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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: 25
environment
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity:
August 23th 2018 September 5th 2018
Competence to develop:
The student understands the waves behavior in different transmission
mediums used in telecommunications.
Topics to develop:
-Loss tangent
-Waves in different mediums
-Propagation and polarization modes.
-Transmission lines.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop

Step 1 – make the course recognition

The student will have to follow the next steps to accomplish the
activity goals.

Step 1: Analyze the given questions according to the main applications

named in the activities to develop paragraph.

Step 2: Answer the given questions using academic resources.

Step 3: Identify the listed parameters in the final question.

Step 4: Develop a written work according to the directions in the

Products to deliver by student.

Step 5: Deliver the work in the monitoring and evaluation

environment.

Activities to develop

In this activity we are going to consider two main applications of

electromagnetic waves and answer the given questions:

- Wireless data transmission.

- Medical applications

Taking into account the academic references, answer the

following questions.

1. Define the following concepts:

- Electromagnetic wave.
- Propagation speed.
- Wavelength.
- Reflection and refraction.
- Electric permittivity and magnetic permeability.

2. Explain the importance to consider the “Skin Deep” (depth of

penetration) in medical treatments.

3. Make a graph that explains at least three modes of “terrestrial

propagation of electromagnetic waves”, including a brief
explanation of them.
 4. Can the human tissue change its conductivity because a
disease? Explain.

5. Using the “electromagnetic spectrum”, select a frequency used

in medical treatment and explain how it is used and select a
frequency used in wireless transmission and explain its
application.

In this activity, you will be assessed the ability to understand the

concepts related to the transmission of electromagnetic waves. You do
not have to do any mathematical calculation.

Collaborative learning environment: Despite, this is an

individual activity, there is a forum where the student
is going to share information with his/her fellow
classmates in order to understand clearly each
Environment concept and its relationship with practical problems
for the associated with the practical engineering activities.
development
Monitoring and evaluation environment: In this
environment, the student will have to deliver the
individual activity, according to the course agenda.

Individual:
The student will have to deliver a Word document with
the following Contents:
- Cover page
- Introduction
Products to - Solution to the questions.
deliver by - Conclusions (what did you learn?)
student - References (use APA format)

Collaborative:
In this activity, the student will not have to deliver
any collaborative product.
 General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for
the Despite, this activity is individual, there is a forum
development where the student will be able to share questions and
of experiences with his/her fellow group classmates.
collaborative
work
Roles to
perform by In this activity is not necessary to assume a role,
the student because it is individual.
in the
collaborative
group
In this activity, each student in the group will not
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
Roles and that it will only include the members
responsibilit whom participate in the progress of
y for the the work. To inform the one who is in
delivery of charge of the alerts in order to inform
products by to the students whom did not make
students 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
Plagiarism the reference "and liberal f)" Reproducing, or copying
policy for profit, educational materials or results of research
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

Individual Collaborati
Activity type: ☒ ☐
Activity ve Activity
Moment of Unit
the Initial ☒ Intermedia ☐ Final ☐
evaluation te:
Performance levels of the individual
Assessed activity Scor
Aspects e
High score Media score Low score
The student The student
The student
analyzes and doesn’t make
gives suitable
explains the any analyses
information,
Analyze the given or doesn’t give
but it is not
given questions, suitable
clear 6
questions supported in information
associated to
academic about the
the question.
resources. questions.
(up to 6 (up to 3 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Analyze the The student The student The student
importance analyses the gives concepts does not give
of importance of but there is any kind of
electromagne electromagneti not analyses analyses or
tic waves in c waves in the about the concepts about 6
medicine and given given the given
wireless applications. applications applications.
transmission (up to 6 (up to 3 (up to 0
systems. points) points) points)
Explain The student
The student The student
where could defines the
explains does not
be used the concepts but 8
where could explain any
given there is not
be applied the given concept.
concepts. any relation
 given with practical
concepts. applications.
(up to 8 (up to 4 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The deliver
The
The deliver document does
information is
document has not have an
presented in a
an appropriate appropriate
tidy way, but it
Document structure order and it is
does not have 5
structure according to not structured
an appropriate
the APA rules. following the
structure.
APA rules.
(up to 5 (up to 2 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Final score 25