Annex 2- ESoA – Project Achievements- MSCF-CT-2006-046042
Contract FP6
MSCF-CT-2006-046042
European School of Antennas (ESoA)
Annex 2
first year 2007
PROJECT ACHIEVEMENTS
Due date of the progress report: 15/2/2008
First submission date: 22/2/2008
Resubmitted after corrections: 4/08/2008
Start date of project: 1/1/2007 duration: 36 months
Organisation name of lead contractor for this document: UNISI (1)
Prepared by S. Maci
1. Achievements of the Objectives
2. Memorandum of Understanding
3. Summary report of the courses
TNO- Phased Arrays and Reflectarrays
IETR-Microwave and millimeter wave antenna design
UPC-Compact antennas
DTU - Advanced Spherical Near-Field Antenna Measurement
Techniques
POLITO - Advanced Computational EM for antenna analysis
KTH - MIMO Communication Systems and Antennas
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1. Achievements of the objectives
The general objectives of ESoA as indicated in the contract and the progress in their
achievements are analyzed here. Appendix 2 to this report will contain a more deep
analysis.
Reinforcement of the European excellence in antennas and propagation
The goal of reinforcing the excellence has been fundamentally based on the interchange
of ideas among early stage researchers and trainers as well as among young researchers,
with a feedback of increasing the future exchange and mobility. This objective is pursued
by ensured the participations of excellent teachers, together with the control of the
completeness of the scientific programs of the courses (Section 3). These two aspects
have been continuously monitored by the board and evaluation forms have been
distributed to the student at the end of each course and analyzed by the board at the end
of the year with full satisfaction.
Creation of an effective post-graduate formative offer
The distributed structure of the school allows the merging in excellent research centers of
more specialists on the same topics, with the aim to provide the effective overview of the
actual state of the art in the research while opening new research horizons. The direct
contact among different researchers in the same specific area allows the understanding of
different points of view and diverse approaches to the same problem. It is also clear that
Europe has to find a way to reduce the nation-fixed collaborations in research projects, to
profit from the large amount of knowledge spread all over Europe.
The formative offer in the first year covered some of the educational objectives:
• uniform covering of theory (course of POLITO, DTU), analysis (POLITO, UPC), design
(UPC, IETR, KTH, TNO) and measurements of antennas (DTU, IETR) and wireless
systems (KTH), with emphasis on the international research state of art, on the
technological innovation, and on the industrial needs. It is worthwhile to mention the
unusual opportunity given by this school to work directly within the major spherical near
field measurement facility in Europe (DTU) and one of the largest in the world.
• completion of individual PhD curricula of the students in Electromagnetics,
Telecommunication and Electronics by offering interaction with the best trainers in Europe.
This topic has been discussed various times in the ESoA Board meetings and reported as
an article in the Memorandum of Understanding (Section 2 of this document)
• selection of best students with the perspective of retaining their talent after graduation in
Industries or in Universities, different from those of their native country. To this end, each
course has been furnished with a final exam, and marks have been given to the students.
The results of the exams have been placed in the report in Section 3 of this document.
Furthermore, the selection of the candidates to be financed by the projects given a lot of
hints in the above directions.
The overall indication of the good progress of the school in the above sense is the
excellent global output of the evaluation forms, reported in section 3 and synthesized in
the quality indicators in Annex 1 to the activity report.
Increase of the ties between Universities and Industries on a European scale
The gap between University research, often too much theoretical, and industrial
development, focused on immediately applicable products, is also often difficult to
overcome. To establish a dialogue between the different actors, and determine future
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needs thus avoiding unproductive work and loss of time and resources is one of the
objective of the school.
To reach this objective, some speakers from the industry was invited (especially in the
course of TNO). Big companies and research institutions like ESA-ESTEC, THALES
SAAB microwave, FOI, have participated to the school. This year the participation of
teachers from industry has been 14% and the participation from student from profit
institutions has been around 15%. These numbers have to be considered not yet sufficient
and we are trying to improve the industrial participation.
Improvement of the mobility
One of the prominent objective of ESoA is to facilitate the interchange of ideas among
early stage researchers and trainers as well as among young researchers, and increasing
the mobility and synergy. In this concern, we believe to have achieved a great success.
The new model of distributed school moved a great mass of trainers and students and
created opportunity of interactions and exchange ideas with enormous potential
strengthening of the young antenna community. The international mobility index of the
school are exceptionally high and over the expectations. The average indexes AIMIS
(0,78), EMT (0,58), and NNC (1,12) defined in Annex 1 testify the good progress of the
achievement of this objective.
High- level education restructuring
In the present contest of international evolution of the University system, where scientific
areas requiring a deeper basic and theoretical knowledge can be penalized, the
restructuring of the high-level education plays a fundamental role. To help the restructuring
process, a Memorandum of Understanding has been developed (see section 2) and
signed by the partners. Some articles of the MoU can be considered the first step toward
this restructuring in the field of antenna engineering and lay the basis to start a Europewide PhD program, involving both academic and industrial organizations, that also pose in
a homogenized way the problem of the PhD credit delivery criteria.
The school also implies occasion of discussion on how to carry on the undergraduate and
PhD level education on EM, and how to attract young students to a discipline which
requires more sacrifice than others. To this end, various new way of student-teacher
interaction have been devised, that goes behind the simple exercises, but ranges from
reading and reporting the content of key papers on topical subjects, panel discussions,
laboratory experiments, student plenary presentations, project of small design of antennas,
assisted measurements and small competitions. The reports in section 3 details the above
Activity.
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2.Memorandum of Understanding
The 24 institutions belonging to this MCA project have prepared a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) in order to implement and develop ESoA. Besides the main objectives
already mentioned, the other scopes of this Memorandum are: 1) pursuing the “excellence
of teaching” as a fundamental principle aiming the ESoA activity; 2) extending and
encouraging the participation to ESoA to Parties external to the group; 3) laying down the
basis to prolong the ESoA activity beyond the termination of the Marie Curie Action; 4)
establishing common rules for the attribution and recognition of doctorate credits; 5) setting
the competences of the ESoA board and ESoA leader, as concerned with the structuring,
organization and management of the courses.
The final version of the MoU has been distributed in October 2007. At the present date (15
February 2008), 60% of the partners have signed the Memorandum, but all people accepted
to sign, and the delay is due to the long formal internal process of approval. The text of the
MoU and it is reported hereinafter.
Memorandum of Understanding for The European School of Antennas
This Memorandum of Understanding is made among:
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET (DTU) established in DENMARK – ANKER ENGELUNDSVEJ 1,
BYGNING 101A, 2800 KGS. LYNGBY, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised
representative,
HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (TKK) established in FINLAND - OTAKAARI 1, 02015
ESPOO, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
UNIVERSITE DE MARNE LA VALLEE (UMLV) established in FRANCE - 5 BOULEVARD DESCARTES/
CITE DESCARTES/ CHAMPS SUR MARNE, 77454 MARNE LA VALLEE, in the person of their pro-tempore
legal representative or authorised representative,
INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE RENNES (IETR) established in FRANCE - 20
AVENUE DES BUTTES DE COESMES, 35043 RENNES CEDEX, in the person of their pro-tempore legal
representative or authorised representative,
IMST GMBH (IMST) established in GERMANY CARL-FRIEDRICH-GAUSS-STRASSE 2, 47475 KAMPLINTFORT, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
INGEGNERIA DEI SISTEMI (IDS) established in ITALY, S. Piero a Grado, Pisa, Via Livornese, 1019
56010, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
UNIVERSITAET KARLSRUHE (UKARL) established in GERMANY - KAISERSTRASSE 12, 76131
KARLSRUHE, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA "LA SAPIENZA" (SAPIENZA) established in ITALY -PIAZZALE
ALDO MORO 5, 00185 ROMA, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised
representative,
POLITECNICO DI TORINO (POLITO) established in ITALY - CORSO DUCA DEGLI ABRUZZI 24, 10129
TORINO, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI "FEDERICO II" (UNINA) established in ITALY, Corso Umberto I
80138 NAPOLI, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE (UNIFI) established in ITALY - PIAZZA SAN MARCO 4, 50121
FIRENZE, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA (UNISI) established in ITALY - VIA BANCHI DI SOTTO 55, 53100
SIENA, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
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UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA (UPC) established in SPAIN - JORDI GIRONA 31, 08034
BARCELONA, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID (UPM) established in SPAIN - AVENIDA RAMIRO DE
MAEZTU 7, 28040 MADRID, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised
representative,
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA (UPV) established in SPAIN - CAMINO DE VERA S/N,
46022 VALENCIA, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (CHALMERS) established in SWEDEN - 412 96
GOETEBORG, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN (KTH) established in SWEDEN – VALHALLAVAEGEN 79, 100 44
STOCKHOLM, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) established in SWITZERLAND, CH-1015
LAUSANNE, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (TNO) established in THE
NETHERLANDS - SCHOEMAKERSTRAAT 97, 2628 VK DELFT, in the person of their pro-tempore legal
representative or authorised representative,
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (UBHAM) established in UNITED KINGDOM - EDGBASTON,
BIRMINGHAM B15 2TT, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
THE UNIVERSITY of ZAGREB (UNIZAG) established in CROATIA , Unska 3 HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia in
the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
THE CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (CTU) established in CZECH REPUBLIC, Zikova 4 16636 Praha 6
Czech Republic, in the person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
CENTRE TECNOLOGİC DE TELECOMUNİCACİONS DE CATALUNYA (CTTC), Established in SPAIN,
Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia Av. Canal Olimpic s/n 08860, Castelldefels (Barcelona, Spain) in the
person of their pro-tempore legal representative or authorised representative,
PREAMBLE
WHEREAS the “European School of Antennas” (herein after called “ESoA”) is an innovative model of highly
qualified, geographically distributed thematic set of post-graduate courses on the subject of antennas and
relevant topics, at advanced level, particularly devoted to doctoral students, held by excellent experts in this
field and located in the most prestigious Universities and Research Centers in Europe.
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WHEREAS the strategic and scientific objectives of ESoA are to:
improve the European excellence on antennas;
complete the individual doctoral curricula of students in Electrical and Information Engineering by offering
interaction with the best trainers in Europe;
increase the link between European Universities and Industries in antenna research and development;
facilitate the interchange of ideas among early stage researchers and teachers, thus increase the future
mobility and synergy.
WHEREAS, the majority of the Parties, having considerable experience in the field of Electromagnetism and
Antennas, set up ESoA in 2005 within the framework of a “Network of Excellence” of the sixth framework
program of the European Union named “Antenna Centre of Excellence” (with acronym ACE contract number
508009, entered into force on the 1st of January 2003 and ended on the 31st of December 2005).
WHEREAS ESoA has continued its activity within a second Network of Excellence (contract number
026957, with acronym ACE2, entered into force on the 1st of January 2006 with end on the 31st of December
2007).
WHEREAS, the activity of ESoA has continued within the framework of a “Marie Curie Action” of the
European Union (contract number MSCF-CT-2006-046042), that covers the period from the 1st of January
2007 to the 31st of December 2009.
WHEREAS, the Parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding of ESoA, effective until
December 2007.
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WHEREAS the Parties’s intention is to to update the above Memorandum of Understanding and to extend
its duration.
NOW THEREFORE IT IS HEREBY AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS
“MoU” refers to this Memorandum of Understanding
“Parties” means the legal entities listed above and any other legal entity which will sign in the future this MoU
(see Art. 13).
“ESoA Project” means any activity relevant to ESoA implementation and development
“ESB” means the ESoA Board (see art. 7).
“MCA” means Marie Curie Action
ARTICLE 2. SUBJECT AND SCOPE
The Parties intend to sign this MoU in order to implement and develop ESoA within the framework of MCA
and beyond, with the intention to:
• extend and encourage the participation to ESoA to Parties that are not Contractors of MCA
• ay down the basis to prolong the ESoA activity even beyond the expire date of the MCA;
• establish common rules for the attribution and recognition of doctorate credits.
• establish an ESoA Board and an ESoA Leader, setting their competences related to the ESoA activity
concerned with the structuring, organization and management of the courses
• state the “excellence of teaching” as a fundamental principle aiming the ESoA activity
ARTICLE 3. ESoA EXCELLENCE OF TEACHING
The Parties intend to guarantee the excellence of teaching as a fundamental principle of ESoA activity.
It is, therefore, understood that ESoA will
• ensure high quality and effective teaching that address our students’ professional and research needs, in
order to optimise their experience and enable them to exploit their full potential.
