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Course Evaluation Vehicle Dynamics, MMF062

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

29 svarande

<15 hours/week»		1		3%
Around 20 hours/week»		9		31%
Around 30 hours/week»		18		62%
Around 40 hours/week»		0		0%
>50 hours/week»		1		3%

Genomsnitt: 2.68

- Mostly on assignments» (Around 30 hours/week)

2. Attendance on lectures

29 svarande

<25%»		2		6%
25-50%»		2		6%
50-75%»		5		17%
>75%»		20		68%

Genomsnitt: 3.48

- Olyckligt att det byttes föreläsare efter 2 veckor. Synts tydligt att han inte genomfört kursen tidigare och att det var dåligt förberätt! ibland så visste han inte hur Powerpoint fungerade! Man fattar med en gång att han är riktigt duktig - men tyvärr så hoppar han över en massa information hela tiden så det är svårt att följa med! Ni måste förbättra föreläsningarna så att det blir mer information och att allting skrivs ner på tavlan och inte bara nämns kort i sammandraget!» (>75%)
- Fully attended» (>75%)

3. Attendance on assignments sessions

29 svarande

<25%»		3		10%
25-50%»		1		3%
50-75%»		10		34%
>75%»		15		51%

Genomsnitt: 3.27

- The lectures that were skipped were due to pre-finnished assignments» (>75%)
- Samma problem som i föreläsningarna. man såg ingen skillnad mellan dessa två. Försök att dela upp klassen i mindre gruppe och fler övningsledare. Då kommer det att frågas mer och bli bättre utlärningsförmåga!» (>75%)
- Fully attended» (>75%)

Teaching and course administration

4. What is your opinion of the course text book (lecture notes)?

Very bad»		0		0%
Rather bad»		6		20%
Rather good»		20		68%
Very good»		3		10%
No opinion»		0

Genomsnitt: 2.89

- Bra sammanfattningar. dock så hoppar man mycket mellan olika ekvationer utan att förklara vad som händer. man kan utan tvekan lägga in fler ekvationer så att man förstår varje steg mellan ekvationerna!!! Sedan måste den korrekturläsas. många ekvationer är felskrivna! blir lätt förvirrand då!» (Rather bad)
- Many error"s in the book. Should also be more examples.» (Rather bad)
- Lectures material did not fit the lecture notes» (Rather bad)
- It need to be revised a lot. Missing explanations and lots of misspellings» (Rather good)
- Perhaps a book would be better but on the other hand the lecture notes were easy to follow.» (Rather good)
- John covered parts that weren"t in the lecture notes. The complementary notes he uploaded were too brief and not really useful. More explaining notes would be preferable.» (Rather good)
- Not very good, but not bad either. There are a lot of formulation errors in the lecture notes. Recommended book (Wong) was better. However, lecture notes were giving enough information to take into account.» (Rather good)

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

Very badly»		1		3%
Rather badly»		4		13%
Rather well»		20		68%
Very well»		4		13%

Genomsnitt: 2.93

- Asked for slides from John a number of times but they did never appear on the web page.» (Rather badly)
- Better then most courses at Chalmers» (Very well)

6. What is your opinion of the material selected for the lectures?

- They were all very interesting»
- The vertical dynamics part were covered a little bit too quick. Some of the derivations John did on the black board were very hard to follow which he had a hard time to understand.»
- Topics were covered perfectly. However, although it is mentioned not to cover the effects of suspension on vehicle dynamics for this course, it should be added to the schedule since suspension is almost the only area that the engineers can play around to improve lateral and vertical dynamics!!!»
- Manifold mistakes can be found in the lecture notes particularly in the vertical dynamics part.»

