An educational tool for microstrip antennas analysis: Design; structure and programming

This paper presents an interactive educative tool for the antennas design. Since time ago, new methods for bringing near the theory to the student and make it understandable had been searched at universities. The proposed tool is an innovative electronic book for antenna theory which gets it by two differential characteristics: Interactivity and animations. The interactivity consists on set up a “prove bank” where the student, incited by some guide commentaries, can make modifications and see what is its effect on the results, which are showed and plotted in different formats. Animations bring the opportunity to the student of watching the evolution of some parameters with time or any other variable. The present paper shows the book structure as well as some examples of the working document.