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Chalmers Masters Programme Evaluation 2011

Status: Avslutad
Öppen för svar: 2011-05-02 - 2011-05-19
Antal svar: 1336
Procent av deltagarna som svarat: 46%
Kontaktperson: Claes Niklasson»


Masters Programme

Which Masters programme do you belong to?
Please select only one program from the list below:
Questions 1-8.

1. Architecture and Civil Engineering

193 svarande

Architecture»36 18%
Architecture and Engineering»8 4%
Design and Construction Project Management»31 16%
Design for Sustainable Development»33 17%
Geo and Water Engineering»25 12%
Interior Architecture»0 0%
Sound and Vibration»8 4%
Structural Engineering and Building Performance Design»52 26%

Genomsnitt: 4.52

2. Bioscience, Molecular science and Chemical Engineering

121 svarande

Bioinformatics and System Biology»11 9%
Biotechnology»47 38%
Chemistry and Bioscience»16 13%
Innovative and Sustainable Chemical Engineering»47 38%

Genomsnitt: 2.81

3. Computer Science, Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

248 svarande

Biomedical Engineering»29 11%
Communication Engineering»37 14%
Computer Science: Algorithms, Languages and Logic»30 12%
Integrated Electronic System Design»29 11%
Interaction Design»24 9%
Networks and Distributed Systems»43 17%
Secure and Dependable Computer systems»12 4%
Software Engineering and Technology»43 17%
Intelligent Systems Design»1 0%

Genomsnitt: 4.53

4. Engineering for Sustainable Development

129 svarande

Electric Power Engineering»42 32%
Environmental Measurements and Assessments»17 13%
Industrial Ecology - For a Sustainable Society»32 24%
Sustainable Energy Systems»38 29%

Genomsnitt: 2.51

5. Management of Innovation and Technology

173 svarande

Business Design»31 17%
International Project Management»11 6%
Management of Economis and Innovation»42 24%
Nordic Master in Maritime Management»9 5%
Quality and Operations Management»37 21%
Supply Chain Management»43 24%

Genomsnitt: 3.8

6. Mechanical, Automation, and Industrial Design Engineering

287 svarande

Advanced Engineering Materials»30 10%
Automotive Engineering»44 15%
Industrial Design Engineering»36 12%
Naval Architecture»20 6%
Product Development»36 12%
Production Engineering»38 13%
Solid and Fluid Mechanics»33 11%
Systems, Control and Mechatronics»50 17%

Genomsnitt: 4.68

7. Microtechnology and Nano Science

85 svarande

Materials and Nanotechnology»31 36%
Microtechnology»13 15%
Nanoscale Science and Technology»20 23%
Wireless and Photonic Engineering»21 24%

Genomsnitt: 2.36

8. Physics, Space Science and Mathematics

112 svarande

Applied Physics»23 20%
Complex Adaptive Systems»28 25%
Engineering Mathematics and Computational Sciences»20 17%
Fundamental Physics»13 11%
Nuclear Engineering»19 16%
Radio and Space Science»9 8%

Genomsnitt: 3.03


Background and Introduction

9. How satisfied are you with the Masters programme so far?

1323 svarande

Not at all»9 0%
Not so satisfied»75 5%
Neither/Nor»90 6%
Satisfied»732 55%
Very satisfied»409 30%
No opinion»8 0%

Genomsnitt: 4.11

10. What year did you start the programme?

1320 svarande

2007»22 1%
2008»80 6%
2009»609 46%
2010»609 46%

Genomsnitt: 3.36

11. Where did you study for your Bachelor degree?

1325 svarande

Sweden - Chalmers»735 55%
Sweden - another university»29 2%
University outside Sweden - Europe»86 6%
University outside Sweden - NOT Europe»437 32%
Other»38 2%

Genomsnitt: 2.25

12. Are you

1319 svarande

Female»404 30%
Male»916 69%

Genomsnitt: 1.69

13. How satisfied are you with the information (before applying) about the Masters programme (MP)?

Information from home pages, programme administration etc.

1323 svarande

Not at all»24 1%
Not so satisfied»156 11%
Neither/Nor»219 16%
Satisfied»733 55%
Very satisfied»178 13%
No opinion»14 1%

Genomsnitt: 3.7

14. From where did you get the most important information about the programme?

1336 svarande

(på denna fråga var det möjligt att välja flera svarsalternativ)

The web»885 66%
Presentation by Master Coordinators and teachers»398 29%
Presentation/Information within Chalmers»291 21%
Presentations/information outside Chalmers»21 1%
Written information (not web)»89 6%
Friends»507 37%
Other sources (please comment)»31 2%

- I heard from my friends.» (The web)
- Own research and visits to the relevant departments» (Other sources (please comment))
- I had to search on my own. Look up students and teachers to ask them. All on my own.» (Other sources (please comment))
- Companies attending Chalmers to give examples of job opportunities.» (Presentation by Master Coordinators and teachers, Presentation/Information within Chalmers, Other sources (please comment))
- I took an introduction course in sound and vibration» (Presentation/Information within Chalmers, Other sources (please comment))
- It was until I arrive to Sweden when I finally understood what was the Master program fully about.» (Presentation by Master Coordinators and teachers)
- programme coordinator» (The web, Friends, Other sources (please comment))
- Higher Education commission of Pakistan» (The web, Friends, Other sources (please comment))
- Professors» (Presentation/Information within Chalmers, Friends)
- Databases about Education in Sweden» (The web, Friends)
- CIRC Forum» (The web)
- Personal phone call to the person responsible for the programme.» (Friends, Other sources (please comment))
- Tidigare studentern från programmet var lättast att få information av. » (Friends, Other sources (please comment))
- through mails from the master programme head» (The web, Presentation by Master Coordinators and teachers)
- Garantiplatsen från högskoleingenjörsutbildningen hade en del i det.» (The web)
- Apart from the above I discussed the matter with two master coordinators and read quite a few old course evaluations.» (The web, Presentation by Master Coordinators and teachers, Friends, Other sources (please comment))
- By random slection of one poster» (Other sources (please comment))
- I contacted the person in student center "Olgas trapor" about the master programm which include the track (track courses) of my interest.» (The web, Other sources (please comment))
- Former erasmus» ()
- from the book» (The web)
- www.studera.nu www.studyinsweden.se» (The web, Presentation by Master Coordinators and teachers, Presentation/Information within Chalmers)
- Erasmus mundus master in nanoscience and nanotechnology» (The web)
- Information from my uncle and aunt.They are living in Sweden.» (The web, Friends, Other sources (please comment))
- The information has always been the big problem at Chalmers, We never know what happens. It is a huge problem!!!» (Friends, Other sources (please comment))
- www.studyinsweden.se» (Other sources (please comment))
- World Ranking List» (Other sources (please comment))
- relatives in Sweden» (The web, Other sources (please comment))
- E-mail contact with studievägledare on the bachelor program and the master program. Web is quite messy, especially with the new web page leaving a lot of broken links. Both links in question 16+ is broken, just to take a few examples here.» (The web, Other sources (please comment))
- Sent e-mails to the alumni or current students from their facebook group» (The web, Other sources (please comment))
- There are shortage of information in here. For example when studens arrive late, there are no enough information given. Due to this reason, students do not know whom they should talk to and exposed to take unimporant courses. I think there should be well documented infromation provided on each students web account, that whom they should talk, about consultancey etc. For example if a student is from software enegineering and technology filed, you can write same informatin filled with the contacts with their address and as well the right and responsibilities of the studnets.» (The web, Presentation/Information within Chalmers, Friends)
- CIRC (Chalmers International Reception Committee)» (The web)
- no where the information wasn"t useful» ()
- Industry contacts» (The web, Friends, Other sources (please comment))
- I didn´,t get any» ()
- I mailed to my course coordinator Anna Moses. She was very kind in replying all my E-Mails and also added confidence in me before I started from India. » (The web, Other sources (please comment))
- Classmates» (The web, Presentation/Information within Chalmers, Written information (not web))
- Speaking of information sources, I can never find anything on the new web site, but maybe-maybe, it"s just a habit. What is annoying though is that I wasn"t able to use either of the following (next section) links to programme goals. The first link is broken, and the second one gives me "access denied" error even after entering my Chalmers username and password. How other people are supposed to get this info, I can only guess...» (The web)
- Studentcentrum» (Presentation/Information within Chalmers, Written information (not web), Other sources (please comment))
- Visste egentligen inte så jättemycket om det innan.» (Other sources (please comment))
- But the web page could be more informative.» (The web)
- friends in Sweden» (The web)
- email to program director malin, she was very helpful!» (The web)
- Discussion with responsible teachers.» (Friends, Other sources (please comment))
- The master coordinator of our program did a good work with giving out information. Especially the fact he had done a serious booklet with all information abour the program including each course. » (Presentation by Master Coordinators and teachers, Presentation/Information within Chalmers, Written information (not web))
- By mailing Sverker Molander and asking quesions and thru reading the master program information on the studentportal» (The web, Written information (not web))
- Previous courses» (The web, Presentation by Master Coordinators and teachers, Presentation/Information within Chalmers, Written information (not web), Friends, Other sources (please comment))
- From a professor teaching both at my past University and Chalmers.» (The web, Other sources (please comment))
- some friends already studying in the same program at chalmers» (The web)
- Read courses from the program in earlier studies. » (The web)
- The is is a need for printed information» (Presentation by Master Coordinators and teachers)
- I talked to students that were going on the MEI program when I applied!» (Other sources (please comment))


Your own effort

15. How many hours per week have you spent studying at this programme?

We mean total time, that is, it comprises the time you spent in class and the time you spent on your own work.
Try to estimate the average time over the entire programme.

1327 svarande

Less than 30 hours/week»114 8%
Between 30-40 hours/week»429 32%
Between 40-50 hours/week»500 37%
Between 50-60 hours/week»219 16%
More than 60 hours/week»65 4%

Genomsnitt: 2.76 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

Genomsnitt totalt för detta stycke: 2.76


Goals and goal fulfilment

The programme syllabus states the goals in terms of learning outcomes, i.e., knowledge, skills and attitudes to be acquired by the student during the education.


If you do not remember them please see the homepage:

(Start a new internet connection and copy and paste this address)

http://www.chalmers.se/sections/ar_student/programhemsidor/teknisk-fysik/aktuellt/learning-outcomes/downloadFile/attachedFile_f0/Learning_outcomes?nocache=1241003817.6


If you have problems with opening the page above you can probably open
http://www.chalmers.se/en/sections/education/masterprogrammes

16. Have you seen the goals of the Masters programme (before now)?

1319 svarande

Yes (more than 5 times)»95 7%
Yes (between 2 and 5 times)»439 33%
Yes (once)»433 32%
No»240 18%
No opinion»113 8%

Genomsnitt: 2.87

17. How understandable are the programme goals?

1308 svarande

The goals are difficult to understand»17 1%
The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer»296 22%
The goals are clear enough»595 45%
The goals are very clear»88 6%
No opinion»313 23%

Genomsnitt: 3.29

18. Do you think the goals are reasonable for a master degree?

1307 svarande

No, the goals are set too low»12 0%
No, the goals are a bit too low»72 5%
Yes, the goals seem reasonable»859 65%
No, the goals are a bit high»21 1%
No, the goals are set far too high»1 0%
No opinion»343 26%

Genomsnitt: 3.73

19. Do you think the goals are fulfilled within the programme?

1304 svarande

No, not at all»16 1%
To some extent»221 16%
Almost»406 31%
Yes, definitely»319 24%
No opinion»342 26%

Genomsnitt: 3.57


Programme layout/structure/design

20. How satisfied are you with the programme curriculum?

1322 svarande

Not at all»16 1%
Not so satisfied»140 10%
Neither/Nor»168 12%
Satisfied»762 57%
Very satisfied»167 12%
No opinion»70 5%

Genomsnitt: 3.86

21. Is there any subject/course that you would like to add into the programme?

1304 svarande

Yes»518 39%
No»341 26%
No opinion»446 34%

Genomsnitt: 1.94

- Nuclear chemistry and sustainable energy future » (?)
- a bit more business oriendes since envrionmental issues needs to be integrated in all f the company and not as a separate section» (?)
- can include some good practical lab classes during the study period» (?)
- More courses related to the specialisation should be added» (?)
- Software Engineering, Courses that require team work within teams of 6-8 students, Courses that require oral presentations, Courses that require multi-core programming should be added, Haskell programming should be added to mandatory courses » (?)
- Lacks internationalization.» (?)
- in generell more effort should be spent on teaching software. eg catia and most important cfd simulation programs...» (?)
- More renewable energy technology» (Yes)
- More courses in Material Physics» (Yes)
- More courses involving VHDL and/or hardware design please. There are too few of these, especially for the second year. » (Yes)
- "Real life project management" for understanding that models and theory doesn"t begin to solve problems in an organization. » (Yes)
- Radiation Protection , Radiotherapy (with Nuclear Medicine) and there should be an option for possessional training in hospitals or in industries. » (Yes)
- Aerospace engineering» (Yes)
- Could be better if the programme could cooperate with system,control and mechanics programme paying attention on aircrafts, rockets and satellites system design, reliable control and efficient maintenance and so on. » (Yes)
- A case with some complicated / extensive Excel calculations» (Yes)
- I felt that it should be possible to take all three of: Marine Structures Advanced Course, Fatigue Design, CFD. In my year all three was given the same period which made it impossible to attend all three of them.» (Yes)
- Network Communication Data Transfer in physical layer CCNP» (Yes)
- Management and economics of social entrepreneurship » (Yes)
- CFD» (Yes)
- Antropology, sociology, economics, corporate law/ IP » (Yes)
- Entrepreneurship» (Yes)
- A more interantional outlook on different energy systems in the world.» (Yes)
- It doesn"t need to be comnpulsory courses, but it would be valuable for those of us intending to do a career in the industry to have larger opportunities to do courses in economics and project management. Besides, Intellectual Properties would also be a good thing to learn more about. » (Yes)
- More economics» (Yes)
- Composite mechanics.» (Yes)
- courses related to wireless communications(Channel Modeling, a specific course about OFDM is also needed like the Wireless systems program in LTH(http://www.eit.lth.se/course/EIT140), a course about the advanced and hot topics in wireless communications)» (Yes)
- More building physics and perhaps some course in controll systems.» (Yes)
- internship, individual projects, more time with supervisors in the projects» (Yes)
- "Applied Statistics", to understand how statistics are used (the statistics background chalmers students have are focused on the mathematical background)» (Yes)
- I would like to have more connections to reality, either by adding case studies, or by adding subjects that are graspable. Eg that we study something which is not just talking» (Yes)
- Some course with thermal management in cars, or take this into consideration in other courses.» (Yes)
- something including art» (Yes)
- Metals and ceramics.» (Yes)
- A course in Six Sigma, a course in CAD and some kind of economics course. » (Yes)
- laser physics» (Yes)
- More plain math, e.g. innovation economics.» (Yes)
- A course or two in "pure" VHDL programming, focusing more on coding tricks, implementation and how to optimize synthesis in different ways. Maybe paralellisation and pipelining aswell.» (Yes)
- Paperchemistry» (Yes)
- Maybe a finite element course that mainly focuses on acoustical problems» (Yes)
- More management for IT» (Yes)
- Advanced chemical reaction engineering» (Yes)
- More focus on the petroleum industry.» (Yes)
- collaboration with the Industrial Design Masters Programme» (Yes)
- Some environmental courses, e.g. new technologies for sustainability.» (Yes)
- a course about solar energy» (Yes)
- corporate finance» (Yes)
- lite mer om pappersmaterial» (Yes)
- logistics, 6sigma,process selection» (Yes)
- More economy classes. And better background for this.» (Yes)
- A bit of an overlap between courses, but I guess it"s always like that» (Yes)
- Approximately, More than 80% courses are theoretical based and looks just stories. There must be at least one course that could give some calculative figures about financial benefits when some one or a company works with environment.» (Yes)
- Some kind of security related modelling course. That is, how to model an actual secure system. The Internet measurement/traffic classification lectures in the Adv. topics in networks and dist. systems course were very interesting. Perhaps it would be possible to contruct a course dealing with these subjects?» (Yes)
- Make Tissue Engineering 1 a cumpolsory course and Biopolymers and Biocompisite an elective course.» (Yes)
- Stochastic analysis, Variational calculus» (Yes)
- More courses for the specialisation in production systems.» (Yes)
- 1)Engineering mechanics » (Yes)
- Appreciation Course» (Yes)
- Mer praktik. t.ex mer labbar där man skruvar sönder motorer och sätter ihop dom igen. testkör på riktigt. skruvar ner en hel bil för att titta hur det ser ut egentligen bakom skalet.» (Yes)
- Farmakologi och sjukdomslära från GU. Fler kurser på det temat. » (Yes)
- operation management» (Yes)
- Some more courses on Geotechnics. The program mainly focuses Water Environment and Treatment, but not that much Geo.» (Yes)
- more focus on sales can be useful» (Yes)
- Management of IP/IA in mature industries» (Yes)
- Advanced VHDL» (Yes)
- Relay and Protection» (Yes)
- Maybe one basic finance course» (Yes)
- More actual development courses using Industry-frameworks and such.» (Yes)
- Jag tycker inte att kurserna går tillräckligt djupt. Det är för mycket repetition från grundutbildningen.» (Yes)
- Biomaterials» (Yes)
- Matlab basic course» (Yes)
- Corporate finance» (Yes)
- More Geotechnical courses with focus on tunnel construction and rock construction. Maybe also some more construction courses like Concrete Construction which is good to know more about. The traffic courses could be much better than they are today !» (Yes)
- More relevant technical deepening courses, useless to study courses adapted to mechanical engineers.» (Yes)
- a more in depth course in operations management, Strategic Management» (Yes)
- polymers and composites» (Yes)
- more engine controls, emission control, » (Yes)
- Extended possibility and promotion of taking courses at other universities. More courses for social skills.» (Yes)
- Molecular Microscopy.» (Yes)
- Product Development Projects» (Yes)
- a practical course that focuses on a project conducted in the clean room. (We study nanotechnology and we visit the clean room only once during the "recommended" courses)» (Yes)
- A course in Computational Linguistics» (Yes)
- I think there are alot of courses at Teknisk Design that could be shared with Interaction Design» (Yes)
- Basic economic calculation of architectural projects» (Yes)
- I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE CONECTION TO COMPANIES AND TO REAL LIFE. THIS MASTER PROGRAM IS TOO MUCH "UPP IN THE BLUE"» (Yes)
- Seismic Engineering Bridge Engineering Structural Analysis» (Yes)
- More structurally oriented courses with deeper knowledge for design.» (Yes)
- complex analysis» (Yes)
- I would like a course that focuses on social issues and fair trade.» (Yes)
- A course named "Routing Technology" already exist in association with CCNA Exploration(4 parts). There should be another course like this in association with CCNP. I missed such type of course. There should also be a course in association of Red Hat Linux.» (Yes)
- Course about EHS or ISO regulation» (Yes)
- It would be interesting to have a wider selection of 7.5hp courses, with specialised focus. One theme that is missing is traditional building techniques and materials, another is sustainable landscaping and urban greenery.» (Yes)
- More course selection alternatives for the second year. » (Yes)
- Lean production Economy courses» (Yes)
- Programming course (Java, C/C++, .NET/C#) » (Yes)
- There would be nice with a specific course focusing only on commercial softwares. I"m taking the fluid specialisation, and in the courses there are some uses of the commercial softwares, but there ain"t a specific course were we can learn how they are built and how to use them well (kinda like we had a specific course for Pro/E / Catia in the bachelor degree)» (Yes)
- Matlab introduction- statistical and probability» (Yes)
- Electrical concerning courses» (Yes)
- some courses that discuss software design at a practical (coding) level rather than higher architectural level, such as design patterns.» (Yes)
- A course in preliminary mathematics, at least before Lp 3 year one. In algebras, group- and representation theory, spinors etc. All that is required in the courses QFT and string theory.» (Yes)
- I would like to see some kind of biomechanics course being introduced (not as mandatory but as optional courses). This is more for Chalmers in general and not so much as only the master"s programme.» (Yes)
- Economics, More energy» (Yes)
- I think it is useful if you add internship as part of program and lead students to future work specially in Architecture field which is difficult to find job after finishing studied.» (Yes)
- I would like to have more possibilities to chose courses within other program in the field of architecture and technic, as it is today we need to fight hard to have other courses then suggested ones and many times if you can chose a course it is imopssible due to the schedueles will not suite eachother. » (Yes)
- I study in the field of buidling physics and felt that availiable courses during some semesters were too few. I had to study courses which was outside my field. More info about courses from "Energy and environment" would be appreciated» (Yes)
- We have already taken some courses in our B.Sc so some courses could be added or replaced by more industrial-practical courses that usable in various chemical/oil&gas/petrochemical industries. » (Yes)
- Excel» (Yes)
- more Geotecnics» (Yes)
- try to integrate more architecture (like in sustainable building competition)» (Yes)
- Deeper knowledge about transportation (the knowledge that where in FTS and MPD where to general). Something about Porter... Reading CR right now, some more about the contact with the customer, like Key Account manager or framework agreements. Otherwise the most important is the understanding and not specific knowledges.» (Yes)
- Electrical power system and Renewable Energy (wind, wave, solar)» (Yes)
- Linear algebra for the first year.» (Yes)
- More Tissue engineering, aswell as more about implants and prosthesis. Cells and materia» (Yes)
- Concurrent programming» (Yes)
- Experience Design/Service Design» (Yes)
- Java course» (Yes)
- There are courses in testing, debugging and verification as well as software engineering using formal methods. These are state-of-the-art courses and i think there is a lack of testing in a process perspective. Testing in practice is not covered other than a small portion in agile development. » (Yes)
- Database security, Advanced computer security, Advanced network security, Distributed algorithms for databases, Developing load balancer for distributed systems» (Yes)
- Technology sales - 7,5hp» (Yes)
- I would like more courses in analysis» (Yes)
- more short project / studios» (Yes)
- Presentation/debate skills Internship» (Yes)
- Corporate Finance» (Yes)
- Add construction production courses into DCPM which focus on site management, time planning, production cycling etc.» (Yes)
- Quantum Optics» (Yes)
- more VHDL courses» (Yes)
- More CAD (make FEM-calculations in Inventor and so on)» (Yes)
- Project psychology» (Yes)
- In the first year, courses are compulsory such that you cannot take any other course from other programs. After the first year, students would have some knowledge in Electronic design but they do not have any knowledge in the areas that they supposed to work or find their projects such as biomedical, image processing, communications ,control/automation, signal processing... This is mostly critical when most of the students want to start their thesis right after finishing the first year. » (Yes)
- since it will be changed for next year and the changes looks good I"m quite satisfied. Just so you know: the link above with masterprogramm goals did as always when it comes to student pages on chalmers not lead anywhere or give any kind of information. » (Yes)
- more microwave courses» (Yes)
- control engineering and mechatronics» (Yes)
- I recommend more course to be added in the department (like in Geo technical investigation areas) so that the student can have more choice based on there interest» (Yes)
- Useful programming skills for communication engineers.» (Yes)
- Some courses from the math dept should be added as suggested / recommended courses (abstract algebra). Courses from the linguistics and the logic dept at GU could also be suggested / recommended.» (Yes)
- - Optics (i guess it would be useful for students interested in photonics) - planar transmission lines» (Yes)
- C, java ... programming, more practical courses in instrumentation, in image analysis..» (Yes)
- - Open Innovation course and project - Barriers and problems for innovation implementation (more empirical) - MEI Seminar II, or more extensive. - Product/Service development (from innovation focus) - Innovation in services - Finance of innovation - Practical issues about innovation (not just so theoretical) - Sustainable innovation (processes and products/services) - Eco-innovation (based on chemical-biological fundaments, not advanced thoug) - State of the Art technologiess (what"s next and how to hande it) (Emerging trends) - Many more that I cant remember rght now.» (Yes)
- Usage of plastic and composite materials in product construction. Selection of production method based on economical and volume based constraints. Conceptual form development and visualisation with the aid of 3D (not final shape definition aka alias). Science of colours - how to select and apply colours to elevate the intended design.» (Yes)
- Swedish for business design as its important to speak to people as part of the project year.» (Yes)
- More statistics and machine learning.» (Yes)
- A CAD-course, in a software like CATIA V5 or SolidWorks.» (Yes)
- Vi skulle definitivt ha mer ekonomikurser i programmet, och inte bara ha en valbar sista kurs. Som det är nu läser ungefär halva klassen extra på handels för att denna bit helt missas trots att programmet utger sig för att ge en bred bild av projektledning och då är ekonomi och ekonomistyrning otroligt viktigt. » (Yes)
- Some kind of application course in power converters, as the skills you currently get in how to actually work with them regarding stray inductances etc today is extremely rudementary at best.» (Yes)
- Material selection» (Yes)
- More connected to industry and current software engineering practices. » (Yes)
- Some course about commercial FEM programs.» (Yes)
- Computer Security is best learned through hands-on experience, which the program somewhat lacks. The labs are not "enough" and do not expose the whole extent of modern computer security issues. I think a Penetration Testing course with theoretical aspects, and lots of practical courses (centered around a project more than a written exam) would be really appreciated from most people following this program. I think the managerial aspects of computer security in companies should be discussed (risk assessment, response management, and again - penetration testing) . It is a topic which is mentioned in the Computer Security course but in my opinion could have a whole course dedicated to it.» (Yes)
- a Solid modelling programs deeply» (Yes)
- Leadership and communication. Getting the sustainable message out.» (Yes)
- structures of different materials» (Yes)
- Continuing, going deeper on communication (together with control), learning more about to handle CAN etc. I.e. what I want is to continue on something after "Real-time Control Systems" (SSY190)» (Yes)
- Mathematical opmisation» (Yes)
- biochemistry» (Yes)
- Swedish Language.» (Yes)
- material course that is designed specifically to the nuclear master» (Yes)
- Stochastic processes» (Yes)
- The programme has changed to next year, but I still feel that we lack a course in group theory and/or mathematical methods (such as some variational and functional calculus). In the string theory course I take now, the lack of group theory is quite clear.» (Yes)
- Deeper knowledge and higher level, it should be clear that it is a master"s program and not bachelor.» (Yes)
- I would like to have one more course on an advanced topic in solid mechanics, e.g. composite mechanics.» (Yes)
- Complexity Economics» (Yes)
- Studying laws for building and contracts» (Yes)
- Something related to Research Methodology which should be mandatory because this is a Master in Science (involves research and development in some extent).» (Yes)
- An electrical course and one course (now there is an elective one)and one focused on renewable energies implementation or about developing strategies for energy systems implementation.» (Yes)
- More elementary cleanroom processing, such as labs making a transistor» (Yes)
- Game Theory, More Network Theory. More Artificial Intelligence Methods.» (Yes)
- protection» (Yes)
- More courses regarding nanotechnology. Perhaps also a course about composites. » (Yes)
- Mpdcs is discontinued, so no use...» (Yes)
- Swedish language course» (Yes)
- CFD» (Yes)
- Autocad, tekla, revit or something like that.» (Yes)
- More about Lean Product Development and Kansei Engineering» (Yes)
- More ecology and environment courses» (Yes)
- The program needs more courses at is is now you have to select courses from other master programs in the atoumn of your second year.» (Yes)
- CAD, no students at civil engineering have more than approx. 2hp CAD, ant when applying for jobs this is often a requirement. An advanced course for this please, and take away heat & moisture engineering.» (Yes)
- More management» (Yes)
- sustainable development, ecodesign, env. policy instrument, global issues in sustainable development, project management, technical change and env.» (Yes)
- A subject related to advanced thermodynamics would be good. There is no work related to thermodynamics in KRT which is sad since thermodynamics is such an intricate part of Chem. engg. » (Yes)
- More about renewable energy generation» (Yes)
- About buildings energy systems » (Yes)
- Another studio about ecological city planning in the spring. As it is now you can either choose to go to Africa or study sust building.» (Yes)
- architectural light design» (Yes)
- Photo/graphical presentation like Photoshop or how to do good pictures and presentations» (Yes)
- Wireless Communication» (Yes)
- There is course called Design Methodology. Its super best and Prof. Lars Almefelt handing is amazing. Its now only 4 credits. I would like to make it 7.5 credits. The learnings in this is course very good.» (Yes)
- Maybe something that deals more with understanding the interaction of technical and natural systems.» (Yes)
- We should get different subjects when we come to Northumbria, because many courses are exactly the same that we already studied at chalmers (and it was better in chalmers)» (Yes)
- My subject (MPNET) has three specialization tracks: Security, Communication Networks and Distributed Systems. As for the Security track, there are currently a couple of specialized courses being taught by distinguished professors at Chalmers. However, regarding Communication Networks the specialty courses are few and even some (like Real Time Systems) are not that much related to Data Communication and Computer Networks. The same applies to Distributed Systems track since there are a few courses with focus on multiprocessor architectures (There is only one course named Parallel Computer Organization and Design). I suggest Chalmers embark upon holding courses with more focus on Communication and Distributed Systems tracks. Courses with topics like “,Network Simulations and measurements”, or “,Mobile Ad hoc Networks”, can be good candidates to for the Communication track. As for the Distributed Systems, since the era of Multi-core/Multi-processor has already begun, that would be very valuable to offer some course covering software as well as hardware aspects of Multi-core CPUs. The course content can cover topics such as parallel programming design and implementation for Multi-core architectures which are rampant nowadays. » (Yes)
- Intelectual Property» (Yes)
- -Environmental Risk Assessment -Environmental Impact Assessment » (Yes)
- more technical depth in some courses» (Yes)
- More courses about HVAC in the building performance deisgn track» (Yes)
- Design Patterns» (Yes)
- A detailed course on composite mechanics» (Yes)
- Perhaps computer architecture should be a mandatory course, since it"s very relevant to know the hardware for which we construct programs.» (Yes)
- Musical Acoustics. Signal Processing for Acoustics.» (Yes)
- Get rid some of the mandatory easier courses and replace them with something valueable in your later career. Abaqus, StarCCM+, Catia, programming or similar!» (Yes)
- C++ programming and OpenFOAM» (Yes)
- I think this is already happening but I"d like to see less computer science courses in the program and more software engineering and management courses.» (Yes)
- more courses about the practice of programming» (Yes)
- More geotechnics, more road courses, possibility to choose something from DCPM with project management or organisation» (Yes)
- the Organizational Behavior course was optional but I couldn"t take because of the limited number of students who could take part in the course. but I think the course is so useful and at least every one who is interested should be able to take it.» (Yes)
- Group Theory and more maths courses early on in the program.» (Yes)
- In the track "Building performance design" it would be good to have maybe one more Building physics course, and a course with where to learn COMSOL (more than 1 lecture in FEM-basics) etc.» (Yes)
- Lean Production» (Yes)
- Structure of the programme should completely be revised. Courses don"t go in a line with connection to each and many other missing point in this master programme. It should be improved.» (Yes)
- More geotechnics and civil engineering ie. rock construction and concreate construction courses less bouring environmental courses » (Yes)
- The MPBME programme is too general and would greatly benefit in making some compulsory courses elective and and introduce more technologically advanced courses in the field of signal processing and electrical engineering instead. Need a better focus area(s), I"m concerned that the programme today is not providing enough in depth skills.» (Yes)
- More hands-on courses relevant to working in the industry e.g. economy, more technical courses etc» (Yes)
- Project psychology that IPM"s take, should be also available to DCPM"s» (Yes)
- Would be good to have a good, understandable course in Matlab, especially for the foreign students that never used Matlab before and are supposed to know it. » (Yes)
- Some course in the connection complex systems - social science!» (Yes)
- Electrical Installations course» (Yes)
- add more elective courses» (Yes)
- Some of the compulsory courses in the first year are overlapping a lot.» (Yes)
- Pharmaceutics, Pharmacology. some related to pharmacy. As most of the companies preferring related to Pharma named courses as if i know.» (Yes)
- Courses with environmental engineering» (Yes)
- Drawing in 3D and AutoCad» (Yes)
- Design of substations.Design of HVDC ,wind power plants inter connected grids.» (Yes)
- Matlab» (Yes)
- Wireless and adhoc also Network on chip,,,Although there is a course called"Wireless and sensor networks but I think we could learn more about these concepts in this course or in another course. » (Yes)
- They are working on it.» (Yes)
- MATLAB - Teach some basics and give assignments to practice. Students coming from outside Europe are not much familiar about MATLAB. So, it would be great to learn MATLAB.» (Yes)
- More continuation courses. For example in the fiealds of combustion egineering or industrial energy systems. » (Yes)
- an introductory course on electronics» (Yes)
- Electronic, mechatronics» (Yes)
- More economics» (Yes)
- Power system protection and Power system Reliability and to make a sustainable course with only Electric power students, the one we have now is a not hard enough considering our educational level. » (Yes)
- Course about Agile Manufacturing, Change Management and Risk Management (in terms of business)» (Yes)
- A lilte more technical coruses would not hurt. » (Yes)
- cleaner production» (Yes)
- Game theory, Statistical inference» (Yes)
- All the lessons chosen for the programme very good but structure of the programme does not let students to specialize in a particular area.We learn many subjects but cannot be profecient in any of them. So it would be better for coming years to make more certain focus areas. » (Yes)
- RF Integrated Circuit Design Analog Integrated Circuit Design Signal Processing Digital Filters » (Yes)
- I don"t find it enough specialized for a master degree level. There could have been more elective courses on different subjects. » (Yes)
- Something related to the context, the issues, the strategy of the different automotive actors, something that is not technical.» (Yes)
- Electric Drives 3 should be added in the program which focus is all on the Permanent magnet motor (PM motor) designing with more advance practical lab work. Because the near future is the PM motor. » (Yes)
- should add some course about biomaterials.» (Yes)
- Transformers» (Yes)
- Work in 3D-programs such as Revit» (Yes)
- Computational Fluid Dynamics» (Yes)
- Perhaps a course about international relations or something somewhat similar » (Yes)
- More industrial and technical courses.» (Yes)
- More transport phenomena» (Yes)
- There must me a strong course related to object oriented programming» (Yes)
- Sketching technique or similar course.» (Yes)
- An introduction to Mat-Lab course can be added since i feel its very difficult when undergoing some courses which intensively requires some basic programming language» (Yes)
- The DCPM program is very oriented towards the production phase of construction. It does however only address the design phase to a very small extent. Not everyone (in fact very few in my experience) would like to be production managers (arbetsledare och platschefer). The program should address the design ohase to prepare the students for design project management including procurement strategies, deisgn project handling and management etc. Furthermore, the program educates students for the industry, but is very theoretical/academic in its approach which could be a good thing if complemented by practical tools and approaches. This is not the case presently, and most courses address organizational theory rather than preparing students for industrial practice and improvements. Organizational theory does not constitute a proper base for working in the construction industry, if not supplemented by practical tools and techniques (e.g. why not teach the improtance and how to write protocols and incorporate this into the group assigments as in Christine Räisänen"s course). Neither does the program offer a variety of courses in design and construction management, as everything is production oriented. Property and real estate is very much an industry that requires the skills possessed by students in DCPM and this ought to be attributed in the structure of the education. Especially so as many students are interested in this area. » (Yes)
- "Power system Protection" course should definitely be included in the program.» (Yes)
- More direction related courses to choose, for example automotive design direction can have more options for that direction» (Yes)
- Economics, since the programme only have one optional course i.e. Real Estate finance and economics.» (Yes)
- Vehicle chassies, structure and wheel suspension design and mechanics. Also a Powertrain mechanics Advanced course. The industry requests engineers that has some experience with a specific software, this could be incorporated into the courses in a larger extent.» (Yes)
- Wireless Communication, wireless Networks» (Yes)
- Maybe some Engineering Course in the second period of the first year. As a previous Teknisk Fysik student, reading only the two courses Introduction to Optimisation and Fundamentals of Probability does not feel like full time studies. (Both are good courses though)» (Yes)
- Project Management» (Yes)
- Something like the orginazational behaviour course.» (Yes)
- economy» (Yes)
- I would suggest to add some courses on power generation» (Yes)
- Maybe more microbiology courses» (Yes)
- I.e. courses to enhance our presentation skills, and organizational psychology» (Yes)
- Mobile Communications» (Yes)
- optimization and more math courses» (Yes)
- Financial evaluation of new businesses Market analysis related courses» (Yes)
- Protection of the power systems» (Yes)
- Mobile Computing, Information Visualization Usability Engineering, Graphic Design » (Yes)
- Scientific visualization/computing.» (Yes)
- That the teacher upload the pp presentation for the class at least 1 day before so we can read it and be prepared for the class. There was an occasion that students were sent to discuss a questionary at 9:00 oclock to 12:00 (and then take lunch to 13:00) which we are suppose to discuss by email but only because the techare haven"t finished his pp presentation.» (Yes)
- research based courses» (Yes)
- Design and construction project management should also include courses related with scheduling and activity break down softwares to equip students with the knowledge of the practical world» (Yes)
- project management should be given in both levels, advanced and first level. It created understanding problems while we learn the advance level with out knowing the first level. There were lots of studnets complained this course.» (Yes)
- It will be good if structural design of brigde is included in the program.» (Yes)
- something about struture, sustainable design method including city planning and buildings» (Yes)
- To little real connection to the real world, we need more hands-on experience. Also, a law and contract course would perhaps be valuable» (Yes)
- A visit course. Every lecture would be a different visit or video presenting how is the production of many different products and strategies for services.» (Yes)
- It is highly useful if we could have "course projects" in our program. It is a common practice to strenghten the ability for research by defining project type courses. In this case, the student can work on a project in relate with his/her interest rather than to pass the courses which are optional and can be non related to the student interest.» (Yes)
- We had a course called Nordic architecture, I think it would be great to have a course like world architecture or an express architecture history and theory also. » (Yes)
- HMI» (Yes)
- Some social and economy related courses» (Yes)
- Optimization» (Yes)
- After working part time in industry for the last year, I think a course in software engineering (or similar, wrt hardware) should be a necessity for all students graduating from computer science programs: Learning about different development processes, waterfall, agile, sprint etc.» (Yes)
- * compilers for functional languages * more theory on datastructures» (Yes)
- Marketing» (Yes)
- Marketing and sales skills.» (Yes)
- Sellling» (Yes)
- How to find suppliers and manufacturers, now we only know the technology but not where to find it. Also a brief introduction on self-employment and the skills needed for it.» (Yes)
- the courses are just theoretical,and not practical» (Yes)
- C and C++ programming» (Yes)
- Applied control strategies, Engine management systems. » (Yes)
- Reglerteknik» (Yes)
- A course that focuses on bridge building.» (Yes)
- I believe the program seemed more multidisciplinary when I read about it. But in practice 90% of the students, teachers and projects are Architectural» (Yes)
- you need to add courses that deal with engine management and CAN communication. This area is really important to have knowledge about, and it is barely even mentioned within the mandatory courses. With this added the program would be much better and prepare one better for the automotive industry.» (Yes)
- Specific Bridge/House course» (Yes)
- More courses about advanced building physics and building service systems. » (Yes)
- Structural mechanics and applied FEM. I dont know why these are not included as mandatory.It is impossible to get a job in todays industry without these» (Yes)
- Mobile computing Human-computer interaction» (Yes)
- pharmaceutical bioinformatics» (Yes)
- courses in entrepreneurship» (Yes)
- some more design course» (Yes)
- Soil and Water pollution» (Yes)
- Specific course on passive housing and specific course on renewable energy integration in buildings (for both, product information, calculations, design).» (Yes)
- subjects related to body structure, vehicle integration. Also, simulations for strength and vibrations» (Yes)
- manufacturing» (Yes)
- More finance, » (Yes)
- An industrial approach should encompase topics related to applied electronics technology and more detailed course on polymer technology» (Yes)
- More technical courses. it was to many fuzzy courses.» (Yes)
- market and brand connection» (Yes)
- En kurs i Energieffektivisering för industriell verksamhet. Kurserna Lean production samt Quality management täcker att använda resurser effektivt, en kurs i energieffektivisering täcker att använda energi effektivt. Superviktigt i dessa tider med växthuseffekt, idiotiskt kärnkraftsmotstånd samt skenande oljepriser. Energi kommer bli dyrare i framtiden.» (Yes)
- I would like to have more courses regarding making prototype and have chances to learn different materials by actually working with them. » (Yes)
- Some courses about hydraulic such as Advanced Hydraulic or Hydrodynamic» (Yes)
- Project Management IBB135» (Yes)
- Introduction to the computer programmes can be a non-exam course. Especially, knowledge about Matlab can be a big part of this course.» (Yes)
- A course in test-driven development I felt had been beneficial, or a general course in software testing.» (Yes)
- Courses more related to product design peocess and having more practice than theories» (Yes)
- Constraint Programming» (Yes)
- Some course that connects CAD and FEM so you get a bigger picture of what you"r calculations are on. Maybe a course that connects more to the industry, visit?» (Yes)
- Creativity!!!» (Yes)
- More management courses to choose from in LP 1, 2 for the second year. » (Yes)
- Power Protection» (Yes)
- Power system protection» (Yes)
- A course in lean » (Yes)
- There are to little difference between the different tracks. For example I think that for ehealth track there should be less courses in imaging and more oriented towards computer science and how to deal with regulations. A good course to have in the program is DAT230 Requirements Engineering. This course could be good for all tracks.» (Yes)
- There was one course that Supply chain took about lean production, I think that one should be included in QOM» (Yes)
- English guidence maybe? Where you can take a diagnostic test in the beginning of the master programme and one at the end. should not take up to much time but maybe some lectures per period. should be towarsd technical english and writing projects in english(we have a lot of those). a tool rather than a course» (Yes)
- A more experimental course» (Yes)
- A course on MATLAb in the first study period of the program would be better.» (Yes)
- cryptography» (Yes)
- more about nanomaterials» (Yes)
- -Wireless communication » (Yes)
- project management» (Yes)
- Some courses related to thermodynamics.» (Yes)
- The program should contain some subjects for advanced programming. Most of the course stuff is regarding engineering and designing of softwares and very less about technology stuff and programming.» (Yes)
- More advanced course on compiler backends. More in-depth course on algorithm analysis (recurrence relations, think Concrete Mathematics)» (Yes)
- Planning» (Yes)
- basic corporate finance, supply chain management and sourcing» (Yes)
- SCM related to business strategies/business models. » (Yes)
- More fem, cfd or material (engine, brakediscs perhaps covered in bachelor)» (Yes)
- TEK230 - Lean Production. By looking at the course"s homepage, I think that the course has much to do with a QOM program. But it hardly shows some interest on the QOM side. I meant, "Why this Course is not in the Recommended Elective list for the QOM program?". The Course seem to be available only for the Sp4 every year. If you look at the QOM Schedule, in Year1 Sp4 - Six Sigma Project and in Year2 Sp4 - Master Thesis will be on progress. Which makes us very uncomfortable to take this course during these terms. My point is, as many QOM thesis and of course many companies seek students who have some knowledge on areas dealing with Lean and Six Sigma, this Course must be available (Sp1 or Sp2) also. The course name is TEK230 - Lean Production and the Course Examiner is Carl Wänström. I tried mailing this to my Course co-ordinator(Mr. Torbjörn Jacobsson). But I was disappointed hearing that it is not possible to include that now. But I thought, though we(MPQOM 2010) are not benefited from it, at least my juniors(MPQOM 2011) would be benefited from it.» (Yes)
- Something where you do an individual project. You always work in groups and don"t learn the confidence of doing something on your own. » (Yes)
- I would like more collaboration between the programe "structural engineering" and "geo and water"» (Yes)
- More focus on larger organisation and not only on entrepreuners.» (Yes)
- More Protection courses » (Yes)
- Economics, supply chain management» (Yes)
- Renewables» (Yes)
- A second course in Simulation of Complex Systems» (Yes)
- Polymer Electronics (I dont know the exact code but its taught in Chemistry department)» (Yes)
- splitting of courses:- Astrophysics and Earth science, Electromagnetic and Spectroscopy » (Yes)
- automotive principles, Engineering design» (Yes)
- More design courses about aesthetics and form design.» (Yes)
- there was a lot of simularities between some courses» (Yes)
- Architecture theory and history study visit of construction site» (Yes)
- Soil and water treatments more in depth. Environmental laws, ISO standards» (Yes)
- Something more "hands on" that is not an advanced research tool. This will make me more prepared for real life.» (Yes)
- History of (Interaction) Design» (Yes)
- In general there are not enough choices for elective courses to take.» (Yes)
- "New product Development"=How to create a business arround an idea IP protection=How/Why/When to protect your ideas.» (Yes)
- Interior arcitecture» (Yes)
- programming language» (Yes)
- Rock and Soil Mechanics, Advanced pavement and railway design, Finite element tools/softwares of rock and soil engineering.» (Yes)
- More structural engineering courses early in the program instead of the courses in the autumn (structural systems, materials performance, heat and moisture). These courses are very badly performed, the teachers are downright bad and projects are not good for masters level, atleast not if you aim towards becoming a structural engineer or proceeding in research within the subject. Instead perhaps some more courses in solid and structural mechanics, beam and plate theory and strength of materials courses.» (Yes)
- For my master programme, i would like to have more sustainable design and passive house courses in the curriculum.» (Yes)
- I have read Networks and Distributed Systems. The new master programme Computer Systems and Networks seems to have a programme plan that suites me better.» (Yes)
- Finance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! preferably 15 P that have bot hwith business fiance but also more an entrprenurial and investment focus. And also leadership» (Yes)
- Latest techniques in web development» (Yes)
- The programme is generally to broad. I"d have liked to have the option of more specialized courses within each area of the programme.» (Yes)
- Genetic engineering» (Yes)
- -Project course in product development (food/medicine) -Communication and presentation techinque» (Yes)
- Though many of them are already added with the new layout. » (Yes)
- thermodynamics-energy issues» (Yes)
- iPhone-app programming» (Yes)
- More leadership courses, there are non at the moment. There should at least be one.» (Yes)
- Material handling and production flow compulsory. Add freight transport systems and management of physical distribution together and increase the level of them while maintaining the combinded course 7,5 credit. Add a course in simulation and one Excel/data handling course. We are totally unable to handle the information required to make descisions upon the managerial theory we aquired. » (Yes)
- compulsory swedish course» (Yes)
- A purer purchasing course» (Yes)
- more construction» (Yes)
- I think the program involves to much courses related to physical transportation especially the Freight transport and Management of Physical distribution courses are similar. I think that a course devoted to purchasing should be mandatory, not the elective purchasing course which mainly teaches the difficulties of co-writing a book.» (Yes)
- More courses that are focused on practical improvement of production on a general basis.» (Yes)
- something related to distributed system, grid computing» (Yes)
- More game related course. For example a course where people learn about classic game, there game mechanic, narrative etc and why they become big to understand how we today can make good games. Many people are lacking the understanding of "good games"» (Yes)
- Where is any good elective courses period one, totaly not intressting» (Yes)
- Java» (Yes)
- shell structures, earthquake design, wind design, high rise towers, advanced bridge engineering » (Yes)
- Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering Introuction to medical imaging Radiation physics and instrumentation » (Yes)
- Earthquake Engineering» (Yes)
- Web development» (Yes)
- 1. Nanotechnology for sustainable energy -TIF165 2. Biotechnical physics -TIF040 » (Yes)
- modeling and simulation» (Yes)
- A wider range of courses to choose from» (Yes)
- convex optimization» (Yes)
- Maybe a little bit more about sales.» (Yes)
- auto-cad, drawing» (Yes)
- Hard to define, but I think it would be good to try to achieve a stronger focus on what kind of competence the student should have after attending the masters program.» (Yes)
- The teacher"s knowledge of english is sometimes really, really bad, like a 6-year old. That makes the education on the same level.» (Yes)
- More training in Sales, and I mean trainingm not a theoretical course.» (Yes)
- Earthquake engineering» (Yes)
- Standards Course in English» (Yes)
- I would like to add quite a few courses since the focus is on business and management Corporate Finance Human Resource Management Market Research Operations Research Accounting- managerial or financial » (Yes)
- More finance» (Yes)
- "Organizational behavior" should be mandatory. Love it! » (Yes)
- maybe more about renewable energy production» (Yes)
- A bigger project course, for example during the hole spring in year 4. Will probably give the students a deeper understanding of problems in advanced applied mechanics. » (Yes)
- Maybe a course about design patterns?» (Yes)
- more advanced and specific courses+simulation software» (Yes)
- I think ,in this program same as Wireless students that they have microwave project courses,we should have the same couse that just be project base in one company or Onsala atleast.» (Yes)
- their should More courses related to analog domain, so it would more easy to focus for thesis point of view.» (Yes)
- More ICT.» (Yes)
- Organizational behavior » (Yes)
- There is to few courses to chose from if you want to specify tourself within one subject. More watercourses, more trafic and more geo. All is needed for greater deapth.» (Yes)
- A proper track for those who want to make a transition between disciplines ... Medicine to Engineering or vice verca.» (Yes)
- grund matematik» (Yes)
- More about Management. Optional courses are not so complete and varied.» (Yes)
- More practical work. Take away the MTS course and put in course in patent and a course in how to get a product into the market (could be different depending on master as there is difference in maybe technical products and biomedical products), with info about regulation etc.» (Yes)
- 1. Open innovation 2. barriers to innovation 3. innovation strategy 4. venture capital 5. innovation in public service 6. innovation in finance » (Yes)
- C++ language course and embedded design with C++» (Yes)
- more interaction one free course where you can perform a projhect of your choice» (Yes)
- Financial and economic couses» (Yes)
- More on how to calculate product cost. Could be part of the PD-project running in year one.» (Yes)
- Management» (Yes)
- Automotive Safety, It is spoiled by the weak staff like Johan Davidsson that is providing low quality courses, I cam to Sweden because of Automotive safety, but My idea changed because of bad Safety course.» (Yes)
- Polymer processing, generally more about what kind of work that we could end up with. my problem is that I don"t feel ready for work.» (Yes)
- Programming with DSP processors» (Yes)
- many» (Yes)
- A course in general structural design, maybe in the second year.» (Yes)
- I think lean production should be a must take cause that course is really good.» (Yes)
- Designing of hydrotechnical buildings in AutoCAD» (Yes)
- Density Functional Theory course Transportation Phenomena Course Physical Chemistry(Thermodynamics and Kinetics)» (Yes)
- Operation Resaerch» (Yes)
- Introduction to group theory Advanced group theory Advanced Quantum field theory» (Yes)
- some more geo enigneering courses» (Yes)
- Biomedical Engineering is a multidisciplinary filed. So it would be much better if courses related to the neuroscience are added into the program » (Yes)
- More applied courses, e.g. an applied FE caluclation course, with e.g. real car or truck components» (Yes)
- more courses to teach about progrmming (coding).» (Yes)
- I think our programme can help student to find job after graduation ,specially it is necessary to international student.» (Yes)
- I think that a course in CAD should be elecitve for those ho doesnt have worked with that in the bachelor degree. This would open up more opportunitys on the jobbmarket. » (Yes)
- Measurements techniques, industry tour» (Yes)
- Better information to students about what is going on. At the moment it is not good at all. For example if you come from abroad it is not so clear on how to find stuff. And then also about the schedule, if its made it should not be changed during the termin, exstremely expensive to change flight when you already have booked and payed for one! » (Yes)
- Fundamental Structural Dynamics, Applied structural Dynamics, CFD» (Yes)
- CAD» (Yes)
- Some courses about control and automobile dynamics and such » (Yes)
- More practical tasks» (Yes)
- 1 More courses on sysyem level design. 2 DSP in VHDL » (Yes)
- More practical, more chans of doing real work, visit companys etc.» (Yes)
- cryptography» (Yes)
- can add more course to the interaction design track» (Yes)
- Advanced VHDL.» (Yes)
- contracting negotiation conflicts» (Yes)
- A proper course in project management. The one we have are good to start with, but a follow up to that one would be spot on! With real life expericences and to actually try out what project management means» (Yes)
- more mechnical material approach, hållfathetslära» (Yes)
- Erlang programming while not haskel» (Yes)
- Intellectual capital management» (Yes)
- more hands-on lab experience in the first year would have been nice.» (Yes)
- organisational behavior » (Yes)
- Nanotechnology for sustainable energy» (Yes)
- Advaced course on control theory, offered by chemical engineering department, not mixed with electrical engineering, etc.» (Yes)
- More analytical courses that does not involve Aldo» (Yes)
- International business management - that is more focus on problematic issues connected to multinational firms operation and strategies such as divestments and difficulties in operating in different countries. » (Yes)
- Corporate Finance» (Yes)
- In manufacturing tech specification, some mechanics courses should be added.Like solid mechanics, plastic mechanics and so on.» (Yes)
- simulation softwares like ABAQUS, ANSYS(finite element software)- they are held in other programs so it is hard for someone from another program to follow them because they solve their own problems in these softwares which is related to their majors.» (Yes)
- Perhaps some courses in medicine» (Yes)
- No but set higher demands on almost all of the courses and add more courses or better ones for the elective credits, where many people are taking some courses just because they don´,t have any other choice. Would maybe like to add a course in more strategic product design.» (No)
- But more course related to the master progrmme in the bachelor programe should be implemented.» (No)
- I have none in particular in mind, but variety and several possible choices are always good.» (No)
- But it would be better to have more laboratories to have more experience using the equipment. It is hard to have a good background when you can only use the equipment once or twice.» (No)
- The layout of the programme leaves opportunities to customise among courses, which gives quite some freedom.» (No)
- I hope that the Architectural Conservation and Transformation will remain for coming years» (No)
- I think that the new tracks added to the programme are a very good idea» (No)
- more change management» (No)
- Kunde inte få upp de där målen och inte heller program innehållet därför är det svårt att ha åsikter om det. Har inte heller tid att leta, funkar inte länken så får det tyvärr vara.» (No)
- The link doesnt work on goal and fulfillment. You suck. Never seen the goals.» (No opinion)
- I AM DOING MY MASTER AT CHALMERS, BUT DUE TO ONE YEAR ABROAD I HAVE ONLY TAKEN 2 CHALMERS COURSES DURING THE MASTER PROGRAM, ONE OF WHICH WAS AN MFS COURSE. My master thesis I am writing at a company abroad. This makes it difficult for me to answer many of these questions.» (No opinion)
- I was on exchange during the first year of the program so I can"t really judge this» (No opinion)
- Purchasing maybe, (if it would not overlap)» (No opinion)
- Marketing/sales.» (No opinion)
- no opinion because we are allowed to take course outside our programme even so its not a problem in choosing courses.» (No opinion)
- I have never seen the goals of different tracks.» (No opinion)
- the courses overlap to much. some have really low workload and some quite high. » (No opinion)
- I cannot think of any at the moment.» (No opinion)