Introduction/Tire Mechanics
29 svarande

Very bad»		1		3%
Rather bad»		0		0%
Rather good»		15		55%
Very good»		11		40%
No opinion»		2

Genomsnitt: 3.33

Longitudinal Dynamics (acceleration/braking)
29 svarande

Very bad»		1		3%
Rather bad»		3		11%
Rather good»		17		62%
Very good»		6		22%
No opinion»		2

Genomsnitt: 3.03

Lateral Dynamics (cornering)
29 svarande

Very bad»		1		3%
Rather bad»		5		18%
Rather good»		14		51%
Very good»		7		25%
No opinion»		2

Genomsnitt: 3

Vertical Dynamics (ride/comfort)
29 svarande

Very bad»		4		14%
Rather bad»		7		25%
Rather good»		12		44%
Very good»		4		14%
No opinion»		2

Genomsnitt: 2.59

7. What is your opinion of the teaching in lectures?

Very bad»		3		11%
Rather bad»		6		23%
Rather good»		14		53%
Very good»		3		11%
No opinion»		3

Genomsnitt: 2.65

- Dålig pedagogik, dålig på att förklara och strukturera upp lektionerna» (Very bad)
- John know the subject but do not know how to teach. He is unstructured, have hard to understand our problems. Talk into the blackboard and have hard to plan the time...he ended the lectures late (10-15 min) many times.» (Very bad)
- No understanding of that you don"t understand. Bad in answering questions. Used his own notations instead of the ones in the book» (Rather bad)
- The part Rob Thomson covered were really good. Even though he kept a pretty high pace, it was still possible to follow him. Before I start to write down the negative things about John I first need say that it is very clear that John is competent. There is no doubt about that. But when it comes to conveying knowledge the problem starts. Here are some things which I think John has to improve: * John needs to be better at motivating why certain formulas/ideas are used, otherwise they are useless. * Give the student time to write. It seemed like he assumed that the students can both write and follow a difficult derivation at the same time. * He can"t assume that the students understand everything which is said immediately. It seemed like he was surprised when we said that we didn"t understand. * He also needs to assume that we are on a "lower level" than we really are. This would probably make his lectures easier to follow.» (Rather bad)
- The lecturer is a very clever person but the way in which he presented the material was unacceptable for at least one third of the group.» (Rather bad)
- I think Rob was a better teacher than John.» (Rather good)
- It could naturally vary but overall the lectures were good» (Rather good)
- Would say okey.» (No opinion)

8. What is your opinion of the material selected for the assignments sessions?

Very bad»		1		3%
Rather bad»		3		10%
Rather good»		20		68%
Very good»		5		17%
No opinion»		0

Genomsnitt: 3

- För mycket oklarheter i upggiftspapperna där mycket tillägg kom sent och som gjorde att vi satt många timmar i onödan. Bättre handledning från början och bättre kommunikation mellan handledare krävs i framtiden» (Rather bad)
- Too much correction of MatLab code, not that much of discussion of the actual problem. The code provided had many errors.» (Rather bad)
- 3 assignments should be better.» (Rather good)
- The assignments cover the vehicle dynamics topic pretty well. Unfortunately, it seems like they are not very well planned. Especially what needs to be in the report! The teaching assistants all said different things about what had to be in the reports and if you only answered the questions in the assignment papers you didn"t get full credit (!!). So the conclusion is that the teaching assistants has to work through the assignments better, make clearer assignment descriptions, make sure the provided matlab code works and more in sync when it comes to what should be included and not.» (Rather good)
- There were some errors in the assignments.» (Rather good)
- I liked all assignment exept Lateral Dynamics one, that was not completely clear for me.» (Rather good)
- Everything included, and perhaps not to advanced assignments.» (Very good)

9. What is your opinion of the work load of the assignments?

Very bad»		1		3%
Rather bad»		6		20%
Rather good»		19		65%
Very good»		3		10%
No opinion»		0

Genomsnitt: 2.82

- Many hours spent on the MatLab code, which even the tutors had a hard time to understand.» (Very bad)
- Way too much!» (Rather bad)
- THey need to be more defined to reduce the amount of misinterpretations» (Rather bad)
- Övnignsledare som inte kan svara på frågorna är under all kritik. det gör det inte lättare direkt. Det enda svaret jag fick var "Think about it". Och jag ställer inte dumma frågor! skämms!!! För att dom skall bli bättre måste dom sätta sig in i problemet. Det enda dom kunde var hur matlabkoden såg ut och det var det som dom gick på. Förståelsefrågor som jag frågade om hade dom ingen kolla på. Ge dom läxa att förstå problemet innan de skickas ut på fältet!» (Rather bad)
- I think lowering the number of assignment to 3 would be great. An assignment provides a good understanding for a specific part but the associated report is quiet long to write down.» (Rather bad)
- It was hard to knew how much you had to do to get the highest mark.» (Rather good)
- Work load was extremely high!!! The topics were OK, the simulations and drawing conclusions improved me. However, my reports were quite long and it was taking at least 2 days to write a report in order to give the results and comments properly!!!» (Rather good)

