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Wireless communications, SSY135, vt11

1. Are the guidelines for the course clear? (Deadlines, mandatory parts, bonus points, examination, web, course-PM)

Yes»		28		100%
No»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 1

2. How was the course information (web, course-PM, etc)?

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		1		3%
Acceptable»		2		7%
Good»		15		53%
Very good»		10		35%

Genomsnitt: 4.21

- It was good to know the grades of the quizzes right away. It would be good to have back the quizzes after they have being grade.» (Fair)

3. What do you think about the examination principles (final grade based on project, quiz, and exam scores)?

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		1		3%
Acceptable»		1		3%
Good»		18		64%
Very good»		8		28%

Genomsnitt: 4.17

- I think that there should not be a minimum score to obtain in the exam in order to pass the course if the 40 minimum points are already achieved.» (Acceptable)
- Maybe, we could increase the importance of quiz a little.» (Good)
- Quiz and projects are truly instructive. For project more effective helps could be offer by the assistants. Based on sample exams, the level of problems does not match with the level of exercises and the time duration of the course. » (Good)
- Quizes were tricky, and I think it is a good idea to have the quizes in the bigining of tutorial sessions but it would be better not to have tutorial sessions at 8 on Mondays, I wish they had been at 10.» (Good)
- Keep the same for next year also.» (Very good)

4. The purpose of the quizzes is to encourage and reward students activities that leads to learning. Have the quizzes helped you to learn wireless communications?

No, not at all»		2		7%
No, not really»		0		0%
Somewhat»		4		14%
Yes, to some extent»		14		50%
Yes, to a large extent»		8		28%

Genomsnitt: 3.92

- Because I just attended one exercise session.» (No, not at all)
- Because of the traffic in the morning 0800 is a bad time for me, so i did not attend the quizzes. 0830 would be better.» (No, not at all)
- Visst, en quizz gör att man läser på inför övningen men den tar också bort fokus (och tid) från övningsuppgifterna. Personligen tycker jag det vore bättre att skippa quizzarna och dela ut ett specifikt problem, typ ett case, som ska lösas inför varje övning. På så sätt kan man behandla det som är väsentligt inför övningen. » (Somewhat)
- The time is too early!» (Somewhat)
- Sometimes the questions are not very clear, maybe this is due to the fact that they are so brief. I would have preferred to have the quizzes at some other time slot, not on Monday at 8 AM. Maybe the Wednesday tutorial class would be more adequate. Anyway, my opinion is that the quiz is a very good idea. » (Yes, to some extent)
- They motivated me to find the reason of why one answer was true and why others were false.» (Yes, to some extent)
- We didn"t have a quiz on Spread Spectrum, may be it can be included next time» (Yes, to some extent)
- The quizzes help to learn. I learnt of the wrong answer I chose. Now I know waht the correct answers are.» (Yes, to a large extent)
- Because of quizzes, I review what I"ve learned every week.» (Yes, to a large extent)
- All the quiz questions were nice. Some mathematical calculations related questions can be included.» (Yes, to a large extent)

5. Indicate your attendance on scheduled sessions

- As there is a bug in this question I write it clearly : 76-100% of attendance for both Lectures and Exercises.»
- I think there are some wrong with the selection choise, my anser is both over 90%.»
- Some problem in the browser prevents me from marking 76-100% in both. »
- Something is wrong here. I couldn"t choose 76-100% for both of them. »
- Tried to set both 76-100% but the form did not allow it.»
- In exercises more problems can be solved. The speed for solving the problems is too low. I recommend more solved problem, printed in a nice way, could increase the ability of students to a great extend to over come the final exams and more than that to gain insights in different concepts introduced in the course. »
- I attended 76-100% of Exercises but I can not choose it from thr multiple choices.»
- Exercise session on Monday was too early.»

