DEVELOPING A CAD TOOL FOR RADIO FREQUENCY AND MICROWAVE ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Use of computer-aided design (CAD) tools in radio frequency (RF) and microwave engineering is common in electrical engineering education. Study in these areas involves advanced electromagnetic theory and development of strong analytical skills for implementing practical devices. Many graphics and non-graphics based CAD tools have been developed to support various areas of RF and microwave engineering. The Computer-Aided Microwave Design System, or CAMDS, was designed and developed as a tool especially to help engineers and engineering students to solve problems in these areas. CAMDS presents the significant advantage of being an interactive program written in MATLAB 7. It is particularly useful since it uses a programming language that is familiar to electrical engineering students. In its present form CAMDS is an educational tool that targets problems ranging from transmission line theory to microwave component design