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Simulation of Production Systems, MPR271

Your own effort

1. How many hours per week did you spend on this course?

38 svarande

At most 15 hours/week»		3		7%
Around 20 hours/week»		4		10%
Around 25 hours/week»		16		42%
Around 30 hours/week»		7		18%
At least 35 hours/week»		8		21%

Genomsnitt: 3.34

- of course more at the end when finalizing the report» (Around 20 hours/week)
- A lot of hours during the end of the course» (Around 25 hours/week)
- Very much oriented to the last three weeks because of the late start of the project.» (Around 25 hours/week)
- would have been more normal if my projectpartner would have done something other than slow me down..» (Around 30 hours/week)
- It was a big difference before and after we get the project» (Around 30 hours/week)
- much more during the final weeks» (At least 35 hours/week)

2. How large part of the teaching offered did you attend?

38 svarande

0%»		0		0%
25%»		0		0%
50%»		0		0%
75%»		14		36%
100%»		24		63%

Genomsnitt: 4.63

- I had 3 courses this period and some of them colided...» (75%)
- very good lectures, obvious that Björn and Anders are interested in teaching and takes it serious» (75%)
- good!» (100%)
- Very good lecturing, both Anders and Björn!» (100%)

Goals and goal fulfilment

3. How understandable are the course goals?

I have not seen/read the goals»		2		5%
The goals are difficult to understand»		0		0%
The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer»		10		26%
The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn»		26		68%

Genomsnitt: 3.57

- Give more guidelines how to work with experimental simulation and with evaluation of runs with different improvements.» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)
- Tell the students that the report is more important than the actual improved output in the factory! Too many were sitting with the model and improved it too much, instead of put energy on the report.» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)
- Really good concept with doing the project work» (The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn)

4. Are the goals reasonable considering your background and the number of credits?

37 svarande

No, the goals are set too low»		0		0%
Yes, the goals seem reasonable»		34		91%
No, the goals are set too high»		3		8%

Genomsnitt: 2.08

5. Did the examination assess whether you have reached the goals?

No, not at all»		0		0%
To some extent»		10		27%
Yes, definitely»		23		62%
I don"t know/have not been examined yet»		4		10%

Genomsnitt: 2.83

- Hard to know and the TA:s couldn"t help in laboration lectures.» (To some extent)
- Should be included a who-did-what with the report to prevent freeriders» (To some extent)
- could have couverd more parts...» (To some extent)

Teaching and course administration

6. To what extent has the teaching been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		1		2%
Some extent»		7		18%
Large extent»		21		55%
Great extent»		9		23%

Genomsnitt: 3

- I think the teaching need to be improved how to use the statitics in autostat. The program is not very good and it is hard to know how to get good graphs from autostat. for example how the buffer increase over time and so on. It also need to be clerlyfied how a change in the code change the random streams...due to this .-- a change in code give you new output...» (Some extent)
- The DES programming lectures could have been earlier in the course, especially the introduction to the conveyors.» (Some extent)
- The connection between some of the guest lecturers and the main topic is a little bit unclear (Jonas Laring, Karin Östergren)» (Large extent)

7. Do you consider that the lectureres have an adequate knowledge of the English language, in order to give good and informative lectures?

Matrisfråga

- It feels that the quality of the lectures would increase if the teachers could handle the language better. It takes much longer time for them to say what they want.»
- not attended need to be one option»
- Did not attend at Hans Sjöberg"s lecture»
- Everyone is simply great. Great team.»
- Bertil should definately improve his english!!! And talking about him, it is a mystery why he have a lecture at all? He is a funny man, but the content of his lecture is a big joke!»