• increase the quality and broaden the range of student applications.
• undertake a thorough review and revision of the teaching and learning strategy, in order to address the
challenge of maintaining standards, enhancing quality and meeting student needs and expectations at the
same time as well as improving research performance.
• monitor and, as necessary, adjust the strategy to deliver the high-level teaching quality.
ARTICLE 4. CREDITS
Each course, that can be held by either a University or a non-University Party of EsoA, shall be provided
with a final exam with the attribution of credits on the basis of the workload performed by the student in each
course. The University Parties of ESoA shall recognize within their individual post-graduate programs the
credits gained by their doctorate students attending the ESoA courses, provided that the inclusion of the
course/courses in the study plan of the student has been approved by the individual doctorate committee. In
any case, the student will gain the number of credits granted by the individual doctorate Committee on the
basis of the rules of credits attribution applied by the home University.
ARTICLE 5. ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS
The Parties retain the rights, where appropriate, to define other areas of cooperation under mutual
agreement. In this case additional agreements approved by the competent bodies will be entered into.
ARTICLE 6. ROLE OF NON-UNIVERSITY PARTIES
• The Parties will increase the dialogue between University and industries by involving industrial speakers
in the ESoA courses.
• The non-University Parties can participate to EoSA activity by taking part to the choice of the course topics
and to the organization and teaching of the courses
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• The non-University Parties will be available to temporarily host the students in their premises giving access
to their facilities. People can attend the school courses even if not belonging to any Doctorate course.
ARTICLE 7. ESoA BOARD AND ESoA LEADER
The collaboration under this MoU will be implemented and coordinated by:
• An ESoA Board (ESB) comprising one member representing each Party, appointed by the same Party.
Each Party may vary at any time their representative appointed as member of the ESoA Borad by delivering
a formal notice to the EoA Leader
• An ESoA Leader appointed by the ESB as specified in Article 9, who will be in charge till the expire date
of this MoU, unless a new ESoA Leader is appointed by the ESoA Board by at any time .
ARTICLE 8. INTERIM ESoA BOARD AND ESoA LEADER
The ESoA Board and the ESoA Leader appointed under the previously signed MoU will remain in charge
even beyond the expiry date of the above MoU until a new Board and Leader is nominated under this MoU.
The interim ESoA Leader will remain in charge until a new ESoA Leader is nominated by the newly
appointed ESoA Board under this MoU.
ARTICLE 9. RULES of VOTING
Each member of the ESB will have one vote and may appoint a substitute to attend and vote at any ESB
meeting. Any decision, action, proposal in the ESB will be made preferably by unanimous consent. In any
case, meetings will constitute a quorum if more than two-thirds (2/3) of the members are present or duly
represented by proxy. Decisions will be taken by a number of votes that express the majority of the Parties
(strictly higher than “Number of Parties” divided by 2), taking into account votes of members present or duly
represented.
ARTICLE 10. COMPETENCES OF ESB AND OF THE ESoA LEADER
The ESB competences are the following:
• Initiating the actions necessary to fulfil the purpose of this MoU
• Drafting the regulation concerning the organization of the ESoA, and the credits (based on the ECTS
scheme) granted by the ESoA courses.
• Finding financial support for the ESoA activity to be collected and administrated by the Party of the ESoA
Leader and distributed to the other Parties as appropriate.
• Proposing on the registration fees according to the MCA rules, when applicable
• Proposing on the political and strategic orientation of ESoA;
• Deciding on the programme of the courses;
• Proposing amendments to this MoU;
• Attempting to settle amicably any dispute arising out of or in connection with this MoU.
• Proposing the accession of new Parties to this MoU.
• Establishing the requirements to deliver the Mention of Excellence (see Article 12).
The competences of Leader are the following:
• looking after the implementation of the decision of the ESB;
• collecting any documentation relevant to the school, like reports about each course, and budget planning
of each course;
• looking after the collection of financial support granted to ESoA and the distribution of funds to the Parties
as appropriate;
• preparing at the end of each year a final document summarizing the overall activity of ESoA to be reported
to the ESB;
• performing and coordinating the dissemination activity of ESoA inside and outside Europe;
• organizing groups among the representatives of the ESB to support him/her in performing the above
actions.
• making available on VCE the date of the meetings and the meeting agendas, and the relevant the minutes
of the ESB meeting within 10 days from the meeting date.
ARTICLE 11. ACCESS OF NEW PARTIES TO THE ESoA MoU
Any Party can propose the inclusion of new legal entities as Parties of this ESoA MoU when appropriate for
the successful progress of ESoA.
The ESB will vote on the access of the proposed new legal entity according to Article 8. Any legal entity
accepted by the ESB, will become a Party after unilaterally signing this MoU by the legal representative or
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by a duly authorized representative, without the need of signature for approval by all the pre-existing
Parties.
ARTICLE 12. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Language: this MoU is drawn up in English, which language will govern all documents, notices and
meetings for its performance and application and/or extension or in any other way relative thereto.
Notices: any notice to be given under this MoU will be in writing to the addresses and recipients as listed
above, or to any other address that will be duly communicated to the ESoA Leader. Any notice will be
deemed to have been served when personally delivered, or, if transmitted by fax, electronic or digital
transmission when transmitted provided that such transmission is confirmed by receipt of a successful
transmission report and confirmed by mail.
Amendments: amendments or changes to this MoU will be valid only if made in writing and signed by an
authorised signatory of each Party.
Termination: this MoU may be terminated at any time by mutual written consent of the Parties.
Withdrawal: any Party may withdraw from the MoU at anytime upon presentation of three-month written
notice to ESB. It is understood that a withdrawing Party should meet its own commitments up to the effective
date of withdrawal.
Conflict with Laws: nothing in this MoU is intended to conflict with the current mandatory applicable laws
including EC Legislation and international Conventions. If a term of this MoU is inconsistent with such laws
and regulations, then that term will be considered invalid. However, the other terms and conditions of this
MoU will remain in full effect.
Conflict with MCA:
nothing in this MOU is intended to conflict with the provisions of the MCA Contract Number MSCF-CT2006-046042
ARTICLE 13. SIGNATURE
In order to simplify the signature procedure, each Party will receive the final version of the MoU by e-mail.
The University of Siena will be in charge of receiving from each Party the final version of the MoU duly
signed. Each Party will sign the pertinent final page and will initial all the pages of the MoU and send the
original signed version to the University of Siena,
Prof Stefano Maci
Facoltà di Ingegneria, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione
University of Siena,
Via Roma 56,
53100, Siena, Italy
Once the University of Siena receives all the signed pages, copy of all the final pages bearing the Signature
will be sent to all Parties.
ARTICLE 14. FORMATION AND DURATION
The place of formation of this MoU is to be considered Siena (Italy), where all the signed copies are to be
delivered. The MoU will become effective upon signature by all parties, on the day of the last signature. It will
remain in effect until December 31 2010,
ARTICLE 15. APPLICABLE LAW AND RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES
This MoU will be governed by the Belgium Law.
Any disputes regarding the interpretation or implementation of this Mou will be resolved by consultation
among the Parties in at least two ESoA Board meetings. If the Parties concerned have not reached a
settlement of such dispute at the expiration of sixty (60) days after the second meeting, the dispute shall be
finally settled by arbitration under the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce by one
or more arbitrators appointed in accordance with the said Rules.
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3. Summary report of the courses
In the following, we present a summary report for all the courses, that include the following
information:
1.
2.
3.
4.
List of participant speakers and affiliation
List of participant students and affiliation
Financed students in the framework of the project
Participants financed with internal funding not claimed in the total costs of the
project
5. Scientific program
6. Logistic arrangement and other information.
Concerning the list of participant speakers, each course report presents tables that
indicates the participation of each speaker in the event weighted by the fraction of times
they really have participated to the course. This specification serves to estimate the total
number of “event participant” (see Annex 3).
Concerning the selection of the students, the application was open to eligible researchers
having a recognized background (master degree) in disciplines of the Information and
Communication Technologies, preferably in Electromagnetism, Telecommunication, and
Electronics.
Each course selected a number of students ranging from 5 to 9, among which 5 students
(4 for IETR) have been funded in the framework of the project and the remaining selected
students have obtained support from extra-funding of the partners that HAS NOT BEEN
CLAIMED IN THE TOTAL COSTS OF THE PROJECT.
For each course, the announcement for the grants have been done through our web site
around 60 days before the beginning of the course, with deadline 30 days later. A
commission composed by 3 people, coordinated by the course leader, has taken care of
selecting the students. The applications was consisting on sending to the course
coordinator the CV, the list of publications, and a recommendation letter by an advisor or
an industrial tutor. The selection was done on the basis of the following criteria (in order of
importance):
1. CV of the candidate (also in relation with the year of PhD)
2. Effectiveness of the supporting letter
People from east-Europe countries as well as girl students were preferred in the selection,
even being the other merits. Preference was given to people from external country with
respect to the one that organizes the course.
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Phased Arrays and Reflectarrays
TNO Defence, Security and Safety. Type:MCA
The Hague - The Netherlands, May 7-11, 2007
Course Coordinator(s)
G. GERINI (TNO, ID 36)
SUMMARY
The course was given by speakers belonging to industrial and academic key players in the fields of
phased arrays and reflectarrays, and was articulated over five days. The first three days of lectures
were dedicated to phased arrays, and the last two days to reflectarrays. The first part of the course
offered to the attendees both the basics of the phased array analysis and design, the most
advanced modelling techniques for multilayer finite and infinite periodic structures and also a wide
panoramic of systems under production and new generation of systems, presented directly by
some of the largest companies in Europe. Several fields of applications were reviewed during the
course, ranging from advanced arrays for space applications to complex radar systems for military
and civil applications. The most advanced EM modelling techniques for such complex problems
were presented highlighting the connection to the real problems and real systems that antenna
engineers have to face in their "everyday" working environment. The last two days were concerned
with basic theory, applications and new trends in reflectarray antennas. The basic theory for
analysis and design was presented with special emphasis on the method of moments applied to
the analysis of periodic and truncated periodic structures in a multilayer environment. The lectures
presented different implementations of phase-shifters, different techniques for beam
reconfigurability, synthesis techniques for contoured beam and multi-beam reflectarrays and active
reflectarrays. Theoretical and experimental results were presented for some representative
applications, as satellite DBS antennas and LMDS base station antennas.
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Table 1. Speakers
Name
Title
Organization
J. Encinar
Prof.
G. Caille
PhD
C. Renard
M. Gillard
PhD
Prof.
Universidad
Politecnica de
Madrid
ALCATELALENIA
SPACE
THALES
IETR
G. Vecchi
Prof.
C. Mangenot
Nationali Participation Equivalent
ty
number of
participating
speakers per
Country
ES
5 days
1
(100%)
FR
5 days
(100%)
FR
FR
1 day (20%)
5 days
(100%)
1 day (20%)
PhD
Polytechnic of
Turin
ESA-ESTEC
IT
NL
G. Toso
PhD
ESA-ESTEC
NL
G. Gerini
PhD
TNO
NL
P. Hoogeboom
A. Neto
Prof.
PhD
TNO
TNO
NL
NL
H-O. Vickes
Prof.
5 days
(100%)
5 days
(100%)
5 days
(100%)
1 day (20%)
5 days
(100%)
5 days
(100%)
1 day (20%)
SAAB
SE
Microwave
P. Drackner
M. Sc. SAAB
SE
E.E.
Microwave
L. Pettersson
Prof.
FOI
SE
1 day (20%)
Equivalent number of speakers participating to the event
2,2
0,2
4,2
1,4
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Table 2. Students
N.
Name
Institution
Nationality
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Suiyan Geng
Apostolos Georgiadis
Davide Caputo
Agnese Mazzinghi
Benedetta Mencagli
Maria Montagna
MarcoPasian
Andrea Pirisi
Jose-Manuel Fernandez
Eloy de Lera Acedo
Pablo Padilla
Miguel Salas
JuanSkora
University of Helsinki
CTTC
University of Milan
University of Florence
University of Perugia
University of Pavia
University of Pavia
University of Milan
Polytechnic University of Madrid
University Carlos III Madrid (Astron)
Polytechnic University of Madrid
Polytechnic University of Madrid
Centro Espacial Teofilo Tabanera
Finland
Greece
Italy
Italy
Italy
Italy
Italy
Italy
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
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Table 3 Participants financed by EU
N.
