses
KW - Virtual tool. Engineering education
KW - e-book
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=50049098609&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/FIE.2007.4418112
DO - 10.1109/FIE.2007.4418112
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:50049098609
SN - 1424410843
SN - 9781424410842
T3 - Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
SP - S2C8-S2C13
BT - 37th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
T2 - 37th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
Y2 - 10 October 2007 through 13 October 2007
ER -