10. What is your opinion of teaching in assignments sessions?

Very bad»		2		8%
Rather bad»		9		37%
Rather good»		11		45%
Very good»		2		8%
No opinion»		5

Genomsnitt: 2.54

- se ovan» (Very bad)
- The tutors were very poor, did not understand the code and could not really explain what it did. You could get different answar depending on which tutor you talked to.» (Very bad)
- Some were really arrogant. Different answer dependant on who you asked» (Rather bad)
- BDålig kommunikation mellan handledare» (Rather bad)
- Some data are not really explicit and there were some mistakes in the matlab code.» (Rather bad)
- They could not answer all our/my question.» (Rather bad)
- Different instructors should agree between each other and this was not always the case.» (Rather bad)
- Obviously not needed but still a good way of getting help and further understanding.» (Rather good)
- fine» (No opinion)

11. What is your opinion about using Matlab as tool in this course?

Study climate

12. How is the general study climate at Chalmers?

Very bad»		0		0%
Rather bad»		0		0%
Rather good»		18		64%
Very good»		10		35%
No opinion»		1

Genomsnitt: 3.35

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

Very poor»		1		3%
Rather poor»		1		3%
Rather good»		13		44%
Very good»		11		37%
I did not seek help»		3		10%

Genomsnitt: 3.48

- Övningsledarna var ej bra. se ovan för motivering.» (Very poor)
- There was a language problem I think, and sometimes the teachers at the assignments didn"t seem to understand the matlab programs or the task at hand. I think they could have been more involved in the assignments.» (Rather good)
- There were lot of assistance from all course personal so very good.» (Very good)
- It was always possible to ask question and the teachers took their time, but they could not always answer.» (Very good)
- Instructors were all helping the students when there were some problems abut the topics.» (Very good)
- The idea of planning question sessions before the examination is excellent. » (Very good)

14. How well has cooperation between you and your fellow students worked?

Very poorly»		1		3%
Rather poorly»		0		0%
Rather well»		4		13%
Very well»		22		75%
I did not seek cooperation»		2		6%

Genomsnitt: 3.82

- It"s much better to work with exhange students then only swedish... unfortunately. » (Very well)
- There were no formal cooperations since the assignments were submitted individually. » (I did not seek cooperation)

15. How was the course workload?

1 (Too low)»		0		0%
2»		0		0%
3»		10		34%
4»		15		51%
5 (Too high)»		4		13%

Genomsnitt: 3.79

- As it should be even thou you have to study hard» (4)
- I perceived the course as quite hard to understand sometimes, which i mostly depends on the lacking course material. The lecture notes are quite dense in their nature, and does not teach the fundamentals of vehicle dynamics very well. It would help with some "real" course litterature, to develop a better and more deep understanding of vehicle dynamics.» (4)
- Too many assignments. Nevertheless, it helped me to reach all objectives for this course.» (4)
- The calculating stuff was only the last week so the workload was really hard the last week.» (5 (Too high))

Summarizing questions

16. How well did the course fullfill your expectations?

1 (not at all)»		0		0%
2»		2		6%
3»		6		20%
4»		21		72%
5 (very well)»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 3.65 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

- Very interesting subject but poorly executed.» (2)
- Even better then my pre-thoughts» (4)
- If the effects of suspension were added, I would be fully satisfied with the course.» (4)
- What about the suspension system (how the performance can be changed by changing the suspension properties), camber angle and so on? I was surprised that this course did not cover this part. Maybe in the advanced course...» (4)
- lectures were useless» (4)

