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Sustainable energy futures, FFR170

General impression and course content

1. What is your general impression of the course?

Poor»		1		1%
Fair»		4		6%
Good»		24		36%
Excellent»		36		55%

Genomsnitt: 3.46

- En av de bästa kurserna jag läst!! » (Poor)
- I think that it is a very interesting subject and had large expectations of the course. I think that some parts was very interesting but too much of the lectures was bad and the structure of the course was poor. » (Fair)
- The contents are great but the level is way to low for 4th year engineering studies. I think I could have learned a lot more with a bit higher tempo and harder calculations exercises.» (Good)
- I stort en mycket välkomponerad kurs med olika moment som kompletterar varandra väl. Vissa föreläsningar/föreläsare skulle kunna tas bort till fördel för mer fokus på kursens huvudteman.» (Good)
- Nice teacher who explains very well the tricky concepts!» (Good)
- In my opinion we could have had more time to go deeper in many of the themes but I understand that we did not have time.» (Good)
- One of the most interesting and well presented courses I have taken.» (Excellent)
- This course was really interresting, relatively easy to follow and understand. Most of the lectures was great.» (Excellent)
- I appreciate the high quality of the lectures and the learning effect of calculations and discussions.» (Excellent)

2. Which Master"s program are you following?

MPSES»		12		18%
MPECO»		14		21%
MPNUE»		13		20%
Erasmus»		13		20%
other»		9		13%
not currently in a Master"s program»		4		6%

Genomsnitt: 3.07

- MPISC» (other)
- MP Design for Sustainable Development» (other)
- Complex adaptive systems» (other)
- Nordic masters in Innovative Sustainable Energy Engineering» (other)
- MPISC» (other)
- At Elektroteknik 300hp, second year» (not currently in a Master"s program)

3. How well did the course fit into your program?

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		4		6%
Good»		28		44%
Excellent»		31		49%

Genomsnitt: 3.42

- overlap was pretty big (repetition)» (Fair)
- I would say energy systems is a good application of the systems sciences we learn in CAS.» (Good)

4. Did you miss anything from the course, or did a subject receive insufficient treatment?

5. Is something in the course unnecessary, overlapping with other courses or should it receive less treatment?

Lectures & calculation exercises

6. Please rate the lectures given by the following people!

- I"d like lectures by Niclas Mattson as well.»
- Great lectures, these people are amazing speakers and should be in next year to.»
- Christian Azar"s lectures were better than excellent. No answer for Anders Lyngfelt since I was not there.»
- Most of the guest lecturers were not giving especially interesting or valuable information for the purpose of the course. »
- In the lecture "efficiency in the transport sector" I hoped to listen about better alternatives or how is it work the transport sector, not how an ICE works.»
- cant remember the others faces...»

Christian Azar (main lecturer)
65 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		0		0%
Good»		5		7%
Excellent»		60		92%

Genomsnitt: 3.92

Jonas Nässén (energy efficiency)
59 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		2		3%
Good»		44		74%
Excellent»		13		22%

Genomsnitt: 3.18

Sten Karlsson (efficiency in the transport sector)
59 svarande

Poor»		24		40%
Fair»		18		30%
Good»		15		25%
Excellent»		2		3%

Genomsnitt: 1.91

Daniel Johansson (fossil fuels)
59 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		15		25%
Good»		34		57%
Excellent»		10		16%

Genomsnitt: 2.91

Anders Lyngfelt (carbon capture & storage)
58 svarande

Poor»		2		3%
Fair»		22		37%
Good»		27		46%
Excellent»		7		12%

Genomsnitt: 2.67

Lina Bertling (smart grids)
59 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		11		18%
Good»		31		52%
Excellent»		17		28%

Genomsnitt: 3.1

Ola Carlson (renewable electricity)
57 svarande

Poor»		2		3%
Fair»		12		21%
Good»		41		71%
Excellent»		2		3%

Genomsnitt: 2.75

Erik Ahlgren (fuel cells & hydrogen, energy in the developing world)
56 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		7		12%
Good»		40		71%
Excellent»		9		16%

