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Activities guide and evaluation rubric – Step 5

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 Teoria Electromagnética y Ondas

Course Code 203058
Course Type Theoretic Can be yes ☒ No ☐
al enabled
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Individu week
Type of the activity: ☒ Collaborative ☒ 2
al s
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:
November 29, 2019 December 12, 2019
Competence to develop:
The student applies the concepts of physics and electromagnetism, to
determine the parameters of electromagnetic wave behavior to
propagate in different media, using mathematical methods for the
solution of application exercises.
Topics to develop:
- Electromagnetic waves in open media.
- Electromagnetic waves in bounded open media.
- Electromagnetic waves in guided media.

Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop

This activity called “Step 5”, is individual and collaborative, for its
development must follow the 6 steps that are presented below:
Act 1: Review the academic topics related to units 1, 2 and 3 of the
course described at the beginning of the "Activities to develop"
section of this document.
Act 2: Download the “Annex 5 - Delivery format - Step 5” found in
the collaborative learning environment in the "Activities guide and
evaluation rubric - Step 5 - to make the final activity" folder.
Act 3: Individually, based on the exploration performed, solve the 3
proposed application exercises, the procedures performed must be
shown.
Act 4: Each student must complete the application in its individual
delivery format, verifying the requirements of the evaluation rubric.
Act 5: 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 the activity, review the concepts and ideas
seen in units 1, 2 and 3 of the course and complement the aids
generated by the tutor within the forum, to solve the following
application exercises:

Application exercises:
For the development of the following exercises, note that ¿
corresponds to the group number and CCC to the first 3 digits of the
identification number.

1. An electromagnetic wave of f =CCC MHz is transmitted from the

bottom of a ship to a receiver located at p=3 Km depth. The wave
is emitted with an advance angle of a=(10+ ¿)° . Determine the
time it takes for the wave to reach the receiver.
For development, follow the following steps:
a. Calculate the tangent of losses tan(δ).
b. Classify the behavior of the medium.
c. Calculate the propagation parameters of the wave γ , α and β ..
d. Calculate the propagation speed of the V p wave.
e. Calculate the distance between the ship and the receiver d .
f. Based on V p and d determine the time t of the route.
 Figure 1: wave propagation in open media.
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marine-environmental-monitoring.html

2. From an airplane, which is 1000 m high, a communication signal

f =CCC MHz is emitted to a submarine that is 1500 m deep, the
angle of incidence of the signal on the sea surface is a=(10+ ¿)° .
Determine the time it takes for the signal to reach the
submarine.
For development, follow the following steps:
a. Calculate the distance between the plane and the point of
incidence at sea d 1.
b. Calculate the velocity of propagation of the wave V p 1 in the air
(see exercise 1).
c. Using Snell's Law, calculate the angle of refraction of the
wave in the sea.
d. Calculate the distance between the point of incidence in the
sea and the submarine.
e. Calculate the propagation speed of the wave V_p2 at sea (it is
V pfrom exercise 1).
f. Based on V p 1 and d 1 determine the time t 1of the first path.
g. Based on V p 2 and d 2 determine the time t 2of the second path.
h. Calculate the total time of the route t=t 1+ t 2.
 Figure 2: wave propagation in bounded open media.
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characteristics-of-sound-wavesamplitude/

3. A lossless transmission line has a characteristic impedance of

Z 0=50 Ω, a length of L=1 m and is excited by a signal of f =200 MHz
. The line is connected to an antenna with load impedance
Z L =(30+ j 45) Ω. Taking into account that V p=3 x 108 m/s, calculate:
a. Wavelength λ .
b. Electrical length l .
c. Input impedance Z¿ .
d. Reflection coefficient Γ (magnitude and phase).
e. VSWR
f. Check the results c, d and e with the Smith 4.1 software.
g. Using the Smith 4.1 software, get an input impedance that is
only real.

Figure 3: Transmission line.