Björn Johansson
36 svarande

Excellent (5)»		25		69%
Very Good (4)»		10		27%
Fair (3)»		1		2%
Weak (2)»		0		0%
Poor (1)»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 1.33

Anders Skoogh
36 svarande

Excellent (5)»		26		72%
Very Good (4)»		9		25%
Fair (3)»		1		2%
Weak (2)»		0		0%
Poor (1)»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 1.3

Bertil Gustafsson
36 svarande

Excellent (5)»		5		13%
Very Good (4)»		7		19%
Fair (3)»		13		36%
Weak (2)»		8		22%
Poor (1)»		3		8%

Genomsnitt: 2.91

Jonas Laring
35 svarande

Excellent (5)»		7		20%
Very Good (4)»		17		48%
Fair (3)»		9		25%
Weak (2)»		2		5%
Poor (1)»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.17

Rolf Berlin
33 svarande

Excellent (5)»		3		9%
Very Good (4)»		14		42%
Fair (3)»		15		45%
Weak (2)»		1		3%
Poor (1)»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.42

Hans Sjöberg
30 svarande

Excellent (5)»		3		10%
Very Good (4)»		12		40%
Fair (3)»		14		46%
Weak (2)»		1		3%
Poor (1)»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.43

Anders Nilsson (ÅF)
33 svarande

Excellent (5)»		9		27%
Very Good (4)»		15		45%
Fair (3)»		6		18%
Weak (2)»		3		9%
Poor (1)»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.09

Karin Östergren (SIK)
32 svarande

Excellent (5)»		2		6%
Very Good (4)»		10		31%
Fair (3)»		13		40%
Weak (2)»		6		18%
Poor (1)»		1		3%

Genomsnitt: 2.81

8. To what extent has the course literature and other material been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		5		13%
Some extent»		18		47%
Large extent»		10		26%
Great extent»		5		13%

Genomsnitt: 2.39

- gswa» (Some extent)
- Literature?» (Some extent)
- Most of the PDFs were good» (Some extent)
- Not much course literature» (Some extent)
- Course literature is hard to define here...» (Large extent)
- Could be helpful to collect Student"s FAQ and answer them on the course homepage or similar. It"s good that you don"t have to buy an expensive book.» (Large extent)
- most useful was the GSWA» (Large extent)
- everyone should read GSWA!» (Great extent)

9. How well did the course administration, web page, handouts etc work?

Very badly»		1		2%
Rather badly»		0		0%
Rather well»		17		44%
Very well»		20		52%

Genomsnitt: 3.47

- why not have hand-ins at the course web page?» (Rather well)
- No problems at all!» (Very well)
- organization very good» (Very well)

10. What is your opinion on the project?

Not good»		1		2%
Acceptable»		5		13%
Quite good»		15		39%
Excellent»		17		44%

Genomsnitt: 3.26

- the workload was too much. just to build the base model requires alot of hard work and high level understanding.but it was good enough.» (Acceptable)
- Too weak guidelines. Easy to overwork. » (Quite good)
- Could have been given out atleast one week earlier.» (Quite good)
- It could be handed out one week earlier. Some more lecture in AutoStat would be good.» (Quite good)
- The task was reasonable in time» (Excellent)
- to few teachers the week before deadline. » (Excellent)
- You could have given it out a bit earlier...» (Excellent)
- Its nice to work on something a little more realistic.» (Excellent)

11. How much did you learn from the project?

38 svarande

1»		1		2%
2»		0		0%
3»		3		7%
4»		14		36%
5»		20		52%

Genomsnitt: 4.36 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

- Most I"ve learnt that AutoMod and AutoStat are software that contain very much bugs...which takes forever to find.» (4)
- I dont like automod...it is so "old"» (4)

12. Do you agree that project work is a good teaching method in this course?

Small extent»		1		2%
Some extent»		6		15%
Significant extent»		31		81%

Genomsnitt: 2.78

- but hard to know how it is graded in examination and what to focus on. hopefully more on the model and simulation than the report. » (Significant extent)
- Best way» (Significant extent)
- It is the only way to really assess, what the students learned through all the course.» (Significant extent)

13. How were the opportunities for asking questions and getting help during project work?

Very poor»		0		0%
Rather poor»		6		15%
Rather good»		18		47%
Very good»		14		36%

Genomsnitt: 3.21

- Many opportunities in the beginning of the course, and less towards the end. I"d rather have it the other way around» (Rather poor)
- good in the beginning, bad in the end» (Rather poor)
- Hard to solve problems by emailing but very appreciated that the teachers took their time to help.» (Rather good)
- In the end of the project it was to few instructors!!» (Rather good)
- Could be helpful to get some more student assistants during the lab times when the model has to be acknowledged» (Rather good)
- everyone at the lab is very cooperative especailly the senior students.» (Rather good)
- Good work from the last-year-students!» (Very good)