Genomsnitt: 3.03

Göran Berndes (global land use)
53 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		10		18%
Good»		35		66%
Excellent»		8		15%

Genomsnitt: 2.96

David Bryngelsson (biomass & bioenergy)
56 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		5		8%
Good»		39		69%
Excellent»		12		21%

Genomsnitt: 3.12

Björn Sandén (solar energy)
60 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		5		8%
Good»		28		46%
Excellent»		27		45%

Genomsnitt: 3.36

7. How did you find the difficulty level of the calculation exercises?

Too easy»		1		1%
Somewhat easy»		14		21%
Good»		33		51%
Somewhat hard»		15		23%
Too hard»		1		1%

Genomsnitt: 3.01

- Way to easy, they gave an insight into orders of magnitude for various things, but were quite tedious to do since they just consisted of monotonous calculations which took some while to do.» (Too easy)
- A lot of them where quite similar» (Somewhat easy)
- The calculations were easy, as I would have been able to do them already years ago. On the other hand, I think the discussions were often more important.» (Somewhat easy)
- First times easy but later a bit harder» (Good)
- No real procedures.. just dimension analysis..» (Good)
- The calculations themselves are not hard but it is easy to overlook aspects sometimes. They can be a bit tricky.» (Good)
- a lot detials should take into account » (Somewhat hard)
- For somebdy who has never done any such calculations, it is a bit tricky at the beginning! And when the demonstration is made by students instead of the teacher, one does not each time understand...» (Somewhat hard)
- The exercises calculations have nothing to do with the compendium. Sometimes they are easy and somewtimes hard, but the expresions you need to solve them are not shown in the lectures.» (Too hard)

8. How relevant were the calculation exercises for the course?

Poor»		2		3%
Fair»		6		9%
Good»		31		47%
Excellent»		26		40%

Genomsnitt: 3.24

- The given task to calculate was very good but the calculation exercises was very bad. Since I had calculated the task before the exercises I didn"t learn much at looking when others was calculated them again. And there was almost no discussions about the tasks.» (Poor)
- good idea to get some kind of perspective in form of numbers. » (Good)
- They often gave a good overview about the magnitude of our challenges.» (Good)

9. Please rate the lessons given by the teaching assistant in your group (please skip the others)!

- Only negative is that Niclas didn"t divide time among exercises and tasks in the perfect way. But the explanations and off-course knowledge-appertizers were good.»
- Great at explaining and starting interesting discussions.»
- Nice funny teacher who explains also well the exercises and who speaks French !»
- Very helpful and the teaching method was one of the best I have seen so far. Energetic and motivating. Thank you Niclas»
- Nclas is a very good teacher. He makes the students interested in the subject and gets a good dialogue going.»
- David can sometimes scare people so they don"t dare to ask questions. It was bad that we didn"t go through all the questions. »
- Det var bra och givande diskussioner kring uppgifterna. »
- David explained well and brought current and relevant information to the discussion.»
- a bit too much talking about details sometimes. Also, our lessons was focused on table calcs and could have handled more discussion topics. »
- Good teaching.»

Niclas Mattsson (group 1)
18 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		0		0%
Good»		7		38%
Excellent»		11		61%

Genomsnitt: 3.61

David Bryngelsson (group 2)
18 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		0		0%
Good»		8		44%
Excellent»		10		55%

Genomsnitt: 3.55

Emma Jonson (group 3)
9 svarande

Poor»		1		11%
Fair»		1		11%
Good»		3		33%
Excellent»		4		44%

Genomsnitt: 3.11

Jonas Nässén (group 4)
21 svarande

Poor»		1		4%
Fair»		3		14%
Good»		8		38%
Excellent»		9		42%

Genomsnitt: 3.19

Students performing calculations at the blackboard

10. Do you think you prepared more for the exercises because you could be called upon to demonstrate your calculations?

No, not at all»		6		9%
To some extent»		32		50%
Yes, definitely»		26		40%

Genomsnitt: 2.31

- I went to the blackboard early on so i didnt have too much incentive to prepare afterwards» (To some extent)
- I did prepare extra the first two exercises, but after I had had my demonstration I just did the exercises.» (To some extent)
- You are of course correct in your assertion. I was lacking time before some of the lessons and would have skipped doing calculations if I wasn"t forced.» (Yes, definitely)
- Who would tell the contrary ?» (Yes, definitely)
- However, when you have been called once, you can prepared less the following exercises...» (Yes, definitely)
- Jag tycker det var bra. Det fick mig att göra uppgifterna i tid. » (Yes, definitely)

11. How good was the idea to have students demonstrate calculations? (If you have other suggestions, please note them in the comments.)