Name
Institution
Nationality
1
Suiyan Geng
University of Helsinki
Finland
2
3
4
5
Agnese Mazzinghi
Davide Caputo
Maria Montagna
Jose-Manuel Fernandez
University of Florence
University of Milan
University of Pavia
Politecnical University of Madrid
Italy
Italy
Italy
Spain
Table 4 Participants financed with internal funding
not claimed in the total costs
N.
Name
Institution
Nationality
1
2
3
4
Benedetta Mencagli
Marco Pasian
Andrea Pirisi
Eloy de Lera Acedo
University of Perugia
University of Pavia
Polytechnic of Milan
University Carlos III Madrid
Italy
Italy
Italy
Spain
During the course, coffee breaks and lunches (see the course time table) have been offered to all
participants.
Each student received a folder with a paper version of the teaching material and an electronic version
on a CD-ROM.
A social dinner has been offered to all the students and teachers.
Group Photo
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Part 1: Phased Arrays
MONDAY
09:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 12:15
12:15 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
15:00 – 16:00
16:00 – 16:15
16:15 – 17:15
Space Applications
1.1 Operational
Environment and
Defence Applications
Requirements
Coffee Break
1.1 Operational
Environment and
Civil Applications
Requirements
Display/Discussion/Exercise time
Lunch
EBG/FSS printed structures
1.2 Theoretical
Formulation & Applied
Connected arrays
Design
Coffee Break
1.2 Theoretical
IE- MoM
Formulation & Applied
Infinite arrays GF
Design
TUESDAY
09:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 12:15
12:15 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
15:00 – 16:00
16:00 – 16:15
16:15 – 17:15
1.2 Theoretical
Truncated arrays
Formulation & Applied
Multiscale
Design
Elem. By elem. MoM
Coffee Break
1.2 Theoretical
Formulation & Applied
Sparse Arrays
Design
Display/Discussion/Exercise time
Lunch
Sparse Arrays
1.2 Theoretical
Formulation & Applied
Planar Arrays
Design
Thin Arrays
Coffee Break
1.2 Theoretical
Formulation & Applied
Tapered Notch Arrays
Design
WEDNESDAY
09:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 12:15
12:15 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
15:00 – 16:00
16:00 – 16:15
16:15 – 17:15
1.3 Technological aspects: Phase shifters
System architecture, RF
Feeding networks
modules and components
Coffee Break
1.3 Technological aspects:
Electronic Scanning techniques
System architecture, RF
modules and components
Display/Discussion/Exercise time
Lunch
1.3 Technological aspects: Errors - Calibration
System architecture, RF
Technology for Space Systems
modules and components
Coffee Break
Exercises / Tests
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Part 2: Reflectarrays
THURSDAY
09:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 12:15
12:15 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
15:00 – 16:00
16:00 – 16:15
16:15 – 17:15
2.1 Operational
Space
Environment and
Defence
Requirements
Coffee Break
2.2 Technological aspects:
System architecture, RF
modules and components
Display/Discussion/Exercise time
Lunch
2.2 Technological aspects:
System architecture, RF
modules and components
2.3 Theoretical
Formulation Theoretical
Analysis and Design
Formulation & Applied
Design
Coffee Break
2.3 Theoretical
Analysis and Design
Formulation & Applied
Design
FRIDAY
09:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 12:15
12:15 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
15:00 – 16:00
16:00 – 16:15
Pattern synthesis
2.3 Theoretical
Formulation & Applied
Contoured-beam and multi-beam
Design
reflectarrays
Coffee Break
2.3 Theoretical
Formulation & Applied
FDTD Techniques
Design
Display/Discussion/Exercise time
Lunch
2.3 Theoretical
FDTD Techniques
Formulation & Applied
Design
Exercises / Tests
Conclusions - Coffee
Evaluation forms
3,93
4,07
3,86
4,14
4,29
4,36
4,00
4,29
4,93
4,79
M. Gillard
J. Encinar
4,00
4,29
G. Caille
4,64
4,79
C. Renard
4,57
4,64
H-O. Vickes
4,64
4,64
L. Petterson
G. Gerini
P.
Hoogeeboom
4,29
4,29
G. Toso
4,00
4,00
G. Vecchi
4,14
4,29
A. Neto
Instructor is
knowledgeable
about the
subject
Instructor is
P. Drackner
C. Mangenot
(Legend: 1 Poor; 2 Fair, 3 Average, 4 Good, 5 Excellent)
Table 5 Teaching Evaluation
4,21
4,57
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prepared
Instructor
encourages
participation
Instructor
answers
students’
questions
Instructor is
enthusiastic
about teaching
Instructor’s
fluency in
English
Interest of
material
Relevance
of
material
Using teaching
aids (overheads,
videos,
handouts)
How
pertinent
were the course
objectives to the
target audience?
How well do you
feel the course
objectives were
met?
How well do you
fell about the
level of detail of
the
course
documents?
4,00
4,00
4,07
4,50
4,21
4,57
4,21
4,00
3,93
4,00
4,00
4,71
4,14
4,36
4,43
4,43
4,57
4,50
4,57
4,57
4,29
4,29
4,43
4,21
4,57
4,29
3,79
3,71
4,07
4,50
4,57
4,57
4,36
4,14
4,07
4,29
3,86
4,64
4,07
3,79
4,29
4,36
4,43
4,43
4,64
4,00
4,07
3,93
3,93
3,79
4,14
3,93
4,07
3,86
4,07
4,64
4,57
4,36
4,21
3,86
3,86
4,07
4,14
4,71
4,43
3,92
3,83
3,92
4,08
3,85
3,92
4,00
3,92
3,85
3,85
3,62
4,15
3,92
4,08
4,08
4,08
3,93
3,86
3,86
3,79
3,79
3,79
3,71
3,57
3,86
3,86
4,21
4,00
4,14
4,43
4,29
4,14
4,14
4,36
4,29
4,21
4,29
4,43
4,29
4,21
4,14
4,14
4,57
4,29
4,21
4,36
3,86
4,00
4,14
3,93
4,57
4,14
4,07
3,86
4,14
4,29
4,29
4,29
4,29
3,93
4,00
4,07
4,07
4,64
4,29
Table 6 Logistical support
How would you rate the letter of invitation in providing you with the information
you needed to make your plans for participation in this training course?
How well was the registration/check-in process organised, staffed and located
How would you rate the lodging accommodations for this course?
How would you rate the quality and variety of the meals served?
The classroom is comfortable and inviting
Desks and tables provide adequate work space
Evaluation for Lab: N.A.
3,57
3,64
3,43
3
3,93
4,14
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Type
MCA
Compact antennas
Barcelona, June 4–8, 2007
Course Coordinator:
L. JOFRE (UPC, ID 26)
Involved
institutions
SUMMARY
The course covered some topics of about 24 hours of lectures plus 8 hours of exercises and group work, all
concentrated in a week.
It deals with the modelling and design principles of small antennas for communications in mobile environments with
emphasis on wideband, multiband and multi-element antenna geometries. The course included the theoretical
background, design principles, implementation aspects and measurement methods. The fundamental radiation
principles and limits were presented and discussed. The main analytical and numerical techniques were then studied.
The basic and the most successful models were presented and studied. As a special case the principles of the fractal
geometries and its application to the design of miniaturized devices as: fractal shapes, fractal loading and selfcomplementary antennas, superconductive resonators and filters. were reviewed These were also allowed into the
particular problems linked to terminal antenna measurement. The lectures covered the following areas:
• Basic theory: Fundamental limits, Analytical methodologies, Simulation techniques, Design strategies, System aspects.
• Geometries and applications: Extremely small, wide and multiband and fractal geometries for mobile communications
and sensing
• Measurement techniques: principles, gain-efficiency concept for small antennas, cavity techniques, open space
techniques.
The participants have designed antennas, with different analytical and software tools and asses their directivity,
efficiency, and diversity performance with both experimental and computational methods. Some prototypes were
designed, implemented and measured, to check the validity of the methodology.
Table 1 Speakers
Name
Title
Organization
Nationalit Participation
y
Equivalent
number of
participating
speakers
Anja Skrivervik
Dirk Manteuffel
Simon Otto
Lluís Jofre
Juan Manuel Rius
Sebastián Blanch
Prof.
Dr.
Dr.
Prof.
Prof.
Prof.
Prof.
CH
DE
DE
ES
ES
ES
USA
1
0,4
Arthur Yaghjian
EPFL
IMST
IMST
UPC
UPC
UPC
Visiting
professor
Equivalent number of speakers participating to the event
5 days (100%)
1 day ( 20%)
1 day ( 20%)
5 days (100%)
1 day ( 20%)
1 day ( 20%)
5 days (100%)
1,4
1
3,8
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Table 2 Students
N.
Name
Institution
Nationality
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
Nicolas Gross
Lyazid Aberbour
Anthony Ghiotto
Markus Köberle
Yuliang Zheng
Denis Becker
Jens Timmermann
Constantine Kakogiannis
Mariangela Vallone
Gianfranco Spalluto
Cristina Ponti
Cristian D. Giovampaola
Carlos Mendes
Sara Nunes
Nuno Pires
Agboola Teru
Carlos Gómez
Jonathan Mora
Beatriz Monsalve
Gemma Roqueta
Santiago Capdevila
Benjamin Izquierdo
Javier Alonso
Vanja Plicanic
Ruiyuan Tian
Daniel Nyberg
Titos Kokkinos
Satimo
UCL
INP Grenoble
TUD
TUD
UKARL
UKARL
ICCS/NTUA
UNILE
Calearo
La Sapienza
UNISI
IST
IST
IT
FHIT
UPM
UPM
UPC
UPC
UPC
UPC
UPC
LTH - LU
LU
Chalmers
WICR
France
Belgium
France
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Greece
Italy
Italy
Italy
Italy
Portugal
Portugal
Portugal
South Africa
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
UK
Table 3 participants financed by EU
N.
Name
Institution
Nationality
1
2
3
4
5
Lyazid Aberbour
Denis Becker
Cristina Ponti
Cristian D. Giovampaola
Daniel Nyberg
UCL
UKARL
La Sapienza
UNISI
Chalmers
Belgium
Germany
Italy
Italy
Sweden
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Table 4 Participants financed with internal funding not claimed in the total costs
N.
1
2
Name
Anthony Ghiotto
Titos Kokkinos
Institution
INP Grenoble
WICR
Nationality
France
Greece
3
4
Mariangela Vallone
Agboola A. Teru
UNILE
Fort Hare Institute of Technology
Italy
South Africa
Course Schedule
MONDAY June 4 Compact antenna fundamentals and geometries
9:00-10:55
Course presentation C
O
Compact antennas
F
for communication
F
and sensing
E
systems
E
Antenna
performance in
B
wireless
R
environments
E
Radiation fields
A
Transmitting and
K
receiving small
antennas: radiation
and circuital
parameters
TUESDAY June 5
9:00-10:55
11:05-13:00
14:30-16:25
Compact antennas
analytical
methodologies
Basic geometries:
dipoles, loops,
monopoles, slot,
patch antennas
Antenna feeding:
impedance matching,
baluns
Antenna technology:
transmission lines,
antenna feeding,
ground plane effects
Patch antenna
efficiency and gain
Fundamental
Parameters: Impedance,
Bandwidth, Q
Matched VSWR bandwidth
for parallel RLC circuits
Q of antenna with lossless
dispersive material.
Q of circuits with lossless
dispersive material
Q of antennas with
Lower bounds on Q
L
L
U
N
C
H
C
O
F
F
E
E
B
R
E
A
K
16:35–17:30
Small Antennas and
Supergain
Obstacles to designing
electrically small supergain
arrays
Elements separately driven
to obtain supergain
Folded resonant antennas
Antenna design techniques
11:05-13:00
14:30-15:55
16:05–17:30
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Numerical techniques
for antenna design
- Analytical and semianalytical tools
- EM based techniques
(MoM, FEM, FDTD)
- Hybrid techniques
- What method for
which problem?
