Preface

During the course of my career at Northrop Grumman, I have had the pleasure of teaching several internal classes in addition to mentoring young engineers new to the company. Several years ago one of the things I noticed was that many of our talented new employees were lacking the insight that comes from understanding the fundamentals. I often saw antenna analysis performed with no real insight into key concepts for understanding and students tackling more difficult problems with no textbook solution. It is widely known that an electronically scanned array (ESA) pattern can be calculated by simply typing in the fft function in MATLAB®, and, in the blink of an eye you have before you a beautifully colored ESA pattern. However, when it comes ...

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