22. Are there any courses that you think should be heavily revised (or even removed) from the programme?

1306 svarande

Yes (1 to 2)»597 45%
Yes (3 to 4)»84 6%
Yes more than 5»10 0%
No»407 31%
No opinion»208 15%

Genomsnitt: 2.65

- Shorten or combine "Economics of Innovation" and "Research Design and Methods".» (?)
- Managing operations processes Integrated product development Operations improvement project» (?)
- Computer Introduction (removed) Wireless Networks (revised - the level of the course is much lower for a MSc. programme ) Internet Technology (revised - too much programming required given that the MPCOM does not have any suggestions for programming related courses) Multimedia and Video Communications (revised - course level too low) Medicine for the Engineer (removed - I would have preffered to have other courses recommended. I do not find this course suitable for a communictaion engineering masters) » (?)
- Applied Mechatronics» (?)
- It will be good to include courses related to industy oriented applications of biotechnology.(apart from bioreactor course). Courses like biopolymers can be removed. Data acquisition and related lab course can be revised for future students. » (?)
- Dynamical systems, » (?)
- Environmental system analysis Environmental management Assessing sustainability Environmental analysis of water and all the other courseas with environmental stuff » (?)
- Already done for the next year» (?)
- the course design systems 7,5 p demands to much from the students» (?)
- Divide the course space science and technique into more detail courses including system design, reliable control and efficient maintenance. It is better to add one or two courses concerning Earth Science. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Biopolymers and biocomposites and Data aquisition and handling in systems biology» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Revise, Materials Selection & Design» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Research design and methods. For students who have taken their bachelor on Chalmers this is much repitition.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The Advanced CAD course is NOT advanced!» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Biopolymers to be removed as compulsory course. Biochemical toxicology need to be revised in order to be an ADVANCED course, since it is now very basic. This is also true for a couple of more courses in the programme which should be added some more engineering competencies, preferably the problem solving ability, to be better courses e.g Protein engineering and Drug development.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Building in society (construction governance, new name 2010)» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Strategic management should be revised, especially the lectures were bad.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I think the "Hybrid vehicles and control" course needs some work. The requirements for the exam are too low, and the assignments are too simple. The assignments in "Internal combustion engines advanced" are on a good level, and these should be as well. Especially the control strategies used in the assignments are far from reality. It needs to be demonstrated how these strategies work in a real car, in my opinion.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The synthesis, properties and structures of solid state materials should be removed. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Wireless networks. At least make the course that way that the examination checks if you have learnt anything» (Yes (1 to 2))
- TDA288 Människa - dator interaktion» (Yes (1 to 2))
- classical mechanic and QFT need a new teacher» (Yes (1 to 2))
- In my opinion, Artifical Neural Networks should be made part of Stochastic Optimization Algorithms, it"s currently too much focus on a little-used technique by giving it an entire course. Simulation of Complex Systems is a bad course currently, it should be made either a pure project course or be made more rigid course in e.g. ABM. Right now it"s one of those youtube-courses... There are a lot of things to learn in this field, which the program should address. Computational Biology and Dynamical Systems should be made into a single 15hp course, and should be placed as the first thing you meet in CAS. This is a clear story.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Nuclear chemistry KBT105 should be heavily revised, too hard. Binanotechnology for chemists too easy» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Biorefinarey» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Advanced chemical engineering and process analytical technology should have a larger workload during the study period. As it were this year, the lectures and demoexercises were very basic but the exam were more advanced. The lectures (most of them) and demos didn"t prepare us for the exam and didn"t help us to understand the course material. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- too much of the same information in different courses. Ex. Porter"s 5 forces» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Some rearangment» (Yes (1 to 2))
- High Voltage Technology Sustainable Power Production and Transmission» (Yes (1 to 2))
- 1. Sustainable Development and Sustainable energy systems. Make one class of these and focus on questions from SEF 2. ESMP, better organization and structure» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Global Chemical Sustainability, Preliminary Plant Design» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Freight Transportat Systems, Management of Physical Distribution» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Sustainable development » (Yes (1 to 2))
- The Internet technology course focused to heavily on learning protocol specific features by heart. The Adv. topics in networks and dist. systems course did not really contain "advanced" topics. They it was formed it would have been more suited as an introductory course to the different subjects.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Science of environmental change is a very badly designed course, the content is good but the course is bad.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- 1)PLM: The course has more to do with the software to manage the life cycle rather than the Ideas or principles behind them. 2)Applied mechatronics: It requires a strong background in electronics, with is a drawback for mechanical engineering graduates. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Production logistics should be revised» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Environmental Management should not be compulsory and Applied Industrial Ecology should be more practical. The examination is a written exam that only assess if I can memorize some articles.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Data acquisition and handling in systems biology. Should be optional. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- finance is a course that can be improved» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Digital course need to be changed, to the better.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- "human centered design" had nothing to do with the description of the classs "advanced design materials" too basic, not advanced at all» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Distributed Systems and computer security should be revised!» (Yes (1 to 2))
- the introduction course for MPIES is really heavy work load» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The MTS course is almost completely irrelevant to the education» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I don"t think for example Functional analysis is necessary for all specialisations.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- many courses are very similar, the microscope courses.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- data acquisitiona and handling in system biology is too wide to be covered in 8weeks,should be divided into two parts» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Managing developing projects and technological transforamtion need a substantial face lift» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Quality and Operations Management, Managing Operations Processes.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Road vehicle aerodynamic is to general and the knowledge has to be found only in the book.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I think the planned changes to the course in design quality and materials are good.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Construction governance & Knowledge and learning in project organizations» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Software Architecture» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Applied Mechatronics» (Yes (1 to 2))
- ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT WAS A COMPLETE DISASTER. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- For Structural Engineering students the Heat and Moisture engineering and Material Performance should not be compulsory courses.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Heat and moisture» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Soft matter physics and Biological physics should be revised.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Molecular electronics (the organisation of the course)» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Financial management should be more practical in term of application in project management» (Yes (1 to 2))
- AI -to much focus on writing reports not enough AI» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Strategic Environmental Analysis The construct of the course is confusing. There are many aspects and the connection or function of these aspects are not clear enough.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- some of the mandatory courses seemed ineccesary. Like biopolymers course and bioreactors course. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Design Systems should be revised, to better supply a platform for system design within the field of achitecture. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Did not feel like I learned too much in some courses. there should be done changes in Organisational Project Management and Strategic Project Management.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- There should be some more demands in terms of prerequisit courses for some specialization courses to make the courses be able to move faster to the real issue of the course.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Neural networks - Dynamical systems» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The compulsory courses should fit better with the chosen track. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Real-time control Mechatronics» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Artificial intelligence, the ML part must be assigned a better lecturer. Its grading system must be made easier to understand.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- customer relationship course seems to be duplication of previous courses, should be revised.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I feel the imaging courses can be revised and improved. (2 mandatory courses seems a bit too much).» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Diggital control» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Materials selection and design.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- ELDO and NVF» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Computational Biology A should be an elective course. Some of the mathematical content could be included in Dynamical Systems instead. Simulation of Complex Systems should if possible be revised so that all of the theory is taught before one has to start working on a project (similarly to the structure of the Autonomous agents course).» (Yes (1 to 2))
- to many water courses and chemistry is to advanced» (Yes (1 to 2))
- "Managing organizations in the construction industry" must be revised. It is far too heavy for 7.5 credits.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- there could be slightly more structure in Heat and Moisture Engineering» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Freight Transport System & Management of Physical Distribution, both courses where not deep enough. And the most important is the understanding and not specific knowledges.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- HVAC» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Source coding, multimedia and video communication» (Yes (1 to 2))
- There should be more time for the studio and less time for other courses. The courses Design systems and Nordic architecture were a dissapoinment but sustainable developmen were very good.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I found the Image analysing very hard to get and I think its better do make the Image processing course mandatory instead and the Image analyses eligible. Sadly the Image processing were already full so I wasn"t able to take it» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Rigid body dynamics should be changed, the assignment was too large. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- manufacturing strategy.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Structural Bioinformatics and Sequence Bioinformatics» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Image analysis should be revised» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The economics course we do in the fall of the second year is terrible. Very low level.. gets boring and everyone fails it becuse of that. The teacher can"t hardly speak english. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Random Processes is an excellent and important course, yet the style of teaching was far from most students" understanding level. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Software Leadership and Quality management should be changed. Maybe Advanced software Architecting should be taken a look at. I guess the responsibles are aware that these courses has some issues.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Distributed systems (TDA596), should be more like Distributed systems, advanced course (TDA297) which should be "more advanced".» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Design Systems» (Yes (1 to 2))
- When I took the course "Real-time control systems" there were a lot of repetition. I think this has been changed however.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Especially, Ship Motion and Wave Induced Loads» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Managing Organizations in the Construction Industry (should be revised and lightened) Project Management(mentor-ship and teaching)» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I think the latter of the compulsory courses are too abstract for courses held at a technical university. I would like an aproach that links the courses more with technical problems and engineering.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Safety courses» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The project course at Semester two is not as useful as supposed to be. It is mostly useful for bachelor rather than master. Although, working as a team seems interesting, the gain is much less than expected. Usually, one or two students out of six people in the group are working and this is a damage for the others. The point is, the goal of the project course could be highly obtained in master thesis, if the student wants to follow that area. This period can be covered by courses from the other programs based on students favorite. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Human Response to Sound and Vibration could be more in depth, and/or tied in with some room acoustics topics as well (eg. perception to sound in a room).» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Revise: Heat and Moisture Engineering, Indoor Climate and HVAC Design» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Data acquisition and handling in systems biology, could use some revising. I felt it gave a good overview of the area, but we didn"t actually learn how to use it. Also to easy.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- If the teacher don"t listen to the course evaluatioon and has to much to do remove him from teaching since the students will not learn any thing from him anyway. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Geotechics should be heavily revised.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I see no point in AI being obligatory.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The sketching courses should revised and adapted for the different purposes that sketches are made.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- ELDO and VEF.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- CFD too extensive Multi Variable component should not be compulsary MPISC» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Software Architecture, Algorithms» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Industrial Design Engineering (the course).» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Much much less power points for the power system courses. 100+ power point slides in a 1,5 hour lecture isn"t helping anyone.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The old software architectures, I think it"s gone now.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- PLM and Advanced material selection» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Applied Industrial Ecology should be revised - leave out the exam and go full on hand-ins and projects. Environmental management needs a revision of the course content as well as the management of the course. The literature was scarce and the teaching very confusing and poorly organised.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I was not happy with the physical distribution and transport systems course» (Yes (1 to 2))
- MCC090 should not be obligatory.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Microwave projects - the part about project management should be taught by someone with that competence.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The topics in Simulation of complex systems should be expanded» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I believe that sustainable building should be revised.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Computer security doesn"t add very much and shouldn"t be compulsory» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Introduction to Discrete Event Systems, it contains to little.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Microwave Projects I and Microwave Projects II» (Yes (1 to 2))
- material selection and design should be merged with some other course» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Distributed Systems (elective course). It was too much Computer Science and the course structure was not so good if you are used to learn through problem solving. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Managing physical distribution Freight transport system» (Yes (1 to 2))
- discrete event systems» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Given the new plan, I think one should seriously consider the workload in period 1 as both the Quantum Mechanics course and Experimental Physics are very time-consuming.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I think unix a little bit too theoretical» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I think Interaction Design Methodology and Method of Interaction Analysis are quite similar and it"s not necessary to have both courses for the program.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Powertrain Mechanics, which should be more focused on design, optimization and why not, maintenance of conventional powertrain (not hybrids).» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Complex System Seminars» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Mpdcs is discontinued, so no use...» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The lectures in the course Applied Mechatronics did not really meet the standards in my opinion. However, I believe it has already been revised since I took the course in the study year 2008/2009. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Signals and Systems to be revised» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Energy Systems Modeling and Planning should be removed.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Heat and moisture, material performance. They are too similar to courses in the bachelor (at chalmers)» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Managing operations processes, and to some extent the Six Sigma Black Belt course (The projects in the SixSigma project should be clearly specified from the begining, some lectures should be optional for the students)» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Real Time Control Systems should be heavily revised or removed. Discrete event control and optimization shouldn"t be compulsorary for control specialization.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Heat & Moisture engineering must be shortened down, it"s good to know about common moisture problems but then the course gets to divided into different subjects with different teachers. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Definitely PPD should be changed to a large extent. The expectation from the course was high however, the course coordinator, I am sorry to say it, had made the course simply useless. I expected it to explain the basics in Plant design, however it was mostly pressing buttons in HYSYS. In its current state is a total waste of a term.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Science of Environmental Change - revised» (Yes (1 to 2))
- CAD handled by lars. Needs the revision of the content.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- There is a lot of courses covering the same things, for example modelling and problem solving, environmental systems analysis, risk-courses. Seems unnecessary. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- same as before, the courses that repeat what we already studied the previous year at chalmers.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Introduction to Engineering Mathematics should not be obligatory for foreign students. It is a waste of time for master level.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The CAD course must be improved.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- foundations of probability» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Enengy systems modelling and planning Sustainable development» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The collaborations with GU have very large problems with schedule and information between the the universities. And work load. It is not ok that in every course GU students get 15credits, while we get 7,5credits. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Environmentaly Adapted Product Developement and Manufacturing» (Yes (1 to 2))
- i.composites and nanocomposite ii.material selection in mechanical design should be revised. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- TIN171 Artificial intelligence, needs to be heavily revised since the course schedule seem not at all thought trough. Extremely small time frame between major deadlines.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- But there has already been some changes since I started the program, and that changes might have been sufficient.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- the courses in quarter 6 is not so useful» (Yes (1 to 2))
- -Environmental system analysis -Modelling and problem solving in Civil Engineering» (Yes (1 to 2))
- operation management course. I think that some software studies should also be added to Project Management course. I know that it has strong managerial focus but learning the project management software is also needed after all.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Advanced Classical Physics as well as Quantum field theory. The latter is good, but a maths course beforehand would make it more clear.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Maritime leadership. And some new courses can be added. Electives don"t a wide range of choice. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- The Design Systems Course in the spring semester should not run parallel with the studio, since it took a lot of time from the studio work. Also there should be another course for the Swedish students to choose from then just "Nordic Architecture" in the fall, since that course didn"t give us so much new knowledge.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- e-Healt» (Yes (1 to 2))
- HCD should be heavily revised, as well as Graphical Interfaces.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- eHealth, Diagnostic Imaging» (Yes (1 to 2))
- In the Project Management course, the exam should be removed and replaced with one project where you learn the skills mentioned in the outcomes» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Model driven Development» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Project management» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Applied Computational Electromagnetics (Remove) Sustainable Power Production and Transportation (Improve)» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The Six Sigma black belt course isn"t very good. The entire experience of the course is decided by a lottery at the start of the course where your project is determined.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The AI course is the absolute worst course I"ve taken on Chalmers (and I"ve taken a few). It has no clear goals, no structure, a joke of an examination form and the learning opportunities are minimal. Please make this course a regular course instead of one where you only get insight into a tiny fraction of the field.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Biophysical chemsitry.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- For example in Powertrain track - Courses related to fuel injection equipment, ECU communication softwares should be incorporated» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Energy Systems Modelling and Planning» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Susteainable development and sustainable energy futures to one course. Review energy systems modelling and planning which has large potential, but is not so popular. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Construction governance» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Sustainable Power production and transportation, separate it for the Electric Power students!» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Applied induatrial ecology should be heavily revised.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- pollution prevention , the level is very low» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I think the course Digital and multivariate control should not be ámong mandatory courses although it is a good course.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Vehicle dynamics » (Yes (1 to 2))
- ENM095 Sustainable power production and transportation should be revised with more focus on labs work » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Microwave Engineering Projects» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Artificial intelligence needs to focus less on planning and report writing, and more on the subject itself. Maybe the course could be optional?» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Source Coding Wireless Network» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Bio-reactors - Design and Control should be revised since International Students were not aware of the Mat Lab programming but can be given additional coaching.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Unfortunately, several (mainly) PhD students that have been lecturing are clearly inappropriate when it comes to teaching in general (e.g. Vahid in the course of Management of physical distribution - I believe there are more specific opinions regarding this in the concerned course evaluation). I think that the examiners should take a bigger responsibility in ensuring the quality of the lectures by assisting the PhDs in planning the lecturing, for instance. Also, a vast share of the examinations (i.e. share of efforts allocated from students) are group assignments. The work are however seldom given sufficient feedback from examiners, but often rather only a quantitative assessment without any explicit feedback - which is inappropriate since the students most often put a lot of effort into these assignments. If the examiners do not have time for making a sufficient assessment of the work, they should maybe consider other examination alternatives.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Ehealth has too broad view.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Data acquisition and Data handling in systems biology, Bio-polymers and Bio-composites.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The CAD course needs to be revisited» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Research design and methods. One of the most meaningsless courses I"ve ever taken. If you want to continue with doctorial studies, then it MAY be useful.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- High voltage engineering and design» (Yes (1 to 2))
- multimedia communications» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Technological change and industrial transformation Economic of innovation» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Human Centered Design could include application of proper usability testing (such as using the usability labs) and user test methods. It is only about the process right now which is I believe too shallow. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Simulation of complex system Complex System Seminiar» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Maritime Leadership and Shipping and Marine Environment» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Model driven engineering - shoudl be heavlily revised. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- environmental management borde kunna göras bättre. det är ju ett viktigt ämne. tyvärr behandlar lärarna studenterna mer som barn än som vuxna och det gjorde hela kursen märklig. väldigt dålig insyn i kursupplägg, tentor och allt annat som man brukar ha tillgång till. trångsynt...» (Yes (1 to 2))
- less projects in LP4 year 1» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Interaction Design Project need more dedicated tutors that actually seem to care» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The most courses overlap to heavily. The TEK190 Research Design and Methods could be better executed because it is really important!» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Arne Dahlberg is no good lecturer. The exam in computer security didn"t cover the main topics.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Logic in Computer Science is not a master level course and I think it should be removed from the curriculum. Cryptography needs to be heavily revised especially the method the exam is given such as bringing asking the same question as the home exam in the final exam and assigning 14/60 points to that question. It should be possible to take elective courses in the IT university as well as other departments and the administrative issues behind this process should be removed. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- The course Risk management was not well organised, Although the content is really important for job career. The course is not organised for a master level.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- kkr072 (rename! easy to mix upp with MEN072) to much cemestry formekanikal engineers. sustainable development FFR160 feels just like som defuse lump of information thet is korrekted after personal arbitrariness.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The Lumsten courses could be one. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Design Processes & Management course is really bad, it is not really design management related» (Yes (1 to 2))
- MTF072 CFD. CFD and turbulence should be separated.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The course in Science of environmental change need to be revised.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- More crossfunctional projects please» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The courses offered by the institution of applied mechanics don"t, in general, have as high quality.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Leadership in the Architectural Professions. At least... change the name to Preparation for Master Thesis or something. And It SHOULD NOT be mandatory» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Perhaps Structural systems for the students that would like to study more about building physics. Or some of the acoustic courses » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Indroduction to safety? Cant comprehend as to why thise mandatory» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Software leadership and quality management is a interesting topic, but the course need to be improved.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Global Chemical Sustainability could be more focused to chemical engineers. Now anyone can take it which makes the level basic.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Environmental System Analysis» (Yes (1 to 2))
- ACED-PAT need some reworking. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- I would revised economy in order to give more applicable way than now. Claasification the same.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Environmantally Adopted Product Development» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Environmental management» (Yes (1 to 2))
- DAT110--Methods for electronic system design and verification» (Yes (1 to 2))
- i think advanced sketching needs to be improved.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The course Environmental Analysis of Water. This course (which have a very difficult schedule such as study fields, laboratory experiments and so on) has a strange system of grading at the end. There are 3 project grades and a presentation grade but at the end the teacher said that like you will give 4 if all of your grades are more than that. i have 3-, 4+, 4+,4 and they give me 3 at the end which is defiantly unfair, and the course doesn"t have a re-exam. If they have such a strange system of grading they should tell it at the begging of the course and not at the end. I"m so unhappy with this course» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Quality Management» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Science of Environmental Change, not removed but revised.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Software architecture - Maybe more focus on "standard" design templates and good practices. Distrtibuted systems - Less focus on specific implementations. It felt "old".» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Rigid Body Dynamics, project should look more to the wanted outcomes for the course.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Wireless Networks Multimedia» (Yes (1 to 2))
- risk management and safety» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Knowledge-based business development. However, I think it was already changed to this year.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- data acquisition should be revised,because it"s important course in the field.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I feel the course, "Computations in mechanics" given in the first study period, should be revised. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Energy modelling and planning» (Yes (1 to 2))
- MEN115 should be revised. Interesting subject but badly executed.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Suburbs» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The methodology course is too demanding.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The Artificial Intelligence course is a complete disaster. The TAs seem very confused and change the rules all the time. There is to much report writing and to little actual AI.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Source Coding is unnecessary as a 7.5 credit course» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Re-construct the course overlaps in the distribution/transportation courses.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The conservation and transformation course needs to be better structured. Sustainable building studio needs to be more learning and less free research.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I prefer there must be more electives to chose from. Since we are only allowed to take four electives in our whole program.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The course called computation in mechanics. This course is not a proper chose for newly -accepted student since it is need some background in FEM and many international student have not passed this course before.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The sustainable course. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Financial management course needs revision. also courses at northumbria university have sometimes similar contents as at chalmers. like the project management course. there should be more coordination between chalmers and northumbria courses» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Sustainable development» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Computational biology 1» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Energy systems modelling and planning, I do not really see the point of it. To many to short assignments, so I learn nothing. Less but bigger assignments is needed. Or just take the course away.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- microwave project part 1.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I think material selection was not good enough » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Revise the Human Factors Course, the content seem to be a little bit too small. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Maybe science of environmental change can be removed and replaced by another more relevant course.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- all chemistry courses, i.e. Nuclear Chemistry and Applied Nuclear Chemistry» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Environmental management, Applied IE» (Yes (1 to 2))
- All game courses.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The Urban Architecture Design Laboratory may be a fine course for some people, but it uses such a unique teaching philosophy it needs to be more clear to students before starting. Secondly, the course Design Processes and Management had several portions which were too elementary for master"s students. For me with some working experience, nearly the whole course was too elementary.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Material Selection and Design=More design related info!» (Yes (1 to 2))
- modelling and simulation, the content of the course is very important, but the lectures were very bad. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Reserach by design» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Environmental system analysis,, » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Structure and administration of courses weak in some cases. Content is generally very good!» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I think "Research by Design" was not a very sufficient course.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Introduction to engineering mathematics» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Distributed Systems (first course), the teacher is a good fella but a terrible teacher. Seems like he has a lot to say about the course plan also. A new fresh layout of that course and a more pedagogic teacher are needed.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- advanced ICM - located at the the third semester knowledge based business development » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Software Leadership and Quality Management - bad teacher, see course evaluations Advanced software architecting - Would rather learn about software systems (and software architecture design patterns (e.g. Martin Fowler, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, http://martinfowler.com/books.html)) than real-time systems which it currently is focused on.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- "Biopolyers and biocomposites" "Materials in medicin"» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Technical Acoustics» (Yes (1 to 2))
- But this specific course has already been removed for future years» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The EoI course included too much material to read, it was a very stressful course» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Programming Paradigm» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Human Centered Design, has problems with the examination form because it does not test the contents of the course. And also the lecturer has problems with the english spoken language which makes it difficult to understand her. :(» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Advanced Software Architecting Software Leadership and Quality Assurance» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Physical distribution and freight transport are very linked and it feels like we"ve seen twice the same thing» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Six sigma and operations improvement. They were both unstructured and hard to learn when I took them (2010)» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Add freight transport systems and management of physical distribution together and increase the level of them while maintaining the combinded course 7,5 credit. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Freight transports systems and Management of physical distrubution are to simular» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Environmental course, should remove a chapter about green house effect» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Not really the courses as they are, more the content and some of the teachers.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- theory and methodology That is mostly repetition and therefore extremely boring» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Management of Physical distribution and Freight transport should be combined.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Discrete event & control optimization.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- programming paradigm should be removed. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Interaction Design Methodology. It is the worst course I have ever taken.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- IDM the method course I think we instead should more explicit train on the methods. For example I know now their is a method called Interview... but how to use it correctly I dont.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Wireless Network» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Dynamical systems» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Interaction Design Methodology, at least it should be redesigned for students who are participating in the game design track. Now it is probably designed for the interaction design track.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- This have been done for 2011» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Design Systems Research by design» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Building in Society, Managing Organisations in the construction industry.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The course "Software leadership and quality" was not good. The topics were way too abstract and the discussions in the class were totally irrelevant and not interesting at all. However, I feel that there should be a course about software leadership. Maybe it should include more complex examples from the industry. The course "Advanced Software Architecture" was the worse ever. And that is not because of Jörgen was sick 70% of the time but the administration and the context of the course was so bad. I didn"t learn anything about software architecture. Instead I learned how to connect four sensor to a system with data connections - that"s it. And then the administration. Now, after we have written the exam and done the project, the examinator tells us that the project is only graded pass/fail and that the grade from the exam is the final grade. We were told that the final grade was the math.floor(exam grade, project grade). Jörgen actually told us that in the first lecture. This was really unprofessional done.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- image analysis should be revised » (Yes (1 to 2))
- heat and moist engineering, no structure what so ever» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Bioreactors - Design and control should be revised. International students have difficulties in using MATLAB » (Yes (1 to 2))
- The VEF course should definately get another teacher! The ELDO course has to be more in correlation with what we actually do in this education. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Electric Drives II» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Operations Strategy » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Fundamental of microsystem and microsystem technology courses are almost the same course. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Freight Transportation and Management of Physical Distribution, bad pedagogic skill from main male teachers.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- environmental management is a very interesting topic but the course was one of the worst during my time on Chalmers» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Advanced chemical engineering and process analytical technology » (Yes (1 to 2))
- MMA145 "Ship motions and wave induced loads". This course was either too difficult or, which I believe to be the reason, a teacher that lacks the ability to explain in an understandable way. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- computer sec, retarded exam» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Artificial Intelligence should indeed be revised or removed as mandatory.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Computations in Mechanics (but i think it is revised already).» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Technology change» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Applied mechatronics and robots and robotic systems» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Rather than heavily revised, one idea could be to emphasize why it is important. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Rigid body dynamics» (Yes (1 to 2))
- No one understood the point of the course Model and problem solving which is mandatory. Even in week seven we didn"t know what the course was all about.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Requirement engineering Software architectur (lectures)» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Computer Security was in my opinion not very good.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- material selections and design» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Artificiall Intelligence is worthless. It should be removed. Otherwise I like the courses so far» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The MTS course or do something with the courses because they are not good at all!» (Yes (1 to 2))
- This program has a very high amount of labwork which is very time consuming, are part of the examination and you are offered little to no help.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- 1. Strategic management and economics of intellectual property 2. Intellectual Property and Innovation Strategies - TEK350 - 3. Idea Evaluation and Feasibility Studies» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Introduction to Electronic System Design Data Conversion Techniques» (Yes (1 to 2))
- FFR166 Science of environmental change, this one should be changed. To be more pedagogic and a better coarse literature.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Quantum course should be more conceptually taught» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Global Chemical Sustainability» (Yes (1 to 2))
- sustainable building 1 var totalt oorganiserad och vi lärde oss nästan ingenting, mkt beroende på vår lärares dåliga upplägg. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Safety courses, specially the one provided by Johan Davidsson. Malin, the coordiantor of the program never has time for the students» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Mat. Selection and Design, it is the worst curse ever!!!!» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Digital Circuit Design» (Yes (1 to 2))
- advanced chemical engineering and process analytikal technologies is not very advanced, more like repetition and the PAT part is very small in terms of lectures.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Customer Relationship course» (Yes (1 to 2))
- operations strategy should be revised, more lectures! Six Sigma course as well, the classes should be more interesting..its not easy to concentrate two days in a row 9-17! the classes shouldnt be compulsory eigther» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Acedpat and AST should be revised.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- vehicle dynamics, Safety» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I don"t see why Artificial Intelligence needs to be mandatory. But it is a good course, of course :).» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Failure analysis Seminconductor materials and physics» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Molecular Electronics: revise course organisation» (Yes (1 to 2))
- E-health is a mandatory course , I think it is better for the students to have it as an option. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Material mechanics. Course is needed, but needs a makeover.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The project course could be a bit clearer» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Applied Mechatronics» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Image Analysis, should still be in the program but needs to be more inspiring.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Maritime Leadership, should be re-evaluated & Human Factos is an excellent course but I think that it should not be mandatory» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Introduction to automotive engineering and somewhat Vehicle and traffic safety.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Data aquisition & Bioreactor, these two courses involve matlab programming, which is not familiar with international students, and there"s no special notice in this course description.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Applied mechatronics and Modeling and simulation. Change teachers...» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Internet Technology» (Yes (1 to 2))
- e-Health» (Yes (1 to 2))
- MOCI should give more ECTS» (Yes (1 to 2))
- I found the GIS course way to easy and unpractical, could be very applicable if well structured. Environmental System Analysis course overlaps with many of the elective courses (RA, LCA) does not need to be mandatory. Period 2 and 3 year the first year have kind of limited course selection and it would help to have more relevant elective course suggestions. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Change the teacher in Digital Integrated Circuit Design.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- MOCI course is REALLY heavy, while project management is really light. Those two should be leveld» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Material science, allt täcks av andra kurser i programmet» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Revise Managing developing projects, fix the boring case for example. Let the students practice managing projects instead of making them interview companies who do.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Make modelling/fabrication course less specific to one project. Rather than having own specific project to work on, spend time in the lab with different research groups while they work to get a broader sense of what research is like throughout nanoscience.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- For a program like Secure and Dependable Computer Systems, there is a high possibility of either going into Security domain or dependability track. I have chosen dependability track as my background and interest suits it. But there were compulsory courses like Logic in Computer Science(related roughly to formal methodology) and Computer security, which may not be of much interest for me in terms of career. but Good to know. So I suppose such courses should be made elective to the students. And compulsory to students who want to take on Security track rather than for students who want to take Dependability track. But I would imagine these are masters program related specifics. But may be worth a thought. » (Yes (1 to 2))
- Distributed Systems I and II should be revised» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Mostly beacuse of the teachers» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Global Chemical Sustainability is usually taken parallel with Experimental Design and has a huge amount of text to be handled. It"s very hard to manage both courses to a reasonable extent.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Protein engineering, seems like a really interesting course but I had to change it since it pretty much demanded that one would skip the other course due to schedule clashes(which was promised to be solved, but what they did was to presume that one would skip all parts of the other course that wasn"t mandatory, awful). A solution to the problem is if one would get 15 pt as the GU students do instead of 7.5 pt as we chalmersstudent get. I know they are doing some additional work but from what I have heard that part ain"t too heavy» (Yes (1 to 2))
- freight transport systems, physical distribution» (Yes (1 to 2))
- eHealth must not be mandatory...it can be an elective. Instead, a course on signal processing must be included.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Advanced Road Vehicle Aerodynamics should be given to all the students interested.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Advanced metal forming and casting. There are so many things in this course, which makes it hard for us to master all of them.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- It is reasonable to remove AI from game design programme next year. I think ID Methodologies should be replaced by another more technical course for the game design students.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- The second year of the program is open for electives, however there aren"t many courses available that are related to some of the tracks of the program, which makes the first year of the program a lot more valuable than the second.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- AI course feels like it is an extension course and not an introductory course, it doesn"t cover any ground or discuss broadly about the subject with the exception of just six lectures.» (Yes (1 to 2))
- Nuclear chemistry and sustainable energy future » (Yes (3 to 4))
- Internet Technology Distributed Systems 2 Real Time Systems» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Bio refinery and global chemical sustainability. Less mandatory courses would be nice.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- The biopolymer course (but I know it"s allready planned to be exchanged) MTS course about etics in within biotechnique, it doesn"t give the student any new information and is a waste of time. Data aquisition and handling doesn"t give the students a good knowledge and the students don"t learn anything» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Six Sigma, Integrated Product development, Managing Operations processes. They are all suffering from severe quality problems and are having a big gap between what the students expect and what the teacher delivers. This is extra embarrassing since we are studying "quality", but the teachers do never listen to criticism that we give through the course evaluations» (Yes (3 to 4))
- I think "omstart EDIT" will bring forth the weakest links..» (Yes (3 to 4))
- automation,risk management» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Environmental risk assessment in Engineering» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Wireless networks SSY145 is by far the worst course I"ve taken at Chalmers. It has no focus on the topic. The distributed systems courses should be revised to deal with more updated frameworks» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Jag tycker inte kurserna skall tas bort, de är relevanta för området. Men försvåras och göras lite mer avancerade.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- FFR160 and FFR170 should be merged into one course since they are so similar to each other. MEN115 should be removed, the whole course is bad from the examiner to the content of the course. » (Yes (3 to 4))
- Internet Security Distributed Systems Distributed Systems II» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Linux, Operating Systems, » (Yes (3 to 4))
- Many courses need more depth » (Yes (3 to 4))
- Biorefinary-Pollution Prevention- Global chemical Sustainability- Plant Design (I don"t remember the exact name at Chalmers cause I had the same, more broader course in my B.Sc)» (Yes (3 to 4))
- I think Freight transport systems and management of physical distribution could be merged into one course. The first course was too much information on a low level and the second course was too little information to be considered a 7.5 hec course - pick the best parts of the first course and add to the second course and you have a perfect 7.5 hec course. The manufacturing and supply chain planning course is very interesting, but given the work load it should be worth more than 7.5 hec. Finally, customer relationships is a very weird course. Five weeks into the course I still have no idea what it is about. I think using a course book instead of a bunch of articles could solve that problem.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Give the students a bit more freedom within the course projects and everything is at a very low level, you can almost get away with anything.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- DECO and Real Time control systems need to be revised.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Applied mechatronics, Modelling and simulation, Robotics and robots systems.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- - Strategic management and economics of intellectual property (maybe not removed but for sure revised at least) - Idea evaluation and feasibility studies (the goals and structure of the course is absolutely different from what we experienced in it) - Strategy creation and change (improved and revised .. has a lot of potential but it is lost due to structure of the course) - Managing development projects (revised at least) - TEK350 (revised at least. too much legal issues and there is a different course for the swedish and for the non-swedish students, which makes it unfair for ine of the groups) » (Yes (3 to 4))
- TDA289 Människa - dator interaktion Horrible course that a three year old could do. I did not attend one lecture or read the book and still got grade 4... Teachers are arrogant and not friendly. Don"t seem like they know much. DAT135 Software architecture This is such an important course! To bad Sven-Arne abuses it. I did not learn anything but now i wish that i could understand larger systems. DAT180 Software leadership and quality management Hard course to teach but not executed very well. Give us tools instead of fluffy words. EDA203 Unix internals Why teach FreeBSD that is 15 years old? Arne should retire and let someone teach Linux. » (Yes (3 to 4))
- Under den första obligatoriska terminen, överlappar kurserna väldigt mycket vilket gör att termin 1 känns otroligt upprepande. Jag tror att om kursen Construction governance, samordnas mer med Project Management, Managing Organisations in the Construction Industry och Construction Contract Relations så är den inte nödvändig. Istället tycker jag verkligen att en ekonomikurs skulle vara till mycket större nytta. Det ligger dessutom en ekonomikurs i Lp 2 som International Project Management läser, varför inte lägga in den som obligatorisk istället? När det gäller de valbara kurserna åk 1, lp 3 & lp 4, så var det väldigt mycket schema krockar som gjorde att det knappast gick att läsa någon av de valbara kurserna om man även ville läsa de rekommenderade. Skulle detta kunna lösas smidigare?» (Yes (3 to 4))
- The compulsory courses (except for intro to SCM) are pretty bad. I"d rather have some optional courses, such as Lean manufacturing, as compulsory.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Advanced sketching, Computer aided design and Project IDE, are courses that might need to be revised.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Remove or reconstruct safety & hybrid courses» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Sustainabale Building 1-3. Very interesting subject, but very unorganized course. It lacks of clear guidelines and demands from the teacher.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- From the mandatory courses during the fall the environmental systems analysis course should be heavily revised» (Yes (3 to 4))
- At least learn the lectureres to teach in a good way. Many of the courses have really bad teachers which would have needed a couple of pedagogical courses.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Sustainable building (1-3) is a badly constructed and not thought through studio. It should be revised so that it is clear from the beginning what the studio is about and what the outcome should be in the end. Some parts of the studio are really interesting but unfortunately they are not that attractive since you have to participate in all the bed parts of the course to get them.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- The compalsary courses should be revised.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- I could have learned a lot more, some courses were too easy to pass. For instance in marine machinery, ship hydrostatics and maritime economics. » (Yes (3 to 4))
- All the mandatory courses, especially Agile Methodologies.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Revis Project Management to include practical guidelines and tools. Today its only a basic course in general ideas and do not add value to the students. Revise Building in Society as its only aim is to give the students a common understanding of the basic interface between construction and society. This is master level and the learnings from this course should be a prerequisite for the program! Revise Managing Organizations in the Construction Industry as it is purely academic in its approach. It only addresses organizational behaviour which is only remotely relevant in my opinion. I chose not to take Environmental Management, International Project Management, The Architecture... course and the Logistics course in year 2 because they were irrelevant to me. Instead, I chose courses from other programs which says something about the course selection in DCPM. » (Yes (3 to 4))
- Construction Governance. The course was very unstructured, no feedback on hand in or exam, and a great part of the course is repetition from other courses and does therefore not need to be an own cours. I would rather have any of the optional courses from third semster in the first semester. Besides, I did not find the international project course satisfying. some classes was unclear and many lectures was also canceled why I did not learn that much. finally, the project management course was not at all satisfying, teacher was always late, lectures not productive and in general the course did not teach my that much. I learned the most from that course already in year one at Chalmers in an economics cours. However I think with lots of improvements and newthinking, this cours have potential to be interesting.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Food microbiology is to much of the "Metabolism och teknisk mikrobiology" from the Bachelor. Data acqusition should be more hands on and not just so much theory.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Questin every course every year, that is the only way to keep the education relevant. » (Yes (3 to 4))
- Industrial engineering needs to be revised, most of content is good but the structure/order needs to be revised. (less commercial maybe? PPA???? the questions asked in the method gives a good understanding, but method as whole should not take up that much hours, revise the project.) THe course production logistics is teached on a basic level but the exam is on a much higher level, the lectures should give guidence to what to study/what"s important. And the exam should reflect the course. THe course Automation need to revise the student lectures, the concept is good but too many students where "sick" meaning some groups did not present one lecture and some presented two. It"s not that much fun too present a lecture when there are 5 (of 20)students present. The robot course need to be less comercial. more information about how to do things instead of telling us how complicated things are. i"m not only interested in what one could do, i want to try!. The lab PMs have a very illogical structure and a lot of things seem to be implied but for someone who never handled a robotprogram befor they"re not. Instead of the projects (waste of time!), combine the labs to make a project and presentation. Maybe lego lab and a project/labb with presentation. THe kinematics examples need to be calculated and explanied on the board not only shown. Could use a bit more entusiasm from the lecturer! » (Yes (3 to 4))
- most of the courses have too much moments and are too heavy.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Structural systems, materials performance and heat and moisture engineering should be removed from the program.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Well, again, I believe that the programme should be entirely divided into two or three separate programmes.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Advanced CAD - Valuable course, bu there must be another way how to examine the knowledge of the student. Make a course where you only learn cad, and as many tools as possible and skip the exam. I got 5 and didn"t learn much. Maybe you could add material choice, manufacturability, drawings and prototyping and call the course "product design". Mechatronics - bad course structure and really hard to get assistance FEM - more assistants needed Do not remember more than this.... » (Yes (3 to 4))
- heat and moisture, material performance, structural systems» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Take away "topic reports" and seminars and replace them with case studies which are more rewardable!» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Finite element simulation in design (should be heavily revised) Advanced computer aided design (should be revised to some extent) Applied mechatronics (This is easily the worst course i"ve ever taken on Chalmers so far. Remove it!) Materials selection and design (This course doesn"t really add any knowledge to people with a bachelor in mechanical engineering)» (Yes (3 to 4))
- organizational project management strategic management international projects» (Yes (3 to 4))
- Intercultural comunication. Take back the info part because that is very important info for students not coming from Chalmers to know.» (Yes (3 to 4))
- 1- Bioelectromagnetism course is not so related to program. 2- Diagnostic imaging course needs better organization and teachers 3- Image Analysis course needs better organization and syllabus » (Yes (3 to 4))
- unix/linux, operating systems,» (Yes (3 to 4))
- CFD and Global Chemical Sust. consume much time» (Yes (3 to 4))
- opertions management sucked and the QOM course didn"t give much book in IPD is 18 years old!!!!!!!!!!!!» (Yes (3 to 4))
- ex. Material mechanics» (Yes more than 5)
- Vehicle traffic and safety (TME200) is quite useless, this could might as well be incorporated in the initial "introduction to automotive engineering" course, which in turn also should be revised. The Powertrain and ICE courses should include more workshop-based education. Most people still don´,t know how a piston or crankshaft looks (or works) despide graduating the automotive engineer programme. The course in hybrid vehicles was a big dissapointment, i cant figure out one sensible thing that i learned during that course.» (Yes more than 5)
- Now that Mats Winroth changed the Managing operations processes course, I suggest that it should be changed back, i.e., to use the service operations management book in order to get the valuable service operations perspective. The improvement project course was elective but it should become more structured and the curriculum should better fit the learning outcome. In the platform development course, the projects must be revised, they were not so instructive. The Design for Quality course should consider examining the course in a different way other than by a home exam. The improvement projects for 15 HEC in the third and fourth quarter of the first year were not so much in line with the program.» (Yes more than 5)
- The work compared to the points is not fair. » (Yes more than 5)
- All except Intercultural Leadership» (Yes more than 5)
- But "Methods for electronic system design and verification" really needs to be revised. The idea of the course / the course outline is excellent, but the implementation is horrible.» (No)
- My opinion is that we could have more choices for students to choose from since different students really have their own interests.» (No)
- Mångar kurser är mycket repetition, tex om wetting och contactangle samt en del om polymerer, vore mer intressant om det gick djupare istället» (No)
- Some changes in structure of some courses, but nothing worse than that.» (No)
- No, but i think the order should vary» (No)
- for some reason, EIA course is not given for 2-3 years and I wanted to do that. But although there were some students to apply for that course, the course did not run.» (No)
- I dont think any course needs to be revised heavily, but the courses should be revised to keep up with the developments in the field. I am very satisfied that I have learnt about the latest technology in this field. Hope the courses are revised regularly so that the in coming years the subject being taught is contemporary and relevant.» (No)
- We focused on ISM in around 3 subjects instead of core basics of the lessons. Why did not we study a comprehensive ISM Course instead of 3 subjects? » (No)
- It all comes down to teaching, out of 8 courses only 3 (wireless and photonics systen eng, active microwave, industrial management)had sufficient level of teaching. The rest is a disaster and the worst I"ve experienced during my 4 years at Chalmers.» (No)
- » (No)
- alla kurser bra, men vi behöver mer tid» (No)
- We"ve been working on havily revising a few courses, but until they next batch of student take them we won"t know if they are satisfactory. Mainly the demands and expectations where too low.» (No opinion)
- I was on exchange during the first year of the program so I can"t really judge this» (No opinion)
- I can"t remember anyone right now. » (No opinion)


