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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 Unit,
Initial ☒ ☐ Final ☐
evaluation: Intermediate:
Delivery Environment of the activity:
Evaluative score of the activity: 25
Monitoring and evaluation environment
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity:
February 1, 2019 February 14, 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 – To 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:

- What is an electromagnetic wave?
- What is the speed of propagation of an electromagnetic wave?
- What is the wavelength of an electromagnetic wave?
- Do electromagnetic waves have reflection and refraction properties?
- Consult about electrical permittivity and magnetic permeability.

2. After having consulted about electric permittivity, what is the relationship

between absolute and relative electrical permittivity? How are these
symbolized?

3. Can the conductivity of a material medium be altered by the frequency of the

signal applied to it?

4. Can the human tissue change its conductivity because a disease? Explain.

5. Using the "electromagnetic spectrum", select the uses and benefits of each
frequency range for people.
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 concept and its relationship with
practical problems associated with the practical engineering
Environment for
activities.
the 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
- Solution to the questions.
Products to
- Conclusions (what did you learn?)
deliver by 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 where the
development of student will be able to share questions and experiences with
collaborative his/her fellow group classmates.
work
Roles to perform In this activity is not necessary to assume a role, because it is
by the student in individual.
the collaborative
group
Roles and In this activity, each student in the group will not have to
responsibility for choose a role, but it is important to recognize each of the
the delivery of following, that will be assumed from the following step on.
products by
students 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
that it will only include the members whom
participate in the progress of the work. To inform
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 references Always cite the references using APA style.
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
Plagiarism policy
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 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

3. 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
Score
Aspects High score Media score Low score
The student
analyzes and The student gives The student doesn’t
Analyze the explains the given suitable information, make any analyses
given questions, but it is not clear or doesn’t give
6
questions supported in associated to the suitable information
academic question. about the questions.
resources.
(up to 6 points) (up to 3 points) (up to 0 points)

Importance The student

The student gives The student does
electromagn analyses the
concepts but there is not give any kind of
etic waves in importance of
not analyses about analyses or
medicine and electromagnetic 6
the given concepts about the
wireless waves in the given
applications given applications.
transmission applications.
systems.
(up to 6 points) (up to 3 points) (up to 0 points)
Explain The student The student defines The student does
where could explains where the concepts but not explain any 8
be used the could be applied there is not any given concept.
 given the given concepts. relation with
concepts. practical
applications.
(up to 8 points) (up to 4 points) (up to 0 points)
The deliver
The deliver The information is
document does not
document has an presented in a tidy
have an appropriate
Document appropriate way, but it does not
order and it is not 5
structure structure according have an appropriate
structured following
to the APA rules. structure.
the APA rules.
(up to 5 points) (up to 2 points) (up to 0 points)
Final score 25