Examination

To complete the course with the grade 3, the student must complete 1) the electronic quizzes, 2) the handins, and 3) a written report and oral presentation for the project. For a higher grade (4 or 5), the student must also pass an oral exam.

1. Electronic quizzes

Simple, concept-oriented questions are given every week on the web site moodle.eit.lth.se. You log in using your STIL or LUCAT identity. Contact Daniel if you experience difficulties.

2. Handins

Two handins will be distributed, one at the end of week 1 and one at the end of week 3. They should be completed within a week.

• Handin 1 (link has been disabled)
• Handin 2, pml.m (links have been disabled)

3. Project

The main examination of the course is through a project, where you analyze an advanced wave propagation problem with modern methods taught in the course. The project proposals can be downloaded here on Monday September 26.

• Project proposals (link has been disabled)

The project presentations are on Thursday October 13, 15-17, and Friday October 14, 8-10, in E:2349. Other deadlines are (note you do not have to wait to the last minute, you may finish the task before deadline):

• Monday Oct 3: Submit a short abstract describing how you interpret the project, and your strategy to do it. Do this in the moodle system.
• Tuesday evening Oct 11: Send your draft report to the group appointed as reviewers (see below).
• Friday Oct 14: Send your comments to the group whose report you have reviewed (preferably by giving them an annotated copy at the presentation). Focus on constructive comments: what is good (and why), what can be made better (and how).
• Monday Oct 17: After revising the report according to comments from your reviewers and at the presentation, submit your final report in the moodle system.

Your presentation should be around 10 minutes, followed by around 5 minutes of questions. You will be given feedback forms, in which you can give your fellow students constructive comments on their presentation. Create a presentation in pdf-format using LaTeX, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, or Powerpoint. A LaTeX template using beamer can be downloaded here, and a PowerPoint template (which works also in OpenOffice/LibreOffice) can be downloaded from the Lund University web site here. 

Some points to consider for your presentation:

• State the problem clearly, the others who are listening have not seen much of it. Give some examples of applications.
• Explain your method of solution, important approximations. Do not rely too much on equations, use words and figures as well.
• Present and discuss your results. Make suitable graphs, and explain clearly what is plotted.
• About 8 slides in total should be enough. 

Remember to use large enough fonts so that people in the audience have a fair chance of seeing. This applies also to the graphs.

The projects have been distributed as follows:

Project	Participants and presentation date	Reviewers
1. Design of radome	Jakob Jäderbo and Madeleine Kildal Schilliger (Friday) Martin Hansson and Viktor Liljegren (Thursday)	Karl-Magnus Persson and Iman Vakili Boonngam Bangphet and Zhao Xingqiu
2. Salt water penetration in concrete floor
3. Stop band in periodic materials	Elisabeth Jeppsson Krell and Stefanos Carlström (Thursday) Patrik Lundin and Per Samuelsson (Friday)	Sofia Johansson Karl Lundengård and Delphine Jeunehomme
4. Beams - higher order modes	Karl Lundengård and Delphine Jeunehomme (Friday) Sofia Johansson (Thursday)	Martin Magnusson and Christian Nelson Elisabeth Jeppsson Krell and Stefanos Carlström
5. Propagation of whistlers	Martin Magnusson and Christian Nelson (Thursday) Dina Hot and Björn Thomasson (Friday)	Adam Nilsson and Andreas Ericsson Jakob Jäderbo and Madeleine Kildal Schilliger
6. 3D movies using polarization	Eleonora Lorek and Zhiyuan Xie (Tuesday) Adam Nilsson and Andreas Ericsson (Thursday)	Dina Hot and Björn Thomasson Martin Hansson and Viktor Liljegren
7. Material measurements	Karl-Magnus Persson and Iman Vakili (Thursday) Boonngam Bangphet and Zhao Xingqiu (Friday)	Eleonora Lorek and Zhiyuan Xie Patrik Lundin and Per Samuelsson

  

4. Oral exam

If you want a higher grade (4 or 5), an oral exam is offered. During this you will be asked questions that require you to connect different concepts and themes of the course, where the focus is not detailed formulas but rather how to apply and interpret what you learned in the course. Typically, I will show slides from the lectures or projects and ask you to explain how different wave propagation concepts can be used in that situation. The aim is for around 20-30 minutes.

I have made my best to reserve the following days for orals (in my office E:2524):

• Tuesday Oct 18
• Thursday Oct 20
• Tuesday Oct 25
• Thursday Oct 27 

Not all slots in the days are available, but most. Please contact me to reserve a slot, if these days are not suitable we can look for alternatives, but I highly recommend to do the oral as soon as possible.