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Activities guide and evaluation rubric

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias Básicas, Tecnología e

Academic Unit Ingeniería
Academic Level Profesional
Academic Field Formación interdisciplinar básica común
Course Name Teoria Electromagnética y Ondas
Course Code 203058
Course Type Theoretical Can be yes ☒ No ☐
enabled
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ of 2
activity:
weeks
Moment of Unit
Initial ☐ ☐ Final ☒
evaluation: Intermediate:
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: Monitoring and evaluation
activity: 125
environment
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity: May 26th
May 14th 2018 2018
Competence to develop:
The student analyzes the wave and medium behavior from the source
of the wave to the reception point.
Topics to develop:
-
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop

Step 5 – make the final activity

The group will have to follow the next steps to accomplish the activity
goals.
Step 1: Make an academic research about the topics defined for this
unit.

Step 3: Each member of the group has to participate solving the given
problems; if all members don’t chose a role, the group has to ensure
that all problems are solved and delivered in the forum.

Step 4: Validated the problems answers and procedures by mean of

the suitable tool.

Step 5: Compile the group contributions from the collaborative forum

and ensure the accomplish of the rubric items.

Step 6: Deliver the work in the monitoring and evaluation

environment.

Activities to develop

In this activity, the group will have to solve some practical problems
using as a reference the following image.

Retrieved from: http://www.scientechworld.com/education-software-training-and-skill-

development/wireless-communication/understanding-wireless-sensor-network
Taking into account the image, solve the following problems:

1. If the signal frequency used to send the sensed parameters from

the water monitoring system to the reception point is 6 MHz.
how deep could the wireless transmitter be placed? How does
the water behave at this frequency? Find Υ, 𝛼, 𝛽, 𝜆 and 𝑣𝑝 .
Explain how these values could be used in the practice.

2. If the medium has the following electromagnetic characteristics:

𝜎 = 10−4 𝑆𝑚⁄𝑚, 𝜖𝑟 = 1 y 𝜇𝑟 = 1. Find the losses per length unit,
take into account the given frequency for the signal, how long
must travel the signal to have more than 3dB of attenuation?

3. In the buildings have an intrinsic impedance of 𝜂2 = 300Ω and the

signal has a power of 100𝑚𝑊/𝑚2 . Fin the reflected and
transmitted power to the buildings.

4. A near monitoring station has put 75Ω coaxial transmission line

with a length of 20 m and is terminated with an antenna of
37.5 + 𝑗78Ω. If the relative permittivity of the line is 2.56 and the
frequency is 3.0 GHz, find the input impedance to the line, the
reflection coefficient at the load, the reflection coefficient at the
input, and the SWR on the line.

5. In the monitoring station, there is a radio transmitter connected

to an antenna having an impedance 80 + 𝑗40Ω with a 50Ω coaxial
cable. If the 50Ω transmitter can deliver 30 W when connected to
a 50Ω load, how much power is delivered to the antenna?

Use the software Smith Chart to validate the answer to the fourth and
fifth problems.

Collaborative learning environment: In this

Environment
environment, there is a forum where the student is
for the
going to share information with his/her fellow
development
classmates in order to understand the conceptual
 bases in Electrodynamic and waves and to solve the
proposed problems.

Monitoring and evaluation environment: In this

environment, the student will have to deliver the
collaborative activity, according to the course agenda.

Practical learning environment: In this

environment, the student will find information to
develop the proposed practical activities.
Individual:
The student will have to answer the conceptual
questions using academic sources, to solve a chosen
problem and to make a review in the forum about the
delivered problems.

Collaborative:
The collaborative group will have to choose the best
analyses about the given concepts and to consolidate
Products to each part of the proposed activity, including the
deliver by practical exercises, where everyone has to participate.
student
The deliver document should contain the following:
- Cover page (It contains the title, authors’
name, course, university and date)
- Introduction (The group will explain the
practical application associate to the unit topics)
- Developed activity (according to the activity
guidelines)
- Conclusions
- References

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of Each contribution has to be posted in the forum

activities for associated to this step, one important responsibility is
the to analyze and to discuss about his/her fellow’s
development contributions.
of
collaborative Before the three last days of the activity, the final
work document has to be consolidated according to the
proposed activity and each student has to analyze it
according to the rubric, looking for deliver an excellent
activity.
Roles to
Choose the role to perform within the group. Taking
perform by
into account, that no matter the role that the student
the student
chooses, it’s very important to evidence significant
in the
contributions.
collaborative
group
In this activity, each student in the group will have to
choose a role, but it is important to recognize each of
the following, that will be assumed from the following
step on.

