Reference group
The reference group will meet regularly with Espen to discuss matters regarding the course, the lectures, exercises, project etc. Please let them know your feelings and opinions about these issues. The reference group will write a report about the course at the end of the semester.
| Name | Program |
|---|---|
| Inger Ellingsen | MMS |
| John T. Helms | MSC Ch. Eng. |
| Lars Snekkerhaugen | MTFYMA |
| Lene Finsveen | MSFYMA |
| Meetings | Summary |
|---|---|
| 09.09.2016 | We discussed lectures, homework problems, and problem sessions. There were much positive feedback and students seems to be happy overall. Some points to improve if possible: bad ventilation in (parts of) K5, sometimes the lecturing speed is a little bit fast, no delay of the break, more efficient/faster help in problem sessions. K5: I would like to ask you to open the windows in the break and before class, and I am working continuously to improve the other points. As a test, there will be one more assistent present in the problem sessions the next couple weeks. If this is a success, we will try to make this arrangement permanent. "Give more info when write "check/chk" in lectures": Usually this means a really simple computation, I am not skipping essential steps unless I say so. |
| 20.10.2016 | The group had received no special feedback from the students. |
| 25.11.2016 | The general impression was that the students have been satisfied with the course (lectures, problems/problem session, webpage). There was not much new feedback for other things than the project and the last week of teaching. An extra assistant for the early problem sessions was appreciated. The project: Interesting, but there were much confusion. Some contradictory terminology and unclear problems and (vector) notation. Many groups spent too much time doing introductory problems, would have liked to start on the real problem earlier (but some groups did this). Some students felt they did not use (much) what they had already learned in the course. The last week of teaching: There was some disappointment that the lecturer could not be present and summarise the course. Suggestions: Introduce “the real” problem earlier in the project problem text, polish this text more. Continue with two assistants in the start of the course, numerical exercises in problem sets. |