Programme administration

23. How satisfied are you with the programme administration?

Programme administration means in this context the programme director/coordinator.

1314 svarande

Not at all»27 2%
Not so satisfied»104 7%
Neither/Nor»171 13%
Satisfied»655 49%
Very satisfied»304 23%
No opinion»54 4%

Genomsnitt: 3.96

24. How satisfied are you with the support from the Student centre?

1321 svarande

Not at all»24 1%
Not so satisfied»68 5%
Neither/Nor»143 10%
Satisfied»587 44%
Very satisfied»380 28%
No opinion»119 9%

Genomsnitt: 4.2


Study climate

25. Did you feel welcomed by Chalmers and the staff at the Masters programme during your first days?

1321 svarande

No, not at all»20 1%
To some extent»82 6%
Quite OK»268 20%
Yes definitely»629 47%
Excellent welcoming»275 20%
No opinion»48 3%

Genomsnitt: 3.91

26. How satisfied are you with the cooperation between you and your fellow students?

1315 svarande

Not at all»32 2%
Not so satisfied»95 7%
Neither/Nor»100 7%
Satisfied»616 46%
Very satisfied»456 34%
No opinion»17 1%

Genomsnitt: 4.08

27. How satisfied are you with the opportunities to come in contact with teachers?

General impression of the staffs accessibility.

1320 svarande

Not at all»12 0%
Not so satisfied»66 5%
Neither/Nor»88 6%
Satisfied»637 48%
Very satisfied»490 37%
No opinion»27 2%

Genomsnitt: 4.21

28. Do you think that the student opinions and results from course evaluations have significant impact (taken seriously by the Programme coordinator)?

1312 svarande

Not at all»60 4%
To some extent»236 17%
Could be improved»362 27%
Yes, definetly»481 36%
No opinion»173 13%

Genomsnitt: 3.35

29. How large percentage (%) of the teachers in the core subjects within the Master programme have a good pedagogical ability?

1303 svarande

0-20 %»31 2%
20-40 %»106 8%
40-60 %»360 27%
60-80 %»561 43%
80-100 %»246 18%

Genomsnitt: 3.68

30. How large percentage (%) of the teachers in the core subjects within the Masters programme have a good ability to teach in English?

1311 svarande

0-20 %»15 1%
20-40 %»58 4%
40-60 %»196 14%
60-80 %»467 35%
80-100 %»576 43%

Genomsnitt: 4.17

31. To what extent is your knowledge/competence from your Bachelor degree sufficient to attend this programme?

1314 svarande

Very poor»10 0%
Poor»36 2%
OK»149 11%
Good»411 31%
Very good»698 53%
No opinion»11 0%

Genomsnitt: 4.35

32. To what extent do the courses in the programme make use of, develop and deepen your knowledge/competence from your Bachelor degree?

Please answer in % of total amount of main/core courses

1313 svarande

0-20 %»49 3%
20-40 %»137 10%
40-60 %»362 27%
60-80 %»555 42%
80-100 %»210 15%

Genomsnitt: 3.56

33. How often do you use Chalmers Library resources

1319 svarande

Never»216 16%
Once or twice a month»598 45%
Once or tvice a week»362 27%
Almost every day»143 10%

Genomsnitt: 2.32

- almost never, but closer to never then once or twice per month» (Never)
- The library resources were only neccessary for the masters thesis.» (Never)
- Only in the Master Thesis Work» (Never)
- only during my thesis» (Never)
- Q.31 & 32, I think the demands are too low, I expected the master program to be more demanding than the bachelor program. I don"t know what the reason is, but too much consideration is taken to people who have taken the bachelor elsewhere. We who have studied at Chalmers need to feel that the master program is a step up and not a step sideways in our education. My own degrees went up on average from ~3,8 to ~4,8 when comparing bachelor and master courses - and this with putting in fewer hours per week. I doubt I got smarter all of a sudden.» (Never)
- used it once for my thesis work» (Never)
- Almost never.» (Never)
- Been there twice and they have been unable to meet demands at both times. However the staff was very helpful and service minded on both occasions. First was a master thesis that had not been published yet(not something that they could help with) The other was ISO documentation published in 2010 which they did not have. I have however made use of the fact that many research papers published online in .pdf format are free to download if accessed from the Chalmers network. » (Never)
- Once or twice a year» (Never)
- Only for masters thesis» (Never)
- Not saying it"s bad. Just haven"t tried it...» (Never)
- I have used the resources once for the course "Kommunikation och ingenjörskompetens", that is all.» (Never)
- Never had a reason to use it until recently, but it was quite tricky to find the articles I was looking for. But I haven"t tried it enough to state whether the site is good or bad. » (Never)
- No need for support since I can find everything through internet.» (Never)
- Ocassionaly» (Never)
- about once or twice of a quarter» (Never)
- Do you mean for literature and references (probably haven"t used it at al during my time on Chalmers) or how often I use the library for studying (always studying for exams there)?» (Never)
- I answered these questions according my idea about the name of the major which i selected"Networks and distributed systems". May be these courses are good but it"s not completely related to Networks and distributed Systems» (Never)
- Once» (Never)
- because with didnot get enough time to search things in library and then read it.second our course books are also not that much available in the library» (Never)
- Twice a year?» (Never)
- Less then once or twice » (Never)
- Better PR wouldn"t hurt.» (Never)
- I tried the publication search a few times, but I never found what I was looking for.» (Never)
- Chalmers Library is in a big need of rebuilding, make more studyplaces and more course books, and a lot more students would use it... Also more wall sockets for charging computer etc would be good. All thats missing from the picture, I guess, is money. » (Never)
- Only when necessary, mostly for finding articles that can"t be accessed from home.» (Never)
- Almost never.» (Never)
- Once or twice a year.» (Never)
- if acm counts as an clib resource, then every day. Otherwise never.» (Never)
- only during my master thesis» (Never)
- I used them but more seldom than once or twice a month» (Never)
- I use it less then once a month» (Never)
- To complicated to access info» (Never)
- More with the master thesis» (Once or twice a month)
- Depends on what courses i have been taking.» (Once or twice a month)
- Only with databases linked from their website» (Once or twice a month)
- Once per course when we "pick up" all the relevant articles» (Once or twice a month)
- The master thesis would be impossible to do without the chalmers library resources» (Once or twice a month)
- Mostly group rooms booking» (Once or twice a month)
- More/any information on what is available would be nice.» (Once or twice a month)
- but only for the master thesis» (Once or twice a month)
- Usually never but now in the master thesis I use them alot.» (Once or twice a month)
- Not enough books in theoretical physics. Judging by the focus of the literature one would think this is a school for architects and CAD programmers.» (Once or twice a month)
- Use the article databases every other month» (Once or twice a month)
- i use books only few times a year, but databases and scientific scripits i use for almost every project» (Once or twice a month)
- Its a great library but I seldom used it, for my own reasons.» (Once or twice a month)
- N/A» (Once or twice a month)
- Previously there were fixed chairs (without wheels) in the silent reading room, that I personally find ergonomically more convenient and comfortable, then I attended much more frequently. The library redesign brought many improvements except the chairs which are also very important.» (Once or twice a month)
- Some of the teachers are very good lecturers - M . Cederwall, Ulf Gran, Gabriele Ferreti. Some are indistinct, are confusing and incapable of keeping a logical stairway or just to insecure socially to give good lectures - S Östlund, P Salomonsson. » (Once or twice a month)
- If you split it over one semester» (Once or twice a month)
- Depends a lot on the course» (Once or twice a month)
- Once a term maybe?» (Once or twice a month)
- Mainly e-journals. However I usually find Google to be superior for finding articles and only use the library"s proxy to access them.» (Once or twice a month)
- Depending on if course literature is availiable. If it is I use it more.» (Once or twice a month)
- I have used them a extensively for the master"s thesis but not at all before» (Once or twice a month)
- Only for some (very few) courses» (Once or twice a month)
- More ebooks would be nice» (Once or twice a month)
- I like the possibility to access articles online and I do this quite frequently.» (Once or twice a month)
- it differs a lot» (Once or twice a month)
- sometimes i have log in trouble.» (Once or twice a month)
- Very good to have during master thersis. » (Once or twice a month)
- a brief introduction would benn prefered.» (Once or twice a month)
- It ı,s too narrow to study in the library. It will be better if it can be extended. I really want to grab some books sit and read there but the seatings are either in the entrance or in the middle while other people are searching for books..» (Once or twice a month)
- In all cases we perform in courses. The e-resources are very important.» (Once or twice a month)
- Mostly web services such as the proxy.» (Once or twice a month)
- Most of all of us are living abroad so we have the chance to borrow books only once a month, generally.» (Once or twice a month)
- It will be good if the number of books in the library is increased.Some time it will be hard to get the books in the needed time during the course program.» (Once or twice a month)
- moslty started to use it when we started our master thesis. » (Once or twice a month)
- I go online and find the articles in the couse literature day one and then i use the library to find more information to complete assignments» (Once or twice a month)
- I would rather say I use Chalmers library resources 3-4 times per year.» (Once or twice a month)
- maybe once or twice a year» (Once or twice a month)
- Many books/references could be also found as E-book, but they were not in chalmers library. 70% the essential book references for courses where not in chalmers library, or where only in 3 copies which was not enough for the students.» (Once or twice a month)
- Some periods a lot to access journals and papers, then almost every day. As mean twice a month.» (Once or twice a month)
- Not at all during the regular semesters both daily during the master thesis.» (Once or twice a month)
- very good equipment» (Once or twice a month)
- Mostly research for articles on the web.» (Once or twice a month)
- For my master programme, architecture, I really did not need books or resources. However I used the library for the courses I have taken from other master programmes.» (Once or twice a month)
- some books are available in very few number.» (Once or twice a month)
- They are very good indeed, however I"m generally too lazy to use it.» (Once or twice a month)
- Using it more and more due to that where doing more and more reports with academic references.» (Once or twice a month)
- It is even more often now during the master thesis. But once, or twice a month can be seen as an avarage number.» (Once or twice a month)
- The online databases and acces to e-books etc. are brilliant!!!» (Once or twice a month)
- can have more books related to management compared to colleges of chalmers standard the books are quite less» (Once or twice a month)
- few times a year would have been a more correct answer if possible to answer» (Once or twice a month)
- Difficult to navigate to and grasp how many databases/e-journals are relevant for ones subject. » (Once or twice a month)
- Once each 6 months» (Once or twice a month)
- Many times the books I wanted were on loan. To have more available as ebooks would be nice.» (Once or twice a month)
- The online resources have been most useful to me. » (Once or twice a month)
- No of books should be increased.» (Once or tvice a week)
- Some course text books are not so many in the Chalmers library which may be improved.» (Once or tvice a week)
- I used the ability to get articles for reports.» (Once or tvice a week)
- More often now than earlier.» (Once or tvice a week)
- During my master thesis i am using it almost every day» (Once or tvice a week)
- on average over the two years» (Once or tvice a week)
- The studyenvironment is close to perfection and the staff there are helpful» (Once or tvice a week)
- Mostly searching for scientific articles» (Once or tvice a week)
- This semester I am writing my master"s thesis, but during the first year and a half of the program I did not use library resources very much.» (Once or tvice a week)
- really nice that we could borrow the books for 3 months» (Once or tvice a week)
- I"m a huge fan of the library even if Id love it to extend the opening hours even more.» (Once or tvice a week)
- Mostly the databases like IEEE, ACM and such.» (Once or tvice a week)
- Access to Journals and papers» (Once or tvice a week)
- Varies. While doing thesis, use it almost every day.» (Once or tvice a week)
- Mostly internet resources, but every now and then I borrow books. The access to databases and e-publications is extremely important.» (Once or tvice a week)
- Use it a lot to search for published articles» (Once or tvice a week)
- I use a lot of articles from the e-journals and also e-books.» (Once or tvice a week)
- Mostly for accessing research papers and books over the internet.» (Once or tvice a week)
- Architecture library.» (Once or tvice a week)
- not enough books for lectures --> I almost have to buy. they are quite expensive.» (Once or tvice a week)
- The answer is based on the present usage, which is higher than before due to master"s thesis writing. » (Once or tvice a week)
- Almost every day during the Master thesis, else when I am doing projects. Answer is a mean. » (Once or tvice a week)
- mostly I use online resources and that is almost everyday.» (Once or tvice a week)
- couldn"t performe my studies without it, it is a valuable asset and will be missed after graduation!» (Once or tvice a week)
- There are not sufficient text books available at the library. It could be a good idea that Library can facilate the exchange of used books from ex-students at each course to new students that need the text books.» (Once or tvice a week)
- an, easier to use, interface would help. "What external resources can i access with my library card, and what resources can i access within the Chalmers domain?" » (Once or tvice a week)
- It is rude and makes difficult to adapt to the course when teachers talks in swedish during the lessons, since the program language is just english and accept foreign students. It feels like the teachers are not prepared enough when they put swedish words to the lecture slides.» (Once or tvice a week)
- Depends on the courses.» (Once or tvice a week)
- The access to online databases and scientific journals is excellent.» (Once or tvice a week)
- almost only web services» (Once or tvice a week)
- Especially during the thesis work.» (Once or tvice a week)
- during exam weeks I use it more» (Once or tvice a week)
- could be perfect if the architecture library opened in the weekend and holiday!» (Once or tvice a week)
- Articles, recerense guidence etc.» (Once or tvice a week)
- That depends on weeks, I guess some weeks I use it almost every day and other not at all.. » (Once or tvice a week)
- depends on if we have a project in the course, them I go up there to search for articles often.. otherwise it might become more seldom. but i often sit there and study without using any of the resources specific to the library» (Once or tvice a week)
- During the thesis I have used it almost every day. » (Once or tvice a week)
- I think the architecture library is vital for an ongoing discussion on the subject of architecture as well as providing references to students in the form of magazines and books. It"s one of the few sources of theory-based understanding of space(s) which is provided to the students in a fairly practical education» (Once or tvice a week)
- very good rules» (Once or tvice a week)
- Very useful for projects and for finding course literature» (Once or tvice a week)
- Databases of articles are extremely useful» (Almost every day)
- In thesis writing it has been a trusted friend» (Almost every day)
- The ability to freely search for articles is an outstanding feature.» (Almost every day)
- Almost never when I was in the courses but now almost always during the master thesis period.» (Almost every day)
- Make it available for Alumni! http://medlib.bu.edu/» (Almost every day)
- Störst problemet är att masterkoordinatorna är extremt upptagen och är svår att få tag på och även få några besked ifrån. Han är ansvarig för introduktionskursen som är den mest oklara när det gäller mål/examination och bedömmning. » (Almost every day)
- The web resources at Chalmers Library are exceptional. I am extremely happy with the library resources and hope it only grows bigger from here.» (Almost every day)
- For some books, the resource should be improved. Sometimes it takes to long time for a book because they have only one copy.» (Almost every day)
- For my thesis work!» (Almost every day)
- very useful.» (Almost every day)
- Nice place to concentrate on work.» (Almost every day)
- Include all the cards in the same one... There is no need to have one card from every single thing» (Almost every day)
- there is no need for a card different from the student union/entrance card... they all should be the same» (Almost every day)
- Every day ebook/ejournal Once a week library visit» (Almost every day)
- Especially now when I am doing my master"s thesis. Before it was more once or twice a month.» (Almost every day)
- databases, SAE et.c» (Almost every day)
- I have never experienced a library like this in my life. I always feel proud to be Chalmerist.» (Almost every day)
- I love the new function to search for articles, books etc. SUMMON» (Almost every day)
- Specially when it comes to develop the MSc Thesis» (Almost every day)
- during the thesis work almost every day, but when I was on the regular courses I did not.» (Almost every day)
- Lib.chalmers.se is one of the pages i use the most since we almost in every course do literature review» (Almost every day)