- Computational
techniques in teaching
EM
- Typical antenna
applications
Numerical Design of
state of art Compact
Antenna
-
- Personal work and
- Personal work and
assignments: Numerical
Design.
assignments: Numerical
Optimization
The EMPIRE field solver
The CAD environment
The solver
Postprocessing
Antenna examples
Antenna design for
mobile terminals
- Small antennas for
mobile terminal
- A simple but accurate
simulation model
- Analysis of different
antenna concepts
- The role of the
terminal
- The interaction with
the user
- Multiband
antennas
WEDNESDAY June 6
9:00-10:55
C
O
Fundamental limits F
F
Small antennas:
Chu’s, modes, field E
E
methods
Q and Gain:values
B
and limitations
R
E
A
K
THURSDAY June 7
9:00-10:55
Miniaturization limits and strategies
11:05-13:00
Design strategies and
Optimization
techniques
Single frequency
Multifrequency
Design examples:
PIFA, SMILA, N-port
Opttimization: GA
Design exaqmples
14:30-15:55
L
L
U
N
C
H
Advanced Compact
Antennass
Small dipoles, loops,
patches
Antenna loading, ground
planes
Optimizing geometries
- Personal work and
assignments: Technology
considerations
16:05–17:30
C
O
F - Personal work and
F assignments: Technology
E considerations
E
B
R
E
A
K
Advanced technologies and measurement techniques
11:05-13:00
14:30-16:25
16:35–17:30
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Miniature and
fractal geometries
Introduction to prefractal antennas:
Multiband antennas,
Small antennas
Pre-fractal miniature
antennas:
Influence of fractal
dimension and
topology, Optimum
miniature pre-fractal
design,
Fundamental
bandwidth
limitations, 3D prefractals, Pre-fractal
loads
C
O
F
F
E
E
B
R
E
A
K
Advanced
Technologies: MEMS &
Metamaterials.
Power loss and
attenuation
Ground plane effects
Multiple Element
Antennas
RF-MEMS Switches
MIMO reconfigurable
antenna.
L
L
U
N
C
H
Small Antenna
Measurement
Techniques
Spurious radiation from
cables
Measurement solutions:
Baluns
Wheeler caps
System measurements
methods:
Reverberation chamber
Anechoic chamber
C
O
F
F
E
E
B
R
E
A
K
- Antenna measurement
Lab: Radiation
Measurements
- Personal work and
assignments
-.Antenna measurement
Lab: Circuital
Measurements
- Personal work and
assignments
FRIDAY June 8
Design of a prototype of compact antenna
9:00-10:55
11:05-13:00
C
O
- Presentation of the F
9 antenna group
F
design assignments E
E
- Test
- Final plenary
discussion, course
evaluation and
conclusions
L
L
U
N
C
H
B
R
E
A
K
Participants
The photo of the class is shown in Fig. 1 and the photo of the last day with the diploma is
shown in Fig. 2
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Fig. 1 Photo of the class in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications of UPC.
Fig. 2 Photo of the class with the diplomas.
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Logistic arrangements
Venue
The five days of the courses (June 4-8) have been held at the Technical University of
Catalonia, in the lecture-room MERIT, Building D5, UPC. The room was recently built for
the European Master of Research on Information Technology (MERIT) equipped with 6
Dell laptop computers loaded with different antenna software packages appropriated to
study small antenna geometries (HFSS and EMPIRE 3D packages)
(a)
(b)
Fig.3. (a) Prof. A. Yaghjian (b) Students during the course.
Lodging and transportation
The students have lodged in Hotels in the down town and close to the University. The cost
for lodging ranged from 40€ to 90€ per person.
Lunches and social dinner
The lunches have been included in the registration fee. All of them were arranged in the
professor’s and visitor’s restaurant called Notable. Two coffee breaks per day have been
prepared with coffee, tea, juice and petit fours. During the evening the students have been
left free to organize themselves, and they often have met together for dinner. The social
dinner has been organized on Tuesday 5th in the restaurant Moncho’s of Barcelona (See
Photos).
(a)
(b)
Fig. 4. (a) Social dinner in the Moncho’s restaurant in Barcelona port (b) Lunch in Casa Cantabria restaurant
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Course management
Material given to the students
All the students have been supplied by a folder with all the copies of the slides presented
by the speakers. They also received a CD with the same material, the biography of each
speaker, a video and some pictures of the event.
Computer exercises and experimental laboratory
The exercises for the courses have been developed by appropriate presentations
organized from the speakers. When possible, the students have been involved in these
exercises. The course also includes computer exercises and an experimental lab.
Credits, exams and their outcome
The overall number of hours and the time the students has spent to treat the exam, is such
as to justified 2 ECTS credits for this course. The exam as consisted of multiple-choice
questions and were prepared by Prof. Jofre and Prof. Rius for the Compact antenna
fundamentals and geometries part, by Prof. Manteuffel and Prof. Simon for the Antenna
design techniques part, by Prof. Skrivervik for the Miniaturization limits and strategies part,
and by Prof. Jofre and Prof. Skrivervik for the Measurement techniques part, for a total
number of about 18 questions, where 15 needed to be answered.
The score reported of the exam are presented in the following table 2. A certificate has
been delivered to each participant.
Table 5. Results of the final exam
Name
1
Nicolas Gross
2
Markus Köberle
3
Yuliang Zheng
4
Carlos Mendes
5
Vanja Plicanic
6
Ruiyuan Tian
7
Constantine Kakogiannis
8
Sara Nunes
9
Nuno Pires
10
Mariangela Vallone
11
Carlos Gómez
12
Agboola Teru
13
Jonathan Mora
14
Gianfranco Spallato
15
Anthony Ghiotto
16
Titos Kokkinos
17
Denis Becker
18
Jens Timmermann
19
Lyazid Aberbour
20
Beatriz Monsalve
21
Gemma Roqueta
Score/100
78
83
89
83
61
78
88
61
67
83
93
72
89
72
83
93
72
72
83
93
80
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22
Daniel Nyberg
23
Cristina Ponti
24
Cristian D. Giovampaola
25
Santiago Capdevila
26
Benjamin Izquierdo
27
Javier Alonso
89
78
89
78
73
78
Evaluation of the course from the students, detected strong and weak points
A standard evaluation form as distributed to the students; 27 students completed the
evaluation form. The outcome is reported in Table 6. After the outcome of the evaluation
form and after discussion and interaction with the students, we have noticed a global
satisfaction; however, the following weak points have been detected, which will be useful
to be considered for improving the next edition of the course.
To redesign the role of the simulation tools. Not enough time to get familiar with them.
To specify a early more well defined and challenging design project
To gain insight in the connection between theory and real performances
To emphasize recent technological advances
Table 6. Evaluation form (Rating system(%)),
(legenda:1 Poor; 2 Fair, 3 Average, 4 Good, 5 Excellent)
Teaching Evaluation
1
2
3
4
5
Instructor is knowledgeable about the subject
Instructor is prepared
Instructor encourages participation
Instructor answers students’ questions
Instructor is enthusiastic about teaching
Instructor’s fluency in English
Interest of material
Relevance of material
Using teaching aids (overheads, videos, handouts)
How pertinent were the course objectives to the target
audience?
How well do you feel the course objectives were met?
How well do you fell about the level of detail of the course
documents?
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
26
0
0
0
11
8
8
11
18
22
18
18
40
45
52
52
44
52
82
74
56
82
60
55
37
40
48
37
0
0
0
0
4
8
78
66
18
26
Logistical support
1
2
3
4
5
How would you rate the letter of invitation in providing you
with the information you needed to make your plans for
participation in this training course?
How well was the registration/check-in process organised,
staffed and located
How would you rate the lodging accommodations for this
course?
How would you rate the quality and variety of the meals
served?
The classroom is comfortable and inviting
0
0
8
33
59
0
0
4
26
70
0
0
19
48
33
0
4
30
33
33
0
0
8
40
52
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Desks and tables provide adequate work space
0
4
30
66
1
2
3
4
5
Quality of measurements facilities
0
Questions are closely related to the theories presented and 0
provide
hand-on practice with the theories
Enforces understanding of important concepts
0
Encourages critical thinking and demonstrates pros and 0
cons of
specific issues
Properly coordinated lab preparation
0
Effective supervision during the lab
0
Instructions are given at appropriate detail
0
0
0
11
15
59
67
30
18
0
0
8
22
66
30
26
48
0
0
0
18
18
15
52
48
51
30
34
34
Evaluation for lab
0
Teacher’s Biographies
Luis Jofre was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1956. He received the M.Sc.
(Ing) and Ph.D. (Doctor Ing.) degrees in Electrical Engineering
(telecommunications eng.), from the Technical University of Catalonia
(UPC), Barcelona, Spain in 1978 and 1982, respectively. From 1979 to
1980 he was Research Assistant in the Electrophysics Group at UPC,
where he worked on the analysis and near field measurement of antenna
and scatterers. From 1981 to 1982 he joined the Ecole Superieure
d’Electricite, Paris, France, where he was involved in microwave antenna
design and imaging techniques for medical and industrial applications. In 1982, he was
appointed Associate Professor at the Communications Department of the
Telecommunication Engineering School at the UPC, where he became Full Professor in
1989. From 1986 to 1987, he was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, working on antennas, and electromagnetic imaging and visualization.
From 1989 to 1994, he served as Director of the Telecommunication Engineering School
(UPC), and from 1994-2000, as UPC Vice-rector for Academic Planning. From 2000 to
2001, he was a Visiting Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,
Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California. From 2002 to 2004 he
served as Director of the Catalan Research Foundation. From 2003 he is the director of
the Telefònica-UPC Chair on Information Society and Technology. His research interests
include antennas, electromagnetic scattering and imaging, and system miniaturization for
wireless and sensing applications. He has published more than 100 scientific and technical
papers, reports and chapters in specialized volumes.
Arthur D. Yaghjian received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from Brown University, Providence, RI in 1964,
1966, and 1969. During the spring semester of 1967, he taught
mathematics at Tougaloo College, MS. After receiving the Ph.D. degree
he taught mathematics and physics for a year at Hampton University,
VA, and in 1971 he joined the research staff of the Electromagnetics
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Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO. He
transferred in 1983 to the Electromagnetics Directorate of the Air Force Research
Laboratory (AFRL), Hanscom AFB, MA, where he was employed as a research scientist
until 1996. In 1989 he took an eight-month leave of absence to accept a guest
professorship in the Electromagnetics Institute of the Technical University of Denmark. He
presently works as an independent consultant in electromagnetics. His research in
electromagnetics has led to the determination of electromagnetic fields in continuous
media, the development of exact, numerical, and high-frequency methods for predicting
and measuring the near and far fields of antennas and scatterers, and the reformulation of
the classical equations of motion of charged particles. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has
served as an associate editor for the IEEE and URSI. He received the IEEE S.A.
Schelkunoff Prize Paper award in 1995 and 2002 and best paper awards from NIST and
AFRL.
Dirk Manteuffel was born 1970 in Issum, Germany. Following to a
practical apprenticeship in Industrial Electronics he studied Electrical
Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen where he earned the
Dipl.-Ing. degree in 1998. Since 1998 he is with the IMST in Kamp-Lintfort,
Germany. As a project manager he is responsible for industrial antenna
developments and advanced projects in the field of antennas and EM
modeling. In 2002 he received his PhD degree (summa cum laude) from
the University of Duisburg-Essen. In 2004 he received the innovation
award of the Vodafone foundation for science (Vodafone Stiftung für Forschung) for his
research on integrated mobile phone antennas with emphasis on the interaction with the
user. Dr. Manteuffel is lecturer at the Technical Acedemy Esslingen (TAE) and member of
the Network of Excellence ACE (Antenna Center of Excellence) of the European Union.
He is author and co-author of more than 40 scientific publications as well as inventor in 6
national and international patents.
Simon Otto was born in Oberhausen, Germany in 1978. He received his
Diplom-Ingenieur degree from Duisburg University in 2004. In 2004 he
started his research career as a visiting student at UCLA, where he did his
final thesis on Metamaterials. He authored or co-authored 8 papers related
to MTM, antennas, filter design, filed one patent and won the 2. place of
the Antenna and Propagation Symposium (AP-S) student paper award
2005 in Washington. Now he is with the Antennas and EM modelling
department at IMST in Kamp-Lintfort, Germany. He is responsible for
industrial antenna development and numerical modeling in the field of antennas and EM
modeling working towards his PhD. His research interests include antennas,
metamaterials, EM-theory and numerical modelling.
Anja Skrivervik got her electrical engineering degree from Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in 1986. She became a research
assistant at electromagnetics and acoustics laboratory of the same
institution an obtained her PhD in 1992.
In 1993 she worked six month as an invited scientist at the university of
Rennes, where she started the activity on array analysis by supervising
two PhD students. The same year she received the award of the Latsis
fundation for her thesis and research work in general. From 1993 to 1995
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she worked in the swiss industry, where her research tasks were focused on antenna
miniaturization and on the development of electromagnetic field sensors.
