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Activities guide and evaluation rubric - Unit 1, 2 and 3 - Stage 5.

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias Básicas, Tecnología e Ingeniería

Academic Unit
Academic Level Profesional

Academic Field Formación disciplinar

Course Name Automatización Industrial

Course Code 299013
Course Type Methodological Can be yes ☐ No ☒
enabled
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Numbe
Type of the
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☒ r 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 points
environment
Starting date of the Deadline of the activity: May 23th
activity: May 10th 2019 2019
Competences to develop:

 The student communicates properly a project of automation by

using online tools combined with a structured oral presentation in
English.
Topics to develop:

 Presentation of the final result (project of automation).

Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop

The project-based learning strategy, adopted for in this course,

involves 3 stages: 1) Organization and resources, 2) Design, and 3)
Development. In addition, one more stage (stage 5) was included in
order to incorporate the final evaluation. In this activity guide, the
stage 5 is executed.
Project assigned to this course

MICRO-BREWERY AUTOMATION

As the project-based learning strategy involves a problem (or project),

this section describes the project assigned to this course. A group of
entrepreneurs aims to open an alluring pub in Bogotá. The pub has to
offer high-quality craft beer with exotic flavors. It is expected a
demand of 50 liters of beer per week. In this aim, the entrepreneurs
have contacted a master brewer to elaborate an attractive beer recipe.
Since the recipe is already done, a group of students (future engineers
from UNAD) have the task to automate a section of this recipe.

The students should automate this section:

Beer ingredients: powder malt and water with PH of 4.0 (at room
temperature = 21°C).

To produce beer for a week, first add 50 liters of water to tank A

through valve A (see figure 1). Then, add 30 pounds of malt,
contained in the hopper, to the tank A. Subsequently, heat up thank A
at 52 degrees Celsius, using a heating coil. While temperature rises
(starting from room temperature), the mixture in the tank A must be
constantly stirred by using a rotating spatula. When tank A reaches 52
degrees Celsius, the temperature in tank A must remain constant for 8
minutes, without stirring. After 8 minutes, heats up tank A (again) at
62 degrees Celsius while stirring. When the mixture reaches 62
degrees Celsius, that temperature must remain for 15 minutes without
stirring.

After 15 minutes, open valves B and C so that the mixture thicknesses

is filtered. When filtering is done, close valve C. As a result, tank B
retains malt tick, and the liquid remains in tank C.
 Figure 1. Scheme of the micro-brewery
Activities to develop

Each student has to develop this activity:

1) Create a power point presentation that explains the development

of the project of automation, written in English. This
presentation has to specify the work the student has carried out
from the stage 1 to 4 of this course.

Environmen All activities described in this guide are developed in

t for the three environments: knowledge, collaborative learning,
developme practical learning and monitoring and evaluation.
nt
 In the knowledge environment, the student can find
the references of this document.
  In the collaborative learning environment, the
student finds the collaborative forum, to be used to
share individual results.
 In the monitoring and evaluation environment, the
students submit its final report (or document).

Individual:

Each student must share this information in the

collaborative forum:

- The power point presentation.

Collaborative:

By using the collaborative forum, all the students have

to consolidate this information:

- A unique power point presentation of the project of

automation (micro-brewery), written in English.
Products to
deliver by - The group has to select one classmate (or member)
student to create a video by making us of this power point
presentation. This video has to explain the content
of this presentation. Specification of this video:

 Time length: less than 10 min.

 Video has to be uploaded on YouTube.
 The voice (or speech) of the video can be in
either English or Spanish.

The power point presentation and the link of the video

(uploaded on Youtube) has to be submitted into the
monitoring and evaluation environment (Suggestion:
the student might include an additional slide at the end
of the power point file in order to add the link associate
to the video). The submission deadline is indicated in
the course agenda.
 General guidelines for the collaborative work

The activities indicated in this document can be

organized by the students as follows:

1) Create a table containing the contact information

of all group members. This table might include
phone number, email, Skype, WhatsApp, etc.
Planning of
2) Create a list of agreements. This list describes the
activities for
tasks that must be carried out by each student.
the
development
3) The list of agreements should be completed with
of
the information that was shared in the forum, for
collaborative
each student. This list can optionally be annexed
work
to the final report.

4) Manage your time. Participate in all activities in

the forum. At least, 3 times per week you should
access to the collaborative forum for sharing your
opinions.

Leader: the person who commands all activities in

the group. He provides supervision, direction and
motivation in individual and collaborative activities.

Communicator: the person who communicates all

aspects between the tutor and the group. He also
communicates appreciations taken from the leader.
Roles to
perform by
Reporter: the person who collects documents /
the student
information of the group. He transmits this data in the
in the
report that is sent to the tutor.
collaborative
group
Props man: the person who selects and acquires
tools or materials for the group.

Time controller: the person who monitors the

running time of the activities so that the established
deadline (indicated in the agenda) can be fulfilled.
 Student has his/her own roles and responsibilities to
deliver the products (final report) to the director/tutor
of the course. These responsibilities and roles are
listed as follows:

Roles and  Messages to be written the collaborative forum

responsibilit have to be transmitted sequentially, starting from
y for the the initial (or welcoming) post sent by the
delivery of tutor/director of the course.
products by  Check the course agenda often.
students  Check the techniques to write up scientific
documents (see web toolbox).
 Be aware that all digital content associated to this
course has its own intellectual property (see web
toolbox).
 The references to be included in tour document
must have the form of APA standard (3th version).
The references contained in the final report has to be
Use of in APA standard. Students has access to the APA
references information in this link: http://normasapa.com/

Plagiarism is defined as a substantial copy of

documents (or others works), assuming that the copy
Plagiarism
is as its own. Students must be aware of severe
policy
sanctions, in the case of plagiarism, imposed by
UNAD.

4. Evaluation rubric
Evaluation Rubric
Activity Individual Collaborative
☒ ☒
type: Activity Activity
Moment of
Unit
the Initial ☐ ☐ Final ☒
Intermediate:
evaluation
Assessed Performance levels of the individual activity
Score
Aspects High score Media score Low score
File The structure The structure The 50
 and content of
and content of the presentation
the presentation is partially
presentation
presentatio is coherent with coherent with
was not
n in the requirements the
presented points
English indicated in this requirements
document indicated in this
document
(up to 50 (up to 25 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed
activity Score
Aspect
High score Media score Low score
The video
The video meets does not meet
The video is
the specifications all the
Video not
indicated in the specifications 50
presentatio presented
activity guide indicated in the points
n
activity guide
(Up to 50 (Up to 25 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The
participations
The
on the
participations on There were
collaborative
the collaborative not
forum were
forum served to participation
Participatio partially
creates the s in the 25
n the sufficient to
presentation of collaborative points
forum create the
the project of forum
presentation of
automation
the project of
automation
(Up to 25 (Up to 12 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
125
Final score
points