14. How was the coverage of the lab exercises?

They covered too little»		5		13%
The covered about the right amount»		19		50%
They covered somewhat too much»		7		18%
They covered much too much»		3		7%
Don"t know»		4		10%

Genomsnitt: 2.52

- If this is about the modelling exercise, there could be a little bit more challenge in there.» (They covered too little)
- may be a third excercise on conveyors can be introduced to familiarize students about conveyors and stations» (They covered too little)
- Might consider adding some convyor task.» (The covered about the right amount)
- they could have had conveyors in the hand-in, this could have given some guidance for the project work. » (The covered about the right amount)

15. What is your opinion on the "Knowledge test"?

Not good»		4		10%
Acceptable»		10		27%
Quite good»		21		56%
Excellent»		2		5%

Genomsnitt: 2.56

- Good to have some form of test on theory and not just the project.» (Quite good)
- to easy» (Quite good)
- Though, Bertils question about some deep knowledge about something that he barely mention on the lecture...» (Quite good)

16. What is your opinion on the article study?

Not good»		4		10%
Acceptable»		19		50%
Quite good»		12		31%
Excellent»		3		7%

Genomsnitt: 2.36

- Would have been better with article that had not been covered i other lectures. I is better with other topics» (Acceptable)
- Seems a bit unnecessary. The "work smarter not harder"-paper was way too focused on statistics» (Acceptable)
- there should be some kind of feedback on the presentation, it is important if you want to improve your presentations skills» (Acceptable)
- felt a little pushed» (Quite good)
- But somewhat wide areas of Papers can be taken into consideration. The paper in "Theory of Constraints" is rally good. The other ones have more or less similar points to discuss.» (Quite good)
- I Think its importent to have some presentation to practise your english presentation skills. It was also in smaller groups which is good.» (Excellent)
Genomsnitt totalt för detta stycke: 4.36

Study climate

17. How were the opportunities for asking questions and getting help?

Very poor»		0		0%
Rather poor»		3		7%
Rather good»		18		47%
Very good»		17		44%
I did not seek help»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 3.36

- Long wait lists.» (Rather poor)
- se question 13.» (Rather good)
- would have been nice with some guidance in the final week when working with the extra assignments for grade 4 and 5.» (Rather good)
- Good in the beginning and hard in the end of the course» (Rather good)

18. How well has cooperation between you and your fellow student worked?

Very poorly»		3		7%
Rather poorly»		4		10%
Rather well»		6		15%
Very well»		25		65%
I did not seek cooperation»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 3.39

- But we were very stressed in the end due to all the problems with strange bugs in AutoStat and AutoMod.» (Very well)
- know each other since long time ago...» (Very well)

19. How was the course workload?

Too low»		0		0%
Low»		0		0%
Adequate»		9		23%
High»		21		55%
Too high»		8		21%

Genomsnitt: 3.97

- Higher in the end as usual.» (Adequate)
- It was an extremely big difference between the tree first weeks and the five last ones. Try to handout the project earlier next year.» (High)
- intresting course = high workload for mee :)» (High)
- Could have started earlier with the project work.» (Too high)

20. How was the total workload this study period?

Too low»		0		0%
Low»		0		0%
Adequate»		10		26%
High»		15		39%
Too high»		13		34%

Genomsnitt: 4.07

- a bit higer in the end» (Adequate)
- Towards the end, as usual.» (High)
- Pretty much for both courses.» (High)
- other course: Digital control» (Too high)

Summarizing questions

21. What is your general impression of the course?

Poor»		1		2%
Fair»		1		2%
Adequate»		2		5%
Good»		19		50%
Excellent»		15		39%

Genomsnitt: 4.21

- Still, too weak guidelines in the project. I mean, where do you stop, you can imporve forever! And what test designs are good choices?» (Good)
- It was very interesting and the teaching and course administration felt well prepared.» (Good)
- Very useful» (Excellent)

22. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

23. What should definitely be changed to next year?

24. Additional comments