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Activities guide and evaluation rubric - Phase 3: Solve problem
about freezing process

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias Básicas, Tecnología e

Academic Unit Ingeniería
Academic Level Especialización
Academic Field Formación disciplinar
Course Name Thermal processes in the food industry
Course Code 209008
Course Type Theoretical Can be yes ☐ No ☒
enabled
Number of 2
Credits

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ of 8
activity:
weeks
Moment of Intermediate,
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: Unit 1:
Evaluative score of the Delivery Environment of the
activity: 90 points activity: Monitoring and evaluation
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity:
Friday, May 03, 2019 Thursday, May 23, 2019
Competence to develop:
Students recognize the different concepts associated with freezing
process.
Topics to develop:
Unit 1: Thermal treatments fundamentals
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
The search for knowledge that allows the student to respond to
problems, can be carried out in the following way:
• Stage 1: the student will consolidate the required knowledge by
consulting the documentary sources suggested in the syllabus.
 • Stage 2: the student will pose the necessary hypotheses that
allow him to answer the questions formulated in the problem.
• Stage 3: the student will determine the procedure to follow to
solve the problem.
• Stage 4: the results of this strategy will be evaluated.

Activities to develop

Individual activity
A 2.9 cm thick slab of lean meat is placed inside a freezer in which the
temperature is 17°C. The coefficient of heat transfer by convection from
the surface of the meat is 16 J/(s m2 °C). Determine the time needed
to freeze the meat slab if 69% of its weight is water. Data: Properties
of lean meat: Thermal conductivity 1.7 J/(s m °C). Specific heat 2.1
kJ/(kg °C). Density 995 kg/m3.

In addition to the above, the group will follow with the select thermal
process at Phase 2. Each student will search the databases of the e-
library, one paper in English of no more than 5 years old, in which the
selected topic will be treat. The paper must come from a scientific
journal. The student will share in the forum the one paper and a short
review of its content in a maximum of half a page per article, which
includes the following aspects:
a. Objectives of the study.
b. Description of the methodology
c. Main conclusions of the study

Collaborative activity:
The collaborative group should review the contributions of their peers,
so that each student makes corrections on their individual contribution,
if necessary. It only needs to submit a job in Word with the full
calculations to determine the time needed to freeze the meat slab.

The collaborative group must consolidate the five reviews in a document

and make the delivery in the Evaluation Environment. Each paragraph
should be described with the students' own words; identical copies of
the information presented in the article will not be accept. It is
recommended to pass the document through the tool Turnitin before
uploading it to the delivery, this avoid a possible plagiarism. There must
be a constant participation in the forum with quality contributions and
feedback to the contributions of colleagues. The rubric of evaluation
considers the quality of their contributions, the interaction with their
peers and the commitment to group delivery.

Environment This activity is developed in the Collaborative Learning

for the Environment; the delivery of the group report is doing
development in the evaluation and monitoring environment.
Individuals:
Word document with the calculation procedure of the
processing time.
Word document with the individual review of one
Products to
scientific paper.
deliver by
Collaborative:
student
Word document with the calculation procedure of the
processing time.
Word document with the five (5), one for student,
review of scientific paper.

General guidelines for the collaborative work

In collaborative work, it is very important that each

Planning of
student start contributing from the moment the activity
activities for
be open. This motivates his groupmates to participate
the
in the work. The activities that will be carry out within
development
the group must be planned in such a way that they are
of
completed several days before the closing of the
collaborative
activity, which gives enough time to make revisions and
work
improvements, if necessary.
Roles to
perform by
the student It is not necessary for any student to assume a special
in the role.
collaborative
group
Compiler: Consolidate the document that is constitute
Roles and
as the final product of the debate, taking into account
responsibilit
that the contributions of all the participants have been
y for the
included and that only the participants who participated
delivery of
in the process are included. You must inform the person
products by in charge of the alerts to notify those who did not
students participate, that they will not be included in the product
to be deliver.
Reviewer: Ensure that the writing complies with the
rules for presentation of work required by the teacher.
Evaluator: Ensure that the document contains the
criteria present in the rubric. You must inform the
person in charge of the alerts so that you inform the
other members of the team in case there is an
adjustment to be make on the subject.
Deliveries: Alert about the delivery times of the
products and send the document in the stipulated
times, using the resources destined for shipment, and
indicate to the other colleagues that the delivery has
been made.
Alerts: Ensure that the members of the group are
notified of the novelties in the work and inform the
teacher through the working forum and the messaging
of the course, that the document has been sent
Use of the APA standard, version 3 in Spanish
(Translation of version 6 in English). The APA Standards
is the style of organization and presentation of
information most used in the area of social sciences.
These are published under a Manual that allows you to
Use of have access to the ways in which a scientific article
references should be present. 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
Plagiarism 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.

To know how the documents must be cite, check the

following document: Centro de Escritura Javeriano ( )
Normas APA. Sexta edición. Taken from
http://centrodeescritura.javerianacali.edu.co/index.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Activity type: Individual Activity ☐ Collaborative Activity ☒
Moment of the
Initial ☐ Unit 1 Intermediate: ☒ Final ☐
evaluation
Assessed Performance levels of the individual activity
Score
Aspects High score Media score Low score
Calculate the Partially calculates, There are too
fraction of unfrozen or with errors, the many errors in the
water, the effective fraction of not frozen calculate the
Solve problem latent heat, and water, the effective fraction of
about freezing apply the Plank latent heat, and unfrozen water, in 30
process equation to applies the Plank the effective
determine the equation to latent heat, or in
freezing time. the apply the
Plank equation to
 determine the determine the
freezing time. freezing time.

(up to 30 points) (up to 15 points) (up to 0 points)

Analyzes and Analyzes and The student does

Analyzes and evaluate a food evaluate partially a not analyze and
evaluate a food thermal process of food thermal process evaluate a food
thermal process a scientific article. of a scientific article. thermal process of 20
of a scientific a scientific article.
article.
(up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)
The report has at
There are
least one
Bibliography is paragraphs that do Badly cited
bibliographic
prepare using not have a document 10
citation for each
IEEE or APA. bibliographic citation
paragraph.
(up to 10 points) (up to 5 points) (up to 0 points)
Assessed Performance levels of the collaborative activity
Score
Aspect High score Media score Low score
There are too
Partially calculates, many errors in the
Calculate the
or with errors, the calculate the
fraction of unfrozen
fraction of not frozen fraction of
water, the effective
water, the effective unfrozen water, in
Solve problem latent heat, and
latent heat, and the effective
about freezing apply the Plank 20
applies the Plank latent heat, or in
process equation to
equation to the apply the
determine the
determine the Plank equation to
freezing time.
freezing time. determine the
freezing time.
(Up to 20 points) (Up to 10 points) (Up to 1 points)
The student does
Analyzes and Analyzes and Analyzes and
not analyze and
evaluate a food evaluate a food evaluate partially a
evaluate a food
thermal process thermal process of food thermal process 10
thermal process of
of a scientific a scientific article. of a scientific article.
a scientific article.
article.
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 6 points) (Up to 1 points)
Final score 90