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Activities guide and evaluation rubric - Step 2

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 Teoría 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 activity: Individual ☒ Collaborative ☒ Weeks 4

Moment of evaluation: Initial ☐ Unit 1, Intermediate: ☒ Final ☐
Delivery Environment of the activity:
Evaluative score of the activity: 110
Monitoring and evaluation 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 last 3 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 the answer with your own words)

1. In the context of Electromagnetic waves, what does “Open Propagation Medium”
mean?
2. In the context of propagation mediums, what is the meaning of “Loss Tangent”?
3. What physical variables does the value of the Loss Tangent depend on?
4. According to the value of the Loss Tangent, how are the propagation mediums
classified?
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 medium. Each student must choose 1 propagation media of
the 5 proposed in Table 1 and announce it within the Step 2 forum to avoid repetition.

Tabla 1: Conductivity𝛔 and electrical permittivity 𝛆𝐫 of some materials.

Material 𝛔 [𝐒⁄𝐦] 𝛆𝐫 [ ]
1. Copper 5.80𝑥107 1
2. Sea water 4 80
3. Vegetable soil 1.00𝑥10−2 14
4. Dry soil 1.00𝑥10−4 3
5. Sweet water 1.00𝑥10−3 80
 1. Assume that an electromagnetic wave E of frequency f=CCC MHz travels through the
medium chosen in Table 1. Calculate the Loss Tangent Tan (δ) and the angle of losses
δ. (Note that CCC are the first 3 digits of your identification number).

𝜎 𝜎
𝑇𝑎𝑛(𝛿) = =
𝜔𝜀 2𝜋𝑓εr ε𝑜

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:

Media Tan(δ) δ [°]

1. Perfect dielectrics (Not dissipative) Tan(δ) = 0 δ = 0°
2. Good insulators (Low Loss 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°
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 + 𝑗𝜔𝜀) √𝑗𝜔𝜎𝜇𝑜

 0 𝜎𝜂⁄2 𝑅𝑒() √𝜋𝑓𝜎𝜇𝑜

 𝜔√𝜇𝜀 𝜔√𝜇𝜀 𝐼𝑚() 𝑗√𝜋𝑓𝜎𝜇𝑜

 √𝜇⁄𝜀 √𝜇⁄𝜀 √𝑗𝜔𝜇⁄(𝜎 + 𝑗𝜔𝜀) √𝑗𝜔𝜇𝑜 ⁄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 𝒗𝒑 .
b. Wavelength 𝝀.
c. Speed factor 𝒇𝒗 .
d. Refractive index 𝒏.

5. According to the parameters obtained in the previous points and knowing that the
maximum value of the E (Electric) wave is 𝟏𝟐𝟎𝑽/𝒎, calculate:
e. The penetration depth of the 𝜹𝒑 wave in the medium.
f. The power 𝑷𝒐 transmitted by the wave in the medium.
g. The %𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 (loss percentage) of wave amplitude per unit length.

Environment • Collaborative learning environment - Forum Step 2.

for the • Knowledge environment - Unit 1.
development • Monitoring and evaluation environment – Step 2.

Individual:
Each student, using the Delivery Format - Step 2 found in the Practical
Learning Environment, gradually presents the activity in the Step 2 forum
until completing the following structure:
1. Cover.
Products to
2. Introduction (indicate what is in the document).
deliver by
3. Content. (Answer to questions and exercises).
student
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.

Figure 1: Group consolidation example.

3. General guidelines for the collaborative work

Schedule of activities:
Table 4: Development Schedule of Step 2:
Acts Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Acts 1-2:
06-12/09 13-19/09
Exploration
Planning of
Acts 3-4-5:
activities for 13-19/09 20-26/09 27-28/09
Practice
the
Act 6:
development of 20-26/09 29-30/10
Testing
collaborative
work Act 7:
01-03/10
Consolidation
The dates correspond to the year 2019.

Table 5: Development environments and resources of the steps of the

strategy:
 Acts Interaction Environment Resources
1 Individual knowledge Bibliographies
2 Individual practical learning Formats
3 Individual collaborative learning Activity guide
456 Individual collaborative learning Forum Step 2
7 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
Roles to assignment of tasks and generates recommendations and clarifications
perform by the regarding the activity. In the end, it shares a document that must be fed
student in the by the members to generate the final consolidated group, performs its
collaborative final revision and delivery.
group 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
Roles and participants.
responsibility The model of Leaders & Builders, allows one of the members to take the
for the delivery role of leader (coordinator) and the others of builders, each builder
of products by develops in parts his chosen or assigned task and contributes it in the
students forum; within the process, the builders review the contributions 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
Use of be presented. Here you can find the most relevant aspects of the sixth
references 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:
Plagiarism paragraph e) “To plagiarize is to present as your own work the whole or
policy 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
Activity type: Individual Activity ☒ Collaborative Activity ☒
Moment: Initial ☐ Unit 1, Intermediate: ☒ Final ☐
Assessed Performance levels of the individual activity Sco
Aspects High score Media score Low score re
The student The student The student does not
understands concepts understands concepts understand the
Concepts
about wave about wave concepts about
about wave
propagation in open propagation in open propagation in open
propagation 20
media by writing media by writing media for not writing
in open
answers to the answers to the answers to the
media
questions asked. questions asked. questions asked.
(up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)
The student correctly
The student The student does not
classifies the
incorrectly classifies classify the
propagation media
Classification the propagation media propagation media
based on the tangent
of the based on the tangent based on the tangent
of losses and applies 20
propagation of losses within the of losses within the
them in the solution of
media solution of physical solution of physical
physical problems of
problems of waves. problems of waves.
waves.
(up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)
The student correctly The student incorrectly The student does not
Calculation
calculates the calculates the calculate the
of
propagation propagation propagation 30
propagation
parameters of the parameters of the parameters of the
parameters
waves and applies waves within the waves within the
 them in the solution of solution of physical solution of physical
physical problems. problems. problems.
(up to 30 points) (up to 15 points) (up to 0 points)
The student writes at The student writes a The student does not
Understandin least 2 learning learning conclusion or write learning
g and conclusions that does not correctly conclusions that
applying the demonstrate the demonstrate the demonstrate the
method of understanding and understanding and understanding and
30
characterizat application of the application of the application of the
ion of the method of method of method of
waves in characterization of characterization of characterization of
open media waves in open media. waves in open media. waves in open media.
(up to 30 points) (up to 15 points) (up to 0 points)
Assessed Performance levels of the collaborative activity Sco
Aspect High score Media score Low score re
The student
The student does not
demonstrates The student shows low
evidence the ability to
adequate capacity to ability to work in
work in groups and
work in groups and groups and achieve an
achieve an organized
achieve an organized organized collaborative
Teamwork collaborative final 10
collaborative final final product, fulfilling
product, complying
product, fulfilling the the requested delivery
with the requested
requested delivery conditions.
delivery conditions.
conditions.
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (Up to 0 points)
Final score 110