Abstract
The Coffee-Can radar was designed by Professor Gregory Charvat as a simple low-cost radar system for small teams of students to build and test during an intersession course at MIT. The name derives from the use of coffee cans as transmit and receive antennas. Since the success of Charvat’s course, the coffee-can radar has been used at a number of schools for hands-on experiences with radar. It is one of the small radar systems used in courses in Principles of Radar at the United States Naval Academy, where laboratory and project-based learning are necessary components of the educational experience. This paper will describe how the radar operates, and will explain the role this radar plays in the Naval Academy’s Principles of Radar and EW course. Attendees will receive a demonstration of the radar’s three modes: ranging, range-rate estimation, and synthetic aperture imaging; and will have the opportunity to operate the radar. Additional small radar systems used in the Principles of Radar course will be available as well.
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