Environmen  Collaborative learning environment - Forum

t for the "Step 5".
developmen  Knowledge environment - Unit 1, 2 and 3.
t  Monitoring and evaluation environment – Step
 5.
Individual:
Each student, using the Delivery Format - Step 5
found in the Practical Learning Environment, gradually
presents the activity in the Step 5 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 5 - 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
Products to format in the Step 5 forum.
deliver by The leader must take the final works of each student
student and generate a compressed file .rar or .zip with the
name Step 5 and deliver it in the Monitoring and
evaluation environment in the Step 5 space.

Figure 4: Group consolidation example.

3. General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of Schedule of activities:

 Acts Week 1 Week 2
Acts 1-2:
29-03/11
Exploration
Acts 3:
03-05/11 06-08/11
Practice
Act 4:
09-10/11
Testing
Table
Act 5:
1: 11-12/11
Consolidation
Development Schedule of Step 5:
activities correspond to the year 2019.
for the Table 2: Development environments and resources of
developme the steps of the strategy:
nt of Acts Interaction Environment Resources
collaborati Individual knowledge Bibliographies
ve work Individual practical learning Formats
Individual collaborative learning Forum Step 4
Individual collaborative learning Activity guide
Collaborative monitoring and evaluation Delivery space

Leader: He is in charge of assuming the coordination of

the development of the activity in the forum. Within the
process, supervises the assignment of tasks and
Roles to
generates recommendations and clarifications regarding
perform by
the activity. In the end, it shares a document that must
the
be fed by the members to generate the final
student in
consolidated group, performs its final revision and
the
delivery.
collaborati
Builder: Is responsible for supporting the management
ve group
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
Roles and through the joint action of all participants.
responsibil The model of Leaders & Builders, allows one of the
ity for the members to take the role of leader (coordinator) and
delivery of the others of builders, each builder develops in parts his
products chosen or assigned task and contributes it in the forum;
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.
Use of The APA standards are the most used style of
references 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
presented. Here you can find the most relevant aspects
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/
In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article 99,
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,
Plagiarism
educational resources or results of research products,
policy
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
Moment of Unit Fin
Initial ☐ ☐ ☒
evaluation: Intermediate al
Assessed Performance levels of the individual activity Sc
Aspects High score Media score Low score ore
Electromag The student The student The student 30
netic waves understands the understands does not
in open concepts of some of the understand the
 concepts of
concepts of
means of
propagation of
propagation of propagation of
waves in guided
waves in guided waves in media
media by
media by writing guided by the
incomplete
media answers to the non-writing of
writing of
questions asked. answers to the
answers to the
questions
questions asked.
asked.
(up to 30 (up to 15 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student The student The student
correctly incorrectly does not
calculates the calculates the calculate and
electrical electrical does not apply
parameters of a parameters of a the electrical
Electromag
transmission line transmission line parameters of a
netic waves
and applies or applies them transmission 30
in bounded
them in the with error in the line in the
open media
solution of solution of solution of
physical physical physical
problems. problems. problems.
(up to 30 (up to 15 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student
The student The student
incorrectly
correctly does not
calculates and
calculates and calculate or
simulates the
simulates the simulate the
parameters of a
parameters of a parameters of a
Electromag bounded
bounded bounded
netic waves transmission line
transmission line transmission 30
in guided or applies them
and applies line for the
media with error in the
them to solve solution of
solution of
physical physical
physical
problems. problems.
problems.
(up to 30 (up to 15 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Understand The student The student The student 20
ing and writes at least 2 writes 1 does not write
 conclusion of learning
learning
learning or does conclusions that
conclusions that
not correctly demonstrate
demonstrate the
application evidence the the
understanding
of the understanding comprehension
and application
characteriz and application and application
of the methods
ation of of the methods of the methods
of
waves in of of
characterization
different characterization characterization
of the waves in
media of the waves in of the waves in
guided media.
guided media. guided media.
(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed Sc
activity
Aspect ore
High score Media score Low score
The student The student
The student
demonstrates does not
shows low ability
adequate evidence the
to work in
capacity to work ability to work
groups and
in groups and in groups and
achieve an
achieve an achieve an
organized
organized organized
collaborative
Teamwork collaborative collaborative 15
final product,
final product, final product,
fulfilling the
fulfilling the complying with
requested
requested the requested
delivery
delivery delivery
conditions.
conditions. conditions.
(Up to 15 (Up to 7 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
12
Final score
5