TRANSMISSION MEDIA

Competencies and objectives

Course context for academic year 2021-22
Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2021-22

Course context for academic year 2021-22

Preliminary recommended subjects: Signals and Systems, Communication Theory, Fundamentals of engineering optics.

Transmission media are a fundamental part of telecommunication systems since they ensure the correct transmission of information between two faraway points. The knowledge of the existing transmission media, their characteristics and working mode are a discipline of interest for the future graduate student in Telecommunication Engineering.

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

UA Basic Transversal Competences

CT10 : Capacity to confront, plan and solve real problems demanded by society in the field of engineering.
CT11 : Capacity to learn and apply new concepts and methods in an autonomous and interdisciplinary fashion.
CT12 : Capacity to assimilate and adapt to the permanent evolution of technology when developing one's professional career.
CT13 : Capacity to adopt the scientific method when planning and carrying out different academic and professional tasks.

Basic Transversal Competences

CT1 : Students should show they possess and understand knowledge in a field of study that continues from general secondary education and is usually found at a level which, although supported by advanced textbooks, also includes certain aspects that involve knowledge arising from the cutting edge of their field of study.
CT2 : Students should know how to apply their knowledge to their job or vocation in a professional manner and should possess those skills that are usually reflected when preparing and defending arguments and solving problems in their field of study.
CT3 : Students should have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their field of study) to give opinions that include a reflection on important, social, scientific, ethical matters, etc.
CT4 : Students should be able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

Specific Competences: >> Competences Common to the Telecommunications Branch

C1 : Capacity for self-learning of new knowledge and techniques appropriate for the conception, development and exploitation of telecommunications systems and services.
C4 : Capacity to analyse and specify the fundamental parameters of communication systems.
C8 : Capacity to understand the mechanisms for propagating and transmitting electromagnetic and acoustic waves, and their corresponding transmitting and receiving devices.

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2021-22

To understand the existing transmission media, the advantages and disadvantages which are presented by each one of them.
To study the problematic of the noise in radio communication systems as bounding factor.
To understand and to analyze the signal propagation in ideal transmission lines both in time and frequency domain.
To know the different degradations that appear in real transmission lines, to understand and characterize them in specific lines.
To know the most used guiding transmission systems, the advantages and disadvantages that are presented by each of them, and their behavior inside a communication system.
To analyze antennas as a radio communication system element, to know and understand his parameters as transmitting and receiver antenna.
To know the most used types of antennas and to understand their more significant features.

Competencies and objectives

Course context for academic year 2021-22

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2021-22

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