In 1995 she became an assistant professor for waves and radio communications at the
Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, where she become adjunct professor in 2005.
Her teaching activities include courses on microwaves and on antennas. She was
responsible for the electrical engineering undergraduate curriculumfrom 1996 to 2000. Her
research activities include electrically small antennas, multifrequency and ultra wideband
antennas, printed antenna array analysis, numerical techniques for electromagnetics and
the design and analysis of millimeter wave antennas.
She is active in european collaboaration, european projects and has projects in
collaboration with several industries.
Juan M. Rius received the “Ingeniero de Telecomunicación” degree in
1987 and the “Doctor Ingeniero” degree in 1991, both from the
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) at Barcelona. In 1985 he
joined the Electromagnetic and Photonic Engineering group at UPC, in
the Department of Signal Theory and Telecommunications (TSC), where
he currently holds a position of “Catedrático” (equivalent to Full
Professor). From 1985 to 1988 he developed a new inverse scattering
algorithm for microwave tomography in cylindrical geometry systems.
Since 1989 he has been engaged in the research for new and efficient methods for
numerical computation of electromagnetic scattering and radiation. He is the developer of
the Graphical Electromagnetic Computation (GRECO) approach for high-frequency RCS
computation, the Integral Equation formulation of the Measured Equation of Invariance (IEMEI) and the Multilevel Matrix Decomposition Algorithm (MLMDA) in 3D. Current interests
are the numerical simulation of electrically large antennas: multiband fractal antennas,
large microstrip arrays and reflector antennas.
He has hold positions of “Visiting Professor” at EPFL (Lausanne) from May 1, 1996 to
October 31, 1996; “Visiting Fellow” at City University of Hong Kong from January 3, 1997
to February 4, 1997; “CLUSTER chair” at EPFL (Lausanne) from December 1, 1997 to
January 31, 1998; and “Visiting Professor” at EPFL (Lausanne) from April 1, 2001 to June
30, 2001.
He has more than 40 papers published or accepted in refereed international journals (17 in
IEEE Trans.) and more than 100 in international conference proceedings.
Sebastián Blanch was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1961. He received
the Ingeniero and Doctor Ingeniero degrees in Telecommunication
Engineering, both from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC),
Barcelona, Spain, in 1989 and 1996, respectively. In 1989, he joined the
Electromagnetic and Pho-tonics Engineering Group of the Signal Theory
and Communications Department. Currently, he is Associate Professor at
UPC. His research interests are antenna near field measurements,
antenna diagnostics, and antenna design
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Microwave and millimeter wave antenna design
Type:
D
Course Responsible
Rennes, France, 18-22 june 2007
K. MAHDJOUBI (IETR, ID 13)
Course organisers
J-M. LAHEURTE
H. HIMDI
Involved
institutions
University of Marne La Vallée, France
IETR, University & INSA of Rennes, France
SUMMARY
The course is divided into two parts. The first part provides the student with a large overview on
planar antennas applications, physical principles and technology. Emphasis is put on technological
aspects (microstrip, microtechnologies,…) and specific field of applications (satellite antennas, mobile
phones, base stations,…). The structures and parametric studies presented in the course are
validated by CAD softwares (HFSS, Ansoft Designer, …) and might be re-used by the student for
further developments. This course also provides the required details to design microstrip antenna and
highlights the most pressing issues in telecommunication area, including broadbanding, circular
polarization, and active microstrip antennas in particular. Special design challenges, ranging from dual
polarization, high bandwidth, and surface wave mitigation, to choosing the proper substrate, and
shaping an antenna to achieve desired results are covered.
The second part is dedicated to millimeter wave antennas and describes the main features and
specificities of millimeter wave frequency range such as: technological and realization difficulties,
antenna measurements, need to characterize the dielectric materials, etc. The students will also see
other types of mm-wave antennas and arrays than the printed antennas, including lenses, reflectors,
leaky-waves, dielectric resonators, dielectric rods, Gaussian Beam Antennas, EBG antennas, etc.
Finally, major civil, military, automotive and medical applications of mm-wave antennas are presented.
The course is accompanied with measurements in mm-wave anechoic chamber and impedance
measurements on VNA (Vector Network Analysers). For the lab and simulation parts, the attendees are
divided in groups of small number. the number of groups and therefore, the total number of students
are limited.
Table 1 Speakers
Name
Jean-Marc Laheurte
Marjorie Grzeskowiak
Mohamed Himdi
R. Sauleau
L. Le Coq
F. Colombel
O. Lafond
Title
Organization Nationality Participation
Prof.
UMLV
UMLV
IETR
IETR
IETR
IETR
IETR
FR
40%
FR
20%
Prof.
FR
40%
Ass. Prof.
FR
30%
Ass. Prof
FR
20%
Ass. Prof
FR
10%
Ass. Prof
FR
20%
Equivalent number of speakers participating to the event from France
Ass. Prof
Equivalent number
of participating
speakers
1,8
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Table 2 Students
N.
Name
Institution
Nationality
1
Tero KIURU
Finland
2
3
4
Najma GULDNER
Sami HAGE-ALI
Clément TOLANT
5
6
7
8
9
Cuong TRAN-MANH
Anthony GHIOTTO
Juri ZUCCARRELI
David BEKERS
Stefania MONNI
10
11
Eduardo CARRASCO
Yogesh KARANDIKAR
TKK, University
LISIF. Univ. of Paris 6,
(Pierre & Marie Curie)
IEMN, Univ, of Lille 1
Thales Company
GEA, Univ, Paris 10
(Nantères)
INP Grenoble
INAF / ISAF
TNO Research Center
TNO Research Center
Univ. Polytech. of Madrid
(UPM)
Clamers University
France
France
France
France
France
Italy
Netherland
Netherland
Spain
Sweden
Table 3 participants financed by EU
N.
Name
Institution
Nationality
1
2
3
4
Tero KIURU
Stefania MONNI
Eduardo CARRASCO
Yogesh KARANDIKAR
TKK, University
TNO Research Center
Univ. Polytech. of Madrid (UPM)
Chalmers University
Finland
Netherland
Spain
Sweden
Table 4 Participants financed with internal funding
not claimed in the total costs
N.
Name
Institution
Nationality
1
Sami HAGE-ALI
IEMN, Univ, of Lille 1
France
Lecture program
The course was composed of two topics, Microwave antennas and Millimeter-wave
antennas. The first one was organised by Professor Jean-Marc Laheurte from the
University of Marne La Vallée (UMLV) and the second one by Professor Mohamed Himdi
(IETR, University of Rennes 1).
Each topic was in turn divided into two parts: theoretical and experimental. As the
timetable of the Table V.I shows, there were 4 hours lab for the Microwave antennas and 6
hours for the Millimeter antennas.
Day
Topic
Monday 18
8.30
9.00
Welcome and distribution of course materials
9.10
9.30
Presentation of IETR, UMLV Speakers and students
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9.30
11.00
11.00
11.15
11.15
12.15
12.15
14.15
Planar Antennas (Analysis of rectangular patch
antenna; microstrip antenna feeds) J.M. Laheurte
Coffee break
Planar Antennas (microstrip antenna feeds; circularly
polarized antennas) J.M. Laheurte
lunch
Planar Antennas (multiband and wideband antennas;
non resonant and UWB microstrip antennas)J.M.
Laheurte
14.15
15.45
15.45
16.00
16.00
17.45
Coffee break
Planar Antennas (non resonant and UWB microstrip
antennas; microstrip arrays) J.M. Laheurte
18.15
19.00
Possible visit of INSA mesaurements facilities
Tuesday 19
Planar Antennas (microstrip arrays; small antenna for
mobile systems) J.M. Laheurte
8.45
10.15
10.15
10.30
10.30
12.00
Coffee break
Planar Antennas (reconfigurable antennas, exercises)
J.M. Laheurte
12.00
14.00
lunch break
14.00
15.45
Lab Planar Antennas M. Grzeskowiak
15.45
16.00
Coffee break
16.00
18.00
Lab Planar Antennas M. Grzeskowiak
Wedensday 20
9.00
11.00
mm-Wave Antennas ( introduction, main application,
media characterization& media effect ) M. Himdi
11.00
11.15
Coffee break
11.15
12.00
mm-Wave Antennas (metrology) M. Himdi
12.00
14.00
lunch break
14.00
17.00
Lab mm-Wave Antennas L. Le Coq, F. Colombel
17.00
17.15
Coffee break
17.15
18.30
Test & Discussion
19.30
Social Dinner: à la Bonne Pate
Thursday 21
mm-Wave Antennas ( specific microwave technologies;
MEMS& reconfigurable antennas) M. Himdi
9.00
11.00
11.00
11.15
11.15
12.00
Coffee break
mm-Wave Antennas (active & reconfigurable
antennas) M. Himdi
12.00
14.00
lunch break
14.00
17.00
Lab mm-Wave Antennas L. Le Coq, F. Colombel
17.00
17.15
Coffee break
17.15
18.30
Test & Discussion
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Friday 22
mm-Wave Antennas (lens, reflector &EBG antennas)
R. Soleau
9.00
10.45
10.45
11.00
11.00
12.00
Coffee break
mm-Wave Antennas (slotted waveguides, leaky wave
& Horn Antennas)M. Himdi
12.00
14.00
lunch break
Table 5 –Course timetable
For the Planar antennas (Microwave range), the participants had the possibility to
use linearly and circularly polarized patch antennas, as well as antenna arrays, to measure
the VSWR, return loss, input impedance, radiation pattern, beamwidth, axial ratio, etc. An
Agilent VNA (Vector Network Analyser), a Rohd&Scwartz VNA and the IETR cmwave anechoic chamber were used for the measurement purposes.
(a)
(b)
Fig. 1 – Circular polarisation antenna (5.8 GHz), composed of a circular patch (a)
excited by a CPW transmission line via an oblique slot (b).
(a)
(b)
Fig. 2 – (a) Planar array (10.6 GHz) of square patch antennas.
(b) cm-wave anechoic chamber for radiation pattern and gain
measurements
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Concerning the Millimeter wave antennas, the experiences were divided as follows :
1. Simulations:
o substrate characterisation
(ε, tanδ) in millimetre wave
frequency band (resonant
stub method) : 3 different
substrates (QPN, AIN,
Duroid 5880)
mλ/4
o microstrip antennas (S11, radiation pattern, gain) : 3 different prototypes (slot-fed
patch, coplanar-fed patch antenna on Alumina or InP substrate, patch array on InP
substrate).
o
Slot-fed patch antenna
2. Measurements:
o Substrate characterisation (ε, tanδ) in millimetre wave frequency band (resonant
stub method)
o Microstrip antennas and array (3 prototypes) : S11 measurement
Slot-fed patch antenna (40 GHz)
3. Measurements:
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o
Radiation measurement difficulties in millimeter wave range (36-40 GHz): Connector
effect, Substrate effect, Environment effect, camouflage requirements, etc.
o Scattering effects (due to connectors, waveguides, waveguide-coax transition)(3
prototypes).
Agilent XF Network Analyser covering up to 110 GHz
Fig. 3. - Measurement devices and anechoic chamber for mm-wave Lab experiments
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Fig. 4 –Participants accompanied by Prof. M. Himdi (left)
Fig. 5 –Canteen of INSA and Campus of the University
Fig.6 –Social dinner at a restaurant in “Vieux Rennes” (historical Rennes downtown)
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Logistic arrangements
Venue
The course held at IETR, in the city of Rennes (North-West of France). The lectures
were given in the “Conference Room” (Fig. 5.5) of the IETR building (bâtiment 11D) on the
Science Campus (Campus de Beaulieu) of the University of Rennes 1. The speakers used
mainly the video projector facility (Fig. 6).
Fig. 7 - Attendees in the Lecture room of the IETR at the University of Rennes 1
Fig. 8 –Video projector facility used for course slides
The first part of the course entitled “Planar antennas for Microwave Applications”,
was organized by UMLV and was composed of 7 hours of lecture, 2 hours of exercise and
4 hours of Lab. The lecture was ensured by Professor Jean-Marc Laheurte from the
University of Marne La Vallée (UMLV), during first two days (Monday and Tuesday 18th
and 19th June 2007). The prototypes for the Lab experiments (figures 5.1 and 5.2) were
prepared by Dr Marjorie Grzeskowiak, Associate Professor at UMLV. She organised and
monitored the experimental works with the help and major participation of Dr Laurent Le
Coq, the engineer in charge of the IETR measurement platforms (at the University of
Rennes 1). The laboratory sessions were ensured on Tuesday after-noon by Mrs
Grzeskowiak (UMLV) and Mr Le Coq (IETR).