Roles Function
Compiler Consolidate the document, as the final
product from the discussion, taking
into account that it will include the
contributions from all participants and
that it will only include the members
whom participate in the progress of
Roles and the work. To inform the one who is in
responsibilit charge of the alerts in order to inform
y for the to the students whom did not make
delivery of the contributions that they are not
products by going to be include in the product that
students will be delivered.
Reviewer Ensure that the document accomplish
the presentation required rules.
Evaluator Ensure that the document contains
the established criteria in the rubric.
To alert the one who are playing that
role, to inform the others members
when it is necessary to make some
change.
Deliverer Alert about the time on the delivered
products and to send the document in
the defined time, using the resources
for the delivery and to inform the
 other students when the deliver will
be made.
Alert Inform the group members about the
work news and to inform to the
teacher using the forum course and
the internal delivered message service
about the final document deliver.

Use of
Always cite the references using APA style.
references
Students must be aware of severe sanctions in the
case of plagiarism.

In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article

99, are considered as faults that violate the academic
order, among others, the following: literal e)
"Plagiarism, that means, to present as his own
authorship all or Part of a work, work, document or
invention made by another person. It also implies the
use of wrong citations or references, or propose
citations where there is no coincidence between it and
the reference "and liberal f)" Reproducing, or copying
Plagiarism for profit, educational materials or results of research
policy products, which have Intellectual rights reserved for
the University.

The academic sanctions that the student will face are

the following:
A) In cases of academic fraud demonstrated in
academic work or respective evaluation, the grade
that will be imposed will be zero point zero (0.0)
without prejudice to the corresponding disciplinary
sanction.
B) In cases related to plagiarism demonstrated in
academic work of any nature, the grade that will be
imposed will be zero point zero (0.0), without
prejudice to the corresponding disciplinary sanction

4. Evaluation rubric
 Evaluation rubric

Collabor
Activity type: Individual Activity ☐ ative ☒
Activity
Moment of Unit
the Initial ☐ Interme ☐ Final ☒
evaluation diate:
Performance levels of the individual
Assessed activity Score
Aspects
High score Media score Low score
Despite, the The
student solve student
The student any of the does not
Analyze the analyzes the given solve any
problems in problems problems, of the
the given referred to the the solution problems 20
diagram given diagram. is not or the
referred to solution is
the diagram. not correct.
(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student The student
solves at least does not
The student
one problem, solve the
solves the
explaining step problem or
Participate problem but
by step the there is
solving the there isn’t
procedure and only the 20
given analyze in
analyzing its answer,
problems each step.
practical without the
application. procedure.
(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Analyze the The student The student The student
problems analyzes the limits the does not
presented by problems solved analysis to make any 15
the group in the group and accept the critical
members gives a procedure analysis
 professional exposed by about the
concept. the group problems
member, but solved by
there isn’t a each
critical member of
concept the group.
about this.
(up to 15 (up to 7 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student The student
solves at limits the
The student least one participatio
makes significant exercise but n to use a
Participate contributions to does not mathematic
analyzing the the results make any al formula 20
results analysis. analysis without
about the analyzing
results. the results.
(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed
activity Score
Aspect
High score Media score Low score
Despite
the group
have made
contribution
The group
The group in the
consolidates a
delivers a forum, the
document
document work
according to the
Consolidate without the wasn’t
activities to
the final given consolidate 20
develop and the
document structure or d or
given
the activities delivered in
specifications for
are not the
the document to
complete. Monitoring
deliver.
and
evaluation
environmen
t.
 (Up to 20 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The
Although the information
definition included in
The answers to
and analysis the deliver
the questions
are suitable document
and the analysis
to the is not
Use in each activity is
proposed referenced
academic supported in 10
activities, all or it does
references academic
the resources not come
resources.
are not from
academic. academic
resources.
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Despite the
The deliver
deliver
document
document is
The deliver is not well-
well-
document is organized
Present a organized, it
structured and it is
well- isn’t
according to the difficult to 10
structured structured
APA rules. understand
document according to
the given
the APA
structure.
rules.
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The ideas
and
The ideas and explanations The ideas
explanations are have and
Use an
clear and grammar explanation
adequate
technically mistakes, are not 10
spelling and
structured. changing clear.
grammar
their real
sense.
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Final score 125