0-25 %
8 svarande

Lectures»		2		25%
Exercises»		6		75%

Genomsnitt: 1.75

26-50 %
8 svarande

Lectures»		2		25%
Exercises»		6		75%

Genomsnitt: 1.75

51-75 %
20 svarande

Lectures»		4		20%
Exercises»		16		80%

Genomsnitt: 1.8

76-100 %
28 svarande

Lectures»		23		82%
Exercises»		5		17%

Genomsnitt: 1.17

Do not know
8 svarande

Lectures»		1		12%
Exercises»		7		87%

Genomsnitt: 1.87

6. How would you rate the quality of the lectures (with respect to your learning)?

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		0		0%
Acceptable»		0		0%
Good»		17		60%
Very good»		11		39%

Genomsnitt: 4.39

- Good explanations, we are encouraged to ask questions and these questions are always answered adequately. Besides the slides, the complementary explanations on the blackboard are usually very good and clear. If time constraints allow it, doing some examples in class rather than pure theory could be of great help. » (Good)
- If there are the outlines like the book did, it would be better.» (Good)
- The notation in formulas could be more clear. For example, it is inconvenient that gamma denotes both SNR and path loss exponent. » (Good)
- no doubt...» (Good)
- The writing on board is good to change the mood from the slides. » (Good)
- I think some more time should have been spent on the coding part» (Good)
- Erik"s lectures were wonderful. He is one of the best. It is clear that he spends time on slides and lectures. That"s absolutely rewarding. Moreover, he is master over the concepts he teaches. That"s very inspiring. » (Very good)
- In some of the lectures days, the notes were hand written on the black board. Instead of that, include those information also into the slides and explain only the concepts in black board. This saves time for us.» (Very good)
- Lectures are quite good and helpful.» (Very good)

7. How would you rate the quality of the exercises (with respecto to your learning)?

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		2		7%
Acceptable»		10		35%
Good»		12		42%
Very good»		4		14%

Genomsnitt: 3.64

- They were not the type that helps learning, they were just numeric problems. It is better to have conceptual problems that are more related to understanding rather than applying formulas.» (Fair)
- I feel what is done in tutorials and what is explained in theory could be better connected. The introduction to each tutorial reviewing the theory is very helpful and should definitely be kept for the following years.» (Fair)
- I attended the exercises classes with Lotfollah. He is good at teaching and explaining the concepts. I think he needs to prepare more the solution of the problems, he made mistakes and sometimes is not very clear when he is doing the analysis of the problem. I know he doesn"t like to do things by heart, which is good. But sometimes he gets confused. That"s why is good he prepares the analysis of the problem.» (Acceptable)
- It"s better TA can prepare some copy of exercise tasks to student and do more focus on exercise not for no related topics. » (Acceptable)
- The scheduled amount of study hours for exercises seems to be not enough, because problems in the course take much time to solve, especially in the beginning.» (Acceptable)
- There were sometimes when the tutors got confused when trying to solve the exercises, that caused confusion between the students» (Acceptable)
- I felt like, at least for a couple of exercise sessions, teaching assistants came to class without enough preparation. They struggled to answer the questions.» (Acceptable)
- Give some time for students to think about the questions, that helps.» (Good)
- very helpful» (Good)
- I just attended 1 session that was quite helpful...» (Good)
- The selected exercises were good. But some of the exercises from the book are simply uses formulas instead of wireless communication concepts. Please change the text book questions for the next year.» (Good)

8. How would you rate the quality of the course material (with respect to your learning)?

- Something id wrong with the selection. The text book is good and Selected exercises as well. »
- It should be very good on exercises»
- For some concepts, the book does not clarify clearly.»
- The selected exercises where good. Much better than the ones from the book.»
- Selected exercises should cover wider context for the next time.»

Poor
1 svarande

Text book (Goldsmith)»		0		0%
Selected exercises»		1		100%

Genomsnitt: 2

Fair
1 svarande

Text book (Goldsmith)»		0		0%
Selected exercises»		1		100%

Genomsnitt: 2

Acceptable
14 svarande

Text book (Goldsmith)»		5		35%
Selected exercises»		9		64%

Genomsnitt: 1.64

Good
25 svarande

Text book (Goldsmith)»		9		36%
Selected exercises»		16		64%

Genomsnitt: 1.64

Very good
17 svarande

Text book (Goldsmith)»		12		70%
Selected exercises»		5		29%

Genomsnitt: 1.29

Did not read
5 svarande

Text book (Goldsmith)»		1		20%
Selected exercises»		4		80%

Genomsnitt: 1.8

9. How would you rate the quality of the projects (with respect to your learning)?

- Here again... Both are very good»
- The second project had some problems and the procedure were not explained clearly. »
- I think that the second part has a big working load and that the student does not learn as much as with the first project»
- Very Good/Good»
- It could be more challenging.»
- Less routine work and more experimentation would be better. There was so much programming and debugging that no time left for anything else.»
- Both very good. One important point: More helps from the assistants are expected in both projects. Maybe the drawback with the projects was this.»
- Break up the project report marks into requirements and results. Inform that in the project memo. »
- For some parts of projects, it is similar to projects of other course(i.e Applied signal process). Thus, it seems less interesting.»
- It was not possible to select the same box for choices on the same row for some reason. The projects were very good.»
- There is something wrong with the answering sheet that i couldn"t select properly. They were quite beneficial but project memos may be more clear.»
- enjoyed the projects»

