This course offers a very comprehensive and highly technical overview of Transmissions Network Design, Planning, and Implementation. This course will be useful to engineers, project managers, and other personnel involved in planning and/or making decision about microwave network design and deployment, as well as anyone else involved in real-life microwave network build-out.
Comparison of North American and ITU microwave design models and methods as well as project management and logistics issues, deployments in different countries, regulatory and ethical issues will be discussed. This course seeks to illustrate how transmissions challenges encountered in telecommunication network can be resolved in a cost-effective manner, using microwave radio systems, without compromising the network availability and performance standards.
Course Highlights:
- Transmission Networks Planning
- Microwave Propagation
- Microwave Link Planning and Design
- MW Link Licensing
- Equipment Specifications & Selection
- Link Engineering
- Network Performance and Reliability Considerations
- Protection and Diversity
- Pathloss
- Frequency Planning and Interference Analysis
- Project Management and Deployment Issues
- Equipment Installation - Radios, Waveguides and Coax Cables, Antennas
Course Benefits:
- Understand microwave propagation, MW system design challenges and MW network project management
- Able to complete microwave path calculations
- Become aware of challenges of MW link installation
Course Typically Offered: In person Summer quarter
Prerequisites: Basic math skills and understanding of telecommunications is required.
Next steps: Upon completion of this course, consider taking other courses in the RF Engineering Certificate
More information: Contact unexengr@ucsd.edu to learn more about RF Engineering and course offerings.
Course Number: EE-40153
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: RF Engineering, Wireless Communications Technologist
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7/18/2023 - 8/26/2023
$750
Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Online Asynchronous.
This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
INSTRUCTOR:
Lehpamer, Harvey, Senior Project Engineer, POWER Engineers, Inc., San Diego
Harvey Lehpamer has over 30 years of experience in planning, designing and deploying wireless and wireline networks around the world. Dr. Lehpamer has previously worked for Ericsson Wireless, Qualcomm Inc., and Clearnet, Inc., and has been an owner of HL Telecom Consulting for many years.
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TEXTBOOKS:
REQUIREDMicrowave Transmission Networks 2nd
by Lehpamer, Harvey
ISBN / ASIN: 9780071701228
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
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POLICIES:
No refunds after: 7/24/2023.
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7/18/2023 - 8/26/2023
extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
There are no sections of this course currently scheduled. Please contact the Science & Technology department at 858-534-3229 or unex-sciencetech@ucsd.edu for information about when this course will be offered again.