Poor»		8		12%
Fair»		19		30%
Good»		27		42%
Excellent»		9		14%

Genomsnitt: 2.58

- It is better that the teaching assistant demonstrate and the tells want is difficult and what we should think of the calculating. Since most student often think that similar thing is hard they don"t explain the hard thing very good at the black board.» (Poor)
- I don"t think it makes one learn more but maybe some needs to have it to make the calculations.» (Poor)
- It was very hard to see what they were doing, as they didn"t explained and their blackboard writing skills were generally not so good. And for most of the exercises it was just a sitting exercise, since they were not so hard.» (Poor)
- The exercises are rather boring when you have already done them and if you have not been able to find the correct answer you almost want to stay away from the exercise rather than go, in case you are called to demonstrate your incorrect solution.» (Poor)
- there were not so much discussion anyway, and boring to look at people solving questions I have allredy done. I would like it to be 4 out of 6 obligatory exercises were the teacher demonstrate the calculations.» (Poor)
- It would have been more interesting to have quick and clear corrections made by the TA to get more time to focus on discussions and results...» (Poor)
- Bättre då en lärare gör uppgiften eftersom han/hon förklarar mer under tiden än vad en student gör.» (Poor)
- I think it´,s always better a teachers explanation» (Fair)
- It is often less easy to understand when an other student does the calculations at the blackboard since it is usually less well explained.» (Fair)
- But clear explanations must be provided by the student, which is not always the case» (Fair)
- Students don"t explain as well as a teacher, and it makes it sometimes hard to follow.» (Fair)
- Make students hand in some calculations each time and then let the TA explain the problems on the board. I did not learn much from watching fellow students perform calculations badly on the board.» (Fair)
- It is a good idea, but I think it could be also good to have a correction of the exercises (after the exercise course) in order to understand the calculations because some student corrections were a bit poor in explications...» (Fair)
- I think it is quite boring and not very good to watch another student to do the exercise, but on the other hand it was really good to have done the exercises beforehand. I think there should be more time on the exercise for discussions, and less for demonstrations. The discussions was good, but most of the time you just sat around while waiting on someone to show a problem you already had solved. Not very valuable.» (Fair)
- The problem was that no one listened since everybody know the solutions...» (Fair)
- Honestly, I think it would be a lot better if the teacher went through all the exercises on the board. The students are nervous and are not used to this sort of thing. I think it"s better to leave it up to the students if they wish to do the exercises or not, it"s their loss if they choose not to do them.» (Fair)
- It didn"t give so much to the people who were listening since the students in general weren"t good in explaining. I would have liked to get the solutions for the exercises, at least after the exercise. » (Fair)
- not everyone did demostrate calcs, I belive more time should be spent on discussions, thats more relevant. » (Fair)
- but the more complicated ones should be explained by the teaching assistant» (Good)
- I think it is a good idea, but not for all the questions. The students do not explain well, and some of them are saying "oh, that was a really easy question" before starting to correct it, whereas it was not and some of us did not find the answer. It is then difficult to ask them to explain again what they did without making them think that we are stupid.» (Good)
- Could be a bit messy sometimes, but Niclas cleared things up must of the time.» (Good)
- However, some students don"t like that.» (Good)
- I think that everybody should participate, even if they don"t want to. » (Good)
- I think it worked quite well and one was able to see different ways to solve problems.» (Good)

