Examination
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 elearning.eit.lth.se/moodle. 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 in week 3. They should be completed within a week.
- Handin 1 (link has been disabled)
- Handin 2 (link has been disabled)
Different feedback will be given to the different handins. For handin 1, a model solution will be provided together with short comments on style, and for handin 2 more in-depth comments will be given on the individual solutions.
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.
- Project proposals (link has been disabled)
The project presentations are on Thursday October 22, 10-15, in E:2517. (Please note this replaces the previously announced date!) Other deadlines are (note you do not have to wait to the last minute, you may finish the task before deadline):
- Thursday Oct 8: Submit a short abstract describing how you interpret the project, and your strategy to do it. Do this in the moodle system.
- Tuesday Oct 20: Send your draft report to the group appointed as reviewers (see below).
- Thursday Oct 22: 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).
- Sunday Oct 25: After revising the report according to comments from your reviewers and at the presentation, submit your final report in the moodle system.
The projects have been distributed as follows (a few students have not submitted their choices yet, please do as soon as possible):
- Design of radome: Christoph Mangiavillano and Ida Ångbäck
- Salt water penetration in concrete floor:
- Stop band in periodic materials: Jeremias Püls and Johan Ekström
- Beams – higher order modes: Sara Mikaelsson; Johan Lundgren
- Propagation of whistlers: Klas Rydhmer and Jian Duan Liu; David Hill and David Frantz
- 3D movies using polarization:
- Material measurements: Sebastian Heunisch and Olli-Pekka Kilpi; Imad Akeab
- All-dielectric probe for field measurements: Åsa Bengtsson
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.
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.