34. In what way do (or could ) Chalmers library support you in your Masters Programme studies

- increase openning hours »
- Provides information, access to computer and printer»
- Some lectures at the start of the programme or perhaps some checklist and tips on how to do a proper search and how to find stuff via the library?»
- books»
- just books (I think the library is toooooo small)»
- Its nice that we can borrow for 15 days.»
- Text books,references,articles,journals,study area»
- More silent study places!»
- Self-studying room/space is not enough during the examination period. Could be better if add one more silent self-studying room. »
- The e-library is very good.»
- Be more usability. Easier to find, download, login, etc.»
- I get a lot of extra knowledge from the library.»
- Help with searching instead like they do at handels, instead of just be there »
- By supplying books or articles that could be used as a complement to the regular course material.»
- it"s ok the way it is»
- In the master thesis to study journals and in bigger projekts.»
- I think it would be good to use more case studies and more texts from journals. »
- Extending the amount of having the book, easier access to books.»
- mainly be providing literatures»
- In the beginning of the programme have an information session or at least a mail with tips and tricks.»
- Quiet studie room, help to find litterature and to review work such as hand-ins and thesis.»
- In no way!»
- They provide me with books for literature studies and with access to helpful ebooks such as Knovel.»
- I can search papers by the web of library and rent book. I can use the scanner in the library.»
- give a course in how to write a Master Thesis at Chalmers»
- search articles»
- e-resources»
-
- Increasing the number of our reference books, so that we could borrow them from library.»
- »
- Give a short description of the most commonly used electronic resources (by chemical eng.).»
- Don"t know really. It is not hard to find information on subjects such as computer science and software engineering, since lots of information is available free on the internet.»
- Finding sources for project reports etc. Mainly E-sources.»
- borrow books»
- Access to articles in journals from the internet.»
- no opinion»
- Mostly papers and also textbooks»
- Grouprooms and litterature»
- Books, journals»
- definitely»
- Helping with searches of articles and other.»
- rent course Books, journals, papers. group rooms, silent rooms. »
- more information about finding jobs in the last year, especially for international students. »
- They could give more information about what they can offer the students»
- Looking for other master thesis and introduction days at the beginning of the program»
- Nu suggestions»
- in the thesis and that is very good»
- Literature study»
- make books and articles available. They provide good support.»
- Download the literature»
- It has been seen that some student has taken the books ( which is related to the courses, and they are limited ) in beginning of quarter and did not take it back for the usage of the other students. the said that we will pay the fine. It seems that students prefer to keep the book and pay the fine. I think library should take more serious action in this case specially near the exam week. It could be canceling of their library cards etc. also time of borrowing should be less specially near exam week. I dont think it has any affect but , I just wanted to say that. Thanks,»
- Availability of scientific research materials from databases.however,more course books required»
- More recent book in theoretical physics, the ones they have are really old. The only new books they have are about structural maintenance and FEM methods. »
- more e-books!!!»
- Only thing they provide that is relevant for me is the databases and the instructions on how to write references.»
- Finding the study material, providing the books. »
- Books, journals»
- borrowing books and a place for studying »
- I mainly use the databases for litterature search.»
- No comment»
- Hope library can offer more textbooks and datas related to study courses.»
- Don´,t know»
- it is good as it is no-no idea for imporvement»
- I assume that I can get advice regarding certain issues when working with master thesis.»
- yes, Ofcourse in every course books.»
- Give more info about how to search in different databases for articles.»
- n/a»
- better systems for finding full-text articles online»
- the library offers a very good varity of databases and scientific jurnals that i use quite often»
- No comment»
- A small course in information search (like the one offered to PhD students) could be made mandatory part of the masters program. Or a general introduction to the library and its resources could be made sure through a seminar. People who come from other cultures do not have a good understanding of the social and academic practices here.»
- More ebooks about interaction design.»
- Keep long opening hours.»
- Just make sure we have easy access to relevant journals and articles... Works well right now.»
- They function well as is - offering a large collection of information and knowledge»
- I use the internet for almost everything, but in some cases it"s good to have access to some papers, through sources such as IEEEexplore.»
- N/A»
- The number of course books are very limited and only a few persons can use it and you have to return it after 14 days so its no use to take that book from library. As the quarter is like 2 months so it should be made like that one person can have one book for 2 months to take advantage of.»
- Dunno. Basic searching is not very different from advanced, and we took (in my opinion) useless search courses during the bachelor thesis period. Might be good for people unfamiliar with computers, but for us (non unfamiliar) it"s rather useless. »
- Literature»
- No opinion.»
- I think it would be great if Chalmers library could have every Course book from Master"s programme courses, because sometimes some course books are not in the library, and when I don"t have time or will to buy it, it"s a pity that I can"t find it in Chalmers library.»
- More sources for books which are use as a reference for each course»
- Chalmers library can support all but in the first quarter I did not find one of the course book.»
- As it is now is good.»
- Course books and nice place to study»
- I have used there facilities when I need a quiet place to study.»
- I use mostly online resources like scientific articles and e-books. Searching for and finding these through the library web page is very good and user-friendly. »
- literatures, books and journals collection.»
- provide many books and a good study atmosphere»
- access to articles on the internet.»
- Longer opening hours and wider selection would naturally be helpful, as well as a cooperation with the city library, on the website or when ordering books.»
- copies of the textbook»
- Several copies of the course literature could be available with out the chance ot taking them out from the library in order to always have this books available for consultation.»
- possibility to read articles that don"t have open access otherwise»
- Publication database»
- At least changing some of the chairs with some fixed chairs in the silent room, so that everyone can find the comfort he needs.»
- really nice that we could borrow the books for 3 months, covers lots of related subjects,»
- A good canon of relevant books. The Physics shelf at the mathematics department library is excellent.»
- Open longer hours, and make it easier to have access to the library during weekends.»
- I used previous student projects,master thesis,guide books,architectural magazine and books.so I used literature and design materials of library. »
- Work as they are now, no change is needed.»
- Only way I can think of is more relevant books»
- Books , Journals, Study room,»
- All books should have one copy to be on the shelf that can be read in library but not borrowed»
- Finding articles and books»
- E-books really interesting. Availability of Journals" articles to download.»
- I find articles online available from the library subscriptions»
- The electronic resources are essential for me to be able to read articles for exams and academic reports.»
- It"s good as it is. The information is there, and it"s just to use it.»
- Databases specific for a master program?»
- If we got more literature recommendations in the courses and the library could supply a lot of that.»
- Give out books for more periods to master students.»
- With very good reading material.»
- Id like to reach even more articles and to get more knowledge about how to search aswell as a very clear log in so that its easier to reach articles and Ebooks even from home.»
- In lending books and preparing very suitable and calm place for studying.»
- dont know»
- Short intro on how to best use the databases and e-books available. A lot of good things are available but never used.»
- Sometimes needed course litterature can be found, and articles in the database (but they are hard to access so you just end up googling instead mostly)»
- Be more active and tell what resources that are available.»
- By doing what should be expected from a library, supplying books.»
- Facilites and good literature»
- Arranging more intellectual events.»
- By providing databases. Would like more economic databases such as affärsdata etc.»
- Suggestion on literature connected to each course, for example through an internet page»
- Providing the space to study, do group works, etc»
- The course books are very limited, and the available time(to use a book from library) ie 14 days are very short. »
- providing more copies of (at least) the official literature(course book) for each course.»
- Number of specific books, as suggested in the class should be increased.»
- More than books the study rooms are perfect place to sit and study in depth about the subjects.»
- Mostly in writing articles»
- I can"t think of any other than providing access to e-databases.»
- with sufficient approach to science based articles, e-books.»
- The PDF versions of the library books is a very convenient aspect.»
- with the exellent online library»
- I could download e-books and softwares necessary for my courses of study.»
- Mainly for articles»
- Chalmers library has high resources but i think this should increase in some extent by increasing the course related book.»
- books are available to borrow and providing place to study»
- Yes, give me better access to the math library»
- It helps me for research on new materials, techniques and new ideas when working on a project. »
- Have a link that works for goal statement---»
- Before getting started with program you should ask student about what they want and if they are in right place, not after that.»
- - Provide on line or PDF alternatives - provide the pack of articles to be read on each course »
- Provide a more user friendly interface that provides a high guesability for inexperienced users. Online search engines such as google scholar in combination with the above mentioned chalmers network is far more time efficient.»
- Have more copies of some books which are expensive to purchase and also ebooks so its easier for more students to access in case of limited copies.»
- More course books should be available to borrow»
- Writing course?»
- Artiklar och källor är grymt användbara. Elektronisk kurslitteratur är också till stor hjälp. »
- Databases and borrowing books»
- Have more copies of the course literature. I basically only get in touch with the library if I want to borrow the course book for a week and they always have only about 2 copies that are hard to get hold on.»
- Some information of how and where to find good literature and search data bases within the field of the programme.»
- Literature provision. Abundant database.»
- Providing books»
- Have more course litterature for loan. We have used the same books for decades, and probably will, but the books are extremely expensive, especially since we need to buy them all at once. In addition, maybe have a VIP line for course literature if registered on the specific course.»
- For most of the courses there are only one or two copies of the course book in the library. It would be helpful if you increase these kind of books.»
- There aren"t enough course books and extra materials»
- Especially the (new) "super search" is good. It could be clearer from the results though in which database the article is found... Over all, the article databases and the e-books are very good!»
- Provide access to articles»
- The use of e-books from chalmers library as course material is a good idea which has been employed to some extent in the coursesv»
- More study places»
- a place for reading and studying, and provide books and access to some database and papers»
- Give the books or ebooks for courses. »
- There should be 1 or 2 reference books available in the Library, which can be used as a reference if all the lending books are taken by the students. This would give an opportunity for students to come and take notes if at all they dont find a book to lend.»
- It"s nice to drop in and browse the magazines and sometimes dig a little deeper in a particular subject. And of course, as a reference when needed.»
- Provide access to papers, journals, e-books etc.»
- supply materials, books and articles for courses»
- Mainly from continuing giving access to journal articles. It generally works well, even from home.»
- printed books, ebooks, database(for papers)»
- Provide course related reference books»
- By offering publications of various kinds. When the courses require us to find information it is a good resource. The free access to epublications is excellent.»
- resources to support course materials»
- They have all the books I need»
- More books for students to borrow »
- More promotion to use it.»
- Advertising, Invitations to tours, to show what it can offer!?»
- I don"t know. »
- books»
- Don"t fell that I need any other support from them except then to search for articles. »
- Dont know what chalmers library support is»
- They have to sell themselfes to us, make themself more known. »
- It is a very important with all its databases and journals»
- It is useful when searching for scientific articles»
- By having literature as e-books»
- This is the place to find everything you are looking for. The library is (still) of outmost importance for the students»
- The greatest perk of the Chalmers library is how it helps connect you with databases of scientific articles and the IEEE.»
- the main resourse for me to get close to architecture, architects and design.»
- having more copies of the course books. we usually face problems of waiting for the book»
- it"s very good, but there should be 24/7 service.»
- Chalmers Library staff are very kind, welcome students" requests vey warmly, and provide students with what they can do to a great extent. Library resourses are awsome and it is very easy to access every technical/Engineering publication in need. »
- More information about possible literature divided per master programms.»
- Access to article databases»
- The provision of e-journals and e-books for writing of reports and space for studying.»
- The publications available online through the library have been very useful. Infact my master thesis could not have been completed without these resources. A good library symbolizes a good university and in this aspect Chalmers is second to none.»
- Help to find reliable sources, and different way to search for them»
- n/a»
- With excellent facilities and a vast information platform and network»
- More study rooms, they are impossible to book now»
- They can support by having all the exchange students taking a one-day course about literature research. That would most certainly had saved people some time and frustration during the first months. »
- Have more reference books available»
- lending some books»
- I used a lot of reference books»
- Maybe collect all master thesis and publish reports after a programs in at better way, then I would probably be more curious about it and also give me some inspiration for my own thesis subject.»
- Supplying the lecture materials (books, journals)»
- Sources can be find in Lindholmen library.»
- The same it does now, support when needed help.»
- Study environment is great!»
- chance, contact with world leading companies»
- With great electronic sources and databases.»
- providing relavent books/papers,literatures and etc»
- Later on during masters thesis»
- Project Management is also related to business so few more business e-journals wouldn"t hurt»
- Teacher could give out links to books that are interesting from the course perspective »
- providing articles that is not in database for free.»
- access to databases»
- providing the technical papers, journals and books.»
- It provides some articles that can"t be found using Google scholar»
- They provide good access to a lot of papers and books. Really like the possibility to use library-proxy.»
- More opening hours.»
- literature, reading rooms »
- It is a very big advantage to have excess to all the databases that the lib have. »
- If more of the course books where available, it would be great! »
- More help when you ask for it, not " I can"t help you with that"»
- Online journals & papers Automotive magazines Good studying environment»
- borrowing books»
- larger data bases of journals»
- I think, especially for exchange students,some more information of all the availibe resorses could be nice. Like a written information sheet easy avalibe on the student portal of the resourses. »
- With articles»
- It is hard to know what database you should use and the main serah tool does not work jet. »
- IEEE explore»
- It"s a quiet and nice environment to study, and the e-resources are very useful. »
- THe book»
- books, literatures»
- Provide more books needed for the courses. Usually there were just 2-3 copies for all»
- only in thesis when i need to search for IEEE papers and software support which is good and important.»
- borrowing book and researching some information for projects»
- Study room»
- Just studing there.»
- Sometime I can use lecture books here, but rarely, because of the lack of them.»
- Here is a safe zone, what every happens around you, this is the place you always go to. »
- axcess to Softwares.»
- study room, informations»
- Doing searches on the web.»
- stock up more of the course books»
- Publish all thesises online in .pdf-format! And, bring in more copies of books that has a high demand, e.g. books in methodology (Bryman & Bell, for instance). To be able to supply such books (that most often is being requested) should be prio one. It is not very satisfying to wait for several weeks for a book.»
- references and some extended knowledge»
- No opinion, I find information on the web»
- Report writing tips and templates on the homepage. All contact information to administration, printing, presentations etc. for the thesis.»
- by having more text books for borrowing.»
- Related to research and course book. But the library should have more number of course books. As I personally faced the problem of non availability of books most of the time.»
- more books!!»
- dont know»
- referral literature and course books»
- Gather all the databases and E-journals within Biotechnology to one place. Not necessary though.»
- Acquire more e-resources, especially course literature.»
- kindles, to read the online resources better (on screen is very poor)»
- More web services, and let us know what you can offer.»
- Extend the opening hours during weekend»
- It is ok»
- could arrange some courses/»
- Finding papers, books»
- Could provide the e-books of the course material to be browsed over the library pages.»
- Books and database. Language support»
- text books,articles»
- Excellent»
- better and easier access to scientific informations for chalmers students, better linked to studieportalen»
- It is one of the mechanisms to get refferance materials in the learing process.»
- printer, quiet space to study.»
- Updated e-Book collection recommended by the examiner. »
- Get more copies of course books»
- Article databases - I use them all the time! Also the reference guide is very usable.»
- I can borrow many useful testbooks. The database is the most useful resource. »
- Even thou one can access almost all e-journals the search function is bad. I use google scholar to find relevant articles (even thou scholar doesn"t cover everything it atleast points one in the right direction...). The chalmers lib should develop a similiar service as google scholar focused on the e-journals it has access to!»
- dunno»
- Design a more user-friendly website»
- Supporting software courses such as C++, or MATLAB in advance level.»
- Provide more copies of reference books»
- it helps to find detailed resources»
- provides articles from databases such as ScienceDirect»
- To borrow books.»
- It is a very nice place either study environment and library resources (both related course book and literature database)in Chalmers library.»
- ot much but haven"t been in need of it.»
-
- Available facilities for studying, access to internet databases and literature»
- Work for more openness, all the different databases are just annoying. Put everything in one big basket and open it freely. »
- the number of books are not enough,and also the number of group rooms in library is very few »
- Several books and papers can be accessed with use of the library, however an easier to use interface would help.»
- Make it easier to find and download SAE papers»
- text books, conference papers, study rooms.»
- offer information about ehat they have to offer so we know. It is for example good to knpow htat we have access to the SAE library.»
- By having a specific site for students that follow a master programme. With short cuts to different facts.»
- They could coordinate with the departments and look for recommended literature and order more copies of the same so that enough students get the books. Also the space available for studying during exams vanishes, We need more space»
- Extra reading materials, also some papers.»
- e-books and articles. Should be much easier to do though!»
- For this program ther are several ebooks available, which library could get.»
- Study literature Access to scientific articles»
- By providing us with a good selection of databases and journals. Perhaps a cooperation with GU is possible here.»
- provides access to most of the relevant reading material.»
- Inform about how to seach for information on intenet and on their data base.»
- -good study environment .books»
- More ebook positions for a specific program field More copies available from the course literature list»
- with reading resources and report writing aid. The latter could be booked on a case per case basis»
- Hire a librarian»
- Books»
- it provided a lot of books or e-books that i could use them in the process of my master thesis. for instance,ergonomic and design research, and so on. with information from internet, library, and other source,i could get many information i need.»
- To increase the subscribed data bases especially in supply chain management subjects.»
- It was very helpful to have it but of course the books could be more.»
- The availability of databases such as Science Direct to find valuable scientific articles»
- e-book»
- information and reference material»
- Database»
- I wish it would be easier to make use of their access to on-line publication databases.»
- Electronic information. Courses in english, help with writing etc. If it where better also a good place to study.»
- Research papers, text books.»
- Chalmers library provides references that I need »
- It can provide course materials but there are often not many copies of each book available»
- Possible improvement: Access to patent databases like Thomson Innovation etc.»
- They apply a good searching device for searching for articles.»
- I want to suggest you that some course textbooks in library are not sufficient,just 3 copies we have to wait a long time,probably we wont get during the course period.we had a problem with that.eg: pollution prevention course»
- reference, course related books, good study environment»
- Research databases, ejournals»
- New Articles releaseses resources & Book References in the field. »
- Study environment»
- dont know»
-
- more group rooms»
- I borrowed books and used silence room of library for study.»
- More relevant literature books.»
- no clear suggestion as they are doing good job.»
- See previous comment. Services on website entirely.»
- Mostly the study rooms, but also the serchable databases and the physical books is used.»
- No idea»
- Free Coffe! :)»
- more available online books and litterature»
- ejournals/resources - facilities»
- Mabye more guidance in how to find suitable information.»
- By providing literature, especially electronically.»
- Access to relevant litterature»
- I have no issues about this.»
- I think they provide good databases with articles. »
- usually database»
- Supply with books and articles»
- Library mainly support me by providing access to materials and information.»
- more material within the area of organisation and economics. Today the library of Handels is more relevant, but we are not able to get access there full databases/e-resourses since we are Chalmers student.»
- e-books and databases are very helpful»
- for international students usually its the problem of english. but i think library is doing good job in giving english language training. »
- Project reports, Master thesis literature survey»
- literatures and books»
- I use the databases to search for articles, mostly.»
- Text books, Journals and other students thesis»
- They are doing good»
- Good »
- In general, the available library resources are very good. Still, some guidence with regards to which resources, such as databases, are the most likely to contain information that is relevant for the courses within the program.»
- I don"t know. I have never felt the need to visit the library.»
- study places!»
- litreture study»
- Most of the times I can get valuable information by myself in the library without having to consult a teacher.»
- Mostly for scientific articles in projects»
- it really helps a lot, but would like to get more papers through the database from early years »
- They gave me a search-lecture when I did my bachelor project. I could do that again.»
- Very helpful when it comes to requesting books.»
- By providing access to databases and scientific journals as well as books.»
- Offer a very nice place to study. And the books.»
- It helps to provide material specific to certain courses. It seems that the teachers do a good job coordinating with the library to provide this specific material.»
- Mostly research for articles on the web.»
- I think the library has plenty of study rooms and service friendly personnel which is good»
- Book,, research papers, online stuff»
- No opinion»
- I have no idea.»
- long time of borrowing period. Gives me sufficient time to have a close look of certain subject.»
- provide more course literature »
- i think the library is excelent»
- Suggesting reading for every course on the website for instance, to deepen one topic if you are interested in it»
- Study places, good.»
- books , articals and study place»
- - Literature/articles for project works and the master thesis - Supplementary information for understanding the lectures/course literature»
- they provide a large extend of academic resources for us and i am totally satisfied by their work.»
- They should provide more online resources. Like every book is available online so if books are occupied so all student can atleast study.»
- AS they do right now, open for search and help in writing reports.»
- literature searching»
- It was good to see that silent room was renovated to make it more silent, but the no of seats still remained the same. It gets very difficult to get a place when the time nears examination and also the time should be increased to 10 or 11 PM. »
- By providing access to some essential books, but the loaning period could have been extended.»
- providing ordered articles and books»
- Provide course books as e-resources»
- refresh, more places to sit and study. Grouproomes that are bright in light and more wall sockets for the computers.»
- the information available there»
- study place, for taking print outs from computer»
- Extent opening hours »
- I find everything I need through the website!»
- Just more funding should be allotted to more books and encourage the habit of offering books to library by the students»
- Provide more help for international students. »
- Very good E-database! Important to reach new research for free.»
- There should be more copies of books available, especially those books which are often used as reference during courses.»
- I have no idea.»
- Get more ebooks or advertise that they have them.»
- Scientific magazines are of indispensable use»
- Download articles»
- It supports by making it possible to download articles needed from the courses for free. But, there is a need of software which should also be available for free i.e. Minitab.. And teachers should have in mind to choose software that works for both mac and pc (minitab does not work for mac!! -should students have to by a pc to do be able to perform their study?! Bad!!!)»
- More journals in the databases. More available articles. »
- books, studying there»
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- Seminars, workshops and more activities ... it should be for all the courses that are shared by many programs ... for example library has math and Matlab support ... more things would always be useful.»
- E-books and databases, sometimes course book»
- »
- More books within business administration.»
- böker»
- Have access to more journals in the biotechnology area, biomaterial and medicine.»
- If there were any chans to search the books from home and request them as well .. »
- Books , IEEE papers , thesis records»
- I think they already do.»
- More examples of books needed in master courses»
- The E-book section is very usable»
- More books»
- The library support us with consultation»
- maybe they could have a course in article searching or simular.»
- a prodigious resource to look for literature»
- provide support for buying (selling) second-hand books»
- very good study material available online »
- It helps a lot, I had no idea how to do references and more and they offer those information as well as much more.»
- you have done a good job!thank you!»
- a good study environment. they should have more lunchfood in the cafeteria and the cafeteria opening hours should be during weekends as well when it"s exam period»
- some books about different areas,for instance, ergonomics, children restraints and so on.»
- E-books as course literature.»
- It provides learning facilities, help of employees and has reach resources of information.»
- For master thesis, chalmers library supports were essential»
- off course books are enough but there should be also an other silent study room.»
- Access to online journals»
- I suggest that the vast list of available e-resources get categorized in "subjects" or similar. This would make it easier to grasp how many different options (regarding databases and similar) one has when searching for something specific.»
- Books and access to the internet. Would be great if all course books were available at the library, at least for use in the library if not available to take home»
- More copies of some classic literatures.»
- I take all my subject books and related articles from the library. It is very helpful.»
- more references and more space for studying like more silent room.»
- I think it is good as it is now. »
- Get e-book that can not be found by any other means or is to expensive to buy for just one or some chapters.»
- It is a place where you can sit and study when doing project work, with windows and wall socket for the computer. The databases are also very useful when looking for information. »
- See the above! Very helpful staff as well, always helping out and prioritising the need of the students, thank you!»
- Course book and downloading literatures.»
- there are not enough books in library related to my program.»
- easier access to articles from home computers»
- I no way at all. Never been in the Chalmers library and see no point going there»
- comfortable reading place, materials online and hardware also. »
- Access to scholar articles and books online. We´,d love all the course literature to be available online :)»
- They do already!»
- a knowledge pool of studies and thesis»
- very effective»
- Inform much better, on how to use and where to look for articles for example»
- The literature is very expensive in most cases. And in most cases the number of books available are limited. It would be highly useful if there was a facility where a student can borrow a book and return it. Like a rental system. Since the books are returnable, the next batch of students who take up the course can always rent it again. I somehow believe it will be very useful for students. Of course, if the course is of high interest, students do purchase a copy for themselves.»
- e book »
- In lot of ways, generally uts very useful»
- provide a collection of links to the articles we need so we don"t have to search for all of them our selves»
- Mainly books »
- Library provides a quiet place for study and also some very useful books.»
- Link between librabry support and student portal to easier access and find the course material»
- Borrow books. Watch the ebook.»
- Make searching for thesis easier. Right now it is almost impossible to find a thesis if you do not know the name of the author and the heading.»
- Provide better support regarding the Master Thesis. Offer more copies of the course books.»
- Especially during master thesis. Searching for books and and publications in CPL»
- To find articles in different databases.»
- Personnel should know more about maritime resources (they know nothing) »
- papers,literatures.»
- good condition for studying specially in its silent room.»
- It was greatly useful! I found quite interesting articles! and it"s easy to use.»
- I use e-books.»
- They held a course in literature search»
- Easy access to books online»
- literature resource and data base »


Summarizing questions

35. Considering your experience from this programme, would you choose this programme if you could turn back time?

1312 svarande

No»37 2%
Probably not»67 5%
I would consider it»198 15%
Yes - probably»387 29%
Yes»617 46%
No opinion»7 0%

Genomsnitt: 4.14

- I just realized I could not be work in technical areas. I realized I should go to study management instead» (No)
- Cause I "m not sure if other programs are not the same .» (No)
- I don"t feel that I get to use the knowledge that I gained in my bachelor. The level of knowledge that my master program requires from us student is way to low. » (No)
- It idid not offer me what was promissed, I quote a fellow student(international): "If I wanted to be a progammer, I would have been done after 3 years.. I was looking to devlope my management skills, but obviosly this masterprogramme do not offer that"» (No)
- The courses of the programme are to wide. If you want to study geotechnics or geology for instance, there are only a few courses available. Hence you must study water and environment also to get a degree. » (No)
- It did not meet my expectations.» (No)
- You do not learn anything useful.» (No)
- Have read a lot of courses from another program (MPPEN) that suited me better» (No)
- I"ve thought to continue my study with engineering approach but my current program has totally academic approach instead.I made a mistake to choose because I anticipated to find applicable knowledge in industrial area , but , it seems they have a different idea to find a job with my program.» (No)
- The marketing department makes to good of a job. Expectations get set to high for what it is. Many of the courses are to basic, I haven"t learned that much. The people that runs the Encubator doesn"t communicate or make any efforts to communcicate with the students. They are not humble at all and the deals/offers that we as students gets with shares are a joke. 7 out of 17 quit the programe during the last year. That was the 7 of the most driven people. The program can"t handle the driven students» (No)
- It"s not in the range of subject I expected.» (No)
- I do not want to be academician the goal of this program is to make you phd student or teacher, I want to work, this program would not give you any aspect in work situation. » (No)
- You don"t learn anything and it"s completely wrong for me personally.» (No)
- Nothing to do with the program itself. Wanna study deeper and change a little the area of research in natural science after 2 years of learning and have an idea of what academy looks like.» (No)
- Cause the level is to low in general. To academic and the learning is based on learning by heart rather than understanding and applying knowledge. In soem courses it felt like being back at highs chool. » (No)
- The most part of Chalmers courses have no quality of knowleges but quantity to the exams what is not soo good for the students to wish to continue learning and to go deeper in these questions.» (No)
- I selected this major because i though that i can study and search about Network on chip which is i like it,,,but i couldn"t find any course related to it and even i"m forgetting all about that:)» (No)
- I have alread studied all courses of this programme in my bachelor degree and before applying I thought I would have deeper knowledge and be profecient in a certain area.» (No)
- Because I have come to know that studying in the Network program would have given me the exact same knowledge and even more in some subjects. However the software engineering program would have been the program to choose for me because I like team work and that is the only program I see in my department that emphasizes on team work and by team I mean more than 3 students not just two in every single course!» (No)
- First of all Internet technology course was a total mess. 2. I"ve got the feeling that the majority of my colegues come from a totally different area(Not computer science). They don"t really know to write a line of code. Therefore i had to do all my assignments alone even if we should work in groups. 3. Some of the lab assistants did not have a clue about what they ware supposed to teach. » (No)
- Because there are no opportunities to be employed in a company. None of my classmates have been employed so far.» (No)
- The information regarding the program did not at all describe its content accurately.» (No)
- P.g.a. att både Sustainable Building 1 och 2 hade såpass låg nivå och var så oorganiserade så önskar jag att jag hade valt Architecture istället.» (No)
- It wasn"t like going a program, it was like reading a predefined set of courses when you wanted. It wasn"t like having a class and I didn"t notice any follow up for the class. Secondly the class was 100% men and 95% exchange students. That"s not good at all.» (No)
- Big disappointment. Have learnt nothing. Bad organisation. Waste of time and money» (No)
- I got admission in that program but it was not my feature area .so i can"t continue and change subject which is related to network » (Probably not)
- It"s too heavily focused on development, and I don"t see myself being a development engineer.» (Probably not)
- I feel the the learnings have a to small usage in reality(no, they are not unusable, but they are to abstract for any employment I can possibly have in the first year of my career) compared to how big they could have been. I feel that it is the same thing over and over again, and this is although I not studied at Industrial Engineering during my Bachelor.» (Probably not)
- too hard for me, leaves less time for me to do other things i like such as learning swedish» (Probably not)
- Wrong focus. Several semi mandatory courses have been dedicated to the department telling us what the department does in research and why we should come work for them, instead of actually teaching us things that are used in the business world.» (Probably not)
- The educational level is poor, worse than the BA programme» (Probably not)
- It seems hard to find a job. If I could choose again, I would choose something more practical, relate to engineering, energy or industry. » (Probably not)
- Mostly because of the two courses TDA596 Distributed systems and TDA297 Distributed systems, advanced course. Both of which was far to easy and didn"t go into deeply enough into the subject of distributed systems.» (Probably not)
- To much soft courses. Should have taken CompSci» (Probably not)
- This was never my first choice, in addition, there where a lot of more appealing programs that we never got any information about.» (Probably not)
- it wasn"t what I expected, The focus of this program is not really well stated in the goals and oportunities to work» (Probably not)
- I found myself more like to be an engineer and this program is not so easily to found a job» (Probably not)
- The mandatory courses in this mp are aimed in somewhat diffrent directions. Had I choosen again, I would have choosen a mp with less mandatory courses and then cherry picked some of the courses from this mp.» (Probably not)
- Because there is no relevance between the courses at all» (Probably not)
- It is too much to do in this master programme.» (Probably not)
- I do not feel that I am learning much things that would be useful in the industry I am aiming for.» (Probably not)
- Doesn"t have too many job opportunities» (Probably not)
- It is difficult to find a job for this programme» (Probably not)
- The level is low. Especially I am very disappointed at the quality of master thesis projects. There are many poor projects which pass with same result as elaborate projects.. » (Probably not)
- too difficult» (Probably not)
- Some compulsory are not neccessary for some track.» (Probably not)
- If I could turn back time I could do more economically beneficial things... like betting a lot of money on sport events that I already know the result of. Really? Stupid question or what...» (Probably not)
- Overall the core courses are not so satisfying..comparing my friends at other universities like Uppsala.» (Probably not)
- Because we pretty much left by ourselves, and we are making the research, repports that should have been tought before hand by the professors, Thtere has been only two professors so far that make sure that they have explained the main lines of the course before we have to make/deliver the repports.» (Probably not)
- Cause I might need to go for other programs» (Probably not)
- As it was just very little add on to already available knowledge and the goals are too low for a master"s degree. » (Probably not)
- I wish to learn things differently, I like very much some content, but I wouldn"t learn in the same course in the same way. » (Probably not)
- I would probably choose cs:all because it"s more programming and less business/management. » (Probably not)
- I wouldve picked the product development master and then only taken the powertrain courses from automotive» (Probably not)
- "Cause it was far from my first expectations,,I"ve already moved to another field in another Programme!!» (Probably not)
- I am not satisfied with the education level and workload.» (Probably not)
- The tuition fee» (Probably not)
- There are no jobs available in the biomaterial field. we know a little bit of everything, but not enough of anything!» (Probably not)
- I think my concideration of biotech was different than this. Chalmers as it is from technology side it more focus on engineering part than the biology part. May Be it is because I am more interested on biological part.» (Probably not)
- I would choose a more practical programme with less focus on management.» (Probably not)
- My interests have changed during my studies.» (Probably not)
- after finishing the courses the appourtunity to get a good Mater thesis is very weak!!» (Probably not)
- The program is not on the correct way. some teacher do not have complete bio background. some courses like image diagnostics is not taught by the correct person. some courses are extremely important and useful like image diagnostics but few attention has been paid to it. the course could even be segmented to 2 different courses to cover the material more deeply.» (Probably not)
- I think that many of the courses are to similar. Often, I think, the level is not really advanced. E.g. the course ESA was not on a very high level compared to my prevoius knowledge from two earlier masters courses.» (Probably not)
- It was not in master level in first year. In fact, courses were too general for a master student!» (Probably not)
- More intrested in other areas and some mathematics and not the way around.» (Probably not)
- I choose this program so as to transition or atleast gain some competence over a broad range of discipilines (Medicine and engineering). I evaluated many options during my almost over study phase here and there were no interdisciplinary courses to make this transition ... » (Probably not)
- To many of the courses didn"t meet acceptable standards. There may be many students at this program and the staff might get many enoying questions from stupid students. That is however not a reason to be rude and unhelpfull. When you spend two years of your life at an education like this you at least expect the staff to concider your requests seriously and to be helpfull. During the last year of my master i"ve several times experienced a very big resistance from the staff when asking for help in various matters. I think that this problem comes from a general bad attitude within the institution. If they want an attractive masters program i suggest they stop recenting their students and instead act as they actually think it"s fun that people choose their masters program.» (Probably not)
- because of bad curriculam» (Probably not)
- Advanced engineering materials program is primary focus on metal and few polymer matter. Nowdays, Material scientists are required to know broad knowledge such as energy materials.» (Probably not)
- The programm is not well organized. The programm cordinator is not involved. The research group is not strong.» (Probably not)
- In this program we have little changes to practise in research work,maybe because Swedish is required. » (Probably not)
- I don"t know if I would be an engineer if I knew it would be this hard.» (Probably not)
- the professor was too busy to communicate with me, he paid more attention to his PhD students » (Probably not)
- It is not quite practical, so many lectures with less concentration on lab work, though we are mater students. But so many lectures make us not different from the bachelor level study» (I would consider it)
- I really like to study space engineering technique not just science.» (I would consider it)
- It is a bit too similar to the bachelor programme, I would have liked more deepening knowledge.» (I would consider it)
- A bit unclear connection to the industry. Easier to connect work oppurtunities to some other masters programmes (e.g. software engineering).» (I would consider it)
- There is a lack of a good programme for students at the Z bachelor who are interested in production systems.» (I would consider it)
- I would like more courses like the ones on QOM. One more course more deep into the subject of quality management» (I would consider it)
- There may have been better alternatives for my profile, but I am very satisfied with my choice anyway.» (I would consider it)
- actually my first choice is communication engineering, i still feel myself is more suitable for that area, and I also choice my thesis related to that one, it is not because of the quality of my program integrated electronic system design.» (I would consider it)
- Det största problemet med SCM är att det är så överlappande från grundutbildning. Det känns som slöseri med min tid att rabbla samma saker som jag redan kan. » (I would consider it)
- The modules are to general definied. I want to have more modules with focus on managing technical projects.» (I would consider it)
- The programme needs to be more industry-oriented. the courses and teachers are great, but as further i get in the education the more i realize that there are not many option for getting a job afterwards. on the otherhand, it is a good master programme if you want to pursue an academic career.» (I would consider it)
- I would definitely choose the courses from the tissue engineering track again, but I don"t think that the compulsory courses were very rewarding.» (I would consider it)
- Seems there are other masters that fit my needs better such as for instance CAS.» (I would consider it)
- Two bad courses, but the general topic is good and it feels like a nice field to work in.» (I would consider it)
- I think it is a good programme but perhaps Industrial Ecology would have suited me more.» (I would consider it)
- Id really like to do more tissue engineering and to attend more of those courses. Theres a lot of courses thats not viewable in our choice of courses and the information regarding those courses are quite scarce. » (I would consider it)
- there is not much differences between different programmes» (I would consider it)
- If i would have gotten the option to attend to an other school I would have taken it before Chalmers. I think that my skills and knowledge has developed very little since i started my masters.» (I would consider it)
- probably I would have chosen the new pedagogical programme instead» (I would consider it)
- I would not pay the amount required now for non-EU citizens to attend.» (I would consider it)
- Have heard about several new masters programmes both abroad and in Sweden that i did not know about when I applied.» (I would consider it)
- With recent changes I think SET might not be the programme I would have chosen.» (I would consider it)
- My background does not fit to this program » (I would consider it)
- Some courses are really bad. » (I would consider it)
- It does"t feel like a master"s program, and their is only a couple of courses that are mandatory.» (I would consider it)
- The program is very broad, so it"s hard to acquire the specialization necessary to work with nanoscale processing in the future.» (I would consider it)
- I chose between solida and fluid and automotive. Today I would probably go for solid and fluid.» (I would consider it)
- I do not have another masters program at Chalmers that I could chose, even if I believe that a couple of others, for example Supply Chain Management, and MEJ, are much the same, with the same basic competence demands and much more interesting.» (I would consider it)
- With a revised spring semester I would definitely come back to the program. Compared to the excellent courses in autumn (Local context and Suburbs) the spring semester is just too weak if you"re not able to go to Africa.» (I would consider it)
- Think I would want more technical courses.» (I would consider it)
- It doesn"t prepare you quite as good for working as applied mechanics would. But it gives you a specialisation which is very valuable.» (I would consider it)
- Much of the material could be studied outside of class by own interest. The program doesn"t provide the in depth skills i hoped for, although many interesting subjects are discussed.» (I would consider it)
- I would maybe have chosen a program with less organic chemistry and more biochemistry and environmental science, and less engineering.» (I would consider it)
- My area of interest have changed a bit during my master, so I might have chosen another program, but it is difficult to say now. » (I would consider it)
- Yhe knowledge is hard to put into practice and leads nowhere.» (I would consider it)
- I would have to consider the new tuition fees, determine whether it is worth the cost to live and study here in Sweden» (I would consider it)
- There are almost no alternatives.» (I would consider it)
- It is not very challenging» (I would consider it)
- Think it is easier to get a job with some the other programmes.» (I would consider it)
- I was expecting more research oriented program where students are encouraged to work in collaboration with instructors in the department"s projects. » (I would consider it)
- it doesn"t fit my interest quite well. But it is industry oriented, I must say.» (I would consider it)
- If I knew the level of teaching I would think twice about choosing the same program. But the topics are still interesting» (I would consider it)
- The structure of Master programme is quite different from that in my home country. I would like check more information about related mater programme and choose my most interesting one finally if I could turn back time.» (I would consider it)
- I wanted something more industrial design oriented.» (I would consider it)
- But then I must know that there is more courses that attracts me. » (I would consider it)
- For the extend of the specific field I wanted to develop on. A lot of times I felt that I could have progressed in my profession on my own and without the help of the university. Feedback from curtain subjects was limited, in terms of what I was expecting to get from this master program.» (I would consider it)
- I think the information before choosing masters program is not enough to make a goood decision.» (I would consider it)
- As an international student with previous work experience, it would be more interesting if my fellow students had some work experience as well. » (I would consider it)
- Not sure it is the perfect match for me.» (I would consider it)
- I think according to professional job, i still need the certifications like PMP etc. even after doing the MSc in project managemnet. So when im already in job why should i quit the job and do this masters, sometimes i think it would have been better if i had continued working along with professional certifications only» (I would consider it)
- (I would consider it)
- The interests have changed during the time here. Maybe some other programme would be more sufficient. » (I would consider it)
- Maybe I would choose the new "Lärande ledarskap" instead.» (I would consider it)
- But I will try for other options too.» (I would consider it)
- I"m satisfied with the programme, but I"ve realised I have many other interests that might have made it better for me to study another programme.» (I would consider it)
- I feel like it is too much "flum". It is good, though, with project based courses instead of exams.» (I would consider it)
- Skip the different tracks and let us choose freely» (I would consider it)
- I would not look at which courses sounded interesting, but which teachers held them and not taken courses with teachers who can"t speak english.» (I would consider it)
- I have realized this year that i find other areas in mechanical engineering interesting to, and therefore i maybe would have choosed another program. And, i have also noticed that other programs have better team spirit and cohesion than us, depending on that they have better kick offs in the beginning of the years. It also depends on the students ofcourse. » (I would consider it)
- There should be more courses in patent etc as said above since there is a high demand on broader knowledge out at the job market. Have more site visits to get more contact with the industry!» (I would consider it)
- Not exactly what I had in mind but I"m not sure another programme would be more suitable» (I would consider it)
- because of the introduction of the fees, i would choose US,UK or Australia or even Germany (better automotive job opportunities)» (I would consider it)
- As a masters level, it doesn"t focus on one area, it touches every many areas. » (I would consider it)
- I would probably have chosen Industrial Ecology and then chosen some practical courses from this program. » (I would consider it)
- There are too many subjects in one master programme so the depth is lost.» (I would consider it)
- This programme was, and still is, the one with the type of courses and knowledge I wanted to gain during my studies. However, I do think that the programme has a too large focus on students being prepared for PhDs considering that a majority want to work in the industry immediately after the exam.» (Yes - probably)
- There are no other options » (Yes - probably)
- Yes I think I would, because the knowledge is very useful on a daily basis, since i work at Volvo cars. It"s very good to have this background when you work in Powertrain.» (Yes - probably)
- Slightly different from my expectations» (Yes - probably)
- To many compulsory courses» (Yes - probably)
- But I would choose different courses within the programme. » (Yes - probably)
- It takes a lot of time and I am not sure it will give me a correspondingly better knowledge and/or ability to get a good job comparing with other similar programmes.» (Yes - probably)
- In my opinion the program consists of a broad spectre of courses, which gives a lot of opportunities to work in different contexts.» (Yes - probably)
- Because I might have chosen other areas of study, not because this program has something wrong.» (Yes - probably)
- I found it a good extension of the EE bachelors program containing subjects that allow a little more depth into some EE fields, which is quite beneficial» (Yes - probably)
- I am content with what I have learned.» (Yes - probably)
- I am satisfied and based on friends studying other programs I can not see another that I would prefer. Besides all masters within this department is quite similar I think.» (Yes - probably)
- If i shouldn"t choose it, it would be because it has moved parts to Lindholmen. There has been no information about passage cards, rooms for studying, rooms for eating etc. Different platforms for students from GU and Chalmers is creating problems. Lecture halls in Lindholmen is of lower quality than at gibraltar. And the positive aspects pointed (close to industry etc) at for moving to Lindholmen is not anything that is helping the majority of the students. At least it is nothing that is noticed at this point in time. » (Yes - probably)
- I am only interested in mathematics.» (Yes - probably)
- (Why not): Many courses are too overlapping» (Yes - probably)
- Because the core courses are very good and the rest you can choose very freely» (Yes - probably)
- It is one of the best decisions I have made. I have learnt so much .. but could have learnt co much more!!! ... what a pity!!!» (Yes - probably)
- Det är ett väldigt bra program som till stor del håller bra kvalitet. Däremot finns det klart förbättringar som kan göras, och då gäller det främst den obligatoriska terminen. Kursen Project Management är ett skämt för att vara på masternivå och jag har aldrig varit med om att en lärar gjort ett så pass intressant ämne så tråkigt och lågprioriterat. » (Yes - probably)
- I would have chosen different courses within the programme. » (Yes - probably)
- It contains a mix of subjects I am very interested in. But it might not be specialized enough to fit the labor market. » (Yes - probably)
- No other program that would be a better alternative. Many elective courses though so it has been posible to choose courses from other programs» (Yes - probably)
- choice of the courses during the programme are too limited. I can only choose 3-4 courses every semestre, and many of them are compulsory. so I have little freedom to choose the course that I am interested in.» (Yes - probably)
- I do not believe the programme really trains you per se. I believe it"s up to you to actually train yourself. Also they offer no opportunities towards an internship with the industry or a chance to form connections there.» (Yes - probably)
- Though to get more specified in some area would be good, now the programme perhaps is a bit too wide. You get a small piece of many things. The paths (technical and business) could be more in-depth/specific) » (Yes - probably)
- Dont think there is another one that would suit me better...» (Yes - probably)
- I think there should be more time for the designstudios and less on small 7,5 p couses.» (Yes - probably)
- Mainly because of the possibility of working in the sector.» (Yes - probably)
- I would choose it again if those things i have complained about has been improved. I would probably choose other courses as well.» (Yes - probably)
- Fun, easy» (Yes - probably)
- teachers are very good. interesting courses and experiments. all of these even make me more like this programme. » (Yes - probably)
- I should have chosen the entrepreneur master instead because of their more hands-on approach. Also, I can"t say that I"m qualified for anything perticular when I graduate from the MEI programe, which could be put in parallell to for example the SCM programe...» (Yes - probably)
- Same programme, but I would tailor my course choices differently» (Yes - probably)
- But I"d rather not turn back time. It looks a lot better now!» (Yes - probably)
- At lest at Chalmers I think all are much the same.» (Yes - probably)
- This program is my main interest.» (Yes - probably)
- I"d maybe consider changing to Supply chain, but this programme is mostly what I expected so I"d probably choose it again.» (Yes - probably)
- the field is what i am interested in.» (Yes - probably)
- I value the programme as I find it important. » (Yes - probably)
- The program is targeting a very promising field, and all teachers are very open-minded and kind to a non-architacture background student like me. » (Yes - probably)
- The price of free is great. I like that the programme offers courses in some of the specialisations I was interested in. The multi-cultural atmosphere is nice.» (Yes - probably)
- I might try CSE instead.» (Yes - probably)
- Content extremely good. Very good external lecturers. It gives me a very good profile. Administration not so good.» (Yes - probably)
- Courses interested in. Had however expected courses to give deeper knowledge and not contain so much repetition. » (Yes - probably)
- It"s good overall, despite some curriculum flaws. » (Yes - probably)
- The Others doesnt interest me» (Yes - probably)
- But I would definitely choose No when I was still in the program.» (Yes - probably)
- Beacuse it met my expectations partially.» (Yes - probably)
- I thought that the program should be more about the environment and not so much divided into different types of evaluating methods» (Yes - probably)
- I like it and it so useful.» (Yes - probably)
- Since I allways wanted to have a master in materials, but some of the elective courses i do regret taking.» (Yes - probably)
- This is what I want to study but I didn´,t realize how much reading and writing it needs. I´,m still very interested in this masters and I don´,t regret taking it but I thought it would be more calculations and more hands on experience. Use more of what I have studied in previous education.» (Yes - probably)
- I feel that I might have gained more deep knowledge within an area if I had continued to study in the same section as I did my bachelor. But my master program is very interesting.» (Yes - probably)
- It"s good.» (Yes - probably)
- because it is very difficult to get a job.» (Yes - probably)
- Good overview of the field.» (Yes - probably)
- Two courses that didn"t have the sufficient quality, FTS and MFD... And I took a elective curse in risk management and safety, worst course I have ever read, it should be removed...» (Yes - probably)
- I think it is very interesting» (Yes)
- Because this is the most interesting one ,)» (Yes)
- I think this programme has developed and complemented my skills that i"ve attained during the bachelor.» (Yes)
- IT has been really interesting and I think that I have a good chance to get a job after it.» (Yes)
- Interesting subjects, good job opportunities» (Yes)
- The IDE master program is amazing and I got more than I had expected. But if a very big amout of tuition fee is charged, then I need to consider.» (Yes)
- But I"d have taken additional courses.» (Yes)
- I feel it teaches the fundamentals that is usefull in every engineering discipline. Also it is interesting and funny.» (Yes)
- Like its name, a management course in construction project» (Yes)
- However, some of the mandatory courses are quite worthless, either because of the teachers or because of their general make up. For instance the "Data acquisition and handling in systems biology"-course is disturbingly poorly managed and performed, too many teachers with either low english skills or none. There is also the "Bioreactors - design and control" with good teachers but the workload is completely rediculus in conjunction with some other courses taken simultaneously as well as there being barely no help offered what so ever for some critical parts of the course. » (Yes)
- It"s what I want to work with.» (Yes)
- It is a great program which include courses within the energy field that prepare you alot for the world within energy. » (Yes)
- It"s what I"d expected and that"s great!» (Yes)
- i really liked the track courses (tissue engineering/biomaterials) but some of the mandatory courses didn"t give me anything. » (Yes)
- I would choose it since it changes to include astrophysics more» (Yes)
- It was very interesting, easy, and as I have perceived it so far, my competence is thought highly of by future employers. However, I believe it was too easy and sounds more fancy than it is... Nothing bad to me at the moment, but the reputation of the programme may decline if everyone found out how low the standard is. » (Yes)
- it gives both structural knowledge as well as good knowledge in installation and building physics. It also gives a change to work with architects» (Yes)
- + I have worked for a year and this master program has already, as far as what I have seen, very good reputation and hence it opens a lot of interesting doors.» (Yes)
- It gave a deep and useful knowledge throughout the field that I studied» (Yes)
- But I am also interested in IPM» (Yes)
- Many good teatchers and students/frends» (Yes)
- The teachers and courses are excelllent at the MEI programme!» (Yes)
- It have learnt so many good things and gotten a very useful perspective, both on my bachelor field but also on the field the programme teaches.» (Yes)
- Computer Security is Definitely the area in which I want to start my professional career» (Yes)
- It is the field I am interested in.» (Yes)
- My bachelor degree programme is Information technology. We studied programming languages and information communications. Master degree is software engineering and technology. It deepens my previous study and show how to manage the software production process. They connect each other very well.» (Yes)
- I learned a lot here. » (Yes)
- This has easily been the best experience I"ve had so far on this school» (Yes)
- I find that it is precisely what I was hoping for: A program which gives deep insight into the mathematical background and low-level details of computer science and programming languages.» (Yes)
- It is overall a good programm and has lived up to my expectations. My field of interest. » (Yes)
- It was fun, challenging, broad and there is a great demand for labour with this background» (Yes)
- want to get deeper in this field» (Yes)
- I have the same field of interest in BSc and have experience in the field so it will be best towards my professional goals» (Yes)
- There is a great corporation between Chalmers and industrial companies.» (Yes)
- För att det är väldigt intressanta ämnen som tas upp och de allra flesta kurserna var väldigt bra.» (Yes)
- I choose between Networks and distributed systems, and Security and dependable systems. I think those have been merged now. Probably a good thing.» (Yes)
- I do definitely like my program and the content that this program can provide me at Chalmers.» (Yes)
- It includes what i expected, and is focused on more than technical aspects.» (Yes)
- Its very practical, future oriented, thoroughly planned, broadens my network. » (Yes)
- It is pretty much what i expected.» (Yes)
- It has pretty much lives up to my expectations which was quite high. I also like the fact that you cant pass the courses unless you understand them. It has given me knowledge that i was seeking» (Yes)
- It is very innovative program covering many areas not covered by home university even in the master level.» (Yes)
- It"s the best!» (Yes)
- cause it gave me a very good base for my future work. » (Yes)
- It"s very practical for both research area and industrial area.» (Yes)
- I like my program more than students from other programs seem to like theirs.» (Yes)
- It is the program at Chalmers that best fits my interests. It is a bit light on algorithms though.» (Yes)
- it`s open, project based, no exam» (Yes)
- I want to work with what I"ve learned in my master"s programme. » (Yes)
- There is no better option.» (Yes)
- most of the classes are really good!» (Yes)
- Very interesting courses, good teachers» (Yes)
- Even though the program hasn"t met my expectations it is what i intend to work with when I am finished.» (Yes)
- This programme thought me a lot of knowledge which this expertise requires. I belive that I"ve learnt a lot.» (Yes)
- I learnt a lot and it gave öe excellent tools for my upcoming careers» (Yes)
- - Interseting courses - Large opportunity to chose optional courses » (Yes)
- My opinion is that this Master programme teaches the most interesting field » (Yes)
- It is the programme which is most at line with my interests.» (Yes)
- det är mycket bra» (Yes)
- Interesting subjects.» (Yes)
- Very helpful teachers and great research atmosphere.» (Yes)
- I think it has also a very good side. And most of the classes have been good. But because workrelated matters I was not able to participate with my "own" class so I had to take the next ones, and the class was not expirienced, fresh students with nothing else to do thinking that they are good in shipping and without any work experience.» (Yes)
- I like distributed systems» (Yes)
- the only problem is the classrooms and the lack of ventilation, » (Yes)
- Mostly beacuse of the labour market and intress about the technloogy not beacuse of the progamme itself.» (Yes)
- Definitely !» (Yes)
- It fulfilled my expectations. » (Yes)
- Doesn"t seem like it gives me much of a chance to find a job in Sweden.» (No opinion)