Debates

12. How did you like having debates in the course?

Poor»		3		4%
Fair»		8		12%
Good»		29		44%
Excellent»		25		38%

Genomsnitt: 3.16

- most of the arguments were not new and predictable.» (Fair)
- I like the concept, although many students did not really argued and some debates where without energy for the topic. » (Good)
- They were good if both parties were well prepared. Sometimes the other side was way better in debate, myabe because of language problems.» (Good)
- I didn"t think it was a good idea, but I debated for a opinion I was convinced I didn"t have, and think I opened my eyes a bit more. So for me it was good.» (Excellent)
- A great way of learning that there are always two sides of the coin.» (Excellent)
- This was a very interesting way of teaching which I found very giving and fun!» (Excellent)

13. Please rate the individual debates:

- Of course the level of the debates depends on the groups but Emma handled the debates perfectly. »
- The group members on both sides had misunderstood what this debate was supposed to be about.»

Debate 1: Climate targets for the developing world
51 svarande

Poor»		2		3%
Fair»		8		15%
Good»		25		49%
Excellent»		16		31%

Genomsnitt: 3.07

Debate 2: Nuclear energy
52 svarande

Poor»		2		3%
Fair»		2		3%
Good»		32		61%
Excellent»		16		30%

Genomsnitt: 3.19

Debate 3: Carbon capture & storage
48 svarande

Poor»		1		2%
Fair»		11		22%
Good»		25		52%
Excellent»		11		22%

Genomsnitt: 2.95

Debate 4: Fuel choices in the transportation sector
47 svarande

Poor»		2		4%
Fair»		7		14%
Good»		23		48%
Excellent»		15		31%

Genomsnitt: 3.08

Literature

14. How did you like the course compendium?

Poor»		4		6%
Fair»		18		28%
Good»		33		51%
Excellent»		9		14%

Genomsnitt: 2.73

- only small part is useful.» (Poor)
- Have not really read in it, the quotient insights/timeSpent is significantly much larger by attending lectures and debates/exercises than reading lengthy texts.» (Fair)
- Not really connected to the lectures» (Fair)
- some articles were interesting, but most of them did not add anything to my knowledge» (Fair)
- I read about half of it but since it wasn"t really relevant for the exam I stopped reading when it was time to start studying for the exam.» (Fair)
- As it"s presented as a gathering of different articles, I tended to read only articles which interested me. Then it seemed to me more a book than a course compendium.» (Fair)
- Interesting articles but they did not cover any more than the lectures, so they were not necessary to pass the course. However, they were interesting as "extra material".» (Fair)
- Some text were really unecessary for the coarse and way too long. It would be good to try and realte the text to the lectures better. There were much information in the lectures which was not covered in the book and vice versa.» (Good)
- Some articles are really excellent and relevant, some others are "just" good. But the compedium is maybe too big. » (Good)
- Many interestinf articles, but a lot to read.» (Good)
- The articles are well writen, easy to read, very related to the course.» (Excellent)
- Compared to the other course SUstainable Development, this courses compendium was fun to read. » (Excellent)

15. How much of the course compendium did you read?

0 - 20%»		9		14%
20 - 40%»		22		34%
40 - 60%»		13		20%
60 - 80%»		8		12%
80 - 100%»		11		17%

Genomsnitt: 2.84

- See above» (0 - 20%)
- Some of the articles does not feel like they are worth the effort. Generally, only Azar"s articles seemed to be relevant enough to spend time on.» (20 - 40%)
- but i am planning to read the rest until the examination» (40 - 60%)
- I concentrated myself on the Technical Change and the Environment course litterature, but the articles were interesting!» (40 - 60%)
- I think I have read 80%, by lack of time.» (80 - 100%)
- Fast det kom väldigt få frågor på tentan. Kompendiet var ändå nyttigt för att kunna få en bättre helhet till det som togs upp på lektionerna. » (80 - 100%)

16. How did you like "Solving the climate challenge" (Makten över klimatet) by Christian Azar?

Poor»		1		2%
Fair»		2		4%
Good»		15		31%
Excellent»		29		61%
I didn"t read it»		14

