ONGOING DEVELOPMENT OF A MODERN RADIO-FREQUENCY (RF) AND MICROWAVE ENGINEERING LABORATORY

At North Dakota State University the RF and Applied Electromagnetics Laboratory has been significantly upgraded in order to give undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to work with new and up-to-date professional measurement equipment and software. Begun almost a half century ago, the laboratory capabilities and student experiments were originally based on measurement equipment in the VHF, UHF, and X-bands. In the early years core experiments were based on use of the slotted line and General Radio equipment at the lower frequencies and the slotted waveguide and Hewlett Packard equipment in the X-band. In time, computer analysis and design of microwave devices was added.