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Activities guide and evaluation rubric

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Academic Unit Escuela de Ciencias Básicas, Tecnología e Ingeniería

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

2. Description of the activity

Type of the Number of

Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ 2
activity: weeks
Moment of
Initial ☐ Unit, Intermediate ☐ Final ☒
evaluation:
Delivery Environment of the activity:
Evaluative score of the activity: 125
Monitoring and evaluation environment
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity:
May 10, 2019 May 23, 2019
Competence to develop:
The student analyzes the wave and medium behavior from the source of the wave to the
reception point.
Topics to develop:
Topics: units 1, 2 and 3.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop

Step 5 – To 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 two of the given problems,
they must choose from different units, trying to cover all the proposed exercises. The
selection must be announced within 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 2,8MHz. 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 = 2𝑥10−4 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 = 150Ω and the signal has a
power of 130𝑚𝑊/𝑚2 . Fin the reflected and transmitted power to the buildings.

4. A near monitoring station has put 50Ω coaxial transmission line with a length of
50m and is terminated with an antenna of 45 + 𝑗75Ω. If the relative permittivity of
the line is 2.8 and the frequency is 10GHz, 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 impedance 75 + 𝑗50Ω with a 60Ω coaxial cable. If the 45Ω transmitter can
deliver 50W when connected to a 45Ω 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, there is

a forum where the student is going to share information with his/her
fellow classmates in order to understand the conceptual bases in
Environment Electrodynamic and waves and to solve the proposed problems.
for the Monitoring and evaluation environment: In this environment, the
development 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.
Products to
deliver by
Collaborative:
student
The collaborative group will have to choose the best analyses about
the given concepts and to consolidate each part of the proposed
activity, including the practical exercises, where everyone has to
participate.
 The deliver document should contain the following:
- Cover page
- Introduction
- Developed activity
- Conclusions
- References

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Each contribution has to be posted in the forum associated to this

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

responsibility Compiler Consolidate the document, as the final product from the
for the discussion, taking into account that it will include the
delivery of contributions from all participants and that it will only include the
products by members whom participate in the progress of the work. To inform
students the one who is in charge of the alerts in order to inform to the
students whom did not make the contributions that they are not
going to be include in the product that 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 products, which
policy
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
Activity type: Individual Activity ☐ Collaborative Activity ☒
Moment of the
Initial ☐ Unit Intermediate: ☐ Final ☒
evaluation:
Assessed Performance levels of the individual activity Scor
Aspects High score Media score Low score e
Despite, the
The student student solve any The student does
Analyze the
analyzes the of the given not solve any of
problems in
problems referred problems, the the problems or
the given 10
to the given solution is not the solution is not
diagram
diagram. referred to the correct.
diagram.
(up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)
The student solves
at least one The student does
problem, explaining The student solves not solve the
Participate
step by step the the problem but problem or there
solving the
procedure and there isn’t analyze is only the 50
given
analyzing its in each step. answer, without
problems
practical the procedure.
application.
(up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)
The student limits
The student does
The student the analysis to
not make any
Analyze the analyzes the accept the
critical analysis
problems problems solved in procedure exposed
about the
presented by the group and by the group 10
problems solved
the group gives a professional member, but there
by each member
members concept. isn’t a critical
of the group.
concept about this.
(up to 15 points) (up to 7 points) (up to 0 points)
The student
The student The student does
develops the
Analyzing the develops step by not develop the
chosen exercises 15
results step and clearly the chosen exercises
step by step and
chosen exercises. step by step.
not clearly.
 (up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)
Assessed Performance levels of the collaborative activity Scor
Aspect High score Media score Low score e
Despite the group
The group
have made
consolidates a
contribution in the
document The group delivers
forum, the work
according to the a document without
Consolidate wasn’t
activities to the given structure
the final consolidated or 10
develop and the or the activities are
document delivered in the
given specifications not complete.
Monitoring and
for the document to
evaluation
deliver.
environment.
(Up to 20 points) (Up to 10 points) (Up to 0 points)
The information
The answers to the Although the
included in the
questions and the definition and
deliver document
analysis in each analysis are
is not referenced
Use academic activity is suitable to the
or it does not 10
references supported in proposed activities,
come from
academic all the resources
academic
resources. are not academic.
resources.
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (Up to 0 points)

Despite the deliver The deliver

The deliver
document is well- document is not
document is
Present a well- organized, it isn’t well-organized
structured
structured structured and it is difficult to 10
according to the
document according to the understand the
APA rules.
APA rules. given structure.

(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (Up to 0 points)

The ideas and The ideas and
Use an explanations are explanations have The ideas and
adequate clear and grammar mistakes, explanation are
10
spelling and technically changing their real not clear.
grammar structured. sense.
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (Up to 0 points)
Final score 125