Genomsnitt: 3.53

- quite a repetition» (Poor)
- it is easy to read and interesting, but less interesting for people who already know about the climate problem and the different problems involved.» (Fair)
- It was nice to read, I like it.» (Good)
- Jag har läst den tidigare så svårt att utvärdera hur väl den funkar som kompletterande läsning, men det är en underhållande och saklig bok som är lätt att ta till sig.» (Good)
- The same comment: it is well explained, therefore everything becomes easier !» (Good)
- But I only read the firt 6 chapters, because of lack of time. I might read it in the future thought, just for fun because it"s a great book.» (Good)
- A very good book, I have read it twice.» (Excellent)
- Very good book which gives a very good overview of the issues with the global warming.» (Excellent)
- I have not finished it yet.» (Excellent)
- I wished I could get an autograph and the version in english with real book-styling.» (Excellent)
- Everyone should read it. » (Excellent)
- Very interesting book about climate change mitigation, written in a "popular science" style. Maybe not the most educating, but one of the most interesting school books I have ever read.» (Excellent)
- A very good way to get a general picture of all the thematics» (Excellent)

Course administration and study climate

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

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		4		6%
Good»		36		55%
Excellent»		25		38%

Genomsnitt: 3.32

- strange with all in the compendium when things change» (Fair)
- Alltid fördelaktigt om man kan printa ppt:s innan föreläsningen och göra noteringar på dessa, men antar att de flesta föreläsare sitter på sina ppts in i det sista ,-)» (Good)
- The sync with Timeedit could be better» (Good)
- Nothing to say really, it worked good.» (Excellent)

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

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		2		3%
Good»		25		44%
Excellent»		29		51%
I did not seek help»		9

Genomsnitt: 3.48

- Niclas was always helpful» (Excellent)
- Both at lectures and at calculation excersises.» (Excellent)
- Thanks to the assistants during the calculations lectures.» (Excellent)

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

64 svarande

0 - 20%»		0		0%
20 - 40%»		1		1%
40 - 60%»		6		9%
60 - 80%»		20		31%
80 - 100%»		37		57%

Genomsnitt: 4.45

- Many lectures collided with my other course.» (40 - 60%)
- My problem» (40 - 60%)
- I went to as much as I could, the lectures were good in my opinion.» (60 - 80%)
- Tried as often as I could to be there.» (60 - 80%)
- Christian Azar is excellent and a really inspiring professor! » (80 - 100%)
- 100%» (80 - 100%)
- Lost some early lessons.» (80 - 100%)

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

64 svarande

At most 15 hours/week»		13		20%
Around 20 hours/week»		35		54%
Around 25 hours/week»		11		17%
Around 30 hours/week»		5		7%
At least 35 hours/week»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.12

- Hard to say.» (?)
- I am taking three courses and working extra on the side, I would have put more time into the course otherwise.» (At most 15 hours/week)
- mostly own studies.» (Around 20 hours/week)

21. How was the course workload?

Too low»		0		0%
Low»		8		12%
Adequate»		48		75%
High»		8		12%
Too high»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 3

- But I didn"t read much, if I had, it would have been higher» (Low)
- A bit too much to read...» (Adequate)
- I was expecting a little more work but I am content that it was not so.» (Adequate)
- I did not manage to read everything.» (High)

22. How was the total workload this study period?

Too low»		1		1%
Low»		2		3%
Adequate»		41		67%
High»		15		24%
Too high»		2		3%

Genomsnitt: 3.24

- But thats my own fault for taking extra courses» (?)
- SEF and TEC aren"t really any tough courses, but they are good as they are. You learn a lot.» (Too low)
- Easier than the first period.» (Adequate)
- Had three courses» (High)
- 3 courses» (High)

Goals and goal fulfilment

23. How understandable are the learning outcomes?

The goals are difficult to understand»		1		1%
The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer»		16		27%
The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn»		42		71%

Genomsnitt: 2.69 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

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

No, not at all»		0		0%
To some extent»		16		35%
Yes, definitely»		29		64%
I don"t know / I have not been examined yet»		16

Genomsnitt: 2.64

- In some way, the things I knew, was unnecessary to know. The necessary things wasn´,t in my head. I know more than I was able to show in the exam.» (To some extent)

25. Is there something that you definitely think should be changed to next year?

26. Additional comments (about anything)

Thank you for taking the time to help us improve the course!!