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Activities guide and evaluation rubric - Step 2

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Academic Escuela de Ciencias Básicas, Tecnología e Ingeniería

Unit
Academic Level Profesional

Academic Field Formación interdisciplinar básica común

Course Name Teoría Electromagnética y Ondas

Course Code 203058
Course Type Theoretical Can be ye ☒ N ☒
enabled s o
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of the Individ

☒ Collaborative ☒ Weeks 4
activity: ual
Moment of Unit 1,
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: Intermediate:
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: Monitoring and evaluation
activity: 110
environment
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity:
September 6, 2019 October 3, 2019
Competence to develop:
The student applies the concepts of physics and electromagnetism, to
determine the behavior parameters of electromagnetic waves when
propagating in open media, using mathematical methods to solve
application exercises.
Topics to develop:
- Propagation in open media.
- Electromagnetic waves in conductors, dielectrics and insulators.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
This activity called Step 2, is individual and collaborative, for its
development you must follow the 7 acts presented below:
Act 1: Explore the academic resource "Propagation of waves in
open media" described at the beginning of the "Activities to
develop" section of this document.
Act 2: Download the “Annex 2 - Delivery format - Step 2” found in
the collaborative learning environment in the "Activities guide and
evaluation rubric - Step 2 - to Recognize the electrodynamic and
waves Applications" folder.
Act 3: Individually, based on the exploration carried out, answer the 5
questions proposed in the next section "Activities to develop".
Act 4: Select 1 of the proposed propagation medium in the application
exercise of the "Activities to develop" section and announce it in the
"Step 2" forum.
Act 5: Individually, based on the exploration performed, solve the 5
steps of the application exercise, using the chosen propagation
medium, the procedures performed must be shown.
Act 6: Each student must complete the application in its individual
delivery format, verifying the requirements of the evaluation rubric.
Act 7: In the 2 days, before the closing of the activity, the group leader
must gather the delivery formats of each student and compress in a
single file, which must be delivered in the monitoring and evaluation
environment.
Activities to develop
For the development of this activity, explore in the Knowledge
Environment, in Unit 1, the bibliographical reference of Chen, W.
(2005), on pages 513-519, supplement with the aids generated by the
tutor within the forum, to solve the following consultation and
application exercises:

Questions: (write with your own words)

1. What do you mean propagation medium open for electromagnetic
waves?
2. Within the propagation mediums, what is mean by the tangent of
losses?
3. Of what physical variables does the value of the tangent of losses
depend?
4. How are the propagation medium classified from the tangent of
losses?
5. What are the propagation parameters of the waves through a
medium?

Application exercise:
The following 5-step exercise describes the method to characterize an
electromagnetic wave when propagating in an open environment, for
which, each student must choose 1 propagation media of the 5
proposed in Table 1 and announce it within the forum Step 2 to avoid
Media Tan(δ) δ [°]
1. Perfect dielectrics (Not dissipative) Tan(δ) = 0 δ = 0°
2. Good insulators (Lost low dielectric) 0 < Tan(δ) <= 0,1 0° < δ <= 6°
3. Dissipative dielectrics (Dielectrics with losses) 0,1 < Tan(δ) <= 10 6° < δ <= 84°
4. Good conductors (Good conductors) Tan(δ) > 10 84°< δ < 90°
5. Perfect conductors (Perfect conductors) Tan(δ) >>> 10 δ = 90°
repetition.

Tabla 1: Conductivity σ and electrical permittivity ε rof some materials.

Material σ [S /m] εr [ ]

1. Copper 5.80 x 107 1

2. Sea water 4 80
3. Vegetable soil 1.00 x 10−2 14
4. Dry soil 1.00 x 10−4 3
5. Sweet water 1.00 x 10−3 80

1. Calculate the tangent of losses Tan (δ) and the angle of losses δ
of the medium chosen in Table 1, if through it travel an
electromagnetic wave E of frequency f =CCC MHz. Note that CCC
are the first 3 digits of your identification number:

σ σ
tan ( δ )= =
ω ε 2 πf ε r ε o

2. According to the result obtained in point 1, classify the behavior

of the chosen medium according to one of the 5 options in Table
2:

Table 2: Classification of propagation media.

3. According to the classification obtained in point 2 and using Table

 3 shown below, calculate the following propagation parameters of
the wave in the chosen medium:
a. Propagation constant  (gamma).
b. Attenuation constant  (Alpha).
c. Phase constant  (Beta).
d. Intrinsic impedance  (Eta).

Table 3: Propagation parameters in open media.

Not Lost low Dielectrics with Good
Parameter
dissipative dielectric losses conductors
 jω √ με jω √ με √ jωμ(σ + j ωε) √ jω σ μo
 0 ση/2 ℜ¿) √ πf σ μ o
 ω √ με ω √ με ℑ() j √ πf σ μo

 √ μ/ε √ μ/ε √ jω μ/(σ+ j ωε) √ jω μo /σ

4. According to the results obtained in point 3 and using the

following equations, calculate the propagation characteristics of
the wave in the chosen medium:
a. Propagation speed v p .
b. Wavelength λ .
c. Speed factor f v .
d. Refractive index n .

5. According to the parameters obtained in the previous points and

knowing that the maximum value of the E wave is 120 V /m,
calculate:
e. The penetration depth of the δ pwave in the medium.
f. The power Potransmitted by the wave in the medium.
g. The % losses of wave amplitude per unit length.
Environme  Collaborative learning environment - Forum Step
nt for the 2.
developme  Knowledge environment - Unit 1.
nt  Monitoring and evaluation environment – Step 2.