17. What is your general impression of the course?

Poor»		1		3%
Fair»		3		10%
Adequate»		4		13%
Good»		19		65%
Excellent»		2		6%

Genomsnitt: 3.62

- Both lectures and assignment were poorly executed. Ex. practice calculation started the last week.» (Poor)
- Det är en riktigt intressant kurs och kommer att bli bra bara ni får ordning på föreläsaren och kurslitteraturen. Sen ge övningsledarna liten spark. Annars Mycket intressant - bra upplägg med tydliga avgränsningar mellan de olika delarna! Det är mest detaljer som behöver finslipas och en mer erfaren föreläsare som är...eller pratar svenska!» (Fair)
- I only give it "fair" since I think there"s a lot do do when it comes to course litterature, and also when it comes to teaching, especially when it comes to the assignments. If clear links between lectures, assignments and the exam, the course would not be as difficult.» (Fair)
- Med en bättra lärare hade det förmodligen varit en mycket intressant kurs!» (Adequate)
- I liked it even if the exam weren"t what I planned :)» (Excellent)
- I am personally interested in vehicle dynamics and this course (especially MATLAB simulations) has impressed me.» (Excellent)

18. What is your opinion of the material selected for the exam?

Very bad»		5		17%
Rather bad»		10		34%
Rather good»		12		41%
Very good»		2		6%
No opinion»		0

Genomsnitt: 2.37

- I can not even begin to understand how a completely theoretic course with only two sessions with calculation can be examinated with pretty much only calculations. It does not in any way mirror the course contents. And furthermore, really making an effort to complicate the tasks as much as possible seems very unnecessary.» (Very bad)
- Stämde inte överrens med vad man förvätade sig. behövs mer övningstentor som testar samma kunskaper...» (Very bad)
- Perhaps it included some things that were a bit unclear during the course.» (Rather bad)
- It was rather difficult to predict what was tested during the exam, from the rest of the course. It wasn"t based on the assignments to any extent, and the lectures didn"t make clear what was going to be tested. The problems on the exam didn"t have a clear relation to » (Rather bad)
- To be a calculation exam it was ok, the problem was that the practice started the week before.» (Rather bad)
- Read it through better next time!» (Rather good)
- The exam was completely different from the exams of previous years, it was much harder, so lots of people was not prepared for it because they used previous eams in their preparation.» (Rather good)

19. What is your opinion of the work load during the exam?

Very bad»		2		7%
Rather bad»		8		28%
Rather good»		15		53%
Very good»		3		10%
No opinion»		1

Genomsnitt: 2.67

- The level was higher than for the former exam.» (Rather bad)
- We were not use to the calcuate questions so its was hard.» (Rather bad)
- Too much, exam could have been easier.» (Rather bad)
- The work load was not a problem, unexpected areas of testing was a problem though.» (Rather good)
- Too much calculations were required, however it is an obligation in vehicle dynamics. » (Very good)

20. What is your opinion of the level of difficulty of the exam?

Very bad»		4		14%
Rather bad»		11		40%
Rather good»		10		37%
Very good»		2		7%
No opinion»		1

Genomsnitt: 2.37

- Way to difficult» (Very bad)
- Difficult, but so it should be.» (Rather good)
- Weird scale here. I would say that the exam was pretty difficult.» (Rather good)
- It was not so difficult.» (Rather good)
- Maybe a little bit difficult compared to exercises done in class. » (Rather good)
- The difficulty was ok, but students should have been informed about the things that they are supposed to know on the exam.» (Very good)

21. How well did the course elements (lectures, assignments) prepare you for the exam?

Very bad»		4		14%
Rather bad»		10		35%
Rather good»		11		39%
Very good»		3		10%
No opinion»		1

Genomsnitt: 2.46

- The only thing that prepared me for the exam was the calculaion tasks» (Very bad)
- Only the last week prepared for the exam.» (Very bad)
- Lectures did not fit the lecture notes and the lectures itself were not very clear sometimes. So I used previous exams as a preparetion.» (Very bad)
- Assignments and lectures were good but perhaps the exam was made in a different way...» (Rather bad)
- See above comments.» (Rather bad)
- Lectures and assignments did not really help that much. What helped was the old exams and the exam questions that we were given.» (Rather bad)
- It was only the last week that matter for the exam!!!» (Rather bad)

22. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

23. What should definitely be changed to next year?

24. Additional comments