Use of a spreadsheet program in electromagnetics

Ahmad Yamani; Abdelwahab Kharab

doi:10.1109/13.941003

Use of a spreadsheet program in electromagnetics

Ahmad Yamani^*, Abdelwahab Kharab

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King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

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Abstract

This paper describes how a spreadsheet program can assist electromagnetics education at the undergraduate level. Spreadsheet software has proven to be an important pedagogical tool for a variety of problems in electrical engineering education. Using the power of the 123 macros, a menu driven spreadsheet program is used to compute the solution of some electrostatic boundary value problems for an introductory-level electromagnetics course. With the on-screen numerical and visual feedback and the ease of entering data, students will be able to take a close look at the effects of varying the input data of the model problems.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	292-297
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Education
Volume	44
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/13.941003
State	Published - Aug 2001

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Manuscript received March 15, 1996; revised March 24, 2001. This work was supported by King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. A. Yamani is with the Electrical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia. A. Kharab is with the Mathematics Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia. Publisher Item Identifier S 0018-9359(01)06997-7.

Keywords

Capacitance
Electric field
Electromagnetic
Macro
Spreadsheet

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Education
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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