(1)                 GENERAL INFORMATION

FACULTY

APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES

DEPARTMENT

AIRCRAFT TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING

LEVEL OF STUDIES

UNDERGRADUATE

MODULE CODE

AE4161T

SEMESTER OF STUDIES

7th

COURSE TITLE

RADAR SYSTEMS

INDEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES

TEACHING HOURS PER WEEK

CREDIT UNITS

Theory and Practice

4

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COURSE TYPE

 

Specialty course

PRE-REQUIRED COURSES:

 

 

TEACHING AND EXAMINATION LANGUAGE

GREEK

THE COURSE IS OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDETNS 

 

ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΗ ΣΕΛΙΔΑ ΜΑΘΗΜΑΤΟΣ (URL)

http://eclass.gunet.gr/courses/LABGU232/

 

(2) LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Learning Objectives

 

 

After successfully competing the course, students should be able to:
• Describe the radar operation principles and the basic techniques used in aircraft radar systems.
• Analyze the functional stucture of radar components and identify their specifications.

General Skills

 

 

 

 

Autonomous work

Group work

Study of radar characteristics

 

(3) COURSE CONTENT

Unit 1: Radar basic concepts 

 

Unit 2: Operation parameters of a radar system

 

Unit 3: Radar equation analysis

 

Unit 4: Radar targets

 

Unit 5: Echo recovery 

 

Unit 6: Surveillance radar

 

Unit 7: Secondary surveillance radar

 

Unit 8: Radar transmission circuits

 

Unit 9: Radar antennas

 

Unit 10: Signal processing

 

Unit 11: Weather radar

 

Unit 12: Traffic alerting. Colision Avoidance System

 

(4) TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS - EVALUATION

TEACHING METHODS

In the classroom

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

 

Use of e-class platform

TEACHING ORGANIZATION

 

Activity

Semester Work Load

Lectures

4

Group work

20

Αutonomous study

24

Practical training focusing on method  application and case study analysis in smaller group of studens

20

 

 

 

 

Total

104

 

STUDENT EVALUATION

 

 

Ι. Final written examination (60%) including:

 

        - Multiple choice questions

                     Problem solving related to radar system design

                     Comparative evaluation of theory elements

 

ΙΙ. Group work presentation (40%)

 

(5) SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.G. Stimson, Introduction to airborne radar, Εκδόσεις Scitech Publishing Inc., ISBN: 1891121014.
2.P. Peebles, Radar Principles, Εκδόσεις John Wiley & Sons, ISBN:0471252050
3. M. Skolnik, Introduction to radar systems, Εκδόσεις McGraw-Hill, ISBN:007118189X