36. What should definitely be preserved in your Masters programme?

- teachers»
- No opinion»
- the project in the spring semester!»
- everything currently»
- The organization of every courses.»
- Some courses such as bio instruments,medical in medicine. »
- I want to take network field»
- Space science Remote sensing Numerical analysis Microwave engineering Tera Hz receiver design Astrophysics and Earth Science »
- Home exams»
- The course Creating New Business as it catches the core subject of the masters programme.»
- Project work»
- The strong production connection, programtracks, the thread through the program.»
- That you can choose from several core courses, so that there are no compulsory courses and so that everone can make their own syllabus, basically.»
- some core courses and projects»
- All courses lead by Christophe Demaziere»
- Construction, processes and management! »
- The composition of courses. »
- the first halv year»
- My program is now defunct. You should keep a program with a focus on chemistry (as of this year the most similar program is in material chemistry). »
- ability to study one semester i an other country»
- The track courses in biomaterials and tissue engineerng, they are very good»
- The introduction course, and Design for Quality»
- For example, it"s very good that I used GT-Power at the program, I think companies often look at what software knowledge the applicants have. I think the theory base should be preserved, and also use of commercial software.»
- study hours »
- The nanomaterials course, surface chemistry course and surface engineering course.»
- Manufacturing methods on micro- and nanoscale level.»
- Stochastic optimization»
- The calculation courses (DIEE, IES, Heat and Power)»
- The lean course, the course in Automod, the production project course. »
- host companies»
- the freedom to choose from a large variety of courses»
- There was some good teachers and courses that taught us both the way of thinking and good things...»
- The main courses and the wide selective courses are good. They should all be preserved. Also the projects, they are very benefitial for starting working with companies and networks building up.»
- Ability to chose chemistry»
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- The chemical enginnering courses.»
- the group project»
- welcome week with competition, welcome meeting and lunch for international students»
- CFD and thhe chemical engineering coarses»
- no opinion»
- the nano course»
- English language Good computer facilities which Chalmers provided »
- The ability to choose courses.»
- Nothing»
- Its connection towards the chemical ind.»
- the corn courses»
- Most of the courses, and wonderful lecturers such as John Hughes, David Sands, Jörgen Hansson and Björn von Sydow.»
- The core courses such as Visual brand identity»
- Bioreactor Design and Control. It is one of the toughest courses in the program, but the learning outcome is great.»
- The courses»
- The course Simulation of Production Systems»
- Ulrica"s courses are very good, both in design and preformance. »
- The 1st year project, most of the compulsory courses.»
- Total quality management»
- Technical Change and the Environment, Life Cycle Aanlysis and Sustainable development»
- the cooperation between different culture background»
- the different tracks and courses belonging to these»
- project-based group work,large variety of elective courses»
- The dteachers»
- venture projects»
- scholarships for non-EEA students»
- the product development project»
- the first 2 quarters"courses are more tough,but they are really good and systematically.»
- I think the masters program should have been preserved»
- The expertise staff of teachers»
- The tissue engineering track is excellent and should be kept in its whole, maby with a slight lowering of professor Gatenholm"s demands of projects (there are simply to many at once and one cannot focus one"s attention to make any of them particularly good).»
- The Six Sigma Black Belt course»
- functional materials, creative problem solving, entrepreneurship and project management. the new coordinator Patrik is very helpful!»
- The first common course and the studio Sustainable Building ABC »
- Ämnet är intressant, och det jag verkligen brinner för. Men det är det enda som håller mig kvar.»
- Nanomaterials-course.»
- track courses»
- The ambitous teachers. The free structure of the programme, only 2 mandatory courses.»
- econosics of innvatoin + creating new business courses. the teachers.»
- Geo courses. Field trips. Risk Control in engineering was a very good course.»
- The teachers/professors are very good, subjects are interesing and the projects are educating. »
- All the courses that are now»
- foundamentals course related to core course.»
- The practical lab and project in the real-time course»
- the varioty of courses, the policy and LCA course ae good as well as the enrvionmental management couse, but it could be better organised so that what is requested is better understood by the students.»
- Group assignments»
- the variety of courses»
- The courses, KVM071, MEN120, KVM013 are all great courses! »
- n/a»
- Don"t increase the number of mandatory courses. »
- a good amount of practical work and visits to labs and companies»
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- Courses in artificial intelligence»
- the closesness between pupiles and teachers.»
- The fast tempo. The focus on design and practice rather than theory.»
- The lecturers and atmosphere - that I as a student can walk up to pretty much anyone and have a casual conversation as well as ask a couple questions about the course without any difficulties.»
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- N/A»
- "TECHNICAL CHANGE AND THE ENVIRONMENT" WAS A VERY GOOD COURSE. MAYBE THE BEST I HAVE TAKEN ON CHALMERS»
- The masters programme itself ... However, "they" have decided to remove it due to the poor number of students. However it"s the best programme ...»
- Team work»
- The systems perspective.»
- some courses such as Strategic management, Project Psychology, and International Project Management which are more practical in term of real project environment.»
- Everything thing is okay.»
- The introduction course and the design for quality course are excellent. »
- some optional courses from related programmes for sutdents to chose»
- the track courses»
- The possibility to choose between different courses.»
- That we study abroad»
- no idea»
- Course evaluations»
- the areas of subjects that been covered so far, the latest achievements,»
- The high theoretical aim and line of courses.»
- The Medicine course during the Autumn»
- Flexibility and opportunity to choose»
- All the steel and concrete courses»
- the way that the first courses interacted with each other was really good and made it easy to understand what happens with a project from different aspects»
- Administration and courses»
- The practical approach and case work»
- The business creation»
- The Supply Chain Management course and Materials and Supply Chain Planning course.»
- the practical assignments, and the connection of the program with the industry»
- Structural Systems, Building Physics Advanced, Sustainable Building Competition»
- The SCM course (and it seems like a good idea to divide it to a SCM and a Purchasing part), Manufacturing and supply chain planning where not that funny but seems important, Customer Relationship (but needs improvement, repeats to much from the SCM course)... In the SCM course it started strong with a lot of articles and seminars connecting to this articles, this where lost in the FTS, MSCP, MPD courses, and this looses some of the research connection.»
- Sustainable energy futures»
- mandatory courses plus wireless communication»
- The studio.»
- I think most of the mandatory courses serves a purpose even if all of them isn"t that funny, they still make sense.»
- lots of practical experiments.»
- lean manufacturing, TQM »
- security related courses»
- The low amount of compulsory courses. The freedom to select courses outside of your masters program is what has made the education much better.»
- The practical use of tools and methods, could be even better»
- Most of the core courses, and the ability to choose freely what extra courses you want. The ability to choose a specialization.»
- Most parts.»
- Bernhard Mehlig»
- The fall of the first year.. the courses there are good. »
- Dr. Erik Ström and Dr. Mats Viberg»
- Requirements Engineering Agile Development »
- The course EDA491 Network security and the teacher responsible for it.»
- The atmosphere»
- The first course, the strong connections to the real situations in each project»
- The core courses. »
- Ola Hultkrantz as a coordinator. Courses given in English.»
- The course construction, processes and management (BOM025).»
- study trips»
- Teachers, labs, current courses»
- The first two study periods of the first year. Good courses with high tempo and challenging cases.»
- The first year project in collaboration with the industries should be retained. Its a very good opportunity for students to learn as well as engage with the subjects and fellow students.»
- The visual brand identity course»
- Professor Jonas Ringsberg!»
- Courses from IPM»
- The programme won´,t exist the next year, so it´,s unnecessary to answer the question.»
- Sven Andersson»
- The courses in digital and analog vlsi design.»
- the pure chemical engineering courses»
- Studying courses in a track is really useful and that could be preserved for future. »
- The small class size, the availability of the professors and teaching assistants.»
- all the good "basic" courses. »
- Study visits and the courses offered for study.»
- The case work and focus on connection with reality. Also keep lectures with people with industry knowledge.»
- Almost all course and lab work.»
- That there are many elective courses.»
- Fundamental structural dynamics. »
- some course like image analysis, image processing, numerical method and application.»
- The compulsory courses with no doubt»
- The motivation and cooperation among the students, it is many ways unique and separates the programme from other master programmes in a positive way. The interaction with companies in the business.»
- The project year.»
- Sustainability»
- Functional programming and concurrent programming.»
- The great teachers/teaching staff in the digital communications and wireless communications courses.»
- The courses Visual Brand Identity and Advanced Computer Modelling.»
- Courses in concrete, steel, timber, geotechnics»
- Upplägget på exemensarbetet är väldigt bra. Att vi alla redovisar samtidigt men däremot så är det önskvärt att ha information om exjobb betydligt tidigare, antingen i början av september eller redan i maj. Kurserna Construction Contract Relations och Real Estate Finance and Economics är grymma! Se och lär av dessa för övriga lärare!»
- All the power converter courses.»
- The core courses»
- Keep Algortihms and Programming Paradigms. Everyone in the field should have read those courses!»
- The courses!»
- The courses and the theoretical perspectives.»
- Project work in every course.»
- The security-related courses.»
- working with the real companies in design projects»
- The level of the courses »
- small project works in each of the courses in the programme»
- Way of teaching»
- welcoming of new students and everything except one or two courses»
- The possibility to select a track (Automation, Control or Mechatronics) or freely choose between them (General track).»
- Case studies (not scientific reports) SCM and course can be preserved more or less as they are. »
- e-books from chalmers library as course material»
- practicals»
- The close contact to teachers.»
- Keep cooperation and technology courses.»
- The Level of difficulty but at the same time, required guidance and support from the teachers»
- Housing and Space for Care»
- The level of commitment from some of the teachers.»
- LAB works»
- It should be quite demanding, as it is. Given the changes about to occur, I think one should pay great attention not to lose the analytical mechanics content (as the designated course is removed). It is after all very useful in further courses.»
- Jonas Hjerpe is a great Program Manager Magnus Holmén and Christian Sandström are excellent tutors»
- labs, reports assignments, seminars, group works»
- The visual brand course»
- co-operated programs in other countries»
- The wide selection of courses. The many hands-on and simulation projects. The relatively free choice of subjects within the courses. The great lecturers.»
- the practices»
- The studios are great»
- Projects, very well planned and useful. Faculty»
- The subjects are ok.»
- Compulsory courses»
- Mpdcs is discontinued, so no use...»
- The high standards, Bo Eghart and »
- Wide choice of elective courses»
- The teaching staff»
- The local context sourse. Sustainable Building»
- The first course in LP1 (it is nice to start of with just one course), and Idas course "Design for quality" in LP2, and Research Methodology in LP4. »
- Great teachers. »
- Many elective credits»
- The courses about steel, timber and concrete.»
- everything »
- The imaging track is really good»
- The greatest advantage is the level of frankness and friendly name of most of the Teachers. Industrial Energy Systems, Digital Controls, Advanced Reaction Engg and Experimental Design are rockstar courses.»
- The 15 credit Supply Chain Management basic course. That"s what you remember and it"s the basics you need when you start working. Company/business integration in courses. It"s the solely most important part of the masters program»
- The sustainable Development course»
- Technical Change and the Environment Sustainable Development Environmental Management Environmental Policy Instruments»
- The first courses was very good. »
- Design for a Sustainable Development in a Local Context! This course is the best I"ve had at chalmers architecture. It reminds you why you choosed to be an architect in the first place.»
- The courses on logic and compiler construction and focus on algorithms.»
- Critique I got from teachers in Matter Space Structure. Be CRITIQUE is good and important for students be more active and competitive.»
- Core courses and many projects»
- The schedule and planning»
- Project psychology course, it"s the best. The cultural diversity of the students is extremely important for the "international" part.»
- The number of mandatory and elective courses are are nicely balanced. »
- Possibility to choose the courses what I what to study for what I started the Master programme.»
- Everything seems fine, so changing nothing is not a bad option!»
- Freedom of choice in terms of elective courses»
- All in all the atmosphere while doing my masters was fantastic. Chalmers presents not only technical development but also personal development through various extra curricular activities. This in my opinion is the strength and should be preserved.»
- The small class and all seminars.»
- Well, since I already know that my master will be available next year I think it is a bit unnecessary to answer this question. But i do think the courses in general has been very good»
- The vision of the courses, req eng, quality, arch, agil.»
- n/a»
- The variety of courses to cover all different aspects of Naval Architecture - everything from maritime economics to ship structures and resistance is important to have experience in.»
- Product Development Project»
- The core courses which give a fundamental understanding of the subject area. They are critical.»
- The ship resistance and propulsion/CFD parts were mostly good (except shipflow)»
- Prof. Lars Davidson»
- I dont know»
- the time that I read the ppt or books by myself, everything is need to remember by yourself, then copy them to the exam paper from my mind, then, after one month or two, I forget them.»
- re-examination criteria»
- labs, study visits, more project works.»
- the guest lectures and visits that make the studies more tangible and understandable.»
- The flexibility and ability to choose freely from a range of courses.»
- The teacher Björn Engström and Angela Sasic. The course building physics advanced was really good. »
- The Urban & Architecture Design studio is fantastic, Ana Betancour should definitely stay on Chalmers!»
- Internal combustion engines Chalmers Formula Student-the most comprehensive course you could ever take, a true engineering project»
- Image Processing.Alessandro is really a good teacher and the course is great!»
- industry project»
- Geo courses »
- The good collaboration with the industry and scientists.»
- Project course»
- The holistic view of things»
- The course curriculum is excellent.. The courses are very interesting and very needful. The course structure should be preserved without any doubt. »
- the width»
- Graham kemp"s lectures.»
- Freedom of selecting courses. Not more compulsory.»
- Most of the courses (10)»
- Tomas Eriksson»
- Peter Damaschke»
- the courses and their assignments»
- Industrial level practical guidances.»
- I don"t know, because I have only studied one semester, it"s difficult to have a clear overview.»
- The different technical courses»
- Heat and power course and sustainable energy futures class»
- The spectroscopy and EM-wave course. »
- First year Product Development project (15 credits) CATIA modelling and Analysis software»
- DAT095»
- the professors»
- The good communications from the programme coordinator. The first three periods with compulsory courses made a very good study environment and a unity in the class. »
- the lab experiences»
- Heat&Power course »
- The course Construction, contract and relationship & managing organization in construction industry»
- The third course in Power electronic converters. »
- The conection between comercial business and environemntal problems. »
- Flexibility »
- The projected-oriented method.»
- Energy courses and CFD course. Almost all the mandatory courses are very good. »
- Stochastic optimization and neural network courses. And the example sheets. »
- Helpful coordinators and teachers, Intercultural Communication course, visitor teachers from industry»
- Teachers»
- Psychology course, international perspective, interaction, teamwork»
- the core courses should be preserved inthe program with more addition of these similar courese with more deep detail that will be make optional. »
- visiting some companies during courses»
- power electrocnics»
- The courses»
- atmospheric studies»
-
- not sure, it"s nearly 2 years ago..»
- Reality Studio!! Inger Lise Syversen is the best!»
- Technical courses.»
- Nordic architecture, workshop, studios»
- The Sustainable Development for Design Professionals introductory course, and the series of Sustainable Building courses»
- The Mandatory courses»
- The teachers are very engaged in the program and in the students, which is excellent! The program coordinator is however extremely hard to get hold of due to a very strict schedule. The industry contact is another great advantage which has been very fortunate in my opinion.»
- Construction Contract Relationships Knowledge and Learning in Project Organisations»
- the core courses»
- The research method and general structure»
- Of the courses I have attended, Real Estate finance and economics, leadership and communication, Construction contract realtionship, Construction processes and management»
- Engines and aerodynamics»
- Since my Master Programme is updated from this year, so it"s difficult to say anything at this moment!»
- Functional Analysis»
- Nothing»
- ana betancour»
- Most, few flaws, only flwas are that the courses overlap each other a bit to much.»
- the project course»
- Lectures, Lab work, softwares, assignments, tutorials, seminars, exams»
- The opportunities to be able to choose many of your courses.»
- re-exams are really good since it gives the students a chance to extend its knowledge and motivate the students to study harder and better than before. »
- study visits and experimental tests»
- Building physics advanced course.»
- Good teachers!»
- some courses like CFD, plant design and industrial energy systems.»
- Torsten Wik»
- Everything»
- The good combination of practice and theory.»
- N/A»
- Lecture structures and schedules»
- Some of the courses and guest lecture from companies should be reserved. »
- sustainable development, technical change and the environment, environmental policy instruments, och den goda internationella miljön. men det kanske är svårt nu när folk måste betala för sig. kan faktiskt tycka att det är särskilt viktigt för oss som läser globala miljöfrågor att vi får internationellt blandad klass. vi har verkligen nytta av perspektiven som det ger.»
- High voltage technology»
- Theteaching process with projects should be preserved.»
- group work, study trip, public presentation.»
- Welcome party was nice.»
- game track»
- Visits. Guest lectures. Case Studies»
- dunno»
- The courses taught by Jan Jonsson are amazing and should be kept there. The cooperation between different divisions should also be preserved.»
- The connection between university and industry»
- The teaching style with lectures and home assignments. »
- the group work, seminars, interdisciplinary sections. »
- Ola is really good!»
- Guest lectures, lectures from people from the industry, study visits & all the practical stuff»
- The curriculum»
- All the real-life experiences with companies and lectures from companies. The cases based on real ventures. The network you get included in.»
- The group projects»
- lots of interesting courses should be preserved.»
- room for custmisation»
- It is pretty good.»
- The core courses»
- the courses sustainable development, technical change and the environment»
- International setting, Action based learning simulations, exercises, innovation project year at incubator»
- initial IDE course (theory and methodology), the IDE project»
- Nothing really,I regret that I didn"t choose KTH university for my first choice instead of chalmers»
- The concrete and wood-courses. The introduction course "structural systems" was also good.»
- the possibility to take courses from other master programs»
- Course evaluation, review lectures, Projects in courses, etc »
- GTpower, formula student should be mandatory, its the only really excellent course.»
- The first project together with structural engineering. »
- the vehicle dynamics courses and formula student courses. »
- General situation is good, so keep going.»
- the courses which are very relevant»
- They should keep subject like Cryptography Language technology(best courses this year)»
- guest lecturers»
- no idea.»
- The PD project»
- The amount of international students, which now unfortunately have been reduced. »
- the mixture of practical and theoretical courses»
- all the subjects»
- -some of the teachers -really excellent »
- Study course spectrum»
- Bernhard Mehlig, Kristian Lindgren, Mattias Wahde and Martin Nilsson Jacobi»
- No opinion»
- a lot of courses,like, Visual Brand Identity and product design,Industrial design engineering - theory and methodology,physical ergonomic and cognitive ergonomic, project IDE and so on.»
- The courses Industrial engineering, Quality management, Lean production.»
- The atmosphere between fellow students.»
- Courses like visual brand identity, ergonomics , IDE projects. »
- Requirements Engineering»
- Some courses like Environmental Policy instruments.»
- Teaching staff and the courses.»
- the hospital course»
- erik strom and henk...»
- The focus on learning "programming skills" not programming languages. I have had much benefit of it already in my early career.»
- The curriculim and the quality of the lectures»
- the ability to choose different courses and paths. »
- Expert lecturers»
- the quality of the education system»
- The good introduction week, the focus on integrating exchange students into the class and the mix between cases and topic reports. Now when there will be less exchange students (because of new rules) this will most probably lower the quality of education also for us Swedish students. A lot of that you learn in the classroom is not from interaction between teacher to student but from interaction between students.»
- The courses we have had so far are all good.»
- The mix of law, business and engineering students. The ICM/interactive way of learning.»
- international program in english is very good, maybe more exchange students (we only had five) maybe more female exchangestudents (we had none!!!!)»
- not much»
- i"m not sure...»
- Project research work during courses.»
- Practical skills»
- dont know»
- Design methods and the practical approach combined with the academic side. »
-
- applying process»
- Everything I would say.»
- The master coordinator, very helpful and always there for the students.»
- The most of courses like IES, CFD, etc»
- Conservation and transformation Local Context Sustainable building design»
- The welcoming»
- None»
- The free room for choosing courses.»
- Introductory logic course. Introductory and advanced course on algorithms are good but further more in depth courses would be highly appreciated. »
- Projects»
- The introduction course about SCM (15 hp).»
- Compulsory courses are very good.»
- all main subjects»
- The whole structure of the Master programme such as the mandatory courses»
- Local context studio, a clear and well structured studio.»
- basics of both solids and fluid mechanics, even though one chooses one subject over the other. »
- The Six Sigma Black Belt Course - It is Amazing»
- Visual Brand Identity, Advanced Form Design. »
- project based»
- Bernhard Mehlig, Kristian Lindgren courses, as well as Autonomous Agents and Stochastic Optimisation (Evolutionary computation) courses. Also educational trips to scientific centers and research facilities outside Chalmers.»
- Most of it»
- The general structure of the programm, and the contact with engineer student with whom we are going to work with in the future.»
- The cross-diciplinary acceptance of students»
- The the wide amount of courses»
- the semister system that is quarterly based is really good. gives you time to foucs on on-going courses only»
- Nanoscience and fabrication courses »
- Heat and power course»
- Bernhard"s courses»
- Gernaerally it"s good»
- The energy futures course»
- All mandatory courses»
- Courses, which give higher-level look at Software Development, e.g., Architecture, Requirements etc. are a must. I also enjoyed how I could chose those technology-inclined courses, which better suit my interests.»
-
- (No Tution Fee) The project work»
- Methodology and Theory course»
- activites like mc2 day, wireless evening. etc.»
- I would preserve all of the courses. Even though it can feel a bit unsatisfactory to only study broad "enlightening" courses that involves many different subjects, it is perhaps necessary in order to give the required knowledge about the entire scientific field.»
- the width»
- So far, the courses i have had have been really interesting, so I would say the course structure.»
- The possibility to choose courses in a broad spectrum»
- The SCM introduction course»
- presentations, seminars, workshops. the architecture library. »
- Most courses are good and to have many group projects is really good.»
- Diversity of courses.»
- Surface chemistry»
- Some of the courses, eg. Environmental analysis of water, Assessing sustainability»
- NO»
- multi-cultural student atmosphere»
- The closeness to research and practical courses.»
- The Visual Brand course.»
- i really liked applied signal prosessing even if it was a lot of work. The control classes have been really good.»
- All of the mandatory courses are interesting and well taught »
- see above.»
- The courses in structural engineering and FEM.»
- The courses in structural engineering have been good. »
- Sustainable building courses, study excursions, group tasks and to some extend individual tasks.»
- The Master in Bioinformatics is a wonderful programme. It was not my first option when I applied, but if I could go back in time, it would defenetly be my first option.»
- The spirit of it :) »
- the courses were great.»
- The new tracks/profiles, the new compulsory courses»
- The fact that many courses are elective.»
- The PD project during the first year»
- practical projects and labs»
- Building physics Advanced course»
- - The opportunity to chose different track courses »
- The semi-mandatory course system, it gives a hugh freedom in what area one want to specialize in.»
- course contents»
- The engagement from teachers»
- Software Leadership and Quality Management»
- The new layout of the programme for the coming fall feels more interesting than ours when I compare them.»
- Functional Programming, Verification using formal methods, Requirements Engineering and Agile processes.»
- the guest lectures and many case studies»
- The Design for Quality course. And the improvement processes course. »
- The introductory course at 15HP»
- interdisciplinarity of nano courses»
- Every courses»
- The project course»
- Most of the courses were good, except for the ones I commented above»
- Simulation of production systems course.»
- The project based curriculum.»
- the gameplay course»
- Some of the professor uses the phd students during the whole course without showing themself! and evaluation does not affect when ask previous students!»
- the project»
- No idea.»
- project works and group works.»
- Structural Concrete, Concrete structures, finite element Method»
- The Interaction design project was very good, and a chance to work with a topic you find interesting.»
- 1. interdisciplinary »
- The two start up courses. And also the ability to choose courses. You are not bound to a track.»
- Model-driven engineering: Good teacher, interesting topic and good structure of the course. Perfect workload. Functional programmering: Read above. Requirements Engineering: Read above. Agile development: Read above»
- the ability to take courses from other departments»
- the practical part, like dissasemblng engines in the first quarter. and the big projects like FORMULA STUDENT»
- teachers»
- Involvement of real companies and guess lectures with a lot of experience»
- Computer graphics, simulation engines and gamedesign where great courses»
- The whole structure and arrangement with Encubator, that students run sharp start-up projects as companies. The idea of the BCL fall is great, but the implementation can be improved.»
- Administration and continuous improvement»
- The structure of the program»
- Innovative restructuring/development of the program structure from year to year, until students/teachers are satisfied. SCM-course. Ola! Arni! Patrik! Linea! SCM-case! Stimulation for social interaction from day one!»
- the good spirit and also the communication with the older students from previous years of this master thesis. »
- The structure of courses during programme.»
- Open environment.»
- All courses are OK except Artificial Intelligence.»
- The focus on sustaianbility,»
- the availability to choose the courses for ht the second year, great to really get the opportunity to choose courses you are really interested in!»
- The risk courses and the drinking water course. Good that we work a lot with projects.»
- Student teacher relations.»
- opportunity to choose courses»
- »
- The structure with people from different backgrounds working together. Most courses.»
- alla»
- The ability to choose your own study path. like to be able to choose your own courses to study»
- The Product development project»
- The mandatory courses. all of them are a truly contribution»
- Some courses »
- Well I hink it is a little to late for these questions thou Chalmers already have change this program to net year by incorporate it with another program. But I think that the small classes should be preserved, thou it increases the learning in the students when we actually get to know our teachers and class mates and have a better learning climate in the class room, where you are not afraid of asking questions and being wrong. You can also claim extra time for help from the teachers when you are a little group»
- free will of master student to take choose the courses according to their interest and the subject they are trying to develop as their specialty.»
- The lab works, and study visits.»
- courses like Organizational behavior and DTIM. »
- The PD projects. A lot of knowledge and experience was gained during this project.»
- study trips »
- the eng. metals and ceramic and polymer course, the intro days!»
- the feedback system»
- core courses»
- I think all the courses are good and they are different so people with different aims can see what you can do with the education. I for example want to go into Manufacturing in supply chain management and not transportation but many others want the opposite and that is what this programme offers you.»
- course schedule»
- the layout of the first course (quality & operations management)»
- Visual Brand Identity and product design,Industrial design engineering - theory and methodology,Industrial design engineering - theory and methodology»
- E-books as course literature»
- Drinking and Wastewater Engineering.»
- The name»
- Basic material courses, Metal, Ceramics, polymer»
- My program is not being preserved. Real shame though... I really enjoyed the wide spectra of courses within it.»
- Cleanroom tour and course "Fundamentals of micro- and nanotechnology"»
- The structure of courses.»
- The course content and the study visits»
- The broadness of material courses. »
- medicine for the engineer biomedical instrumentation eHealth some imaging course»
- everything was good about program. except the instructor for the course of active microwave circuits.»
- Highlight some things that is not able to get anywhere else, for example ISM, Maritime Law, Chartering course »
- the hierarchy of advancing your project from workshop via concept phase to sketch phase each taking 2 weeks, very structured and very enriching.»
- project Phsycology course»
- The different paths, automotive engineering includes such a wide range of studies and the tracks sort them out. »
- Image Processing»
- No idea.»
- The width of topics»
- more research»
- Digital control »
- I don"t what I have to mention here. »
- I loved to hate the Assessing sustainability: Assignment course. I appreciated the possibility to get practical measurement and assessment knowledge and some experience of working with cases in different environmental compartments (atmospheric, water and soil (RA)). »
- it is the good way to have be a group work. good communcation with others and learn more from each othe.»
- Roine Leiringer is a really good teacher, we can learn a lot from him, so he should be a part of this program next year!»
- i do not really know»
- the labs»
- Maintain the same»
- The electible courses during the same semester, easier to study abroad during a semester then»
- The nanoscience course gives a nice overview of the nano research at chalmers.»
- Track selections.»
- it is good in my master program»
- The experimental learning approach»
- few courses»
- The way the course SSY145 - Wireless Networks is organized. This course provides for good practice in doing a research project and gives good insight in working in the industry or with research. The teacher Hani Mehrpouyan is excellent, professional and pedagogical. Also the guest lecture presentors are excellent. Good job with this course it is really extraordinary good. Some of what is mentioned above should influence more on the rest of the courses I believe. That is not to say the other courses do not keep up to standard but they could always improve.»
- Good lectures given by those experienced teachers»
- Theachers in power electronics and drives»
- everything»
- Good teachers and courses»
- All the mandatory courses»
- Collaboration in the project.»
- programme curriculum»
- The R&D Strategy course»
- The "introductory" course: TEK145, Quality and operations management.»
- Visiting to company should be perserved.»
- Everything! I had amazing experiences! I extremely satisfied for everything I"ve learnt. Projects with companies were of great help to actually implement theories. And I particularly was amazed by the guest lecturer from IP course, he talked about IP Law. This most definitely be preserved!. It was a great idea to provide resources for parties, that really enhanced a great environment. »
- Good contacts with the industry. Mixing courses which deepen technical skills with courses that are giving a more general overview of the shipping business. »
- The development project»
- lab work »

