Notes from the Winter 2017 course evals

[moorepants]

13 students answered (39% of class)

5 Strongly agree, 4 Agree, 3 Neutral, 2 Disagree, 1 Strongly disagree

• Please indicate the overall educational value of the course. [4.5/5]
• This course is well organized. [4.2/5]
• The course builds understanding of concepts and principles. [4.5/5]
• I am generally pleased with the text(s) required for this course. [4.4/5]
• The course assignments are reasonable in length and difficulty. [3.9/5]
• The exams are reasonable in length and difficulty. [4.1/5]
• I am satisfied with how much I learned in this course. [4.5/5]
• On average, how many total hours per week did you spend on this course: average reported is 10-15 hrs
• Was your previous course work adequate preparation for this course (explain)? [9 Yes, 1 No]
• Please indicate the overall teaching effectiveness of the instructor. [4.4/5]
• The instructor explains concepts clearly. [4.4/5]
• I feel comfortable asking questions and speaking with my professor. [4.3/5]

Which parts of this course should be emphasized the most?

• Labs need to better connect to lecture
• Help with coding best practices
• Examples were key
• Creating bond graphs
• Cauasilty

What comments do you have concerning the content and grading of examinations and homework?

• Lab grading was slow
• Exams and HW were fair
• Labs were great and connected to real world but HW didn't, too abstract

Please comment on the instructor’s presentation of course material.

• Notes presentation improved throughout the quarter. Given it was it was his first quarter teaching this course, he did a good job on using lots of examples and using our feedback to help us out.
• GOOD
• Professor Moore presents the material during lecture in a very clear way. He always asks the class if we understand the information covered throughout the lecture.
• extremely helpful and open to comments and reponse
• He made a lot of mistakes in class but always took the time to correct them which was appreciated
• Really liked his notes easy to follow along to
• I really enjoyed the class!

Please make additional comments on any other aspects of the course including the curriculum, the instruction, amount of weekly work required and on whether you would recommend this course to other students.

• Course is very interesting and will probably more organized next time given this was his first time teaching the course.
• I would recommend this class but it would be great if the course description indicated that the whole point of the course is to form bond graphs
• I liked the textbook a lot, weekly work was manageable, having 2 weeks for lab was very nice because we had to coordinate times with lab partner, would recommend
• I really think this class is useful in life. It emphasizes teaching a useful skill (modeling + simulation) rather than just overloading us with lots of information and no examples of how to apply it. I would recommend this to others.

[moorepants]

I think the key things to adjust are:

• Improve the connection between labs, lecture, and homework.
• Provide more realistic homework problems.
• Keep up with the examples and try to add more.
• Teach some of the coding and simulation explicitly.