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The second part entitled “Millimeter-wave antenna design” was organized by
Professor Mohamed Himdi from IETR and was composed of 9 hours of lecture and 6
hours of lab. The lectures were ensured by the IETR members, specialist in millimetre
wave antennas.
Lodging and transportation
The majority of the participants had organized their transportation and
accommodation by themselves. They had used either the “Travel Services” of their
companies, or the hotel information and web sites that were proposed by the course
coordinator (on VCE site). Few students had asked for university residences near the
campus.
Lunches and social dinner
The lunches have been included in the registration fee and were arranged in the
canteen of INSA. Two coffee breaks were proposed per day, with coffee, tea and biscuits.
During the evening the students have been left free to organize themselves, and they have
often joined each other for the dinner. The social dinner has been organized on
Wednesday 20th June and the participants had the opportunity to discover the typical
dishes of the Brittany Region in France.
Course management
Material given to the students
The students were supplied with the copies of the complete course slides. Moreover,
at the end of the course, they received the slide pdf files on a CD. As a souvenir of their
stay at Rennes, the attendees received also on the same CD, some pictures that have
been taken during the course.
Computer exercises and experimental laboratory
There was one test session of 1 hour & 15 minutes per course part. The first one was
on Wednesday evening and the second one on Thursday evening. The last 15 minutes of
each session was devoted to discussions and the correction of the quiz. 7/11 participants
passed successfully the exams.
The course “Micro & Millimetre Wave Antennas” is oriented toward the design of
these antennas. Therefore, the laboratory works play an important role. The prototypes are
first simulated by the attendees on commercial softwares dedicated to electromagnetic
simulations. Then, the input impedance (matching quality) and the radiation pattern of the
antennas measured. To this end, the participants employed the Microwave and Millimetre
Wave VNAs and anechoic far field chambers of IETR available at the University of Rennes
1.
The participants had also the opportunity to visit the “Near field” anechoic chamber
(SATIMO StarGate) and the Reverberation Chamber of the IETR platform available at
INSA of Rennes.
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Fig. 9 - Reverberation Chamber and Near-field Chamber (SATIMO StarGate) available at
INSA of Rennes
Fig. 10. Participants during the Lab sessions (at University part)
Credits, exams and their outcome
All of the participants received a certificate of attendance. This certificate was
required by the Engineer’s employer. It was also necessary for the PhD students. In fact,
they need to justify their attendance to specialized or general courses, in order to obtain
their “PhD Degree”. The IETR students, who could not participate to the Lab experiments
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due to the limited number of measurement facilities, had a certificate of 18 hours
attendance (only course lectures).
Evaluation of the course from the students, detected strong and weak points
The standard ACE evaluation forms were distributed to all the participants. 10
participants and students completed the evaluation form. The outcome is reported in Table
6. Most of the critical points and drawbacks mentioned by the attendees in the 2005
version were reviewed and corrected. The attendees were globally satisfied from the
course and appreciated the thorough (from principle up to design) and the complete
treatment of the antennas going from theory to measurements.
Table 6 Evaluation form (Rating system(%)
(legenda:1 Poor; 2 Fair, 3 Average, 4 Good, 5 Excellent)
Teaching Evaluation
1 2
Instructor is knowledgeable about the subject
Instructor is prepared
Instructor encourages participation
Instructor answers students’ questions
Instructor is enthusiastic about teaching
Instructor’s fluency in English
Interest of material
Relevance of material
Using teaching aids (overheads, videos, handouts)
How pertinent were the course objectives to the target audience?
How well do you feel the course objectives were met?
How well do you fell about the level of detail of the course documents?
3
10
10
10
20
10
10
10
20
4
30
30
60
50
50
60
40
30
50
40
60
70
5
70
70
30
40
40
20
50
70
40
50
40
10
Logistical support
1
2 3
4
5
How would you rate the letter of invitation in providing you with the
10 60 30
information
you needed to make your plans for participation in this training course?
How well was the registration/check-in process organised, staffed and
10 50 40
located
How would you rate the lodging accommodations for this course?
7NA
10 20
How would you rate the quality and variety of the meals served?
10
40 50
The classroom is comfortable and inviting
80 20
Desks and tables provide adequate work space
20 60 20
Evaluation for Lab
1 2 3
Quality of measurements facilities
Questions are closely related to the theories presented and provide
hand-on practice with the theories
Enforces understanding of important concepts
Encourages critical thinking and demonstrates pros and cons of
specific issues
Properly coordinated lab preparation
Effective supervision during the lab
Instructions are given at appropriate detail
4
5
20 80
30 50
10 40 50
10 60 30
10 40 50
10 50 40
10 60 30
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Advanced Spherical Near-Field Antenna Measurement Techniques
2-6 July 2007
DTU-ESA Spherical Near-Field Antenna Test Facility
Technical University of Denmark
Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Introduction
The course Advanced Spherical Near-Field Antenna Measurement Techniques was given
at the Technical University of Denmark from Monday July 2nd to Friday July 6th, 2007. The
course is part of the 2007 programme of the EU Marie Curie action European School of
Antennas but differs from most ESoA courses in two respects: First, the course includes a
significant amount of experimental work that is carried out at the DTU-ESA Spherical
Near-Field Antenna Test Facility operated by the Technical University of Denmark for the
European Space Agency. Hence, the number of course participants is limited to 12.
Second, the 4 teachers in the course are all affiliated with one institution, the Technical
University of Denmark.
This report summarizes all aspects of the course.
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Learning objectives
A participant who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
• Explain the theory for spherical near-field antenna measurements
• Explain the theory for first-order and higher-order probe correction
• Explain the theory and properties of the general diagnostics technique from far-field
and of the SWE-to-PWE technique
• Calculate and analyze the aperture field distribution given a far-field pattern which
shows anomalies and identify the source of errors
• Carry out mechanical and electrical alignment of spherical near-field antenna
measurement systems
• Carry out measurements of antenna radiation with spherical near-field antenna
measurement systems - in particular the system of the DTU-ESA Spherical NearField Antenna Test Facility
• Perform basic setup and full 2-port calibration of a network analyzer
• Carry out measurements of scattering coefficients of antennas and microwave
components by use of the network analyzer
Table 1 Speakers
Name
Title
Organizatio Nationali Participation
n
ty
Olav Breinbjerg
Professor
Associate
Professor
Research
Assistant
PhD Staudent
DTU
DTU
DN
DN
Equivalent
number of
participating
speakers
5 days (100%) 1,4
1 day (20%)
DTU
DN
1 day (20%)
Sergey Pivnenko
Jeppe M. Nielsen
Cecilia Cappellin
DTU
IT
1 day (20%)
Equivalent number of speakers participating to the event
0,2
1,6
Table 2 students
N.
Name
Institution
Nationality
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Sinisa Skokic
Rasmus Brun
Aycan Erentok
Niclas Carlson
Francesca Mioc
Paolo Nocito
Giorgio Carluccio
Maria Jesus Ben Constenla
Sara Burgos
Daniel Sanchez
Vicent Miquel Rodrigo
Peñarrocha
Roberto Torres-Sánchez
UNIZAG
TERMA
DTU
SATIMO
SATIMO
SAPIENZA
UNISI
UVI
UPM
UPV
Croatia
Denmark
Denmark
France
Italy
Italy
Italy
Spain
Spain
Spain
UPV
EPFL
Spain
Switzerland
11
12
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Table 3 participants financed by EU
N.
Name
Institution
Nationality
1
2
3
4
5
Sinisa Skokic
Paolo Nocito
Giorgio Carluccio
Sara Burgos
Roberto Torres-Sánchez
UNIZAG
SAPIENZA
UNISI
UPM
EPFL
Croatia
Italy
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
Table 4 Participants financed with internal funding
not claimed in the total costs
N.
Name
Institution
Nationality
1
Maria Jesus Ben Constenla
UVI
Spain
Time schedule
Team A
Day
Hour
Topic. Teacher.
8.30-9.00
Breakfast
Introduction to the course
9.00-10.00
Monday
Tuesday
Team B
13.00-14.00
Spherical wave expansion 1.
Lunch
14.00-15.00
Introduction to the Facility.
15.00-17.00
Introduction to practical procedures.
9.00-11.00
11.00-13.00
Mech. align.
VNA ex.
13.00-14.00
Lunch
10.00-13.00
14.00-16.00
VNA ex.
Mech. align.
Spherical wave expansion 2.
16.00-18.00
Wednesday
Mech. align.
VNA ex.
VNA ex.
Mech. align.
Probe cal.
VNA ex.
Diagnostics.
11.00-13.00
VNA ex.
Lunch
Probe cal.
Theor. ex.
13.00-14.00
Team D
Spherical wave expansion 2.
9.00-11.00
16.00-18.00
Diagnostics.
Theor. ex.
19.00-21.00
Visit to "Bakken" and dinner
9.00-11.00
AUT meas.
Theor. ex.
High-order probe correction
11.00-13.00
AUT meas.
Theor. ex.
13.00-14.00
Theor. ex.
Lunch
14.00-16.00
High-order probe correction.
AUT meas.
Theor. ex.
16.00-18.00
Theor. ex.
Theor. ex.
AUT meas.
14.00-16.00
Thursday
Team C
Probe cal.
VNA ex.
VNA ex.
Probe cal.
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Friday
9.00-10.00
Gain determination 1
10.00-11.00
Exam1: Presentations by participants
11.00-12.00
12.00-13.00
Gain determination 2.
Exam 2: Multiple choice tests
13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.00-14.30
Closing the course
Group Photo
Practical arrangements
Venue
The course was held in neighbouring buildings 348 and 353 at the Technical University of
Denmark. In building 348 a small meeting room (348/018) was used for lectures. In
building 353 one office (353/001) was used for network analyzer measurement exercises,
a small meeting room (353/003) was used for group work, and the building also houses
the radio anechoic chamber of the DTU-ESA Spherical Near-Field Antenna Test Facility.
Accommodation
The participants were offered inexpensive (EUR 114 for 5 days) lodging at the DTU
Campus Village conveniently located within 5 min. of the course venue, and near-by hotels
were also suggested. Five participants chose the DTU Campus Village.
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Meals
First day breakfast, coffee breaks, lunches, and the social dinner were included in the
registration fee. Lunches were taken in a DTU Campus canteen. The social dinner was
organized for Wednesday June 4th and took place at restaurant Bøgely on
Dyrehavsbakken.
Course management
Course material
The participants were provided with a folder with paper copies of the course plan, technical
notes, and slides used during lectures. After the course a CD with the course plan and
lecture slides were compiled and mailed to the participants.
Credits
The participants were asked to study 4 articles before the course start. The teaching on
the course was provided from 09:00-18:00 from Monday to Thursday, and 09:00-14:00 on
the Friday. The nominally work effort was estimated at 45hrs. and this corresponds to 1.5
ECTS points.
Exam
On the last day of the course the 4 groups of 3 participants gave a 15min. presentation
that summarized and discussed the obtained measurement results. The participants also
took a 1 hour multiple choice exam (20 questions each with 4 possible answers). The
scores ranged from 9/20 to 17/20. An example of the course certificate is given in
appendix B. The certificates were mailed to the participants after the course.
COURSE EVALUATION
Evaluation form
(Legend: 1 Poor; 2 Fair, 3 Average, 4 Good, 5 Excellent)
Teaching Evaluation
Instructor is knowledgeable about the subject
Instructor is prepared
Instructor encourages participation
Instructor answers students’ questions
Instructor is enthusiastic about teaching
Instructor’s fluency in English
Interest of material
Relevance of material
Using teaching aids (overheads, videos, handouts)
How pertinent were the course objectives to the target
audience?
Olav
Cecilia Jeppe
Breinbj Cappe M.
erg
llin
Nielse
n
Sergey
Pivnen
ko
4,9
4,7
4,6
4,8
4,9
4,7
4,7
4,6
4,5
4,3
4,9
4,7
4,6
4,3
4,2
4,6
4,7
4,5
4,4
4,2
4,8
4,7
4,6
4,7
4,8
4,6
4,8
4,6
4,6
4,2
4,4
4,6
4,4
4,6
4,6
4,6
4,5
4,4
4,4
4,1
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How well do you feel the course objectives were met?
How well do you feel about the level of detail of the course
documents?
4,4
4,5
4,2
4,5
4,2
4,0
4,0
4,4
Logistical support
How would you rate the letter of invitation in providing you with the information
you needed to make your plans for participation in this training course?