37. What should definitely be changed in your Masters programme?

- More control over the master thesis deadlines.»
- No opinion»
- The implementation of the course "Methods for electronic system design and verification" »
- some of the courses, I mean the lecture time»
- Nuclear chemistry and sustainable energy future course»
- Be more concentrate within a field. more lab work with less impractical lectures»
- An internee-ship or industrial attachment is must.It would be really helpful and attractive for those who wants to find jobs instead of research.From my point of view Biomedical masters should not only be research oriented. »
- some mandatory courses which are not helpful and should change to other courses instead»
- the program in which i am admitted is fulfill but not for me . »
- The course of Tera Hz receiver design is a little bit easy. Could be better adding more engineering or technique in space science. »
- Personally, I never got an invitation or scheduled activity to help me with my master thesis. When I did my bachelor degree, there were several introductory courses and must-attend seminars that was scheduled, during the time for the masters thesis, there was nothing. This lead to that I didnt bother doing any masters thesis, and still havnt completed the program. »
- The first course, Economies of Innovation, if you have a bachelor in Industrial Engineering and Management from Chalmers this is to 75 % repetition.»
- Add materials science (PLASTICS!)»
- The advanced cad course!»
- That everything is so basic. Low pace, low learning, a lot of new age hippie stuff.»
- Although not quite connected to the Master coordinator I thought it was a pity that we didn"t have some sort of bonding activities with the class when we started.»
- In the program, only Matlab is used while in company other programming languages is used, so it is good that we also learn and use other programming as well as Matlab.»
- The first term with the mandatory courses could be looked over. »
- The decision to cancel it. »
- All courses except the introduction course, and Design for Quality. The teachers do not know how to deliver what the student wants, neither do they know how to listen to our feedback or realize what they need to improve. »
- It"s good to use Matlab for example, but the focus should be shifted a bit to use more software that is used in companies, such as Volvo. It"s very good to be able to say that you have worked with common computer tools when applying for a job.»
- grading »
- The solid state chemistry course ought to be more evaluated. When starting it, there was suppose to be a project and no exam. 1 week into the course it came to our knwledge that there actually was an examn as well.»
- Don"t know, most of the courses seem relevant.»
- The three courses in the fall, first year, excluding the Automod course. The main thought with the courses is good, but they need to be more advanced. »
- higher demands on students knowledge and English»
- more options to choose from in the first period»
- Some courses should change somehow, I have mentioned them inside the course evaluations.»
- no, nothing bad so far.»
- Some activities with the class in the first period or maybe even before the start, like the midterm barbecue or similar. Preferably several small events.»
- They should be honest in their list of required courses. It"s currently completely BS. Suggested additional required courses: Analysis in multiple variables, mechanics, advanced mechanics, physics, quantum physics, linear algebra 2. And some more. (Current requirements states "basic math is nice to have").»
- Too many overlapping courses»
- Many courses fail to give students grade within the 3 weeks after the exam.»
-
- No comment.»
- Some of the courses are to basic. When this is pointed out, the responsible persons say that it is due to the different knowlegde and backgrounds of the students.But if I have read a bachelor in Chemistry here at Chalmers and then choose a Master in Chemistry at Chalmers I think that the Master programme should be more advanced then the bachelor. That is not always the case. I think that there should be sompulsory courses to choose from during the spring to easier facilitate ERASMUS exchange during the autumn. »
- no»
-
- no opinion»
- Quarter based system, cause it was very difficiult to study tough courses such as Power Electronic Converters in just one quarter. If the time increases then we can study better and deeper and don"t forget them quickly.»
- Better information about thesis work.»
- I think the elective courses should be changed to obligatory courses»
- See 38»
- See questions about class changes»
- Introduce more technical and theoretical courses. Remove courses as Global Chemical Sustainability. Less talk, more engineering.»
- more coorperation of companies»
- I think that the courses that were really bad have been removed or revised, I am thinking mostly about Developing Computer Systems In Teams (or something like that) and Software Architecture.»
- Make use of all credits time and really give a deepend or even broader education»
- More and more courses projects should be with different companies.»
- Biopolymers and Biocompisites should not a compulsory course.»
- I feel that there was no real socializing and you did not get to know your class mates. A social introduction the first days which make it natural for the students to speak to eachother would have been great.»
- Increase depth and reduce broadness. Or be very specific in course descriptions on what type of course it is.»
- Sten Karlssons"s participation is something that should definitely be changed, he doesn"t speak English very well and have a hard time explaining the things he is presenting.»
- PLM,applied mechatronics. All compulsory courses should be in the 1st year.»
- Environmental Management as a compulsory course and the examination methodology in Applied Industrial Ecology.»
- no opinion»
- should be a mandatory course in the first term and more introduction. Some activities to get to know the other people of the programme. »
- more technical courses maybe»
- We had really a lot to do during first half of the year. Sometimes I thought I would die because I didn"t have time to sleep»
- add compulsory swedish language course»
- Change the coordinator of the program, fast.»
- The courses since the 3 quarter of first year, are not clear divided into different branches, they make my confused to choose a clear direction. But acutally, I check the program plan 2011, seems more reasonable then what we have at that time.»
- Probably the set of articles and reading can be given all together as a "book".»
- Bioreactors - design and control and Data acquisition and handling in systems biology, the later could simply be removed al toghether but I think I"ve heard that so is allready the case?»
- the exchange students have got to be able to speek to us in better english. i have felt that i have vasted my time trying to teach them english... chalmers have to take responsibility in giving the man introduction in ho wto study in sweden (regarding engish knowledge and cheating). i think there would be a better exchange in knowledge then, and they would feel more included.»
- None»
- Svårighetsnivån. Föreläsarnas kommunikationsförmåga i engelska.»
- No suggestion.»
- teaching of core courses»
- The goals for certain courses are fuzzy at best, this should be changed. Many of the teachers have no idea what to expect the students to know, some more knowledge on their part of what a bachelor degree contains perhaps.»
- managing developing projects course is bad»
- Traffic courses must be improved, Some teachers need to be more pedagogical. Should be more flexible to choose courses from the Construction master programme. The course litterature in many of the courses is not updated to be used at a modern university !»
- Too much focus on image track in the compulsory courses. I think the course image analysis not should be included into the compulsory courses. »
- Higher demands and expectations please, TD is a sought after education. But IDE have to keep the same standard.»
- These courses: Quality and Operations Management, Managing Operations Processes»
- Not a lot »
- some teachers"s teaching methods.»
- The lab in modelling and simulation should be changed. They seem to know that the lab is bad but nobody cares. That´,s a fundamental problem at this school, teachers often care for their research a lot more then for the teaching.»
- better cooperation with Gu to takr courses there.»
- Possibility to follow given lectures via recordings on the internet»
- The content of the courses.»
- MEN115 need to be removed and it should include an compulsory course that include something about the electrical grid and som economics. »
- The dissertation should be able to carry out in pairs. Today Northumbria disagree to that.»
- every single course without an architectural project has been very, very poor.»
- Lp 1 and 2 year 1 should be arranged differently »
- Engeneer students seem to be poorly prepared for the uncertain yet necessary aspects of the design process.»
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- N/A»
- ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SHOULD BE REMOVED OR RADICALLY CHANGED»
- Include more competitions»
- The information handed to students, in particular regarding the master"s thesis. None was given at all, not before, and not during.»
- No opinion.»
- I am unhappy with the examination system. Sometimes we have to attend two exams in a single day.»
- too many reports to be written as well as lots of literature papers,lack of practice exercise»
- shouldn"t have so many mandatory courses, more freedom to choose courses yourself. »
- The communication/information with/from the administration of the programme and Chalmers. It is difficult to get straight answers, and the organisation feels vague and unefficient. This has improved with Lena Falkheden as coordinator, but much is still to be done about other parts of the organisation.»
- To inform that it is not possible to have a "civilingenjörsexamen" after this programme.»
- Overall I like the layout of the master"s programme.»
- before coming to program , we can inform people about concept of titles that we intend to learn them.Also add Matlab elementary and statistical an probability course for one who feel did not have enough knowledge in this area.»
- The compulsory courses should be overseen to better fit the tracks. Maybe a possibility to choose 6 out of 10 compulsory courses or similar.»
- some courses are not as good as the first semester"s.e.g. wireless networks, the Linux/Unix, Operating Systems are not that good»
- First mandatory imaging course.»
- More knowledge about the working life. An look at Revit and other programs that is used.»
- The ability to choose what courses to take. In that way one can choose in which area to specialize»
- Some updation is needed to match the industrial requirements in job profile»
- Info about selective courses. Extremely insufficient.»
- The vague courses for the second year»
- The programme should be more open to students who want to do exchange studies abroad. »
- As stated above, the Materials and Supply Chain Planning course should be given more hecs, Freight transport systems and management of physical distribution should be merged and Customer relationships should have a course book. Maybe there would be space for a small course (~2-3 hec)about research methodology prior to writing the master thesis. »
- a lot of information in the website (including a lot of the master thesis proposals, job opportunities and so on)are in Swedish only. The problem is that I really feel I"m not studying in an international university when it comes to those stuff»
- Freight Transport System and Management of Physical Distribution, both courses have a very low standard, these courses have to change completely not only improve (SCM, MSCP and CR still have improvements to make).»
- HVAC»
- nothing»
- Opening-times in wooden workshop. »
- Better knowledge and information about courses on chemistry/physics division. It should be mandatory for all courses to have a course evaluation available on the student portal. »
- no idea!»
- Logistics, industrial engineering»
- no»
- The level of the core courses my master.»
- If possible more connected to reality, but I have no good suggestions for you. Perhaps more case driven exercises»
- Some courses as mentioned earlier. Available master thesis, and help with finding one!»
- The school manager. He is terrible and neither communicates or tries to understand the students. Also, either target a lower achieving segment of students or higher the leverl of the education.»
- The information about Lindholmen must be better. The combination of the two master progamme from Chalmers and GU must improve heavily. A moderna master programme should give students the possibility to learn in the way they want and what is most beneficial for them. Recording of all lectures should definitely be a vision and a good fit for a master programme that wants to be in front.»
- The course TDA596 Distributed systems and the teacher responsible for it...»
- 60hp master thesis instead of 30. spending time on the project.»
- I would have appreciated some kind of social activity at the beginning of the masterstudies to get to know my classmates.»
- + Kalman filter is very important and widely used in the industry. Much more focus on this would be good. + Include more programming. A lot of the people who graduate from this program will work as function developers and hence very good programming skills are needed. Today, the focus is on automated generated code from e.g. Target Link (Simulink). Include a course which teaches this? + More focus on implementation and real world applications. A lot of the courses are very theoretical and has very little connection to real application. Hence, much more training on how to go from theory to apply it on real application is needed. This can for example be done by having hand-ins which are highly connected to a real applications.»
- Having working experience must be added as a requirement for the applicants. A person who had been studying his/her entire life can hardly have a sense of working in projects. International Project Management program I believe must be moved to the proper department which I think is called Management of Innovation and Technology. Studying at the V building with contacts to civil and engineering students will preserve us from interacting to other students who are somehow having similar goals / perspectives in term of both academics and professional life. Personally, I don"t feel belong to the department of civil and environment engineering and so this feel of being stranger is with me and I know some other classmates feel the same.»
- the overlapping courses...»
- The course building in society. Also, the fact that we have not been educated in the proper way of writing research questions.»
- structure, organization by teachers and those in charge. planning ahead, practice common goals and guidelines.»
- Semesters which are divided into two quarter.7 weeks is not at all enough to cover a huge master"s course.»
- The courses Research Methodology and Managing Operations processes. RM did not feel very important for us. MOP could be improved when it comes to course content and pedagogy.»
- Scheduling of courses at least when it comes within the choices listed in the Program homepage should be maintained without overlaps.»
- more relevant elective courses »
- The heavy schedule of the first semester»
- The programme won´,t exist the next year, so it´,s unnecessary to answer the question.»
- Safety courses should not be all about redundant information and should focus more on safety systems rather than silly databases of analyzing driver behavior.»
- The introduction course and verification course need to be considered. Second quarter is very early for verification course. I guess, at least it should be at Q4 four. The introduction course is scheduled very strange. I believe, putting a deeper course in FPGA/VHDL is much more useful. Also, the invited lectures at Introduction course are so ineffective for students at the first quarter. It would better to put them at Q3 or Q4. »
- better environmental courses. more energy courses.»
- Some courses seem slightly disorganized (e.g. HRSV, RAC).»
- some of the teachers and the organisation should be looked over so exams of commonly read courses end up the day after eachother. some days between exams would be great. »
- Give some credits or points for the assignments,projects and reports.»
- Some examination system»
- I have heard that it during next year will be compulsory courses in the second year, which would make it impossible (or very difficult) to do the master thesis during another period den during the spring.»
- some of the courses I have taken are not useful for my future currier so suggest to have more choose is selecting course»
- Waveguides should be explained better. Teaching planar transmission lines should be included in the master»
- More tensors notation and working with tensors in different geometries more often.»
- people in student ceter are not good guide about the course they apparantly have no much of insight. some teacher should take toefl exam before taking the course. Whole the boring study method of read-exam in Chalmers belongs to previous century ,while in Göteborg univeristet they have implement the modern methods that MAKE you learn.»
- Elective courses that are available are too few and cover too narrow area, should be broader. I had to search through hundreds of courses before I could find the ones I liked.»
- - A broader, richier and better sortiment of elective courses - There is almost no feedback from the courses or the theachers at all. - more feedback - more feedback»
- It feels like the status of the IDE programme has decreased slightly compared to other competing programmes.»
- ELDO course can be removed but the group and individual discussions can stay. The final year course such as VEF can be had in the 2nd semester. So just SMKB and NVF can be in the third year»
- more choice of compulsary courses»
- DAT135 Software architecture EDA203 Unix internals»
- I got the feeling that there were quite a lot of projects in all courses with randomly assigned teams for each project. The projects had quite a large impact on the final grade in most courses. I felt that many people in most groups did not do much in the projects but still received quite a a lot of points for their "efforts". »
- Everything except the two courses above. Teachers should learn English. The courses should be selected in a way so that it is possible to get a job after graduation.»
- Dont use the same groups in more than one course period. The eachers attitude, they need to want teaching!»
- Project Management-kursen och Construction Governance är rent utsagt dåliga! PM håller inte på något sätt master nivå standard och Construction Governance är otydlig, upprepande och dåligt strukturerad. »
- Lecture form in power system courses.»
- Nothing»
- No opinion»
- Some courses need better organising and anchoring in literature.»
- Sometimes project group contain too many member. I think 3-4 is maximum.»
- There are allot of compulsory courses so there is need to reduce them »
- More in-depth security courses! The ones present in the master program cover what most security-savvy 18 year olds can learn on their own. »
- weekly schedules should be standartised»
- The pedagogical skills of some teachers. »
- Piotr Starski and the way of Foundations for microwave engineering is being thought »
- one course»
- More matematichal focus, especially optimisation. The case studies must be improved, real examples from companies would be great, more havard business school cases could be an option»
- The acedpat course should be completely revised. advanced separations should be revised. »
- order of courses»
- Make good schedule for compulsory courses project. It may impact to elective courses lessons. Increase the pass rate for compulsory courses from 30% to 80%.»
- The way in which International and masters students participate in Labs or any group work. The task of group formation should be done by Teachers and not by students which means Students from one country (Sweden) form one Group and there isnt much interaction for the international students. »
- The assistants (or tutor) should have a better training in teaching. Or if they are going to teach they should be better involved. »
- Arch. Transformation»
- lectures should be maken more attracting»
- I really think that a course in group theory and/or some mathematical methods should be included in the early part of the programme. A good grasp on stuff such as SO(8) would be great towards the end of programme.»
- some more credits should be given to assignments or labs or reports, and it is better to given some comments about these assignments»
- That the IDE-project only is possible to do during the spring, it is a problem for doing international exchange. Maybe it should be smaller as well. 15 credits project, same as bachelor thesis, maybe I could use my time to learn other things?»
- The ANN-course should be focused on applications first, and then when people have some feel/experience of the capabilities, theory should be covered. I also think that cooperating students are able to get better results (as they can compare results and troubleshoot errors). People who try to solve things completely on their own without outside help aren"t favored.»
- the methodologies (theories) could be less»
- There should be a greater variety if short courses (7.5hp) to choose from»
- Some of the teachers.»
- We had no information whatsoever about master thesis work, and I mean none! Nothing about when, where and how to look for and apply. This needs to be improved. »
- Mpdcs is discontinued, so no use...»
- Social connections between students! I had serious problems to find it friends and study partners throughout the whole 1½, years. In comparison to the bachelor years where this was not an issue at all. I got delayed with my studies because I did 75% of all assignments on my own when they were suppose to be carried out in pairs. I see a great potential in the master program to incorporate some kind of social atmosphere with group projects rather than short assignments with pairs of students.»
- internet technology course, revisit it! seems like either the course was too tough or too early in the master program»
- Vehicle Safety courses»
- It have to be easier.»
- Sustainable building studio. Interesting subject, but the course has to be improved to achieve standard that you could expect from a MSc studio.»
- The course Managing operations processes with Mats Winroth should be optional if it is to be keep in the state it is today. The Lecturers need to improve when they are writing the course PM, all mandatory assignments, articles and lecture times needs to be clearly stated from the beginning so that you can plan your time. »
- Paolo Falcone"s attitude.»
- Some of the courses can be improved.»
- The work load. It has been possible to go through the program on 20h per week. Too much repetition and not enough new things. Skills learnt during the bachelor has not been used. Poor conection.»
- Heat & Moisture is to be shortened or taken away. »
- Programe coordinator»
- not really much»
- The eHealth course could be revised/removed»
- Some modification might be considered in Advanced Chemical Engg and PAT. Adv. Separation Tech and definitely PPD. I didn"t think these courses fullfilled my expectations.»
- Så gott som alla frivilliga kurser handlar om LCA. Lite mer variation tack. Valde 4 distanskurser för att läsa något jag var mer intresserad av»
- Some courses felt like repetition of previous ones, e.g. Sustainable energy futures and Sustainable development. I also would like to have more HVAC courses, which goes a little bit deeper.»
- As stated above, Sustainable building have to be heavily revised to work properly.»
- The judge standards. The final grad of students should be given according to their effort and ability during the limited time. It"s unfair to allow some students extend the deadline of their presentation, which means they have more time and energy which will of course make better final thing!»
- CAD exam »
- There are too many people in some courses.»
- more industrial visits»
- More specialty courses should be offered.»
- teacher should have courses in the pedagogy and learning psikology.»
- Not directly about the program, but the website of the math department could be made tidier and more logical.»
- Raise the level of what students should know after graduating.»
- Minor changes in some structure of some specific courses»
- Nothing comes to my mind.»
- Create groups of elective cources which have a specific focus. I felt that it sometimes were difficult to find good elective cources. Also have more elective cources which is more specific within a special subject, many of the cources are very general and you don"t get any deeper knowledge.»
- Some courses, see above. »
- It should be clearer explained which different tracks there is and which courses there are in which. »
- The content of all mandatory courses.»
- n/a»
- More department activities»
- Adding more choices of subjects and areas.»
- Throw out shipflow. Noone outside Chalmers has herad of it, The easy courses (just look at the average grades to identify them)»
- It would have been nice to anchor the theoretical studies with "real life" even more. »
- English knowledge»
- I suggest to learn more from the college in US »
- More interaction with industry»
- The compulsory courses ESA and Modelling »
- less importance to examination because we are doing several labs project works which are also important to evaluate our knowledge in the subject but the mean weight is on exams. sometimes project works or lab evaluations are not even considered in overall course grading.»
- the order of obligatory courses, because it hinders me from taking some useful optional courses. »
- The introduction for new students in the masters programme. We met once I think and got a 1 hour introduction about the different specialties in the program. Besides that nothing, no further information and no social event to introduce students to eachother. Also I had to manually register to all of the compulsory courses in the first two periods. That could easily be done automatically. »
- Add a group theory course.»
- Learn the teachers to speak english and learn them how to do a real schedule so that the courses are not that messy..»
- Should be revised completely. Of course some courses should be kept, but the organization should be revised. Some electives should be added. The idea is that this master programme is for people who work at sea should be thought once again. Or for those who want to study full time, some alternatives should be created.»
- The spring term is very divided between the 2 courses running parallel, the studio is given to little time in comparison with the smaller course.»
- Safety courses»
- Perhaps the course of eHealth.Could do a little bit change maybe.»
- teachers accent»
- More geo courses and more hydraulics courses »
- Increased focus on certain areas is desirable.»
- Maybe little bit more contact with the companies working in the industry. This would at least help the international students to find a job for the summer»
- The competence level of all students are not the same, for example the level of english varies allot. This can be quite frustrating if you are suppose to do team assignments and some students cannot contribute at all»
- No comments at present. »
- more and clearer information»
- Change in the exam paper which was asked from previous years»
- Enhance the fact that the programme not only is due for phd, prospects and try to find a way to the industry»
- There should be a course that really explains topics such as "parameter sweeping" or "model evaulation".»
- Few time to study. Quarters should be longer at least 1 week more»
- The first term is extremely tough. Maybe move one or two of the courses two the spring term.»
- The Six Sigma black belt course needs to be revised. The research methodology course should be given later, closer to most students" actual master thesis.»
- The grading really needs a complete review - it is often too easy to pass, and it is often unclear what is needed for higher grades. Demand more of the students!»
- The AI course»
- N/A»
- The overlapping of the courses.»
- Socializing people starting from Student to higher faculty.»
- I don"t know. Higher level of English maybe.»
- I think more marks should be assigned to labs. Because they take students too much in comparison whit exams»
- HVAC course»
- The course are quite diverse, so it would be nice if the lecturers in all introductory courses where more aware of that the students come from quite different backgrounds, everything from electrical engineering to theoretical physics. As an example, the microwave engineering course was quite hard for me as I"ve hardly had any circuit theory before. Then I think a short compendium or lecture of basics or something would have helped. »
- Usage of ANSYS replacing FEMAP. Many companies use ANSYS as Analysis software.»
- not for sure»
- Is way too easy More academic load»
- Nothing large. The different courses could be better coordinated, at least the compulsary. This is to avoid the same lectuer and slides too many times.»
- the level of the courses can be higher»
- The order of the courses. »
- Missing economics in the compulsory courses in quarter one»
- Compulsory labs»
- The two difficult courses should not exist at the same time at the beginning of the programme.»
- I need a better knowledge and understanding of the role of master thesis. The objective of having a thesis should be more clear. And I still think the path of taking different courses can be improved.»
- The introduction to automotive course in the first semester of the program»
- Grading scale (3,4,5) is not enough. Yı,u should extend of it.»
- Courses related to Environemt are too many»
- the exam sometimes is too hard»
- Improvements related to Northumbria could be made (it was discussed both in Chalmers and Northumbria)»
- I student should be given chance to take atleat 4 extra COUSES after complting his thesis without visa restriction. because a student can get his aim only one time to do courses and when he enter in practical job life he didnot get chance to do the courses again. »
- should hold more activities or company training.»
- nothing»
- Add workshops to discuss problems and get a better understanding of the science »
-
- not sure..»
- Information Information Information.»
- Artificial Intelligence needs to be more focused, or optional for the program.»
- The leadership and research by design courses- neither of these offer any real preparation support for thesis.»
- Certain Handouts and materials were handed out in Swedish which is very difficult for the International Students to read through it.»
- See above»
- pass»
- Add more optional courses for the periods.»
- A higher degree of correlation between the mandatory courses. It was obvious that there was a lack in planning and correlation between the different examiners and lecturers, e.g. when it came to case studies (group assignments) - especially the "Host company" assignments. The host company initiative was very good indeed - please keep that - but the assignments (in the different courses) were obviously not correlated and planned sufficiently. The host company assignments did have a big potential - but they were likely not prioritized by the course planners. Also, I think it should be a higher focus on communicating the different possible orientations in the SCM program. I had never heard of them before seeing them on the website a couple of weeks ago. They could however probably be a relatively new invention from the course administrators. I though think communicating different course contents, possibilities, programme orientations, etc should be higher prioritized from the administators.»
- None»
- Construction Governance and Project Management, since they are mandatory»
- Safety and introduction courses. »
- In our programme, some courses have some mandatory mini-projects. But this projects do not contain any credits. I think, that could be nice if they would have some credits. Then the students will be more motivated to do a good project.»
- Since it is a Physics Program it could be nice if it was assumed that students have Teknisk Fysik or equivalent background.»
- Nothing»
- start of springterm. Clash between studio and other courses as design systems.»
- I would like to have a "practice" in a company. Like a mini-master thesis.»
- the cad cousre and the design methodolegy should be compulsory»
- Do not know»
- Remove the course Research design and methods. Also, a majority of the internatinoal students are not meeting the same standards as you would expect from European students. My experience tells that most of them would not even pass a simple english test you perform in high school. It both affect the study climate, the ability to perform, and slows down the whole course tempo, which I believe is very sad. Start recruiting from top universities and not from those that barely make it into the classification of universities.»
- I think more encouragement towards individual researches should be stressed.»
- Variation in randomized group configurations.»
- Not to much, It is very good as it is!»
- The range of elective courses.They are not broad and relevant enough.»
- Weak teachers!»
- biorefinery shouldnt be compulsory»
- Seminar, we all like it, but it should be revised.»
- Two courses: Human Factors and Supply and Demand in shipping. »
- Repetitions and course concept overlaps»
- The contact with teachers should be changes. Teachers should able to have enough time with their students. »
- optional drives coourses, divide drives 1 and 2 into 1 with all knowledge about drives (even coordinate transferring)and 2 with only simulink control»
- Some courses was not nessesary for me in the program like heat and moisture. I think it should be optional course instade of mandatory.»
- nothing»
- There should be more party for students to know follow students in same program.»
- teachers that do not know what they are doing»
- dunno»
- The mixture in all the courses with other programs that makes it impossible to distinguish the students of my program from others. There must be an focus on the specialty that a student is supposed to gain from this program that is security and/or dependability. There is a huge need for help and guidance from the coordinator that has not been very interactive with the students.»
- I would say that the Teachers and staff at the department of Chemical engineering should something regarding to the department atmosphere. It is not really freindly, the thing that is really different in other departments.»
- the behaviour of some teachers with international students»
- A bit more advance knowledge and involve challenging studies. »
- seminar organization, studio space organization »
- Stop giving slide lectures, use the board! Put teachers in charge that want to teach. Incourage teachers to prioritize the teaching while giving a course, i.e remove other responsibilities from the teacher during the course. Choose good tutors, perferable swedish. Their standard is much higher, according to my experience from this master program.»
- go through the courses. al are not good. make sure that the once making lectures have some kind of pedagogical education. So many poor teachers, sp little time!»
- Design Processes & Management course can be removed or it should be changed signifficantly»
- More laboratories are needed. There is really no substitute to understanding by looking at things physically.»
- More integration from the swedish students»
- I think my master progamme has been changed somehow.»
- more challange, avoid compromising quality in order to make all students pass.»
- The course science of environmental change»
- More interesting presentations/seminars»
- the course Science of environmental change need to be looked over. Today it is very unfocused and the teachers are not optimal.»
- Even better feedback on action based assignments. One on one consultation/feedback on big assignments like business plan in the fall or idea evaluation in spring. »
- Better harmonisation between courses. The material courses are not deep enough and overlap in a strange way.»
- everything,the lecturers are mostly incapable of giving good lectures,they just come and read from the slides,and give no extra explanation,some of them are so old and have problems in speaking in English and also answering your questions »
- Review if the business/management courses are suitable for examination by written tests, personally I say no.»
- Measurement technologies course»
- There"s a lack of connection between the courses from applied mechanics, and the rest of the programme.»
- The professional scope it looks into should be clarified in the programs description. »
- hybrid course should be more detailed and even more simulink. aero course should have some CFD laborations. Need to have courses regarding engine managment, not just the combustion phenomena. And vehicle communication networks such as CAN. if I hadnt taken the formula stiudent course I would think the program itself is at a too low level and the courses were much easier than I thought beforehand. But since i took the FS course I thought it was good that the rest didnt take to much time since FS took all my time.»
- Applied Mechanics should teach Mechanics Strudents and Civil- and Environmental Engineering should teach Civil engineering Students.»
- More courses about service engineering. »
- The safety courses should be not be mandatory. only people with an inclination towards it should chose it. a presentation of hte course before hand would be nice. The introduction to automotive engineering course shouldnt be mandatory as not everyone would need this "introduction". Such people can opt for other courses within applied mechanics such as CFD which would be handy in taking courses like road vehicle aerodynamics in january.»
- The compulsory courses need to be improved, a course in a master program should not only about read papers and memorize things. Some course need to add more tutorial section. We need more advices and information about course selection. How come we can not get access into Lindholmen buildings even we have courses there? »
- our courses should be coordinated a little bit wiser than now.»
- some of the teachers. »
- less compulsorary lectures»
- no idea.»
- The selection of elective courses.»
- I had to face aggressive behavior from students at some points. I understand the pressure from deadlines can be a factor, but it should be clear that behavior like that is not allowed within a studying environment.»
- some courses like vehicle dynamics lack instruction of all fundamentals required for more complicated tasks.»
- not at all»
- The material selection and design course is not good, and need to be changed. Generally smaller project groups, it is not possible for everyone to contribute if the groups are too big.»
- -group activities esp. with foreigners-poor!»
- Improving the quality of the taught courses and thier content, fulfilling program goals and adapting content vs current market needs (later job possibilties)»
- the guidance for elective courses»
- No opinion»
- advanced sketch»
- Add a course in "Energieffektivisering", or have available for elective courses. There are no such course today according to the institution "Energi och Miljö".»
- Some study books were either old or non edited. Improve the study books.»
- The workshop(paper/wood) could be better. »
- We should get some help to find master thesis!»
- 8. am classes are not easy to get to. Also the number of students for some popular courses can be limited.»
- the information to the students on how the master thesis should be done. not even the head of programme know this...»
- some of the teachers are not good enough to teach the students... »
- A course on software quality aspects - proven design practices, static and dynamic code analysis with tools...»
- The relations between the students and teachers and the coordinator. As I have seen, the computer science master programmes are the ones with almost no interaction with the coordinators.»
- Som course, or day that connects to "real life" work.»
- the courses i mentioned before. seriously, check them out.»
- nothing should be changed, but improvement is needed»
- The structure of the Internet Technology course, though what I"ve heard this has already been done til next year»
- knowledge level among exchange student when it comes to english (some of the swedish students as well). google translate is not ok!»
- some course timetables are coinciding,if you could change that it would be good»
- maybe reduce the boring literature to some extent, change the style of teaching a little big, add more interesting learning ways.»
- Quarter Systems»
- Introducing job opportunities.»
- dont know»
- no opinion»
- The NC-CAM course teacher»
- some courses can offered twice a year instead of the current way where it is offered once a year.»
- It would be nice to have more seminars-discussions of students with teachers in each course, because it"s easier to get the material»
- The name of My Program should be changed i.e. The program is called Networks and Distributed Systems yet in acctual sense it is more than only distributed Systems. As a suggestion, it can be called System Engineering and Networks or Computer Systems and Networks.»
- MEN115 course should be revised, it"s a interesting course with a interesting subject but it"s unfortunately badly executed.»
- Study burdon like in some courses Wrtitten exam should not be taken.»
- The six sigma course is very bad.»
- None»
- courses should be in a proper order of study. Each one should be a pre-requisite of other (if applicable) so that it would be easy for students to understand the course. because some time we chose an advance course without reading the similar but less tough course first as there"s no clear course structure available. however in the new program (2011/12) I see the course structure.»
- The Artificial Intelligence course»
- Heating system»
- add financial intelligence basics, give more definitions and tools from operations management (TAKT time, cycle time, etc.)»
- Guidance and appreciation of students who study a year abroad as part of their master studies.»
- Unpedagigical teachers and teachers that dont really speak english!»
- The offering of elective courses is quite poor for some periods.»
- It is frustrating that the advanced courses seem to expect to little from the students, even though they are a continuation of earlier master courses, they are adapted to also fit erasmus students which have not taken the basic courses, but that knowledge should be a pre-requisite for the advanced course.»
- Maybe, the programme need a little bit adjustment in the practical level, because the theory suppose to support the practical section (industry) ,so maybe some more practical courses, or more "real" laboratories in some courses. p.x in the internet technology course the lab had to do only with programming and nothing at all about what are these things that we learned in the theory..This was only an example. As far is a technological university some more practical knowledge is needed.»
- Sustainable bulding studio, needs to be more pedagogical and informative. The assignments also need to be more varying.»
- Information about masters thesis should be provided by the programme. No information was given before concerning what was expected or how it was supposed to be conducted. There are a lot of high expectations on the students (which was clearly expressed during courses which had cooperation with industrial life) but no information given before the student start with the thesis. This is very bad since the thesis gives the best opportunity to market the masters programme.»
- The course Project Management should be taken away, it"s ridiculously easy and adds no value. »
- As I said you before, the elective list and feasibility of Lean Production in SP1 or SP2 also.»
- something theoritical, not practical»
- See bellow»
- Better collaboration between different masters programs»
- More lectures without reduce the time on excises and workshops.»
- The way master thesis are annunced and distributed. It is noticable that it is not easy to get master thesis matching the student intrest. I suggest that , the student prefferd fild of the master thesis to collected from student after the completion of the first semster. Then the program coordinator work with the division faculity and indstry to distribute the tobic among the student. »
- more materials oriented courses, int the second year the choices were rather few»
- requires more coordination between chalmers and northumbria course outlines. Especially Research methods course should be taught at Chalmers because it is basics for all courses. »
- numbsr of compulsoray courses from 6 to 4»
- Computational biology 1»
- the workload is to high»
- could be more practical knowledge»
- Ability to take courses on distance for students who study abroad»
- Could be good to have suggestions for which optional courses make up a good path/block.»
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- The courses are very good»
- Now the course order has newly changed already»
- The only thing that should be changed is that there should be a choice between studying the Quantum Engineering course, which should be recommended for students that have not studied quantim mechanics as part of their earlier studies, and the more advanced Quantum Mechanics course. Even though it is possible to change course during the first few weeks of first study period, it would be preferable to know that there is a choich before beginning the studies.»
- The number of international students should be more.»
- Some lectures are redundant, they provide the same kind of information we already got from previous ones.»
- Better quality control of exchange students, mainly regarding language skills.»
- many information is Swedish,hard to follow as an international student.»
- there should not be any tuition fee»
- More practice in field and opportunities to be in contact with companies or other institutions.»
- courses should always be revised according the last advances.»
- More good courses during the second autumn semester.»
- The variety of teachers and teaching assistants involved in each class hurts continuity and ability to effectively learn... The lecturer is often not in sync with the tutorial teacher - it"s almost like we are taking two different classes. Becomes frustrating and disjointed.»
- More eligible courses that are not given in the same study period. I felt like almost all courses I was interested in were provided during study period 1 and 2 but almost none in study period 3 and 4. »
- NO»
- have more options for elective courses, and for summer courses.»
- Some introductory courses.»
- modelling and simulation»
- I think assistants (PhD students) get too little preparation time to do a good job in supervising group work in the courses. It is good enough to judge results from students but they do not generally do a good job coaching students in order to perform better (and learn more).»
- see above. Also, the binder handed out before the start of the program did plenty of times mention that this was going to be an extremely stressful and intense program and not once did it mention anything about it being fun or joyful. That should give some indication of the attitude from the program management...»
- The introductory mandatory courses. Teachers should be obliged to pass a course in pedagogy and english»
- The courses in Material performance and Heat and moisture should be changed or excluded from the structural engineering program.»
- I think evaluation of group tasks should be according to the study performance within the group. I have had the same grade as my group mates where I worked %60 percent more than them.»
- It could be good to have more mathematical content.»
- The courses I wrote earlier. And add finance and leadership in the program »
- It should be divided into two or more programmes, woth more specialized courses on offer within each area(s).»
- assignments are much more»
- Building techniques»
- - Difficult to combine certain courses since they are sheduled at the same time, give information about this!»
- A few lecturers mostly, it"s quite evident who wants to teach and who doesn"t, the ones that doesn"t like it that much take important and intresting subjects and make them a complete bore.»
- nothing»
- One important thing for me is that I would like to practice the presentations in smaller groups. Since there is always big groups I try to avoid them the best I can Also, it would be nice to have more get-together activities with the other students, especially in the begining. Why not a having a masters-pub once or twice a week at each section?»
- Courses like Programming datadigm»
- The attitude. From day one there has been this attitude that "this is a master level programme" and that everything would be a lot tougher. While demands on us students might have been higher than before, this has not necessarily meant that the courses have had higher quality than before. While we as students have had a lot of pressure on us to produce a lot of documents and spend a lot of time on projects (which is fine, I would expect that at this level), the organization in the courses have not always been perfect. They"ve actually been quite bad sometimes. Changing of assignments and dates,information about mandatory tasks just a couple of days ahead of time, different answers depending on who you ask (lab assistant says one thing, professor another) etc. It"s fine to ask a lot from your students, but you as a course lecturer doesn"t live up to the high standards that you are asking for, students starts to wonder "do these guys really know what they"re talking about?". I would just like to have a more respectful and more relaxed atmosphere on the programme and stop all that talk about how "this is a master level course, it"s gonna be really tough" or "this is how it is in industry,wear a suit". The administration. This programme needs an administration that can listen to the students and doesn"t take criticism to personal. When a majority of the students are negative about certain courses, one should really think about if such a course should be removed or drastically changed instead of criticizing the feedback given in the course evaluations. I just think that this programme would benefit if someone with more administrative experience took over.»
- More leadership courses»
- The courses stated above»
- added compulsory swedish course for international students»
- no»
- Ralf (time for a new master"s coordinator more in touch with what"s needed in the industry)»
- Discrete event and control optimization course.»
- If I choose to take the Game Design track, I probably want to take courses in programming or more concrete design. Courses like Interaction Design Methodology shouldn"t be mandatory, as they are not relevant at all. Also, the teachers should show more respect to us game designers, instead of accusing the students of different things, such as kicking on people lying down, they could be more constructive. I heard more than one time that I don"t think like a designer, and that I should change my point of view. As a programmer and game designer, I think in a different way than a pure interaction designer, and I think you should take that into consideration when deciding which courses that should be mandatory.»
- method course. and maybe the project course»
- The ease of some people to float through the work carried out in groups.»
- No idea...»
- some courses»
- The overall plan for the master thesis.»
- Heat and Moisture engineering»
- I think the courses should be a bit more technical for game design students, everybody cannot get a job as a game designer, it is more likely to end up as a programmer/developer.»
- 1. Discouragement »
- that has already been changed for 2011»
- Advanced Software Architecting: Keep the name of the course but remove everything else. Software Leadership & Quality: Read above.»
- no opinion»
- image analysis course syllabus and teaching method»
- More elective courses assortment »
- i do not know»
- Design methodology needs some minor tweeks. For example a real group project»
- I think that, for me, EMA could be integrated with GEO and water engineering. Then offer the student to chose environmental specialization in the field of GEO.»
- Make an english course compulsory for teachers. There has to be some level of their english before they are allowed to teach. Otherwise, Chalmers will lose all its international students when it"s no longer free to study here.»
- The academic parts should have better correlation with the projects, and the teachers should definately improve communication with each other (coordination), and pedagogics in most cases.»
- curriculum and few more professors with excellent pedagogy»
- Relationship between Swedish student and international student»
- Dan and Kenth"s courses and their multiple lessons with power-point slides. Kajsas Customer relationsship course need to be more attractive. As it is now the other elective courses gets the priority (which in some cases was needed, as the courses where very heavy and time demanding). »
- no idea»
- I would like to have more labwork.»
- The whole educational method!»
- Remove Artificial Intelligence as mandatory.»
- architecture students need more support, it is the base for learing architecture! Support to see how you develop your skills, are you developing at all? Tuffer requirements and MORE CRITISISM!!! more often. more frequent. Otherwise students (and swedish sociaty) are loosers in the end. Everyone knows this, everyone talks about it, nothing happens.»
- Take away topic reports... for some reason professors think they are nice but they are considered a waste of time by the students. They do not provide any useful information or teach anything new that develop our minds. Case study"s are a lot better because you learn to hands on deal with actual problems. »
- The distribution of the volentary courses. Some periods you would like to read three courses and some non because they have put a lot of water and environmental courses in the same period and so on. It is very unconvienient for us students and i know many that agree with me.»
- The program in Biomedical is very vast ... and i dont think that chalmers does justice to it by restricting it to the school of signal and systems .. there should be course that should be cross-discipilinary ... »
- having 2 exams at the same day»
- »
- Link some courses better to what is done within the projects.»
- ingentning»
- Remove Artificiall intelligece from mandatory courses and add some more courses from Math department into the list of courses which can be choosen»
- Attitude against students and a couple of corses (see q 22)»
- Some of the courses look up what is required from us out in the industry and try to incorporate that in the program.»
- 1. the lack of elective courses 2. the mismatch between what the course program says and what it actually gives 3. some lecturers of courses that seems they don"t really know where to go ..»
- Above mentioned courses»
- More emphasis on concepts and theories behind them.»
- Teachers for the "technology based Entreprenuership" course could be changed. »
- Lack of connection and support from program coordinator.»
- The English language and pedagogical ability of the teachers must be improved»
- Bättre upplägg på kurser»
- Coordiantor, Malin Safety courses, specially the one by Johan Daividsson»
- no change»
- they to repeat a lot i the different courses, they should be more synchronized.»
- teachers who are very lazy (or maybe too busy to teach) and give poor feedback»
- optional courses»
- Separate the Building Performance Design from the Structural Engineering programme. The manditory Building Performance courses the first semester was a waste if you were going to choose structural engineering.»
- nothing comes to mind, maybe to offer you some presentation about the courses for year 2. I thought that was missing really much.»
- more study visit»
- i dont think it should be pushed so much that the students should choose among the recommended courses since both the Six Sigma course and the Operations Improvement course was a bit of a disappointment to some.... I also think that it should be more focus on getting projects that fit the Six Sigma framework in the Six Sigma course. Not just accept all projects because for some it doesnt seem like Six Sigma is the best framework at all.»
- Acedpat and AST. More assistants in every course. Often minor problems takes hours to solve because there are not enough asistants.»
- Nothing definately.»
- Should teach more specific ways to accomplish sustainable development»
- Course such as composite, functional materials, semiconductor courses need to be mandantory.»
- The courses should be applied rather than theoritical.»
- Keep the program!»
- Exams, i think exams does not reflect students ability to be successful. instead continuous assessment techniques maight be good.»
- Nothing.»
- More studies related to the industry, or otherwise a more pronounced focus on reserach. »
- just change the instructor of the active microwave circuits course»
- The coordinator»
- Somtimes spontaniety cna become stressful even though the intent is good. I do think however that this is something which has already changed significantly already from what i"ve heard from students earlier years.»
- Power Point presentations for lectures should be upload atleast a day before so students can read them and follo better to the professors and in this way it is avoided that some professors send students to drink coffe or read to the library while they finish their PP at during class hours.»
- Project organizations»
- Chalmers is supposedly part in the world leading resarch in vehicle and traffic safety, this is not reflected in the safety track courses and should be delt with. »
- eHealth»
- To notice there are some courses involving matlab programming, and study by oneself before coming here.»
- eHeath track is very bad option and eHealth course should be elective. The Applied Signal Processing Course is not related to biomedical signal processing and is more suitable for comminucation programm. »
- The teachers.»
- I think e-Health course should be removed. in other hand everything is ok.»
- MORE feedback. In almost every course, you just get an OK or a grade. More practical solving problems. »
- the teaching system»
- I like it will have one specific area, like by taking it in different departments. »
- we have two track of my programme. i think should be more clearly to define them. and put some more courses for each track.»
- The number of points retrived from MOCI and Project management should be auditied»
- some of the course do not need to be in the programme»
- provide more chance for jobs or interns»
- Nothing»
- The amount of GOOD and FUN electible courses»
- The compulsory courses. Are all the courses worthy for all students who would take up different tracks like Security and Dependability. »
- there is examination if student ask»
- syllabus of certain courses»
- it"s to much overlap between courses»
- More practise »
- The master coordinator who not feels intrested in the programme and it"s development»
- nothing definitely»
- There were a lot of schedule clashes, one had to chose one course and then chose a course after the schedule for the first one. Had to change courses a couple of time due to this.»
- Better elective courses, not many interesting elective courses therefore I did a semeter abroad. »
- Schedule between the project and course of each course.»
- Emphasis on jobs and contacts to the companies is the good option for the students to start working in an industrial field. Fairs like CHARMS were imbalanced and focussed only on few job sectors. This is not at all good.»
- Add a Corporate Finance course»
- I would have liked to have more time and to learn the different tools within Six sigma (in the course TEK170) in a more educational structured way (i.e. the classic way of teaching at Chalmers). Some of the projects have not given the opportunity/possibility to use tools in the extent that I had hoped for when I chose the course. (In our case it was mostly due to the project limitations). So in my opinion this depends a lot on what the projects look like that are brought into the course. Either way, the projects have provided opportunities to experience from working with industrial participants and gaining insight on every day work life within a company that a strictly classical way of teaching does not provide which has been very interesting. So a combination of more thorough education on the tools + a better assured fitness of the projects would raise the quality of the course in my eyes. »
- The administrative department»
- more connection with industry for 60 credits project with industry»
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- Please have an entrance examination in both English and the major subject for exchange student. This since it is impossible to do any group work (or any work at all with them) when they don"t have the background knowledge in the subject, have so hard time understand English that it makes it a burden to communicate and don"t know the rules (copy-pasting or how to process texts) used when writing reports or similar. I want to point out that I"m not against that Chalmers has exchange of students, but when it affects my education and gradings negatively and I constantly need to consider who I work and study with it becomes quite a big burden. I will also point out that not all exchange students are the problem, but there are a quite large part of them that "free rides" on serious students who want to succeed with their education. An even larger issue is that when you as a student search for help from examiners or similar, there are almost never any help to get. I personally has only got help by one examiner with issues like this. I think this is really sad for a school like Chalmers who profiles itself as a serious school.»
- More people invited to the project pressentstions»
- the attention from the supervisor »

