Dr. Markley teaches courses related to electromagnetism, microwave circuits, and antennas.
APSC 178 Electricity, Magnetism, and Waves
This course provides an introduction to fundamental concepts in electric and magnetic field theory as well as light, optics, and waves. Basic circuit concepts related to direct current (DC) are also covered. These concepts have a wide range of practical applications including motors, sensors, industrial manufacturing processes, semiconductors, optics, electronics circuits, electrical grids, wireless communications, biomedical devices, microscopy, and astronomy. Students will leave this course knowing the fundamental concepts in electricity, magnetism, and optics, and with the insight into how to apply these concepts to practical engineering problems.
ENGR 365 Engineering Electromagnetics
This course builds on the material learned in the first year APSC 178 course by developing electromagnetic concepts from a vector calculus perspective. Students will start by learning the physical laws governing electrostatics and magnetostatics, and then allow for time varying fields in order to complete Maxwell’s equations and introduce electromagnetic waves. This course will use numerical analysis (Matlab) to supplement and solidify students’ analytical understanding of the subject.
ENGR 473/574 Antennas and Propagation
This course will provide a strong foundation for aspiring electrical engineers who are interested in designing antennas for wireless applications. The radiation patterns of simple antennas will be calculated using vector potentials while analytic techniques like image theory, reciprocity, and Babinet’s principle will be introduced to analyze more complicated structures. Antenna parameters such as gain, directivity, radiation resistance, and input impedance will be discussed, and communication links will be analyzed using the Friis transmission equation. Antenna arrays will be covered in detail, along with specific antennas such as dipole antennas, loop antennas, microstrip patch antennas, aperture antennas, and Yagi-Uda antennas.
ENGR 567 Passive Microwave Circuits
This course covers advanced topics in passive microwave circuits, including electromagnetic waves, transmission lines, waveguides, network parameters, Smith Charts, gain equations, even-odd mode analysis, matching networks, power dividers, couplers, metamaterials, and dispersion.