How well was the registration/check-in process organised, staffed and located
How would you rate the lodging accommodations for this course?
How would you rate the quality and variety of the meals served?
The classroom is comfortable and inviting
Desks and tables provide adequate work space
4,3
3,9
3,7
3,7
4,5
4,0
Evaluation for Lab
Quality of measurements facilities
Questions are closely related to the theories presented and provide
hand-on practice with the theories
Enforces understanding of important concepts
Encourages critical thinking and demonstrates pros and cons of
specific issues
Properly coordinated lab preparation
Effective supervision during the lab
Instructions are given at appropriate detail
5,0
4,7
4,6
4,4
4,7
4,6
4,2
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MIMO Communication Systems and Antennas
Type
Stockholm, August 27-31, 2007
Course coordinator(s)
Björn Lindmark, KTH
Per Zetterberg, KTH
Involved
institutions
KTH
TKK
CTTC
SUMMARY
This course dealt with MIMO communication systems in terms of signal processing and resource allocation and
antennas for such systems, in particular small antennas for MIMO terminals. The course featured lectures as well as
computer exercises and real-world hands-on laboratories. The course consisted of three parts, computer based
antenna-design and evaluation, signal processing laboratory on a real MIMO test-bed, and talks on signal-processing
and resource allocation in multi-user MIMO systems.
The antenna-design part of the course provided a brief overview of design principles for small antennas for mobile
communications systems. This included the theoretical background, design principles, implementation aspects, and
measurement methods for wideband multi-element (especially MIMO) terminal antennas. In the laboratory work,
participants gained hands-on experience using the HUT measurement-based antenna test-bed MEBAT. The MEBAT
test-bed allows characterizing the performance of a multi-element terminal antenna in real propagation environments
that were previously measured at TKK. The students designed antennas with modern SW tools and assessed their
efficiency, MEG, and realistic MIMO performance with computational methods.
The signal processing laboratory was done on the real-time multi-user MIMO test-bed (MUMS) of KTH. The test-bed is
unique that it has two transmitting nodes (base-stations) equipped with two antennas each and two receiving nodes
(mobiles) equipped with two antennas each as well as feedback from both receiving nodes to both transmitting nodes
(such that the transmitting nodes may have knowledge of the channel of both the desired and co-channel receiving
node). The participants were given insight into the operation of the test-bed. They also made laboratory on the test-bed
where they changed lines of code in a beam forming application and interpreted the result.
The talks on signal-processing and resource allocation in MIMO systems covered various aspects of link and systemlevel issues of MIMO systems such as space-time coding, spatial multiplexing, resource allocation and channel models.
This part of the course also included computer-based exercises and featured several speakers.
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Name
Title
Organizatio National Participatio
n
ity
n
Equivalent
number of
participatin
g speakers
Carles Anton
CTTC
ES
5 days
(100%)
1
Pertti Vainakinen
Sr.
research
associate
Professor
HUT (TKK)
FI
4
Clemens Icheln
Professor
HUT (TKK)
FI
Pasi Suvikunnas
Research
er
Ph.D.
student
Ass.
Professor
Research
er
Ass.
Professor
Ass.
professor
Research
er
Ph.D.
student
Ph.D.
student
HUT (TKK)
FI
HUT (TKK)
FI
KTH
SE
KTH
SE
5 days
(100%)
5 days
(100%)
5 days
(100%)
5 days
(100%)
5 days
(100%)
1 day (20%)
KTH
SE
1 day (20%)
KTH
SE
1 day (20%)
KTH
SE
1 day (20%)
KTH
SE
1 day (20%)
KTH
SE
1 day (20%)
Jari Holopainen
Björn Lindmark
Per Zetterberg
Mats Bengtsson
Erik Larsson
Eduard Jorsweick
Svante Bergman
Xi Zhang
2,2
7,2
Equivalent number of speakers participating to the event
Table 2 Students
N.
Name
Institution
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Jaroslav Holis
Maria Mustonen
Mikko Kyrö
Cécile GUIRAUD
Andreas Lambrecht
Asimina Michalopoulou
Sathyaveer Prasad
Prasadh Ramachandran
Michele Gallo
Daniele Pinchera
Ismael Gutierrez
Jordi Serra
Lluís Blanco
Juan Valenzuela
Javier Alons0 Valdesueiro
Charlie Orlenius
CTU Prague
TKK
TKK
Thales Al.Space
UKARL
NCSRD
KTH/HiG
KTH/HiG/Pulse
POLIBA
UNICAS
CTTC
CTTC
CTTC
POLICA
UPC
CHALMERS
Nationality
Checz Republic
Finland
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
India
India
Italy
Italy
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Sweden
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17
18
19
20
21
Daniel Nyberg
Mikael Coldrey
Majid Nasiri Khormuji
Nutapong Somjit
Ruiyuan Tian
CHALMERS
ERICSSON AB
KTH
KTH
LU
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
Table 3 participants financed by EU
N.
Name
Institution
1
2
3
4
5
Jaroslav Holis
Andreas Lambrecht
Asimina Michalopoulou
Ismael Gutierrez
Javier Alons0 Valdesueiro
CTU Prague
UKARL
NCSRD
CTTC
UPC
Nationality
Checz
Republic
Germany
Greece
Spain
Spain
Table 4 Participants financed with internal funding
not claimed in the total costs
N.
Name
Institution
1
2
3
Michele Gallo
Daniele Pinchera
Juan Valenzuela
POLIBA
UNICAS
POLICA
Nationality
Italy
Italy
Spain
Lecture and lab program
The program of the course was divided in 4 major parts:
Lectures on antenna design and propagation aspects of MIMO including characterization
of MIMO antennas
Computer labs on antenna design and evaluation of MIMO capacity using the MEBAT data
base of measurement data.
MUMS computer exercise and realization of a Spatially Multiplexed MIMO System
Lectures on advanced MIMO topics
Lectures on antenna design and propagation
These lectures were held during Monday and Tuesday primarily by TKK. See schedule
below.
Computer labs on antenna design and evaluation of MIMO capacity
In this exercise the students first implemented a two-element terminal antenna design in
the commercial 3-D EM field simulation software package SEMCAD and then simulated
the S-parameters as well as the radiation patterns and other antenna characteristics. The
main goal of this part was for the students to get acquainted with the typical procedure that
would generally be used in antenna design, namely beginning with computer simulations
to verify and optimize an initial antenna design. In the next step, the students used an inhouse measurement-based antenna test-bed (MEBAT) evaluate the diversity/MIMO
performance of this terminal antenna arrangement as well as that of 4-element terminal
antenna arrangement that was designed for use in mobile computers as a WLAN antenna.
Students familiarized with the MEBAT under MATLAB and calculated several MIMO
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parameters from the channel matrices. In this part the main goal was to understand typical
MIMO parameters such as instantaneous capacity and mean effective link gain (MELG),
and to investigate their dependence on the radio-channel environment. At the end of this
lab work the answers were reported and discussed with the supervisors.
In this exercise the students first worked with a code that could actually run on the MIMO
test-bed (MUMS). An important aspect of this is the channel estimation at the receiver and
the feedback of information to the transmitter to aid it in selecting its transmitter weights.
The students had to implement code for realizing the selection of antenna/beamforming
and the forwarding of this information to the transmitter. The code runs in an offline mode
over a channel which is implemented in Matlab. The students needed to insert small
pieces of code in the channel estimation, and in transmitter and receiver beamforming.
Issues like beam-former update rate were also addressed in the exercises.
The students then moved on to a hands-on lab using the actual test-bed which consists of
radio hardware and antennas, DSP boards and host PCs in addition to the software. The
lab is heavily based on a paper by Samuelsson et. al1 in which a system with spatial
multiplexing (i.e. to parallel modulated streams) is implemented. The lab illustrated the use
of feedback, channel tracking, channel coding and adaptive modulation. In addition, the
benefits of MIMO over SISO were demonstrated. The lab was organized as a sequence of
questions to be answered by the students by configuring the test-bed into various modes,
moving the transmitter and receiver antennas to obtain the sought channel conditions and
so on. After lab the answers were discussed with the lab supervisor.
Course Schedule
Monday
09.00-10.00
10:00-10:45
11:00-11:45
12:00-12:45
13:00-14:00
14:00-18:00
Tuesday
08.30-09.15
09:30-10:15
10:30-11:15
11:30-12:15
12:30-13:00
13:00-14:00
14:00-18:00
Welcome and Local Information
computer issues, lab groups
door-cards
lunches, coffee, Tuesday dinner
Antenna design I
Antenna design II
EM field simulation tools (IE3D and SEMCAD)
Lunch on “Hyllan”, Osquldas v. 6-8
Computer class I
Coffee at 15:30
Introduction to MIMO (antennas & propagation)
Antenna characterisation methods I (efficiency, MEG etc)
Coffee
Antenna characterisation methods II
Antenna measurement methods
MEBAT antenna testbed for MIMO performance evaluation
Lunch on “Hyllan”, Osquldas v. 6-8
group project work: Use of MEBAT test bed
David Samuelsson, Joakim Jaldén, Per Zetterberg and Björn Ottersten, Realization of a Spatially
Multiplexed MIMO System, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2005.
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19.00-
Coffee at 15:30
Social Dinner: Swedish smörgåsbord at Grand Hotel
Wednesday
9.00-13.00 Project work: Analysis of results and reporting
Coffee at 10:15
13:00-14:00 Lunch at Hyllan
14.00-14.15 Introduction to basic SISO link lab.
14.15-15.30 Basic SISO link lab. (to be continued during “free” time during Thursday and
Friday)
15.30-16.00 Introduction to MUMS in general and MUMS_offline lab.
16.00-17.30 MUMS_offline lab
(to be continued during “free” time during Thursday and Friday).
17.30-18.00 Introduction to spatial multiplexing hands-on hardware lab.
Thursday
9.00-13.00 Lab: “Realization of a Spatially Multiplexed MIMO System”, for group 1 and 2.
11.15-12.00 Lecture, Multiple antennas – Channel characterization and modeling
(except for group 1-2)
12.15-13.00 Lecture, “Multiple antennas – Some basic transmission schemes”
(except for group 1-2).
13:00-14:00
Lunch at Hyllan
14.00-18.00 Lab: “Realization of a Spatially Multiplexed MIMO System” for group 3 and 4.
14.15-15.00 Lecture, Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes for Wireless Systems
(except for group 3-4)
Coffee
15.15-16.00 Lecture, Cross-layer scheduling in MIMO systems (except group 3-4)
Friday
9.00-13.00
11.15-12.00
12.15-13.00
6)
13:00-14:00
14.00-18.00
14.15-15.00
Lab: “Realization of a Spatially Multiplexed MIMO System” for group 5 and 6.
Lecture, “Linear precoding using partial channel state information”,
Lecture, Adaptive modulation for MIMO/OFDM, Xi Zhang (except for group 5-
Lunch
Lab: “Realization of a Spatially Multiplexed MIMO System” for group 7 and 8.
Lecture, “Multi-User Information Theory
Coffee
15.15-16.00 Lecture, “Multi-user beamforming – Scheduling in space time and frequency”,
Participants and grants
The number of participants to the course was limited because of hardware requirements,
especially regarding the MUMS test-bed lab. The total number of students was 21. For the
computer and test-bed labs, the students were organized in 9 groups, and one of these
groups was able to perform the MUMS test-bed lab the week before the course. This
made it possible to let the other 8 groups make the labs 2 groups at the time during 4
timeslots Thursday-Friday.
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Fig. 1 Photo of the class outside the Claes på Hörent restaurant, Friday Aug. 31.
Logistic arrangements
Venue
The course was held on the 8th floor of the office building of the KTH School of Electrical
Engineering at Osquldas väg 10-12, Stockholm Sweden. The lectures were given in the
department seminar room, see Fig. 2, and the laboratory exercises were done in the
computer lab on the same floor, see Fig. 3.
(2) The KTH EE seminar room.
(3) Pertti Vainakainen giving a lecture on antennas
in MIMO systems.
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(4)
(5)
Computer exercise in MIMO antenna design.
(6) Laboratory exercises
Dr. Per Zetterberg giving instructions to the MUMS test bed for real-time MIMO transmission.
Lunches and social dinner
Lunches and coffee breaks were included in the course fee. The lunches Monday-Friday
were held at the faculty restaurant Hyllan next the EE building, see Fig. 4. The lunch on
Friday was held at Restatuant Claes på Hörnet close to KTH. The coffee breaks were
arranges on the same floor as the seminar and lab room. A social dinner was arranged on
Tuesday night to allow participation of the TKK staff involved in the first part of the course.