Products to Individual:
deliver by Each student, using the Delivery Format - Step 2
student found in the Practical Learning Environment, gradually
presents the activity in the Step 2 forum until
completing the following structure:
1. Cover.
2. Introduction (indicate what is in the document).
3. Content. (Answer to questions and exercises).
4. 2 conclusions (indicate in them what you learned).
5. 1 reference (in APA format).
The name of the final individual document must be Step
2 - First Name Last Name.pdf.

Collaborative:
In the 3 days before the closing of the activity, students
must present their final individual work in pdf format in
the Step 2 forum.
The leader must take the final works of each student and
generate a compressed file .rar or .zip with the name
Step 2 and deliver it in the Monitoring and evaluation
environment in the Step 2 space.
 Acts Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Acts 1-2:
06-12/09 13-19/09
Exploration
Acts 3-4-5:
13-19/09 20-26/09 27-28/09
Practice
Act 6:
20-26/09 29-30/10
Testing
Act 7:
01-03/10
Consolidation

Figure 1: Group consolidation example.

3. General guidelines for the collaborative work

Schedule of activities:
Table 4: Development Schedule of Step 2:
The dates correspond to the year 2019.
Planning of
activities for Table 5: Development environments and resources of
the the steps of the strategy:
Acts
developmen Interaction Environment Resources
t of Individual knowledge Bibliographies
collaborativ Individual practical learning Formats
e work Individual collaborative learning Activity guide
456 Individual collaborative learning Forum Step 2
Collaborative monitoring and evaluation Delivery space

Roles to Leader: He is in charge of assuming the coordination of

perform by the development of the activity in the forum. Within the
the student process, supervises the assignment of tasks and
in the generates recommendations and clarifications regarding
collaborativ the activity. In the end, it shares a document that must
e group be fed by the members to generate the final
consolidated group, performs its final revision and
delivery.
Builder: Is responsible for supporting the management
 of the leader, contributing to the organization of group
work. Select and develop the activity chosen to finally
contribute to the final consolidation process.
It is suggested to use a model of action within
teamwork, which allows to achieve the expected results
through the joint action of all participants.
Roles and
The model of Leaders & Builders, allows one of the
responsibilit
members to take the role of leader (coordinator) and
y for the
the others of builders, each builder develops in parts his
delivery of
chosen or assigned task and contributes it in the forum;
products by
within the process, the builders review the contributions
students
of their peers; In the end, the leader shares the
consolidated work with the contributions of all the
participants, achieving the final product.
The APA standards are the most used style of
organization and presentation of information. These are
published under a manual that allows you to have
access to the ways in which a scientific article should be
Use of presented. Here you can find the most relevant aspects
references of the sixth edition of the APA Standards Manual, such
as references, citations, preparation and presentation of
tables and figures, headings and seriation, among
others. You can check how to implement them by going
to http://normasapa.com/
Plagiarism In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article 99,
policy the mistakes that infringe upon the academic order,
among others, are the following: paragraph e) “To
plagiarize is to present as your own work the whole or
part of a writing, report, task or document of invention
performed by another person. It also implies the use of
cites or lack of references, or includes cites where there
is no coincidence between them and the reference” and
paragraph f)”To reproduce, or copy for profit,
educational resources or results of research products,
which have intellectual rights reserved for the
University”.
The academic punishments that the student will face
are:
a) In case of academic fraud proved in the academic
work or evaluation, the score achieved will be zero (0.0)
 without leading to disciplinary measures.
b) In case of plagiarism proved in the academic work of
any nature, the score achieved will be zero (0.0),
without leading to disciplinary measures.

4. Evaluation rubric
Evaluation rubric
Individual Collaborative
Activity type: ☒ ☒
Activity Activity
Unit 1,
Moment: Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
Intermediate:
Performance levels of the individual activity Sc
Assessed
or
Aspects High score Media score Low score
e
The student
The student The student
does not
understands understands
Concepts understand the
concepts about concepts about
about concepts about
wave propagation wave propagation
wave propagation in
in open media by in open media by 2
propagati open media for
writing answers writing answers 0
on in not writing
to the questions to the questions
open answers to the
asked. asked.
media questions asked.
(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student
The student The student
correctly
incorrectly does not classify
classifies the
classifies the the propagation
propagation
propagation media based on
media based on
Classificat media based on the tangent of
the tangent of
ion of the the tangent of losses within the 2
losses and applies
propagati losses within the solution of 0
them in the
on media solution of physical
solution of
physical problems problems of
physical problems
of waves. waves.
of waves.
(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Calculatio The student The student The student does 3
n of correctly incorrectly not calculate the 0
 calculates the
calculates the
propagation propagation
propagation
parameters of the parameters of
parameters of the
propagati waves and the waves within
waves within the
on applies them in the solution of
solution of
paramete the solution of physical
physical
rs physical problems.
problems.
problems.
(up to 30 (up to 15 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student The student The student does
writes at least 2 writes a learning not write
Understan
learning conclusion or learning
ding and
conclusions that does not correctly conclusions that
applying
demonstrate the demonstrate the demonstrate the
the
understanding understanding understanding
method of 3
and application of and application of and application
characteri 0
the method of the method of of the method of
zation of
characterization characterization characterization
the waves
of waves in open of waves in open of waves in open
in open
media. media. media.
media
(up to 30 (up to 15 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Performance levels of the collaborative activity Sc
Assessed
or
Aspect High score Media score Low score
e
The student The student does
demonstrates The student not evidence the
adequate shows low ability ability to work in
capacity to work to work in groups groups and
in groups and and achieve an achieve an
achieve an organized organized
Teamwor organized collaborative final collaborative 1
k collaborative final product, fulfilling final product, 0
product, fulfilling the requested complying with
the requested delivery the requested
delivery conditions. delivery
conditions. conditions.
(Up to 10 (Up to 0
(Up to 5 points)
points) points)
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Final score
0