38. Do you have any general suggestions for improvement of Chalmers Master programme?

- I have found that my supervisors for the master thesis do not know the rules and procedures for it. An effort should be done in providing this information to teachers everytimes it changes»
- No opinion»
- More hardware design, not necessarily in VHDL, but perhaps some CAD for PCB fabrication and some circuit design so to speak.»
- yeah, more information about job-seeking and chalmers rules»
- reduce the mandatory subject »
- yes, there is a another thing I don"t know where I can mentioned here I have been to DTU in Denmark, they have two computer screens for each computer, which can facilitate students when there are lots of data needed to compare or materials to read. Printing work there is free of charge. »
- no....»
- English skills of the teachers should be more.Information in website should be updated. Swedish information and English information should be the same even though you think they do not concern international students.»
- Aerospace engineering! I want to build rockets!»
- The courses offered by my department basically are arranged quite good. I mean the lecture schedules are quite reasonable arranged. But there are serious overlapping with courses offered by other programme. It is better to add more practicable projects as well as more course lectures within each course. It is better if internship or Summer job could be provided by department.No money does not matter at all since some students really want to learn some practicable knowledge or useful experimental skills which is helpful for them working in industrial in the future. »
- Support the students in starting with their master"s thesis.»
- Better information about which job opportunities each Masters Programme lead to.»
- Make it easier to study abroad! If Chalmers truly wants its students to do exchange semesters it must be much easier to either skip some cumpolsury courses while abroad, or Chalmers should do one semester with only optional courses. Such an optional semester is better to have in spring, since the semesters in Europe start much later and it is hard for students doing exchanges in autumn to get back to spring term in time.»
- Make it advanced level. Earlier professors had the advanced level courses and the engineers became cutting edge of the world. Today we are cutting corners.»
- The level of English speakng must in some way be controlled before people are allowed to start a Master programme. Also, there might be a need for testing the basic knowledge of students from other universities than Chalmers.»
- I think the education with the industry should not only limitted to visiting the companies and some more in-depth cooperation would be beneficial.»
- Improve the course Strategic Management, very bad lectures. »
- More cooperation with companies, especially for the masters thesis. Why not have closer connections with the automotive industry here? It would be positive to see initiative from companies in school. I would like to have a more organized application process for masters thesis in cooperation with companies. For example, I wanted to do my thesis at powertrain department in either Volvo Trucks/Cars and I had to find my own way through personal contacts, to get that position. For a foreign student it"s probably even more difficult.»
- no »
- No»
- Pre-knowledge levels of chemistry and electrical engineering related subjects are uneven and could be looked into. »
- Make sure that the master program and the teachers requires more from the students. Most of us goes through this program at the same time as we work or take extra courses. That is a sign that it is too easy. »
- no»
- Not now.»
- It is always hard to international students for the first and second month in terms of culture shock and languages. I think it would be great if there are some more intense activities or courses for them. »
- Maybe nisch this programme more towards management for IT, or at least offer some courses»
- No comment.»
- no»
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- no opinion»
- Some of the labs (such as in Electric Drives 1) were not much understandable!»
- det borde vara lättare att se vilka valfria kurser som är relaterade till programmet för att lättare få en överblick över de valfria som kan väljas. Det måste vara bättre exjobbs-information samt information i sista året på grundutbildning, vid dessa två tillällen är men ett frågetecken och det är svårt att få ingående information på webben.»
- Better information about thesis work.»
- Divide the programme up into more specific programmes like geotecnics/geology/traffic and water/environment into one. I think that one study period (8 weeks) should be spent on a company practicing. It is difficult to explain to friends that there is no whatsoever practical learning during 5 years of study, only theory.»
- Common activities for international and Swedish students during the first one or two weeks. As it is now the classes get very segregated. Students who have taken their bachelor at Chalmers tend to stick together. For some reason there are activities for the international students during the first weeks but I, as a Swedish student, did not get invited to these. This creates a division between students right from the start.»
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- Keep course specific information on the web updated and as detailed as possible.»
- maybe for international students, there should be some courses for Swedish language»
- some scholarships based on academic performance in master study»
- Yes. A lot more prectical work. There are a lot of lectures when you are just listening for 4 hours.. it is not effective way of learning. Better with practical exercizes. »
- add compulsory swedish language course for international students»
- The MTS course should not be mandatory»
- A lot of the international master students have such poor knowledge of labworj that they are a safety issue for other students. Also why close down the only pure chemistry master programme in the chemistry building, one can not only look at numbers when taking in to consideration which masters programmes are to remain. I consider it a great loss to chalmers and the entire chemistry building that we will not provide the chemistry and bioscience masters programme in the future.»
- The complementary courses of the master program are to broad and instead of helping to get more expertise, you get general knowledge.»
- I"m sad to say it but I think there ought to be a screening procedure on the exchange students. Most of the foreign students in my program barely speaks/reads/writes english and neither has any experience in a lab. It"s painfully obvious that the groups with few or no exchange students get a lot more done because they are much less cripled than those with several. »
- none»
- Less freedom for examiners to form their courses, more control for master coordinators to make sure the courses stick to what is written in the course PM.»
- No suggestion.»
- introduction of basic courses applicable in core course e.g Matlab basic course»
- Make the student centre do stuff. I have not once during my 4 years at Chalmers been helped by them.»
- Better ability to take more courses both from the construction program and the geo- and water program.»
- Give more specific examples of what we can work with after graduaiton. Maybe stay in touch with former students to be able to see what they are working with.»
- Adding real life projects in the courses. »
- If there is a tuition fees for new non-European students coming to Sweden to study, it must include all the students without discrimination. It would be better to make harder the admission section to allow more smart and more talented students to enter the Swedish universities instead of introducing tuition fees for them! Then the quality of education and the willingness for serious applications will be guaranteed.»
- No»
- strengthen cultural communication and cooperation between swedish students and international students.»
- no»
- From experience in other universities during Erasmus studies I have seen that some universities have minor courses where students get the possibility to work on their own with computer software, where the ammount of course administrative work seems to be very limited. For instance, a minor complementary course in working with CAD software would be useful.»
- More information before choosing, it was VERY poor.»
- RAISE. THE. BAR. ALOT. A masters programme should not be for everyone to just sail through, as it stands now the level to pass a course is a joke and not a funny one.»
- there are few "paths" you can choose to specialize in, but the course offerings is not so broad, so the specializations dont acctually differ anything. This should be made clearer and there should be more courses for each path»
- Lp 1 and 2 year 1 should be arranged differently »
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- N/A»
- Visits to industrial environment should be added in curriculum. Lecture videos should be made available on student portal. »
- The CSE department in general needs to raise their expectations of the students. It"s clear to me that it is today a complete degree mill.»
- Provide guidance in how our knowledge and skills can be used in the world. Some kind of integration part that helps us to bridge the different topics of the masters programme.»
- The relation between coordinator and students, in term of more relation between university and industry»
- If it is possible to arrange some industrial training or visit that will be very good. One Swedish Language course can be included and mandatory for the international students.»
- hold some campus activities after class»
- Expand collaborations between faculties and with Göteborgs Universitet.»
- More alternatives for the course selection. To few courses to select from. »
- I would like to see some more communication between the different courses teachers, where the courses build of eachother, there seems to be some disconnection between some courses where they say either the same thing over again, or don"t say a core detail because they believe it was said in another course.»
- I"ve spent several hard days in Chalmers and there is nobody to talk and consult with. At least a coordinator who can understand people problem(educational problem) could be very useful. if you can add some solving example class for each course , it will be very applicable»
- The two links provided in the questionnaire to explain the goals of MP, were not leading to the right places (this is what I experienced of an access from home on 2nd May). I based my responses on what I thought were goals that I had read previously.»
- better if add more chance to get internships/extra jobs»
- To implement, from the first courses, parts of the teaching that consists mainly of discussion of the theoretically dense parts, which may or may not be hard to appreciate from traditional lectures.»
- Apart from access to libraries during longer hours and weekends, no.»
- Better information to the Chalmers student focusing on becoming a Civilingenjör and not a master of science.»
- More affiliation with companys and what they want»
- more connected to the big construction firms and the job market»
- More depth in the courses, especially the basic courses of the programme. Many students (myself included) feel that many courses have been made easier just to make sure that all students (read foreign students) can take them regardless of their background. The programme should not be made easier to facilitate for the students, it should be held a a high level regardless. Then if someone needs extra help with the subject it should be dealt with on a personal level. »
- Some updation is needed to match the industrial requirements in job profile»
- A much easier way of overlooking and selecting available courses!»
- no»
- The presentation of the different programmes and the fair in Ljusgården should be earlier in time.»
- Add more courses. There are not very many to choose from and the 100% study rate is in my opinion about 50%... At least compared to the bachelor»
- Take the course evaluations seriously, on the bachelor it seems like there have to be the same complaints for 5-6 years before there are any changes (and there are also a culture of resistance of changes among examiners), this is too long and unnecessary! Believe in the students and changes faster.»
- More collaboration with the industry is always nice!»
- More and better optional courses. More freedom to use wooden workshop. More space for experimenting in big models. Better air quality!»
- All information about the course should be handed out the very first day at latest to give the students a chance to plan their work as well as their schedule. A lot of time mandatory lectures collides.»
- no!»
- No»
- The teachers should be a bit harder on the students and actually discuss and critisize the work we do, not just say it good or great when it in some cases are obvious that their work is bad and have spent lot less time then expected.»
- No»
- Learn the teachers to teach and speak better english.»
- Arranging supportive maths courses.»
- MAKE THE GOALS MORE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE! I can"t imagine how much time I"ve spent on trying to find all the different goals that has to be fulfilled in order to get a degree.»
- I guess in general the Master programmes are very theoretical. In my opinion they are more a preparation for doctoral studies rather than a preparation for the industry. Every course should discuss and include assignments which are highly connected to real world applications!!!»
- Having internships compulsory, will help the students to get in touch with employers and also will help them to get a practical feel of what they"ve learned in the classrooms.»
- Too many exchangestudents do not have efficient knowledge in English, or in business subjects overall. »
- no»
- More interaction with industries and more study visits would be helpful.»
- Reduce written exams»
- Not at the moment»
- better cooperation with companies interested in us students»
- More laboratory work should also be included during the study period»
- more info about master thesis presentations in the masterprogram would be great so that we can get ideas of what is possible to do. »
- I think like all other universities in all over the world Chalmers should introduce the research assistantship program for Masters student.I think this could expand the thinking of masters student.»
- More tensors notation and working with tensors in different geometries more often.»
- yea i said.»
- Project management should be one of the compulsory courses - it is a course for the whole life!»
- These are well designed programmes but there should be more fexibility for compulsary courses»
- Try to make it fit reality better.»
- Se över den obligatoriska termninen! Lägg in ekonomikurs i början av programmet och gör den obligatorisk!»
- Better information on webpages etc on what possibilities you have to choose courses. Todah the pages are for some reason made cryptic and lacking most real information. They mostly only give the typhical "frequently asked question"-answers that seam more like commercial for the programme than actual information.»
- No»
- Give a guidance for what you want to work with. If you want to work in management consulting - the MEI program is the best program. If you wanna work with purchasing/logistics/operations etc - the SCM program is the best. And so on.»
- Some more connection to the industry and where to look for job afterwards.»
- No»
- Not really, besides what I"ve already said.»
- Make it easier to choose elective courses from both first and second year.»
- I am very very happy to spend my second year and I really feel glad for this. CHALMERS really motivated me mentally by providing the joy of studies, so that I am able to do well in my studies here and in my previous university (K.U.Leuven - Belgium). Finally proud to be a CHALMERS students and hopefully I could recieve my degree by the end of June. Everyday is a excitng experince in CHALMERS. I Thank you from the bottom of my soul,»
- It should be freee !»
- Look at question 37 »
- Student fees for non-Europeans should be covered by scholarships depending on the students BS and similar students" achievements from the same country.»
- Today it is up to the student to figure out which courses to select in order go achieve a specific goal. It"s also up to the student to find out (from somewhere?) what is coming after the studies, what kind of job they lead to. Some guidance in these kind of questions would be great to get out more of the program. (I realize that this require stuff and cost money, but it would have helped me a lot.)»
- have a bigger focus on preparing students for industry rather than academia. »
- More teachers needed in just about every course.»
- More practicals»
- more information to the newcomers before them come to Chalmers, expecially non-EU students where university is different, and some suggestions on the program preparation»
- The schedule for one period is too tight and masters students from a different country have to start adjusting to the toughness right from the word go. »
- more LAB works teach practical knowledge and shorten content of lectures»
- as i said in question 37»
- Provide more information about the programs and their previous year students acheivements»
- My impression is that it is easier to pass courses in the master programme than at the undergraduate level. In many courses at the master programme, it is possible to get quite a lot of bonus points for the exam by doing assignments. My opinion is that this system leads to inflation of the value of grades earned at Chalmers.»
- I would probably recommend some formal course in computer science (but with engineering physics standards). An optional fast paced and complete course on data structures, algorithms, computational complexity with high requirements fitting ambitious students should be added. »
- more seminars from other universities or students would be beneficial»
- Think of what the students need and not only what the teachers are interested in»
- The inclusion of subjects in Research Methodology»
- Maybe add some more courses. I mentioned it above (Q.21).»
- Mpdcs is discontinued, so no use...»
- I studied Automation and mechatronics for bachelor and then system control and mechatronics. Sometimes the courses was overlapping my previous studies (bachelor) by quite some bit. I even carried out the exact same labaratory exercise twice. I know it has to be that in some way to level the game field for students with other backgrounds, but maybe it was too much?»
- Written exams to to improve the standard»
- It would be nice to get proper feedback from assignments that we are doing and not just a number/points or pass/fail. At least some comments would be nice so that you know what was good and bad WHENEVER something is so be sent in. Use more lecturers form industry, let the phd students have one or two lectures in each course since they have a fresh memory of what it is like sitting in the class and therefor (at least from my experience) are more pedagogical. »
- More information about courses at other masters programs»
- Try to make more "live" excersises in collaboration with real clients and companys. »
- Evaluate and test teachers. All teachers giving guest lectures must be tested, if they actually can teach or not. Many of the ones we have had have NOT been able to.»
- no»
- Force foreign students to work in groups together with swedish people and change groups in every course, could improve connections in the class»
- The general study environment needs a little modification. For being a world class university, students should have some experience in conducting and attending Technical Fests or symposium. In addition to that more measures to increasing the interaction between internal and Swedish is suggested.»
- Try to include real-life case studies/examples in the education as much as possible. We don"t learn from books, we just become arrogant "know-it-alls".»
- see 37»
- It is good to have an extensive freedom of choice but it could be good to have suggestions for educational routes, i.e. suggestions for what to choose and combine to get a good education.»
- Decrease the credit of every course, or increase the limite of maximal credits every semester.So we can choose more courses to learn more. Decrease the number of compulsory courses, so we can have more chance to choose what we are interested in.»
- More connection to the industry »
- The number of student should reduce in some course, for example, Applied Signal Processing.»
- Less repetition»
- revision on the Northumbria courses part.»
- Masters fliers in PDF format have been very informative, and provided me with valuable information regarding my chosen subject for doing post graduate studies at Chalmers. As far as I have found so far, these fliers (at least for the Masters subjects in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering) are not available at Chalmers Web site any longer. I suggest »
- Better use of student proposals from the evaluation of master programms. There are 2 parts-teachers and students. It seems that theachers do not need to change something in they stayle of working because they are very good protected and selary do not depend on the evaluation of their job.»
- Bachelor students of chemical engineering should be able to choose the master programme Geo&Water. Geo&Water include a lot of courses involving water chemistry, water management and many other courses.»
- More connection with companies. When you are in the end of your studies it"s good to here what happens in industry.»
- Better communication with GU. »
- n/a»
- There should be more encouragement and possibilities to attend courses in other departments. »
- Many exchange students didn"t measure up to the standard of Chalmers students.»
- In the end of each course/lecture, it would be good if the teacher could give an example of how that lecture could lead to a master thesis project, in order for the students to start thinking of what they might want to research about later. »
- English courses for teachers»
- too little chance to be contact with the professors.»
- It is such a big university but still I haven"t seen any of my course mate getting a job»
- Make more connections between courses»
- less importance to examination because we are doing several labs project works which are also important to evaluate our knowledge in the subject but the mean weight is on exams. sometimes project works or lab evaluations are not even considered in overall course grading. it can be like 60 to 40 percent from exams and other activities ie labs project works, reports, respectively.»
- the coordinator of the program was changes some months ago. I don"t think that has good effect. I believe the coordinator of a certain class should stay besides them for the whole master period.»
- Better cooperation between teachers in the different studios would give the programme a lot. Even to cooperation between teachers in other courses could make the courses support each other.»
- Promote Chalmers Formula Student, competence from any Master programme at Chalmers is welcome and needed.»
- No options now.»
- no, everything is good»
- Cut the bouring enviromental courses and other not technically courses. More technical courses and less strange courses like envirnomnetal system analysis»
- no»
- More informartion from students! Stories on the web from former master students, like the ones on erasmus.»
- When you do evaluations, make sure that it is possible to make comments on all questions, I dont think this form will lead to any improvements at all because it is not formulated in a adequate way. And make sure the links will work: I can not find the goals (question 16-19), the link does not work and they are not easy to find... Be harder on the demands for admission of new students. There is a great lack of competence both in english and previous knowledge of subjects and this makes the whole course and class suffer. Both in that the damands to pass the course get to low and that the swedish students have to do more work to fill the badly done work of some foreign students. Hopefully this will be better when there will be a fee for studying in Sweden. »
- as I mentioned befor, add more elective courses in solid and fluid mechanics program»
- Its hard to get job after finishing masters compared with local students. even though they are less qualified in all sense with international students they are getting job easier, may be language alone can not help i guess. Not applicable to all. Charm Just gives information but no placements are happening. What ever we do study is only for future career that too in known place where your academics done. »
- Some teachers are not pedagogical at all. All the teachers should have a course in pedagogy. »
- More social activities organised within the master programs. I get the impression that international students and Chalmers students are a bit segregated at times. »
- Could have SWEDISH BASIC language course for International students.»
- not for sure»
- higher standards of education..., With the level you teach even someone without a bachelor could pass.»
- Introduce different orientations. But it is already done. »
- The student should be better prepare of studying at english. An compulsory English course should be offered in the bachelor degree»
- More guest lectures on bachelor levels to promote the students to get into the program. Get a booth at CHARM for information with som representatives from industry saying that there is work opportunities. »
- Should be more clear what you can work witrh after finishing the program. »
- Its already Very good»
- No.»
- It is good if students get help how to choose courses to avoid unnessecary diffícult and useless easy courses and to be able to be more focused and skilled on a matter in order to become experts.»
- More specific aims should be defined by the administration, not for students maybe but for the institution itself. I think vision and general goal of the institution are missing or not clear. If the insitution defines its purpose and vision more clearly, the programme will be definetely a better and well-known master degree.»
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- Well, this is not about chalmers program, but I would like to point out that the universty should help students to find a palace to live. However, I will be a second year masters"s student, I still look for a room for next year and upcoming quarters. That"s greatly annoying.»
- Especially for the sustainable program, there should be a division for backgrounds, or the program can be more focused on development. Industrial designers hae to design buildings in the program while they are not educated for that..»
- English level of the teachers should be improved»
- The minor management degree should be added again in the program as was in last year because its important to engineers for their success in industry. I prefer that it should be added and make it compulsry in the program.»
- supply Swedish basic course for free.»
- nops»
-
- no idea at this time..»
- Information Information Information.»
- At first I was not aware that the degree requires a non-technical course in addition to the courses specified by the program. If this should be a mandatory step, it must be clear from the start.»
- Career Center may be still developed by providing some basic courses in Swedish Language»
- pass»
- Add more optional courses for the periods.some periods have undesirable options »
- The website. It is way too complicated when it actually works - which it obviously seldom does. E.g. there should be a specific page for the master"s programme with all the necessary information (e.g. regarding thesis writing, thesis opportunities, etc), as well as possibilities for communication with other students.»
- More opportunities from the industry»
- The administration must be impoved»
- More visits to volvo, saab and suppliers. Better possibilities to create contacts with companies in the region. A more practical approach to the vehicle, with more hands-on laborations.»
- No»
- Det känns som om man har förlorat farten från grundutbildningen (Teknisk Fysik). På något sätt har man tid att gå runt och lata sig och aldrig riktigt behöva koppla på hjärnan riktigt ordentligt, det är lite tråkigt faktiskt.»
- They should guide teacher and students regarding why they are offering respective course and how it will help them with there degree.»
- improved space.»
- no»
- no»
- More emphasis on lab work and simulations, If there is an open book exam then will better»
- Harder requirements for exchange students to understand english.»
- Remove the course Research design and methods. Also, a majority of the internatinoal students are not meeting the same standards as you would expect from European students. My experience tells that most of them would not even pass a simple english test you perform in high school. It both affect the study climate, the ability to perform, and slows down the whole course tempo, which I believe is very sad. Start recruiting from top universities and not from those that barely make it into the classification of universities. Moreover, I believe you could enhance the programme by haveing more of a "red thread" across the different courses. Today the courses are very disparate.»
- in quarter system, the time for learning the new subjects is really short and i do not have enough time to learn them deeply.if it was a little longer in time it was probably much better. »
- more individual projects and research+better connection with other universities conferences »
- Replace two or three of weak teachers in the program. Some of tutorials are not good enuogh I mean PhD student(some of them) did not care about their role!»
- teaching can be improved»
- No»
- N/A»
- The teachers have to be much better prepared for the courses and not to make the pp presentations the day before.»
- Nothing more»
- I have seen good start on erasmus exchange student. However more should be done. Such as department trips should be adjusted, so that the students can have good communication among each other. Accomodation problems should be solved, i as a student had suffered to get appartment for four months. This lets student lag from their education. »
- Det borde gå att ha fler föreslagna exjobb»
- In my program the nuber of students is too much that makes some courses to be given in a way that is shorter than it should be.»
- Most of courses needed written exams that were focusing in memorizing theories which I saw it"s not the way of master learning.»
- follow up sessions and reflections of courses and acquired knowledge»
- Improve the non-existent collaboration between different master programmes!»
- More visits!»
- dunno»
- Yes. Make contacts with the industry. Bring the industry to the courses and vice-versa so the students get a view of why they are learning a specific subject. Make the courses more cooperative and force the random grouping of students into teams of 6-8 students, because letting them choose their own partner is not what will happen in the real world and does not let the students develop their personality while studying.»
- Make a friendly inviroment that students feel comfortable and secure to study»
- Master studies are a bit too easy here at chalmers and not very challenging to get high grades. »
- I prefer it could help international student more vivid involved in the local culture. and to provide more chances to study interactively.»
- Last year groups of students were assigned companies they visited in many courses to conect reality to the courses. that was one of the reasons i applyed for this programme. Make it work again! »
- more study visits»
- We do not need 3 months of summer vacation. Its an absolute waste of time. That could be made use of instead of 6 weeks to learn 2 subjects.»
- more inter»
- Make it more known in the society, in Europe. It is very important for the student, that the program gives him some kind of status, after he finishes. »
- recruit some good lecturers ,take a look at MIT and Stanford university lectures on youtube and you will see how big the difference is !!!»
- Since Chalmers is the school in Sweden situated in Gothenburg were you can find almost all vehicle and transportation industry it is important to have a Automotive engineering master program to provide the industry with engineers»
- The teachers should present (in the lectures) swedish translations of the important terms which are used. Most of the students are, after all, swedish, and the vast majority of them will also work in Sweden.»
- Why should structural engineer students study together with building physics students. No relvans to do this. Material performance and Heat and moisture engineering shouldn"t be mandatory for structural engineers.»
- I really feel that management should be more involved in providing contacts with the industry especially for foreign students. A free swedish course in the evenings would go a long way in that. And this is not impossible to implement I believe. »
- Increase the chances for student to know each other in the same program. Course evaluation questions need to be improved, some of them are too general. I like projects in course, but most of the projects need better administration, and some of the projects goals need to be more clear.»
- the availability of more resources and online libraries. »
- A formulation of a specific course on passive housing and one specific course on renewable energy integration in buildings, such as photovoltaics and wind power (for both, product information, calculations, design). These were the areas I wanted to progress more, and although I have at some level, it is not equal to my expectations.»
- Orientation process for international could be a little better»
- no»
- -students are not all of the same background-labs should take this into consideration»
- Except for innovative courses, keep a closer watch what competences, abilities required of matrial engineer background in the industry.»
- To elaborate on the previous point. The talk I now have with the program coordinater should have come sooner and helped me to get a feel for what courses to take»
- make the courses harder»
- The over all programme structure is good»
- i found each course works with a project could help me understand the course a lot,especial coorperate with companies. i could understand better in these courses,Visual Brand Identity and product design,Industrial design engineering - theory and methodology,physical ergonomic and cognitive ergonomic, project IDE.»
- In general it is much better to be in contact with other universities especially american universities for information exchange and keep up with the international trends.»
- No, I am quite satisfied.»
- inform more about everything!»
- let the student decide of the subjects they want to study...»
- Create a student union section for the master programmes! There is nowhere for the exchange students to belong (at least not a few years ago).»
- Maybe could give a 2 week english course in the beginning where writing, and presentation is keen subjects, ( could be after hours..)»
- I often feel there is to much repetition from first 3 years. Too many group projects (with uneven work load). A leader should be assigned (or chosen) to be responsible for the work and report on all members participation. Studying at school should be much more attractive. The program should have a common room where there should be plenty of space to booth study quietly and have discussion. All student should also have a locker where we can keep all books, papers and a computer. We have no ability to look up things we learned in previous courses if we don"t study at home. A workshop would be a great place to better learn about the materials we are HEARING about all day long.»
- improve cooperation between Chalmers and Universities outside Sweden»
- Maybe a "gettogether" on the first day to get to know the rest of the class. The knowledge level of the students from other universities are fine but the exchangestudents seem to consistently lack in there knowledge skills!!!! This makes them a burden instead of a contribution in projects! (this seems to be the case with exceptions for english speaking and other european countries). THe problem is that the exchange students has less experience from project and need the practice they get here but has a hard time constributing because they can"t express themselves or discuss or write in english.»
- no»
- as above»
- In some courses, there must be more practical work,»
- no»
- no»
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- more info abou business design for Z students»
- see 37»
- Group work should be encouraged further»
- Keep up the good work!»
- More lecture time.»
- The courses could be more integrated with each oter.»
- Weekly schedule should be organized better»
- Printing issues and availability, student laptops for loan»
- Guidance and appreciation of students who study a year abroad as part of their master studies. Chalmers often view this as only a cause of problems and disturbances.»
- Also, please encourage the teachers to hush students that talk during lectures, some students don"t even bother whispering, but talk out quite loud with unrelated casual talk. Very disturbing!»
- I have had lot of thoughts about the University before when I came here to Sweden. But after coming to Chalmers, I never felt I have to be else where than at Chalmers. I have got an offer from Aachen, Germany, Nanyang and NUS (Singapore). But I regretted them after hearing about the reputation of Chalmers. Not before, Even now I feel that I have been "BLESSED" to study at Chalmers. A million Thanks for the ones" who chose me and also to the ones" who are crafting me for the future.»
- no»
- Add an optional course Introduction to MATLAB, because, when I started my Masters programme in Chalmers, I have never worked with it before, we used a different math package in the university, where I studied for my Bachelor degree. Absence of such a course caused me a lot of trouble in the beginning.»
- More information from the working society! Examples of professional roles possible after graduation. »
- Since all international student don not know Swedish, there are some difficulties for them to get enough information about regulation and policy of education system in chalmers.Please let them know more about what they should do. For eg. I myself didn"t know that I should attend in 2 thesis defense sessions and be an opponent in order to defense my thesis.»
- Better collaboration between different masters programs»
- Not for now.»
- A better red thread through the courses and more focus on intraprenurs than on entreprenurs, based on where most students are working after the studies and their intrests.»
- I suugest to chabnge the time frame of the quarters. The quarters are short and need to be longer by at least two weeks. This canbe achived by reduce the holidays time. »
- Research methods course should be taught at chalmers instead of northumbria. Assignments should be more practical and should open up companay-university coordination »
- not really, It is still very good»
- more focus on renewables»
- No»
- Need broad course, knowledg, eg,3-4course one period, but fewer things for one course.»
- There should be some easy and quick way to get an overview of all the available advanced courses that are available together with some information about the contents.»
- Improvment of contact between teacher and student, Making a better structure and clearify the goals.»
- should have more PHD students who do relevant research which cooperates with the master programmes»
- I think it might be useful to have a track which is more towards hard materials, material selection for construction or product develeopment, where FEM analysis is a part. I guess this is available in the masters program from mechanical engineering but I think it would be nice to be able to choose this track from our master.»
- Encourage more international students (declined since fees introduced).»
- Demand higher english skills from exchange students or stop having international masters programmes. I am sorry to say that the level of the education is low due to poor english skills among teachers and students. »
- NO»
- The schedule of the courses in general is not very consistent, and in Spring 2011 the schedule was extremely inconsistent. This makes planning difficult for all students and faculty and is a big area for improvement. Other programmes better course schedules and can be looked at for examples.»
- To easy to get high grades. Inflation!»
- Teachers should be obliged to pass a course in pedagogy and english»
- Would have wanted deeper/more detailed knowledge from courses. Better coordination between courses, there"s much overlap between them. The study pace also seems to be slower than during the first 3 years, could be increased. »
- I think there should be more scholarships for international students that they can come to Sweden and spread its reputation to all over the world.»
- Make them located on chalmers - you will otherwise lose chalmers students in the future - cause sahlgrenska sucks! »
- An ability too chose more easily and be more aware about the possibiliyies to choose courses from different institutions. »
- No»
- no :)»
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- nothing»
- It is pretty good.»
- Simulation and/or applied statistical analysis. »
- no»
- The level of knowledge of foreign exchange students variates too much»
- more game courses that are about design and less coding courses for games. Best if both exist and we could pick between. »
- More tests and control of people so that they do what are to do.»
- I think for Structural Design students there should be some courses how to design the beams, slabs,»
- The interaction design track and the game design track should be more separated.»
- no, i think it is quite good.»
- I and many other students don"t have access to the group rooms and computer rooms at Lindholmen. This is really unprofessional. You should have given us access cards on the first day. To be honest, I am really ashamed on how this Master programme has been. I now that Chalmers is a serious university because I have been studying here for four years. But when I think of the exchange students that only have read the Master programme here at Chalmers, I feel sorry for them. I know that they will not say good things about Chalmers when they come home. Here is what I would have done to save the situation. Kick Miroslaw. He can"t handle students at all and there is nothing good about him. If you get rid of him I know that it would be for your best. Move Jörgen. He is a good teacher and I would like to give him another chance. But his administration is CAOS and the fact that he is "Head of IT" is just silly. If he are going to have the "Advanced Software Architecting" Course once again, he really needs to change the content of it. Promote Robert Feldt. He is a good teacher and takes the students seriously. He is really professional and the courses he has taken have been really interesting and I have learned a lot. Involve Lars Pareto, David Sands and Wolfgang more. They are both great teachers and you should really considering having them teaching more courses. Summary: Feldt should be head of the master programme and the teachers should be Pareto, Sands and Wolfgang.»
- remove tution fee»
- no»
- Can have more exposure to external events related to academics some collaboration with management schools would be good too»
- No»
- Good and large elective courses with interactive learning and practical experiments in teams/groups. That is so fun and I, and many with me learn a lot more from this type of pedagogic approach!»
- Some sort of common reception/"nollning"? Not as the one in your first year, but anyway some small gathering with - for example - partly all masterprograms belonging a certain area (mechanical engineering in this case) and partly with you new class! That would have been nice! »
- no.»
- Improve the level of the courses and let the students start research projects whenever they are ready. The capability of students to get involved in a research project can be observed through their previous works during bachelor level!»
- Some more information in the same place.»
- I felt that I was fooled when it comes to the information about the courses.. Like i.e. the Six Sigma Black Belt Course where in fact the certificate you receive is not the "real" certificate but a "chalmers certificate" with no worldwide meaning... But they didn"t mention that it wasn"t the "real" certificate you got when marketing the course... »
- Yes. I have been thinking a lot about the environment in which you work as a student. As a PhD student or employeed researcher with your workplace in the Vasa building, you have your workplace. As a student of the master or bachelor program, you are in great need of a computer of your own. Here the ergonomics come in. Sitting bent ower your small laptap. At least I have had much problem with aching in the back and neck. So better workplaces for all master students in the Vasa buildning.»
- Maybe interesting to add a course in project management. I think many would interested in reading such a course.»
- Nope»
- »
- More practical skills.»
- nej»
- no really»
- You should have more contact with the industry. Why not have a course that helps you to find industrial placements that also later on gives points in the education. The course could be called industrial Placement & Career Skills. This course should help and prepare students for the industry and find an industrial placement if the student wants. This course should also prepare for interviews and personal tests that are often used by companies.»
- Take into account everything that students mention it these questionnaires»
- Some courses should be revised and some should take more time. »
- More financial and economic courses seem to be needed for students from other background that economy!»
- Det vore bra om lärarna alltid hade en kursutvärdering i slutet av varje kurs.»
- its good »
- Not for now...»
- should we have a feedback system for all students to evaluate their teachers ?»
- change in optional courses»
- Don´,t skip the information system for supply chain management. It might be similar to another course in bs.c but for me (coming from another college) I learned a lot and it was one of the best courses I have taken. It is optional so people that have already taken a similar course don´,t have to take this one. But I think it is important to know about the information systems and all the technology to go out in the world so I thing this course should most definitely still be an option for future years.»
- i am satisfied»
- the cooperation between international students and swedish students need to be enhanced.»
- More cooperation with industries in courses.»
- To remove the parts of the subjects, which are definately not neccecary to learn.»
- Support for hossing need to be improved. At beginning of the program, many students do not have own apartments. Therefore, we are not able to focus on study right away.»
- Aim for same or similar PR-level as for the bachelor programs. Students don"t see or hear much about the master programs until its time to choose, then they talk to friends who do not necessarily have a wide view of the program.»
- I think that for exams, all course teachers should provide complete pool of possible questions on exam (not necessarily specific problems, but questions that could guide to what a student should expect on the exam) »
- for international students optimum residences around Chalmers are not possible. most students suffered from unnecessary movements. about 2 hour only for transport. imagine!»
- Nothing. It is really good.»
- helping student to involving more in scientific journal and conferences ,and make possibility to writing articles ,and provide support after graduation for working or continuing education.»
- no»
- Dont exept to young and unexperienced students, the Nordic master will eventually loose its glov. Experienced seamen are also a benefit for the teachers in class. Everyone can gain experience from each other»
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- no»
- Bertil who is responsible for this Master programme is doing a great job!»
- Not now»
- No idea. So far so good.»
- It should have more relation with research groups in Chalmers or other research institutes.»
- More practical tasks and better teachers. The teachers are a disgrace for the school. Only maybe 4-5 teachers in the masters programme was good.»
- More feedback»
- collection of this evaluation is good, it helps to improve the program. »
- More support for thesis preparation - open the discussion early and more often. Involve earlier thesis work (subjects) in courses to motivate further work or new ideas. »
- some mandatory courses can be offered twice a year instead of once a year as of now.»
- hope it be more focused on a certain area, not just give general views, e.g. distributed systems, 1,2, just provide a general view of what it is, while KTH has more deeper courses with modern knowledge»
- No comments»
- Keep evaluating the interconnections between the courses in the programme so each builds on the other or at least does not repeat the same info.»
- student can do examination whenever»
- an industrial porject course may help us to explore whats really going on there»
- we need to be better at chalmers to discuss in class, raise questions and get a debate going. Have experience that they are much better at this in other schools»
- See 36»
- I think I don"t have to give suggestion because there"s no longer this program from 2011.»
- More information about the programmes»
- Accomodation is a major concern for international students, especially at the start of the program. Also, more support for taking master thesis is highly appreciated.»
- Fix the schedule and involve more laborative exercises as in the advanced organic chemistry course»
- The location of exams should be clear.»
- Yes. the university must take care of the future prospect of the students and help them in contacting the companies.»
- no»
- Look over the requirements on students from other universities, especially some in Sweden. I percieve ome of the students having both lower abilities and lower qualifications than the Chalmers students, which affects the study climate.»
- More practical stuff. Labs etc.»
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- Provide more related elective courses for the second year.»
- Get to know each other activities are important in the beginning of the master programme. »
- Please have an entrance examination in both English and the major subject for exchange student. This since it is impossible to do any group work (or any work at all with them) when they don"t have the background knowledge in the subject, have so hard time understand English that it makes it a burden to communicate and don"t know the rules (copy-pasting or how to process texts) used when writing reports or similar. I want to point out that I"m not against that Chalmers has exchange of students, but when it affects my education and gradings negatively and I constantly need to consider who I work and study with it becomes quite a big burden. I will also point out that not all exchange students are the problem, but there are a quite large part of them that "free rides" on serious students who want to succeed with their education. An even larger issue is that when you as a student search for help from examiners or similar, there are almost never any help to get. I personally has only got help by one examiner with issues like this. I think this is really sad for a school like Chalmers who profiles itself as a serious school.»


QUESTIONS ONLY FOR STUDENTS WHO STARTED 2007-2009

Questions related to the second year of a Masters programme

39. After almost finished the program do you know what you are going to work/study in the fall of 2011

762 svarande

Further study at Chalmers»99 12%
Already got a job in industry»146 19%
Are going to do research at Chalmers (PhD)»55 7%
Already got a international job (industry)»41 5%
Already got an international job (university)»12 1%
I do not know»242 31%
I have not decided»168 22%

Genomsnitt: 4.47

40. Was it difficult for you to find a suitable Master thesis?

1336 svarande

(på denna fråga var det möjligt att välja flera svarsalternativ)

No»159 11%
Not really but It took some time»262 19%
No problem - I got a number of alternatives.»87 6%
Yes especially in industry.»144 10%
Yes especially in Chalmers»28 2%
Yes»63 4%
I dont know - I have not tried yet»97

- When I was looking it was the peak of the economic crisis. I think now it is easy.» (Yes especially in industry.)
- Took a lot of time and I as a student got up 5 am to search for three months.» (Yes especially in industry., Yes especially in Chalmers, Yes)
- I developed an idea with the company I worked in in the summer.» (No)
- See question 38 for my opinions.» (No problem - I got a number of alternatives.)
- Some of the people responsible for the thesis was hard to get in touch with.» (Yes especially in industry.)
- the most difficult thing was to decide what to do...» (Not really but It took some time)
- No information from Chalmers. Some information about what to think about before starting.» (Not really but It took some time)
- The problem is not the industry, the information from Chalmers have been lacking, I"m verry dissapointed with the way the master-thesis information have worked» (Not really but It took some time)
- First problems with companies due to re-organazations. Than very big problems to find supervison and an examiner at Chalmers» (Not really but It took some time)
- No help from Chalmers or the people from the program. Need to find a Master thesis all by my self. I think the program should offers more help to find a project in industry and also offers more project on the department.» (Yes especially in industry., Yes especially in Chalmers, Yes)
- it takes me a month to find a suitable topic for me.But I think it is fine.» (Not really but It took some time)
- started to look for a thesis very early» (No)
- Mainly it"s how high you set your own demands, but with a good network it"s not a problem really.» (Not really but It took some time)
- professions very helpful» (No, Yes especially in Chalmers)
- quite hard, send a lot of application letters and got no reply. or too late reply.» (Yes especially in industry.)
- I started searching quite early and got one before time, but it took time, may be I was applying too early for it.» (Not really but It took some time)
- Doing an international Internship, thanks to great support from teachers.» (No problem - I got a number of alternatives.)
- N/A» (Yes especially in industry., I dont know - I have not tried yet)
- Because they ask for Swedish language» (Yes especially in industry.)
- For me it wasn"t difficult. But may be it is for someone. » (No)
- It was very difficult to find a suitable topic. And there wasn"t any clear guidance available. I basically felt like I was on my own.» (Yes)
- There isn"t any support from university to do master thesis with industry» (Yes especially in industry.)
- distributed system related subjects are not very much in Sweden» (Not really but It took some time)
- It depends on what you are looking for» (Not really but It took some time)
- It would be good to have an information day, at the architecture depatment about how to plan and make the master thesis, there is a course(non compulsory) but without take the course the information is hard to find and who to speak with is very unclear.» (Not really but It took some time, I dont know - I have not tried yet)
- Might have been my own fault, being lazy. But also it was hard to get in contact with an supervisor on Chalmers.» (Not really but It took some time)
- Not enough attention from university to provide suitable master thesis specially in industry for non-EU students. Industry were almost declined to accept foreigner students in our period (2008-2010) of course it was crisis but it had naturally more effect on foreigner students.» (Yes especially in industry., Yes especially in Chalmers)
- I worked hard, but got several offers and found a really good one.» (Not really but It took some time)
- Its not hard to find a master thesis, but its hard to find one in the industry within a specific field.» (No)
- Many were available but not in my specialization» (Yes especially in industry.)
- Mats Lundqvist came in and saved the day. » (No)
- I got lucky, I would imagine.» (No)
- I think that more information is needed, sooner, about the master thesis.» (Not really but It took some time)
- I was out of luck, first the company quit, then my partner quit after looking for a thesis for almost half a year. I"d prefer to be able to write thesis on my own from the very beginning, to avoid this!» (Yes especially in industry.)
- Very difficult if you don"t speak swedish or if you are a foreginer student» (Yes)
- I expected a more active recruitment of students for different types of Msc-thesis suggestions, especially since the industry seems to have a hard time to attract new engineers.» (Not really but It took some time)
- Since the business design program has the project year which is part of the thesis, almost no searching was required expect evaluating the projects.» (Yes)
- Informationen om exjobb kan ligga betydligt tidigare än i slutet av okt/början av november. Ha en information första läsveckan av åk 2 eller redan i slutet av åk 1, förslagsvis i samband med åk 2:s redovisningar. » (Not really but It took some time)
- The problem was to get it accepted, took over a month. That sucked. : (» (Not really but It took some time)
- Information about how to get a thesis, what papers to file, who to talk to, if i"m eligible or not.. EVERYTHING -pardon my french- is bloody impossible to find without spending countless hours googling (because you can just forget about trying to find ANYTHING with the "chalmers search engine"). WHY isn"t there a "dummies guide to the master thesis"? I mean, it"s not as if the students at Chalmers don"t write and master thesis!? I simply cannot be the first one.» (Not really but It took some time)
- There nearly no information on this subject. It takes me look time before finding out how it works. » (Yes)
- We"ll start with the thesis this summer. Probably we have got one.» (No)
- For students from architectural programs, it"s more difficult due to the limited time.» (Not really but It took some time)
- I haven"t found any that summarize my education, and I"m not sure if projects I can think of myself are good enough to keep all employment options open.» (Yes especially in industry., Yes especially in Chalmers, Yes)
- It should take some time. It should be a cross over thing from studies to a job. One should not expect to get handed a master thesis on a silver plate, students should need to put in an effort.» (Not really but It took some time, No problem - I got a number of alternatives.)
- My teammate found it» (No)
- I have great interest in computer graphics. After contacting Assistant Professor Ulf Assarsson and asking him for help, he gave a list of potential companies in Göteborg which often accept interns. I sent a mail to each on the list and soon found myself working on a very interesting thesis.» (No)
- It was difficult to do it in England, it would have been better to go back to Sweden and look for something there.» (Yes)
- First of all not many industries are working in my field of interest and secondly they don"t like international students working on their projects.» (Yes especially in industry.)
- Chalmers has a good reputation in industry» (Not really but It took some time)
- But I consider myself a bit lucky. » (Not really but It took some time)
- We didn"t get enough information on how and when to start looking.» (Yes especially in industry.)
- We started early in the fall to look and we could choose from three or for thesises in october.» (No)
- And it was terrible hard to find a examinor at Chalemrs! And we still do not have a supervisor!» (Yes especially in industry.)
- lots of them, as long as we use internet searching engine proficiently. Furthermore, we have CHARM, a good chance to seek one suitable thesis. However seems it"s not easy at all: I had apply to almost companies here (2009), but no positive reply!» (No)
- I wanted to write about something rather specific and it took some time to get what i wanted.» (Not really but It took some time)
- But now I am doing it for an industry » (Yes especially in industry.)
- I belive I had about 10 very good alternatives after only a week or two of searching.» (No problem - I got a number of alternatives.)
- Since the program has not given me enough options to realize what subject I am actually interested in, I had a hard time applying to different companies. In the end I had 4 approvals and did not know how to decide and the university staff were not of much help as they kept repeating my own talks. Besides, I knew for sure that getting an academic thesis can lead to a PhD but after finishing my thesis I realized that it was not completely true and that there are times that the department does not open a position in the subject that I spent months working on!» (Yes)
- fining a supervisor in my field was almost impossible and industry has the same situation » (Yes especially in industry., Yes especially in Chalmers)
- Almost all the thesis that are being sent to us have the requirement of saying " If you Know Swedish","Swedish Citizen" and so on and we as an international students are left ,Almost every thing in the adverts are in Swedish Sweden is totally not a place for international Students.» (Yes)
- It didn"t really go the way I expected though.» (No problem - I got a number of alternatives.)
- Via the Automotive engineering project -Formula student- i got alot of important industry contacts. this is also one of the few ways to get a practical experience during the entire Chalmers education» (No)
- through contacts from formula student.» (No)
- I didnt get any support from Chalmers in finding a thesis in Industry, or even how to start searching.» (Yes especially in industry.)
- We developed our own thesis so the problem was to find a interesting topic.» (Not really but It took some time)
- I got my master thesis through a summer job I did. Not that much of help from the university though. I think international students should be informed early enough about the situation that they have to find the thesis almost by themselves. » (Not really but It took some time)
- The number of masters theses published on the prgramme page was laughable, and Chalmers is not connected to "Exjobbspoolen". A better way for the industry to link their proposals to chalmers would have been great.» (Yes)
- It is a bit hard for the international students.» (Not really but It took some time)
- Me and my partner had great help from Sverker Alänge. Without him, we would not have been able to get our master thesis. » (No)
- Really difficult for foreign students. Unfortunatly but understandable there is the perception of preference to Swedish language» (Yes especially in industry.)
- No help from the programme. » (Yes especially in industry.)
- There are quite a lot of themes on the chalmers website, but not enough information if we want to find a Master thesis in a company, maybe because of the language barrier.» (Yes especially in industry.)
- faculty should provide the thesis topics to students. because first finding a research area needs alot of time and even if students find one they didnt know if that will work or not. if they get guidance in choosing the topic from teachers it will be great help to develop a good thesis work. » (Not really but It took some time, Yes especially in industry.)
- It was mentally very tough. It was really stressing and made me worry a lot » (Not really but It took some time)
- Should spend quite some time on it» (Not really but It took some time)
- It was a bit more difficult to find a thesis in Australia where I was studying at the time» (Not really but It took some time)
- We had very strict specifications so it was not because of our background, rather because we were picky.» (Yes)
- I think that i did not got so much help from theachers at my department for the masters program and to get answer from CHARM and contact with companies was hard. At another department i got it after a month or so.» (Not really but It took some time)
- Yes absolutly. Even if i knew what I wanted to do, it was hart to find a suitable case» (Yes)
- Think it depends on how picky you are. If you"re looking for the perfect "dream" thesis it could be hard to find. If you"re looking for a good thesis it does not seem hard to find. (I say this as a Swedish speaking student)» (No, Not really but It took some time)
- When you want to work on a specific subject and you want to be a bitpicky (like only work in industry), it can be hard!» (Yes especially in industry.)
- I have not been able to see any availeble thesis so far and if it is possible chalmers should have more contact with industries let student to see a the options. » (I dont know - I have not tried yet)
- There should have been more information from the master coordination side regarding how to apply for a maste thesis and how the procedure is after you recieve one. It is easy for us who studied at Chalemrs before but it could be of use to all intrnational students.» (No)
- Did not get any help at all finding a master thesis. You must help us gather companies, both for knowing what compnaies are out there suitable for our education and help us to find matser thesis. It took way to much time and trouble.» (Yes)
- it was difficult in industry» (Not really but It took some time)
- They were provided by the education.» (No)
- I wanted to start from very beginning, but I had to wait for almost one year!!!» (Not really but It took some time)
- I got my thesis after summer job» (No)
- There need to be more guidance and help for this.» (Yes especially in Chalmers, Yes)
- It was easier to find master thesis on Chalmers and through courses during the master thesis. Julie Gold is a good teacher that cares about here students and gave more alternatives on where to find master thesis than the program coordinator or Chalmers in general. She is really good!! It is a bit sad that Chalmers is not more involved to help the students to find master thesis out in the industry!!!» (Yes especially in industry.)
- Companies seemed reluctant to take us as master thesis students in their companies. Companies like Volvo for example clearly asked for swedish students for their master thesis offers .. what else to say??? » (Yes)
- Have not done that yet.» ()
- It was hard to find anything suitable by searching through ads. Got the master thesis position through contacts.» (Yes especially in industry.)
- Haven´,t looked for it» (I dont know - I have not tried yet)
- There was a total lack of information concerning how to find and apply for a master thesis. One or two information meetings would have been good.» (No problem - I got a number of alternatives.)
- Got offered one quite early. » (No)
- The thesis opportunity can be mailed to students. A separate portal for all the department thesis.» (Yes especially in industry., Yes especially in Chalmers, Yes)
- At architecture you define your own thesis, not necessarily toghether with industry. So, no problem finding one.» (No)
- There is many suitable thesis in industry also but its difficult to join. And it takes time also. » (Not really but It took some time)
- In my case I would have liked to investigate the opportunity of a practical research assignment (even abroad). That would have acquired more preparation and planning but I believe is worth it, and researcher/professors could help more to facilitate and guide students in the search for case studies/ problems to analyze. » (No)
- I was sure of what I wanted to work on in my thesis. Had my own proposals which did not work out as there was some investment involved. But I was lucky to get a thesis in Volvo in my interest domain and this converted into a job as a consultant. As the saying goes "All is well that ends well" :)» (No)
- I am searching right now, but it seems that it is quite easy to find a master thesis. I will write mine thesis this fall. » (I dont know - I have not tried yet)
- Thanks to my professor that it eventually happened.» (Yes especially in industry.)
- Felt like one was totally left alone to find everything by himself. Sure the school should not spoon feed me, but it felt like I even didn"t belong to a school.» (Not really but It took some time)
- I was lucky» (No)
- We couldn"t find one in Gothenburg. We got a company in Norway.» (Not really but It took some time)
- The departments related to the programme helped us. » (No)