The dinner consisted of a traditional Swedish “Smörgåsbord” held at Grand Hotel in
Stockholm, see Fig.5.
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Fig. 7. Lunch venue at Restaurant Quantum on KTH campus(photo from 2005).
Fig. 8. The social dinner with traditional Swedish “Smörgåsbord” at Grand Hotel in Stockholm.
Course management
Material given to the students
All the students have been supplied by the copies of the slides presented by the speakers.
The electronic material has been uploaded to the VCE.
Computer exercises and experimental laboratory
The exercises for the courses were distributed in paper format as well as up-loaded to the
VCE website.
Credits, exams and their outcome
The examination of the course consisted primarily of computer and laboratory exercises
which were reported in written form by the students. In addition, attending the different
advanced lectures gave some extra points. The maximum possible score was 36 points
and the limit for passing the course was 24 points. Thus 20 out of 21 students have
passed the course at the time of writing, while one student has some remaining exercises
to complete. The overall number of hours and the time the students has spent to treat the
exam, is such as to justify 3 ECTS credits for this course. The table below summarizes
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the result of the examination, and, as seen, all students passed the course. A certificate of
passing the examination has been delivered.
Table 5 Results of the final exam
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
Name
score/36
Ismael Gutierrez
Jordi Serra
Lluís Blanco
Mikael Coldrey
Michele Gallo
Juan Valenzuela
Javier Alonso Valdesueiro
Maria Mustonen
Mikko Kyrö
Prasadh Ramachandran
Charlie Orlenius
Daniel Nyberg
Daniele Pinchera
Andreas Lambrecht
Ruiyuan Tian
Jaroslav Holis
Cécile GUIRAUD
Asimina Michalopoulou
Sathyaveer Prasad
Majid Nasiri Khormuji
Nutapong Somjit
29,7
29,7
29,7
30,75
30,75
30,8
30,8
28,4
28,4
28,4
35
35
32,5
32,5
29
29
27
27
29
30
20
Evaluation of the course from the students, detected strong and weak points
A standard evaluation form as distributed to the students;
The students also provided detailed comments and from these we found the following
points where the course may be improved:
Table 6 Evaluation form (Rating system(%),
(legend:1 Poor; 2 Fair, 3 Average, 4 Good, 5 Excellent)
Teaching Evaluation
1
Instructor is knowledgeable about the subject
Instructor is prepared
Instructor encourages participation
Instructor answers students’ questions
Instructor is enthusiastic about teaching
Instructor’s fluency in English
Interest of material
Relevance of material
Using teaching aids (overheads, videos, handouts)
How pertinent were the course objectives to the target audience?
How well do you feel the course objectives were met?
How well do you fell about the level of detail of the course
2 3 4
7
10
1 2 10
9
4 8
1 8
3 11
4 10
4 8
3 9
4 8
2 1 10
5
10
7
7
8
5
8
3
3
5
2
4
2
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documents?
Logistical support
1
2
2
How would you rate the letter of invitation in providing you with the
information
you needed to make your plans for participation in this training course?
How well was the registration/check-in process organised, staffed and
1
located
How would you rate the lodging accommodations for this course?
1
How would you rate the quality and variety of the meals served?
3
The classroom is comfortable and inviting
1
Desks and tables provide adequate work space
1
3
5
3 9 3
3
5
3
2
Evaluation for Lab
1 2
Quality of measurements facilities
Questions are closely related to the theories presented and provide
hand-on practice with the theories
Enforces understanding of important concepts
Encourages critical thinking and demonstrates pros and cons of
1
specific issues
Properly coordinated lab preparation
Effective supervision during the lab
1 1
Instructions are given at appropriate detail
1 1
4
2 8 5
3 4
1 7
4 8
5
9
5
3 8
3 7
6
5
3 8 6
2 8 6
4 10 2
9
7
9
5
3
2
4
8
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Advanced Computational Electromagnetics for Antenna Analysis
September 10-14 2007
Turin, Italy
Type:
A
Course coordinator
G. Vecchi, POLITO
Involved
institutions
SUMMARY
This course addressed frequency-domain computational techniques for the analysis of “serious” antenna
problems. The challenges come from the need to apply computational electromagnetics to real-life
antenna and antenna platform design. The course aimed at giving a working knowledge of a number of
topics that allow to solve challenging antenna problems. While addressing advanced topics, an effort was
done to structure it so as to give attendees a practical understanding of problems, the techniques to solve
them, and of how to implement them when "back at home".
The course involved about 40h of class time, with lectures interspersed with question-and-answer times,
as well as exercises paper-and-pencil and on laptops.
Table 1 Speakers
Name
Title
Organization
Nati Participation
onal
ity
Equivalen
t number
of
participati
ng
speakers
Juan Rius
Giuseppe Vecchi
Roberto Graglia
Francesca Vipiana
Angelo Freni
Marco Sabbadini
Dr., Prof.
Dr., Prof.
Dr., Prof.
Dr.
Dr., Prof.
Ing.
UPC
POLITO
POLITO
POLITO
UNIFI
ESA-ESTEC
ES
IT
IT
IT
IT
NL
0,2
2,2
Equivalent number of speakers participating to the event
1 days (20%)
5 days (100%)
1day (20%)
1day (20%)
4days (80%)
5 days (100%)
1
3,4
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Table 2 Students
N.
Name
Institution
Nationality
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Rémi Sarkis
Jana Jilková
Michal Pokorný
Peter Kovács
Simone Paulotto
Stefano Luceri
Guido Valerio
Maria Montagna
Christian Trampuz
Akkermans Iwan
Milica Rancic
Mónica Martinez Mendoza
José María Tamayo
Felipe Vico Bondía
Javier Gutiérrez Meana
Yuri Alvarez Lopez
Juan Sebastián Gómez Díaz
Laleh Golestanirad
UCL
BUT
BUT
BUT
SAPIENZA
UNILE
SAPIENZA
Uni. of Pavia
TUDelf
TUE
ELFAK
UPC
UPC
UPV
UNIOVI
UNIOVI
UPC
EPFL
Belgium
Checz Republic
Checz Republic
Checz Republic
Italy
Italy
Italy
Italy
Netherlands
Netherlands
Serbia
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Switezerland
Table 3 participants financed by EU
N.
Name
Institution
Nationality
1
2
3
4
5
Christian Trampuz
Felipe Vico Bondía
Mónica Martinez Mendoza
José María Tamayo
Laleh Golestanirad
TUDelf
UPV
UPC
UPC
EPFL
Netherlands
Spain
Spain
Spain
Switezerland
Table 4 Participants financed with internal funding
not claimed in the total costs
N.
Name
Institution
Nationality
1
Rémi Sarkis
UCL
2
Jana Jilková
BUT
3
4
Michal Pokorný
Milica Rancic
BUT
ELFAK
Belgium
Checz
Republic
Checz
Republic
Serbia
Lecture program
Day
Monday 10
9.00
10.00
Topic
meeting with participants (organization issues)+coffee
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10.00
12.15
Course presentation. Review of MoM fundamentals
12.15
13.30
lunch break
13.30
15.45
Review of MoM fundamentals and roadmap
15.45
16.00
break (refreshments)
16.00
18.00
Aggregate basis functions
Tuesday 11
8.30
10.30
Aggregate basis functions
10.30
10.45
break (refreshments)
10.45
12.15
Aggregate basis functions
12.15
13.30
lunch break
13.30
15.45
High-density mesh issues
15.45
16.00
break (refreshments)
16.00
18.00
Higher-order vector basis functions
Wednsday 12
8.30
10.30
Higher-order vector basis functions
10.30
10.45
break (refreshments)
10.45
12.15
Higher-order vector basis functions
12.15
13.30
lunch break
13.30
15.45
Fast methods
15.45
16.00
break (refreshments)
16.00
18.00
Fast methods
Thursday 13
8.30
11.00
Fast methods
11.00
11.15
break (refreshments)
11.15
12.15
Overview of ESA perspective in CEM
12.15
13.30
lunch break
13.30
15.45
Fast methods
15.45
16.00
break (refreshments)
16.00
18.00
Fast methods
Friday 14
8.30
10.30
MLMDA
10.30
10.45
break (refreshments)
10.45
12.15
Multi-Resolution MoM (MR)
12.15
13.30
lunch break
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13.30
15.45
MR
15.45
16.00
break (refreshments)
16.00
18.00
MR
Fig. 1 Course participants (students and some instructors) in a group photo near the
classroom
Logistic arrangements
Venue
The course was held September 10-14 2007 in Turin, Italy, in one of the classrooms of
Politecnico di Torino (POLITO). Attendees had been instructed to bring along a laptop for
practical exercises; a WiFi network was active in the classroom and the hallways, course
attendees and instructors were given access to POLITO network, form whence internet
was reachable.
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Fig. 2 Classroom, some course attendees, Professor Freni.
Fig. 3 Some course attendees during a practical exercise
Lodging and transportation
A few hotels had special arrangement for the course, with prices ranging from about 50 to
150 Eur/night. MCA grantees were hosted in a hotel, and provided dinner vouchers for a
restaurant.
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The attendees used public transportation between the university and hotel.
Lunches and social dinner
The lunches and coffee breaks were included in the registration fee. The lunches for
attendees and instructors were arranged in the POLITO canteen reserved to professors
and staff. Two coffee breaks per day with coffee, tea, refreshments, and a variety of
patisserie were provided. The social dinner (also included in the registration fee) was
organized on Wednesday, 12th September in restaurant “Le tre galline” in central Torino.
Fig. 4 Social dinner.
Course management
R. Loison (IETR) had to cancel active participation at the last moment for unexpected
problems. He provided the course material, covered (in part) by G Vecchi.
Material given to the students
All the students were provided with paper copies of the course slides (with a hard folder);
course slides were also accessible during the course via internet and the course webpage.
Exercises and demonstrations
This course included several exercise sessions, some paper-and-pencil, some involving
use of the laptops; the latter were all based on material provided by the course, often
calling for some Matlab™ scripting.
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Credits, exam and their outcome
The lectures, exercise sessions, and QA time amounted to about 38h. The passing
requisite was the carrying out of the course assignments; some extra assignment were
planned to be carried out after the course end, granting extra credits.
A total of 12 attendees submitted a substantial part of the assignments; upon evaluation of
the above, evaluated as 2 ECTS credits. Out of these, 9 submitted valid post-course
assignments, and their active participation was then evaluated 4 ECTS credits.
Evaluation of teaching and logistical support
All teachers received quite positive evaluation (all averages above 4). Also logistical
support was found good (above 4).
Table 5 Teaching evaluation and Evaluation of logistical support
- (legend:1 Poor; 2 Fair, 3 Average, 4 Good, 5 Excellent)
TEACHING EVALUATION
Vecchi
Graglia
Freni
Sabbadini
Instructor is knowledgeable
about the subject
5,0
4,9
5,0
4,7
Instructor is prepared
5,0
5,0
5,0
4,6
Instructor encourages
participation
4,7
3,8
4,4
3,8
Instructor answers students'
questions
5,0
4,5
4,8
4,5
Instructor is enthusiastic
about teaching
5,0
4,0
4,5
3,8
Instructor's fluency in English
5,0
3,4
3,7
4,5
Interest of material
4,7
3,9
4,6
4,1
Relevance of material
4,5
4,2
4,6
4,2
Using teaching aids
4,3
3,8
4,7
4,0
How pertinent were the
course objectives to the
target audience?
4,7
3,9
4,6
3,9
How well do you feel the
course objectives were met?
4,5
3,7
4,3
3,9
How well do you feel about
the level of detail of the
course documents?
4,6
4,0
4,6
3,9
LOGISTICAL SUPPORT
How would you rate the letter of invitation in providing you with the
information you needed to make your plans for participation in this training
course?
How well was the registration/check-in process organized, staffed and
located
How would you rate the lodging accommodations of this course?
How would you rate the quality and variety of the meals served?
The classroom is comfortable and inviting
Desks and tables provide adequate work space
Rius
Vipiana
4,9
4,9
4,7
4,6
3,9
4,0
4,4
4,4
4,0
3,5
4,3
4,5
4,3
4,0
4,0
4,3
4,4
4,4
4,2
4,3
4,1
4,3
4,4
4,4
4,0
4,3
4,2
4,1
4,5
4,0