Poor
1 svarande

Project 1: Simulation of Fading Wireless Channels»		1		100%
Project 2: Design and Simulation of a Communication System .»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 1

Fair
3 svarande

Project 1: Simulation of Fading Wireless Channels»		1		33%
Project 2: Design and Simulation of a Communication System .»		2		66%

Genomsnitt: 1.66

Acceptable
9 svarande

Project 1: Simulation of Fading Wireless Channels»		4		44%
Project 2: Design and Simulation of a Communication System .»		5		55%

Genomsnitt: 1.55

Good
23 svarande

Project 1: Simulation of Fading Wireless Channels»		14		60%
Project 2: Design and Simulation of a Communication System .»		9		39%

Genomsnitt: 1.39

Very good
22 svarande

Project 1: Simulation of Fading Wireless Channels»		9		40%
Project 2: Design and Simulation of a Communication System .»		13		59%

Genomsnitt: 1.59

10. How was the workload of the projects?

- I felt that we had less time for project 1. »
- Again, both "Just right amount of work"»
- The work wasn"t really too much , but it prevented me from reading the text regularly and following the lecture notes»

Too little work
1 svarande

Project 1: Simulation of Fading Wireless Channels»		1		100%
Project 2: Design and Simulation of a Communication System .»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 1

A bit too little work
6 svarande

Project 1: Simulation of Fading Wireless Channels»		5		83%
Project 2: Design and Simulation of a Communication System .»		1		16%

Genomsnitt: 1.16

Just right amount of work
25 svarande

Project 1: Simulation of Fading Wireless Channels»		15		60%
Project 2: Design and Simulation of a Communication System .»		10		40%

Genomsnitt: 1.4

A bit too much work
21 svarande

Project 1: Simulation of Fading Wireless Channels»		7		33%
Project 2: Design and Simulation of a Communication System .»		14		66%

Genomsnitt: 1.66

Too much work
5 svarande

Project 1: Simulation of Fading Wireless Channels»		1		20%
Project 2: Design and Simulation of a Communication System .»		4		80%

Genomsnitt: 1.8

11. How was the amount of work required in the course?

Too little work»		0		0%
A bit too little work»		1		3%
Just right amount of work»		16		57%
A bit too much work»		10		35%
Too much work»		1		3%

Genomsnitt: 3.39

- Keep the same work load.» (Just right amount of work)
- There were so many lectures, and in the first few weeks 3 lectures per week, so make it hard to follow till the end.» (A bit too much work)
- to manage the project and at the same time to keep up with the lectures is bit hard...» (A bit too much work)

12. How would you rate the quality of the course as a whole?

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		0		0%
Acceptable»		1		3%
Good»		14		50%
Very good»		13		46%

Genomsnitt: 4.42

- I was disappointed that the cellular system themes was treated so shortly and at the end. I would expected to see it at the beginning and much more deeper. In general the course was opaque by all the formulas needed to be used, this caused that the essence of the concepts behind those formulas got lost. » (Acceptable)
- Would have been great with 10 to 15 more days so that some more things could be covered. » (Good)
- The lectures were given in such a way that the concepts were very easy to understand and follow. It feels that the lecturer prepares very well the topics.» (Very good)
- Projekten är väldigt bra ur lärandesynpunkt men de tar bort focus på det viktiga momentet att sitta och göra uppgifter, läsa, tänka i boken och klura. Eftersom projektet oftast tar upp ALL tid finns ingen tid att själv få vara nyfiken och lära sig. 90 % av tiden med projektet handlar om att lösa programerings detaljer i matlab, 10 % om att lära sig ämnet. Jag tycker det fortf. ska finnas ett projekt och över lag är det ett bra sätt att lära sig på men just nu är det för stor fokus på projektet. Varför inte ha veckobaserade inlämningar som kan göras i grupp eller individuellt. » (Very good)
- this was a really informative one...» (Very good)

13. What should definitely be changed in the course?

14. What should definitely not be changed in the course?