41. How satisfied are you with the supervision (so far) of the Master Thesis?

760 svarande

Not at all»17 2%
Not so satisfied»50 8%
Neither/Nor»65 10%
Satisfied»265 42%
Very satisfied»203 32%
No opinion»20 3%
I dont know - I have not started yet»140

Genomsnitt: 4.04

- Better information about thesis work.» (?)
- My supervisor went on paternal leave after 1 or 2 months, which I was aware of when we started. However the thesis was much more complicated than I realized so I found it difficult to get help. The supervisor answered questions via email as much as he could but it is not the same as having meetings face to face. The replacement supervisor only works 20% at Chalmers.» (Not at all)
- My supervisor does care about the thesis. He is phd student in safer and he just come 2 days a week in safer and one day in chalmers and 2 days he is at home for taking care of child. so we have access to him for just 2 days a week. also he is not helpful at all. we are suppose to design and build a test setup. In the beginning of the thesis he said he will arrange the workshop for building. but after we design the test setup he refuse to do that and we are in trouble now .... I dont know to whom we should complain ( if there is any one or any where which they listen to students issue ??!!!...)» (Not at all)
- Our supervisor at the company does not have the knowledge to guide us. Our supervisor at Chalmers does not have the time. The thesis has been very much unguided and is a rather critical situation! We should get much more guidance in order to learn more from our thesis.» (Not at all)
- too little contact with chalmers supervisor.» (Not at all)
- very disappointed. the information and process of the master thesis has A LOT to improve!!!» (Not at all)
- Very hard to get meetings with supervisor, and she is more like an enemy than a supervisor.» (Not at all)
- It took months before we got a supervisor. And the one we finaly got was only interested in signing off on out thesis and did not provide much guidance. He was nice though.» (Not at all)
- Hard to get in touch with our supervisor/examinator and even harder to book a meeting.» (Not at all)
- More consultation from chalmers how master thesis works, compulsory moments etc. hard to fix everything by my self.» (Not at all)
- Very nice person and wants to teach me new things, but he does not know some of the procedures and does not take into account deadlines.» (Not so satisfied)
- Examiner rarely answers my e-mails» (Not so satisfied)
- it was good from the companys side but the superviser from chalmers had to much to do and therefore he did not really take it seriously. » (Not so satisfied)
- unclear what we have to do to fulfill master thesis» (Not so satisfied)
- No guidance from my supervisor. Set up of the thesys work is taking too long.» (Not so satisfied)
- I sometimes feels that the exchange students are getting away with less work than the swedish students and its hard if you end up in a group were your have to make the main part of the work. This is the same regarding being in time and to attend mandatory lectures. » (Not so satisfied)
- The thesis is not placed at PPU.» (Not so satisfied)
- I want to know more companies on related fields» (Not so satisfied)
- Professor does not show interest.» (Not so satisfied)
- not enough availability from the supervisor» (Not so satisfied)
- A first thing would be to answer emails on time» (Not so satisfied)
- It appears that the professors do not have the time to provide consultations for thesis students. There is also a lot of confusion as to whether you are supposed to go to your examiner or tutor for consultations. I have only met with my tutor for an hour and my examiner for one meeting and my mid term presentation» (Not so satisfied)
- Some teachers are way to busy to help. When trying to get some help from other teachers at the department they often reject the suggestion.» (Not so satisfied)
- The rules are sooo different depending on wich examinar you have got. It can depend soooo much how much suport you get. » (Not so satisfied)
- not flexible» (Not so satisfied)
- have not gotten any real supervision or help, suggestions.. anything» (Not so satisfied)
- I have not been getting very much supervision from Chalmers, but on the other hand I have not asked for it or been needing it.» (Neither/Nor)
- i feel very free to do my own work and i like that but i would like deeper feedback» (Neither/Nor)
- Did not get any at all, but that was fine by me.» (Neither/Nor)
- Having my Chalmers supervisor a thousand kilometers away mean we have little contact. It is as anticipated by both of us though, and works well I believe.» (Neither/Nor)
- N/A» (Neither/Nor)
- Could be better supervised. Appreciate the freedom though.» (Neither/Nor)
- could have been better» (Neither/Nor)
- Thesis executed at location of company and have therefore got the needed support from them. » (Neither/Nor)
- The supervision is not what I expected it to be but it leaves a lot of freedom to what I can do in my thesis. » (Neither/Nor)
- The supervisor at the company is great. The supervisor at Chalmers on the other hand seems a bit busy and sometimes hard to get feedback from.» (Neither/Nor)
- We have almost no supervision, on the other hand I don"t know what we should use it for.» (Neither/Nor)
- I"m just in the introduction.» (Satisfied)
- Since my thesis is in company, I always need to have comments and supervision from both college and company when big decisions are to be made. Both my supervisors are busy and it"s sometimes hard to arrange time so that progress is delayed. » (Satisfied)
- Could give some more supervisiontime» (Satisfied)
- Very good from the comapny but some contact problem to the examiner at Chalmers.» (Satisfied)
- In some courses there was not enough licenses for all students to work at the same time with a specific program.» (Satisfied)
- Have been given help when needed.» (Satisfied)
- We have only had meetings when we have asked for them but the meetings that we have had have all been fruitful and helpful.» (Satisfied)
- Either the thesis was very good or the supervisors had trouble with giving feedback.» (Satisfied)
- I get great help and support from the people at Surgical Science. Ulf Assarsson shows a willingness to listen and comment if asked directly, but is otherwise entirely decoupled from the work on my thesis.» (Satisfied)
- the examiner is too busy and we never meet him, but the supervisor is fine. I don"t think that is a good approach that if a thesis is independent, them the supervisor"s responsibility is less.» (Satisfied)
- The collaboration with the examiner has worked well. The master thesis coordinator, however hasn"t contributed with any clarity at all. No such thing as informaiton about schedule, timelines or structure was handed out. When asking questions the answers are confused, if even send to the correct student. I received an e-mail 3 months into my thesis where the coordinator asked me if I was planning on doing the thesis the same semester. Embarassing.» (Satisfied)
- I think it is very uneven. We have gor good supervision but far from everyone has. More guide lines.It is not ok for an examinor to not even read the report in the end. » (Satisfied)
- quick reply! no opinion for specific support, since I had a supervisor at the company already.» (Satisfied)
- I needed a plan not to go wrong but there was no plan from the beginning. Well we managed to make one after a couple of months though and it has been great since.» (Satisfied)
- My supervisor does not work 100% at the moment and it is sometimes difficult to set appointments.» (Satisfied)
- He is a nice guy and always inspires us.» (Satisfied)
- Not doing it at Chalmers though» (Satisfied)
- Tachers has of couse much else things to do, but they seem to care and wants to help.» (Satisfied)
- I"m satisfied with the supervisor but dissatisfied with the information from the programme» (Satisfied)
- I have some contant with my examinator, but mostly with my supervisor in the company. » (Satisfied)
- No feedback from supervisor of the final thesis. Otherwise good» (Satisfied)
- More feedback and higher/clearer demands on quality of work is always nice. » (Satisfied)
- Satisfied with the help from the university, supervision and support. Less satisfied with the contact with the industrial partner. » (Satisfied)
- Im doing my master thesis at AstraZeneca where the supervision is great.» (Very satisfied)
- Torbjörn Claesson is doing a great job as a supervisor!! » (Very satisfied)
- Our supervisor is very good, we meet on equal terms and have very good discussions. At this point they do know we are well educated to run our own projects without any need for guidance, it"s more of the formal report structure that needs supervision. » (Very satisfied)
- My supervisor was excelent! Helpful but not controling.» (Very satisfied)
- I do my thesis at Industrial Design faculty.» (Very satisfied)
- Petra Bosch is our supervisor and she is great! :)» (Very satisfied)
- » (Very satisfied)
- Magnus Holmén is a great person and supervisor. Other teachers should learn from him in terms of interest for students and being efficient in his work!» (Very satisfied)
- It would be better if I could exactly know to what extent should the thesis achieve to pass. And even better to have knowledge about how large difference between PHD thesis and Msc thesis.» (Very satisfied)
- The supervisor and examinator from Chalmers did an outstanding job, full marks! But from my and others experiences the industry is pretty slack and doesn"t really put an effort in supervising "on site". But I guess that won"t and can"t be changed by Chalmers.» (Very satisfied)
- My examiner is great» (Very satisfied)
- Excellent supervisor in Roine Leiringer!» (Very satisfied)
- bjorn von sydow» (Very satisfied)
- It"s up to us a lot which is fine.» (Very satisfied)
- our teacher give us a lot patience and advise» (Very satisfied)
- Couldn"t be more satisfied. » (Very satisfied)
- im at northumbria currently, they are very supportive» (Very satisfied)
- Magnus Holmén was supportive and competent even if it wasn"t his main subject» (Very satisfied)
- the PPU department rocks!» (Very satisfied)
- Krister Holmberg is great.» (Very satisfied)
- Very satisfied with the supervision, but the information from chalmers could be clearer.» (Very satisfied)
- But he is not from biomedical group!» (Very satisfied)
- Our supervisor has been very helpful for us. His efforts are really impress.» (Very satisfied)
- My supervisor has been very very supportive ... even though i have been annoying and maing a transition he has always been of help ...» (Very satisfied)
- I do however not do my master thesis within the same institution as my master programs.» (Very satisfied)
- I have had good supervisors and examiner!» (Very satisfied)
- A good level of freedom and a supervisor who is more or less always available for consultation. Great!» (Very satisfied)
- Really good tutoring team supervising the process and an examinor who really cared about the outcome of the project» (Very satisfied)
- Magnus Holmen rocks!» (Very satisfied)
- I wouldn"t know because i"ve only been waiting for one for about 3 weeks.» (No opinion)
- still didnt experience it.» (No opinion)
- Haven´,t started» (I dont know - I have not started yet)
- still looking for a master thesis» (I dont know - I have not started yet)

42. Do you think you will work (future) in the same area/field as your Masters Programme

767 svarande

Yes (for ever)»130 16%
Yes (for the next 5 years anyway)»280 36%
Probably»294 38%
Probably not»36 4%
Definitely not»6 0%
No opinion»22 2%

Genomsnitt: 2.44

- I really hope I can get a career within my masters field» (Yes (for ever))
- I will always be an entrepernour. But not thanks to CSE. I would attended ICM or something else if I got to choose again. » (Yes (for ever))
- I"d like to, but I"m not sure I will be given the oppertunity» (Yes (for ever))
- I have always intended (since age 9) to work in the game industry and my resolve is still strong. Working at Surgical Science seems to be the equivalent of working in a game company, but without any of the drawbacks. Even if my interest for game development should fade, I cannot see myself doing anything but software engineering as a career. I need the constant theoretical puzzles and technical conundrums to keep engaged and feel good about my work.» (Yes (for ever))
- ...hopefully» (Yes (for ever))
- hopefully» (Yes (for ever))
- Hopefully!» (Yes (for ever))
- at least i hope so. it depende on the job situation» (Yes (for ever))
- In some why or another, since I have a big interest in Biotechnology and tissue engineering. Could work in the lab or as a salesperson for biotech products.» (Yes (for ever))
- I don´,t have a job, but this is something I most definitely want to work with» (Yes (for ever))
- I had work experience before I joined my master"s program. I was sure I would continue in the same domain. And I selected the right program for myself and now working in the same field.» (Yes (for ever))
- and probably longer» (Yes (for the next 5 years anyway))
- I had consisted on the track of design engineering for 7 years and I like the field. But it doesn"t mean that I will work in it forever. May after a few years working, I will turn to marketing or management or so.» (Yes (for the next 5 years anyway))
- I will be working with distributed systems, but most of what I will have use for when working will probably be from what I learned in my bachelor. » (Yes (for the next 5 years anyway))
- probably longer that 5 years» (Yes (for the next 5 years anyway))
- good area» (Yes (for the next 5 years anyway))
- The programme is very wide, which provides the opportunity to work in a large number of different fields of science/industry» (Yes (for the next 5 years anyway))
- I am a bit disappointed by the fact that very few companies have made any effort to recruit people that are graduating. The programme does after all contain a large number of top students that are highly motivated and interested in their field of study.» (Yes (for the next 5 years anyway))
- The master thesis got me gread credentials. Without it I wouldn"t have the job I now have.» (Yes (for the next 5 years anyway))
- as long as I can find the job..» (Yes (for the next 5 years anyway))
- I was very unsure during my studies, but now I am doing it and I really like it!» (Yes (for the next 5 years anyway))
- I like it, at least.» (Probably)
- combining my program MPIES and communication engineering will my my prefect choice.» (Probably)
- N/A» (Probably)
- I am trying to find job in my education field but I am not sure I could find.» (Probably)
- I hope so» (Probably)
- At least for now,it feels like I can hardly find a job not to mention find a suitable job.» (Probably)
- depends on the PhD position I get !! Its uncertain unless I get the PhD.» (Probably)
- I don"t know. This type of society doesn"t favor people who invent, create and build. I didn"t take this programme to get work, but out of personal interest.» (Probably)
- A combination of bachelaor and master. » (Probably)
- My work will be related to DCPM but since it will not be in construction/production, my knowledge from the master program will only be distantly related to my field of work » (Probably)
- I wish to do so! Because I am interested in this topic.» (Probably)
- It is a broad field and even if I will not work directly with quality, it is something that comes into play in almost all types of jobs. » (Probably)
- but not necessary to be exactly the same» (Probably)
- It"s a very wide subject so you can work with basically anything.» (Probably)
- That"s what I want to do, but I"m unsure about if it is possible to get a job where I can work with what I"ve leart. All mails from the degree-horny consulting firms have made my confidence really weak...» (Probably)
- I hope so, I really like my topic. I would love to develop it further.» (Probably)
- I hope so, at least for now.» (Probably)
- I think material technology is very interesting. » (Probably)
- but not at my first job» (Probably)
- I regret so much that I ever started at Chalmers 5 years ago. » (Probably not)
- this technology is quite new and only i can work in companies or universities equipped with clean room » (Probably not)
- not easy to find job opportunities in europe as foreign.» (Probably not)
- My choice of this program was to create a transition, i have been unsuccessful to do so ... but i have gained a lot while doing so which was in computational biology. So i will prefer sticking to this area ... it has nothing to do with the program but is my independant choice.» (Probably not)
- I have since the first year of MPCOM only taken courses related to medical image processing/analysis. My hope is to continue on this track in the future. » (Definitely not)
- Maybe?» (No opinion)
- It"s not that specific» (No opinion)

43. Do you at this point feel prepared (from the Master programme) for a professional career?

764 svarande

Yes definitely»174 22%
Yes but I still need some professional training»462 60%
No I definitely need some more training.»76 9%
No I need much more training»28 3%
No opinion»25 3%

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44. 44. If you would have to pay tuition fee (same amount as in Europe) when applying for Master Programme in Sweden. What is in your opinion the advantages with Chalmers compared to European Universities

You can give a number of reasons and please add comments

1336 svarande

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Chalmers reputation as a University»324 24%
Chalmers research profiles»142 10%
Specific Master programme profile»254 19%
The learning environment - facilities»195 14%
Teacher abilities in language/pedagogy/scientific field»131 9%
The clean air and sustainable society»194 14%
The creative and friendly study climate»186 13%
Active interaction with teachers and other students»159 11%
Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries»170 12%
Chalmers ranking (please comment which ranking list)»58 4%
Gothenburg as an nice city for students»269 20%
Availability of student rooms/flats»33 2%
No advantages at all»57 4%
Other - please comment»40 2%

- "Availability of student rooms/flats" -riiiight And foremost the student activities! » (Specific Master programme profile, The learning environment - facilities, The creative and friendly study climate, Active interaction with teachers and other students, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- I think Chalmers should help International students more in finding a job or at least industrial internship in Scandinavian industries(Of course, the students should also pay their efforts a lot). Why it is only possible for the exchange students to learn Swedish ? Actually for most of the exchange students coming from European countries, they do not need Swedish at all because the longest exchange period is only one year.And compared to cultures influence in this world, Swedish culture influence is behind the cultures coming form France, German, Britain,Italy, Spain and Russian. It is the International students not the exchange students from European countries need Swedish language study more. I am not quite sure but I chat with Master students and Ph.D student in Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),some of them studied Master programme in Sweden before. They have a four months semester and their course setting are relative deeper than in Chalmers. I am not oppositional with the two months study period in Chalmers(It is the same all over the Sweden and in 21th century it is very necessary having a fast studying ability) but I think the lecture hours should really add more! Also compared to the knowledge depth arranged in the U.S., Chalmers is far from enough. » (Chalmers reputation as a University, Chalmers research profiles, Specific Master programme profile, The learning environment - facilities, Teacher abilities in language/pedagogy/scientific field, The creative and friendly study climate, Active interaction with teachers and other students, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- Am I born in Sweden, thus its already payed for.» (Other - please comment)
- What is meant by "Europe" in the question above? EU? Why don"t you just say so? This is offensive for me, from Europe but non-EU. Everywhere in Sweden and in Chalmers you mean EU by "Europe". And I am obviously not from there.» (No advantages at all)
- I dont know I"m from Sweden.» (Other - please comment)
- I can"t give a proper answer since I"m a Swedish student.» ()
- I"m Swedish so this does not affect me.» (Other - please comment)
- the student activities» (Chalmers reputation as a University, The creative and friendly study climate, Gothenburg as an nice city for students, Other - please comment)
- I don"t like the introduction of tuition fees, so no idea.» (Other - please comment)
- Definitely not the weather.» (Other - please comment)
- The only advantage is the English language at Master program!» ()
- But getting a nice place to live is HARD.» (Chalmers reputation as a University, The clean air and sustainable society, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- I sincerely do not think Swedish universities can be attractive with those very high tuition fees. Life in Sweden is expensive and it is very hard to find a job here if you are not Swedish so, I think the fees will be a major drawback for attracting international students.» (Specific Master programme profile, The clean air and sustainable society)
- The social climate at Chalmers, » (Chalmers reputation as a University, The creative and friendly study climate)
- The proximity of my home.» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries, Gothenburg as an nice city for students, Other - please comment)
- If paying a tuition fee, the university will have a far larger pressure on being excellent» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Specific Master programme profile)
- If I should pay then why should I come to sweden ,I will go to usa or canada etc..» (No advantages at all)
- Didn"t know that there were goals for the programme. Could unfortunately not find them on any of the supplied links.» (Chalmers reputation as a University, The clean air and sustainable society)
- I think fees will harm chalmers compared to KTH ot other schools.» (Other - please comment)
- No, because other countries have much better job opportunities, at a highly reduced cost of studies (compared to the current structure of fees in Sweden). No one wants to study somewhere, where it will be hard to find jobs after completion.» ()
- Don"t have any experience with european universities so I can"t say.» (Other - please comment)
- Student life and student associations (e.g. chalmersspexet, CCC and so on)» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Other - please comment)
- Not really sure about this - as I"m a Swedish citizen I haven"t really looked into the options in the rest of Europe» (Other - please comment)
- My life and family is here.» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Other - please comment)
- Student life» (Chalmers reputation as a University, The learning environment - facilities, The creative and friendly study climate, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- I would say, from experiencing some other universtities in europe, that the major advantage is that everything is offered in english. A bad thing though is that the amount of english some teachers are available to deliver is sub-standard. But nevertheless, it is english (or at least swenglish)» (Teacher abilities in language/pedagogy/scientific field, Other - please comment)
- Can"t comment since I"m from Gothenburg. » ()
- Although personally am grateful to attend Chalmers but may never noticed to Chalmers for my selection if the same it had the same situation.» (Other - please comment)
- IF Chalmers was introducing fees, I would prefer to study in a country with English as the native language. since here you more or less need to learn Swedish in order to be able to get a job. In addition, the living expenditure in Nordic countries is higher than other countries in Europe and in Sweden, there is not much opportunities to get a part time job during your studies (for international students). The weather is also a big issue here with long and dark winters.» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Teacher abilities in language/pedagogy/scientific field)
- There is a lot of competent students at chalmers. » (The clean air and sustainable society, The creative and friendly study climate, Gothenburg as an nice city for students, Other - please comment)
- Sweden"s good reputation for the field that I studied» (Chalmers research profiles, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries, Other - please comment)
- Chalmers have a sub par reputation, why would I pay same money for that? » (No advantages at all)
- Very few advantages. Possibly change of environment might be useful and multicultural studying environment/cooperation would be an advantage when applying for an international job.» (Chalmers research profiles, Specific Master programme profile)
- Standarden måste höjas enligt min mening om studenter ska betala för det. De kurser som inte håller måttet idag måste höjas, speciellt eftersom de ligger första terminen och sätter ett klart avtryck på hela programmet. » (Chalmers reputation as a University, Active interaction with teachers and other students, Other - please comment)
- Not having experience in other universities makes it hard to compare. But free tuition is definitely a merit.» (Other - please comment)
- I refuse to answer this question. Any discussion about tuition fees is unacceptable. Free education is non-negotiable.» ()
- I do think chalmers education is very good, however introducing tuition fees will obviously lower the general study level since lots of students will now bet tempted to go for the "big names" (cambridge etc...)» (Specific Master programme profile, The clean air and sustainable society, Gothenburg as an nice city for students, No advantages at all)
- For International Students to come to Sweden, there are a lot of measures needed on the part of the university as well as the Swedish authorities. At the moment it is almost impossible find a part time or summer job for student. In addition to that most of the Swedish companies require their employees to be proficient in Swedish which is a little hard considering the fact that the curriculum in Chalmers makes it impossible for students to take up language courses seriously. » (Specific Master programme profile, The learning environment - facilities, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- Informal, relaxed relations to teachers/supervisors» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Specific Master programme profile, The learning environment - facilities, Active interaction with teachers and other students, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- Basically, if there is no scholarship to support student,no obvious advantages under such high tuition fee.» (The clean air and sustainable society)
- I would have applied to other universities in Europe instead, because living expenses in Sweden are already too high as to pay for a tuition fee beside that. Chalmers is very well known in Scandinavia, but is not that well known overseas. Maybe there should be a little bit more marketing, because it"s a great university.» (No advantages at all)
- The friendly atmosphere in Sweden.» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Gothenburg as an nice city for students, Other - please comment)
- More advertisement wouldn"t hurt Chalmers image...» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Chalmers research profiles, Specific Master programme profile, The learning environment - facilities, Teacher abilities in language/pedagogy/scientific field, The clean air and sustainable society, The creative and friendly study climate, Active interaction with teachers and other students, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries, Chalmers ranking (please comment which ranking list))
- generally speaking, the master course is good for me, but too many things come from the book, I can not find any experience from the teacher themselves.» ()
- Student activities outside of school» (The creative and friendly study climate, Gothenburg as an nice city for students, Other - please comment)
- No comment.» (Other - please comment)
- http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/top-200.html» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Chalmers ranking (please comment which ranking list))
- The main advantage is that it"s in Sweden and I"m Swedish. » (Other - please comment)
- Very hard to say.» (Specific Master programme profile, Active interaction with teachers and other students, Availability of student rooms/flats)
- because by spending that much amount of money and as an asian student who didnot gets funds from their government for education and bare all the education expenses by their own will be trying to look for part time jobs at week ends to minimize their expenses which is too difficult to find in sweden because of language preference and second the market is not paying well to student so its totally waste for them to do part time job in sweden. for example, a reklam job(paper distribution job) if a swedish national is doing it he get 600Kr and if a non swedish national student is doing it they give then 90kr for the same job. so you can take this example on other student job too. The other European Universities give the same study environment and job part time market to student from their sudent union managemnt which is totally not seen in chalmers student union management and second the weather in other European countries is too good then sweden so from my perspective if any junior want my guidence for study abroad then for quality education i will prefer him sweden chalmers uinversity but for the student problems and environment with good education I will prefer him to go to other European Universities where he can bare his expenses and not make too much burden on his parents. » (No advantages at all, Other - please comment)
- in many of ranking sources, Chalmers stands ~150 (general) and ~70 (technology)» (The clean air and sustainable society, Chalmers ranking (please comment which ranking list), Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- The general atmosphere and student life in combination with Chalmers having a good reputation. » (Other - please comment)
- Times Higher Education Engineering and Technology Ranking» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Chalmers research profiles, Specific Master programme profile, Active interaction with teachers and other students, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries, Chalmers ranking (please comment which ranking list))
- Hard to tell since I do not have any experience from other universities. But one advantage would obviously be the geographical location...» (Other - please comment)
- Close to home» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Specific Master programme profile, The clean air and sustainable society, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries, Other - please comment)
- It is located in Sweden» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Specific Master programme profile, The learning environment - facilities, Teacher abilities in language/pedagogy/scientific field, Active interaction with teachers and other students, Gothenburg as an nice city for students, Other - please comment)
- I think one of the great advantages of Chalmers is the connection between Chalmers and industries.» (Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries)
- Probably, I wouldn"t have chosen Chalmers since I had other alternatives as well. I think free education was a big factor in my decision, since it is also more expensive to live in nordic countries. » (Chalmers reputation as a University, Specific Master programme profile)
- Ranking: AWRU» (Chalmers research profiles, Teacher abilities in language/pedagogy/scientific field, Chalmers ranking (please comment which ranking list))
- att det är så nära hem...» ()
- chalmers is definitely famous in Europe, but maybe not that famous outside Europe.No tuition fee used to be a big reason for attracting students from those area. » (Specific Master programme profile, The clean air and sustainable society, The creative and friendly study climate, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- The student union and all the facilities they provide. The active student life in Chalmers and the fact that Chalmers helps a student grow personally and academically.» (Chalmers reputation as a University, The learning environment - facilities, Teacher abilities in language/pedagogy/scientific field, The creative and friendly study climate, Gothenburg as an nice city for students, Other - please comment)
- Location! I wanted to study in Sweden since I am swedish..» (Chalmers reputation as a University, The creative and friendly study climate, Active interaction with teachers and other students, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- I would not advice for any other international students to come here ,Honestly.» (No advantages at all, Other - please comment)
- I don"t really understand the question. I am a student from Sweden, so I have never had any thoughts of study my master programme any where else than Sweden. And because I did my bachelor in Chalmers it was no oder thoughts of any other school in Sweden either. » (Other - please comment)
- The programme structure is almost unique» (Specific Master programme profile, Other - please comment)
- Haven"t been to any European university so it is difficult to compare.» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Specific Master programme profile, The learning environment - facilities, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- Paying for a master programme is not an option. I already have a master from my country of origin. Chalmers was chosen on the basis of development in the field of sustainability and for possible opportunities of finding a job in another country than my own. The fact that the master was free of fees was a catalyst for my decision. A huge problem for students is the availability of flats. It was a very stressful factor and affected my start within the master course.» (Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries)
- -is one of world"s best universities,good teachers and facilities» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Specific Master programme profile, The learning environment - facilities, The clean air and sustainable society)
- Care for students and their success.» (Chalmers reputation as a University, The creative and friendly study climate, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries, Gothenburg as an nice city for students, Other - please comment)
- I have not made a comparison.» (Other - please comment)
- Although I came here for the specific master programme, if the tuition fee"s were introduced before I would consider another option.» (Specific Master programme profile)
- Really, being from Sweden, I would rather have chosen a Master abroad if I had to pay. This is because I would like to have more interaction with international students and learn new perspectives on what is studied. Also, there is a great risk that many people will choose not to continue to study a master"s programme and then there would be less dynamics between students - which results in less constructive discussions. I can mainly see negative effects of taking out a pay tuition fee for students!!!!!!» (The creative and friendly study climate, Active interaction with teachers and other students)
- One of few countries in Europe where foreign students can study completly in English (apart from England, Holland + some other universities)» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Specific Master programme profile, Teacher abilities in language/pedagogy/scientific field)
- No that much advantages compare to good European Universities» (Specific Master programme profile)
- The ranking is very important for me. I refferd to Qtimes ranking. I care about the spesfic subject ranking. When I applied to chalmers it was racnked as an over all around 165 in the worlld and 55 as enginerring school. However, This changed last at which Chalmers falls behind. I think more care should be done to improve the ranking to higher position. I am sure if Chalmers become with the top 100 schools in the world it will attract more student. » (Chalmers reputation as a University, Specific Master programme profile, The creative and friendly study climate, Chalmers ranking (please comment which ranking list), Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- As international student, why people attract to sweden the most important reason is the free education along with the good learning environment and facilitites. But if you compare with other european institutions they also provide good education with facilites but they charge fee for that. I must insist the idea of applying fee will hurt badly to the swedish economy as international students come live work study and boost the society. but now as far as i think students are going to divert and will give preferance to other european univeristites. » (No advantages at all)
- 85% Tution Fee 15% Chalmers reputation as a University Sorry about it but this is true» ()
- The biggest advantage is the environment. Fantastic city to live and study in.» (The clean air and sustainable society, Gothenburg as an nice city for students, Availability of student rooms/flats)
- I think Chalmers will lose its attraction for international students from now on. Tuition fees are more than other european universities and for acrhitecture, there are a lot better universities than Chalmers in Europe. So to speak, international students would prefer a well-known university for the same money. My suggestion is that Chalmers give scholarships to more students, and spread this information to all over the world. Otherwise, thank you Chalmers for this awasome 2 years. I am more than pleased to chose Sweden and Chalmers for this very important education. » (Specific Master programme profile, The learning environment - facilities, Teacher abilities in language/pedagogy/scientific field, The clean air and sustainable society, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries)
- I do not think that Chalmers is so well-known outside Scandinavian countries even if it provides very good education. It needs to improve its reputation worldwide to still attract students despite tuition fee.» (Specific Master programme profile, The learning environment - facilities, The clean air and sustainable society, The creative and friendly study climate, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- If i have to choose between Sweden or another country with exactly the same Master syllabus, i may have chosen another country: finding accomodation is EXTREMELY hard for international students, Sweden is beautiful but expensive - cold and with another currency and the language is fun to learn but not that useful outside Sweden.My opinion is that the tuition fee is an step backwards for the country education system.» (Specific Master programme profile)
- I have not seen what it seems exactly in europe!» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Teacher abilities in language/pedagogy/scientific field)
- choosing sweden is hard becouse of no jobs and language barrier» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Chalmers research profiles, Specific Master programme profile, The creative and friendly study climate)
- Hundred first universities globally (in 2008)» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Chalmers research profiles, The learning environment - facilities, The clean air and sustainable society, Chalmers ranking (please comment which ranking list))
- University in UK is cheaper, why here?» (No advantages at all)
- If someone pay I think it must be better situation from renting the house to have a better program for this field especially, there is some course in this field that it was waste the time but you should participate to pass!!! i think the research group also is limited to one subject that most of students do not feel good bout the subject. I think here teachers are weaker than Germany and Netherlands (since I was there for 6 months). This program needs more support, it is not for business only!» (The learning environment - facilities, The clean air and sustainable society, No advantages at all)
- chalmers compared to other swedish uneversities» (Specific Master programme profile, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries, Chalmers ranking (please comment which ranking list), Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- Close to home.» (Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- In my opinion, such huge amount of tuition fee which is already set is not reasonable at all! although Chalmers has a good reputation and possess a good (but not excellent) position in almost all ranking lists, it cannot compete with certain universities (of the same rank or better) which already receive tuition fees. consider the cold weather or difficulties in finding accommodations. As a personal experience, I selected Chalmers rather than Delft Uni. of Tech. (Netherlands) or EPFL (Switzerland), only due to financial issues. » (The clean air and sustainable society, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- I do not have enough information about other European Universities so I can"t give an answer.» (Other - please comment)
- I am from asia. My primary choice of chalmers was because of the Biomeical prog, being offered at a well ranked institute. If i were required to pay an amount as the admisison/tution fee, i would think very hard, all the options mentioned above except for my choices are valid for all universities almost. The web is the only place to get information for international students and the options above are in no way reflected in the information on the web. If you consider the student guides and testimonials .. they are the same for nearly all universities. » (Chalmers research profiles, The learning environment - facilities, Chalmers ranking (please comment which ranking list), Other - please comment)
- mostly the reputation of sweden as an innovative and pioneer country, and secondly the culture wich is so different from what I"m used to.» (Specific Master programme profile, Chalmers ranking (please comment which ranking list))
- Have not compared Chalmers to any European universities as this has never been an alternative for me.» (Chalmers reputation as a University, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- Definitely not the availability for rooms/flats! In general I love Gothenburg and Chalmers is a great university. I didn´,t find and other technology university that teaches Supply Chain Management on an engineering degree level. The contact with professors are easy and they are down to earth and really like-able. Swedish people are also really nice and easy to get along with as well as good in English and willing to teach you swedish. Wouldn´,t have change my mind even though there were some fees. » (Chalmers reputation as a University, Specific Master programme profile, The learning environment - facilities, Teacher abilities in language/pedagogy/scientific field, The clean air and sustainable society, The creative and friendly study climate, Active interaction with teachers and other students, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- QS world university ranking. » (Chalmers reputation as a University, Specific Master programme profile, Active interaction with teachers and other students, Chalmers ranking (please comment which ranking list))
- If i would pay,i would not choose Chalmers or Sweden.I would choose English speaking countries,since that will be much easier and more possibilities to find job for international students. » (Other - please comment)
- It will be hard to find a job than in USA, UK,etc. » (No advantages at all)
- This is within Sweden. I think it"s harder to konkurrera with the reputation of international universities. » (Chalmers reputation as a University, Active interaction with teachers and other students, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- I have no information about other schools.» (Other - please comment)
- 1. Chalmers ambition for sustainable development and interdisciplinary work. 2. Sweden´,s/Gothenburg´,s reputation in sustainable development (among others within the fields of environmental economics and education for sustainability). 3. Attractive society and environment in general, also for students. 4. Some teachers abilities within their scientific and or pedagogic. Availability of accommodation is awful. It takes to much time from studies and increases stress to have to transport or move all the time. Active interaction with teachers and other students could easily be improved a lot and would increase the quality of the studies. Usually runs it self if motivated a little. » (Chalmers reputation as a University, Chalmers research profiles, Specific Master programme profile, The learning environment - facilities, Teacher abilities in language/pedagogy/scientific field, The clean air and sustainable society, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- No tuition fees. Sweden defenitely has high level of education in terms of Master"s program. But since the courses are full time courses possibilities for students to take part-time jobs is very limited. And with high tuition fees and the cost of living, it does put stress on international students. This could be thought as the introduction of tuition fees has an impact on Sweden as a prospective country for Masters. The simple reason, prospective students may be in the thought process that if fees is to paid, i would atleast opt for countries where there are part-time opportunities like US, UK, Australia, Germany...» (Chalmers reputation as a University, The creative and friendly study climate, Active interaction with teachers and other students)
- I am a Swedish student.» ()
- I"ve been promoting Sweden and particularly Chalmers to all my friends back home who are considering studying abroad.» (The learning environment - facilities, Teacher abilities in language/pedagogy/scientific field, The clean air and sustainable society, The creative and friendly study climate, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries, Gothenburg as an nice city for students)
- "Availability of student rooms/flats" - it was a nightmare ! Finding an apartment in the first few weeks in Sweden was incredibly difficult.» (Specific Master programme profile, The creative and friendly study climate, Possibility to find jobs in Scandinavian industries)


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