Syllabus
Course Meeting Times
Lectures: 5 sessions over 3 weeks
Prerequisites
Participants are expected to supply their own laptop with MATLAB® installed and have some experience with the use of MATLAB.
You do not have to be a radar engineer, but it helps if you are interested in any of the following: electronics, amateur radio, physics, or electromagnetics.
Course Objectives
To generate student interested in applied electromagnetics, RF, analog, signal processing, and other (often tedious) engineering topics by building a capable short-range radar sensor and using it in a series of field tests. Students have a vested interest in making their own radar work properly, causing them to dig deeper into these subjects on their own volition thereby providing a self-motivated learning experience.
Calendar
| SES # | LECTURES | ACTIVITIES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Radar basics | Introduce project |
| 2 | Antenna design | Doppler experiment |
| 3 | Modular system RF design | Ranging experiment |
| 4 | Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging | SAR imaging experiment |
| 5 | Presentation of student field experiment results | |
News Coverage About the Course
"MIT Lincoln Laboratory Researchers Introduce Students to Radar Engineering," Lincoln Laboratory News, April 2011.
Abazorius, Abby. "A Modern Approach to Radar," CSAIL News [MIT], February 24, 2011.
Metts, Matt. "Coffee Can Radar." MAKE: Online, February 3, 2011.
