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Course evaluation SCM, TEK185

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

43 svarande

Around 30 hours/week»		2		4%
Around 40 hours/week»		16		37%
Around 50 hours/week»		20		46%
Around 60 hours/week»		5		11%
Around 70 hours/week»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.65

- The workload has been OK. One have to consider that this is a Master programme, and it requires tough work.» (Around 30 hours/week)
- It increases as times goes.» (Around 40 hours/week)
- Farirly good workload. I could have taken more...» (Around 40 hours/week)
- I thought it was hard to find the time to read all the literature in the last couple of weeks when we had a lot of group work.» (Around 40 hours/week)
- In the begining group work take a lot of time. In the end group work was more effective, but then even more time was spent on term paper and reading. So in my opinion cours was very demanding.» (Around 50 hours/week)
- A lot of the time was spent in group assignments. Planning when to meet and get the time to finnish the assignments in time was the most stressful. This since we often needed to do something both before and after the seminar, and in some cases even in between. Took a lot of time from the Term paper and reading the literature.» (Around 50 hours/week)
- More than 50 hours/week was needed, but less in the beginning of the course, some more work demanding semminars could have been in the beginning of the course instead of Businessrunner. » (Around 50 hours/week)
- Kanske något mer.» (Around 50 hours/week)
- Spent most of the time on reading and group assignments.» (Around 50 hours/week)
- Not more than maybe 30 the first week or two but much more in the end.» (Around 50 hours/week)
- Extremly much work. Just the reading was heavy and then all the team work.» (Around 60 hours/week)
- It was very interesting to study the topics offered by the lectures and seminar, but the workload was quite high.» (Around 60 hours/week)
- But I often was abroad, so it isn"t a real average.» (Around 60 hours/week)

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

43 svarande

0%»		0		0%
25%»		0		0%
50%»		2		4%
75%»		13		30%
100%»		28		65%

Genomsnitt: 4.6

- Due to flu» (50%)
- I miss 3 days, but only becouse I have to traveled home.» (75%)
- All lectures except from when I was out of town» (75%)
- More than 75 % but less then 100 %» (75%)
- Missed one lecture» (100%)
- when I was not abroad...» (100%)
- Might have missed one or two lectures.» (100%)
- Seminars was a really good way of learning, however the subjects/tasks could sometimes have been better!» (100%)
- However, when studying for the exam I only had use of the lectures made by Fredriksson and guest lectures from companies. They were more tied to the cource then the other ones were.» (100%)
- I especially tried not to miss any courses because it is base for program and I believe i had a benefit out of that» (100%)
- Missed 2 or 3 lessons» (100%)

Goals and goal fulfilment

3. How understandable are the course goals?

I have not read the goals»		2		4%
The goals are difficult to understand»		1		2%
The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer»		17		39%
The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn»		23		53%

Genomsnitt: 3.41

- They could have been even more clear so that they could be used as a summary for the study to the exam» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)
- Before the course some topics are quite unfamiliar and therefore the goals might be difficult to figure. In the end of the course, though, all of them seemed very clear.» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)
- Very broad goals, maby more bullets could have been appropriate» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)
- I believe it"s a good thing to include clear course goals.» (The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn)

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

41 svarande

No, the goals are set too low»		1		2%
Yes, the goals seem reasonable»		39		95%
No, the goals are set too high»		1		2%

Genomsnitt: 2

- I think, personally, the course could have been more operational in it´,s content. Could have involved a more concrete description of the actors involved in SCM. Third party logistics, Freight Forewarders, Freight rates, Customs/Laws, container standards etc. Im sure this was an overview, but still Im not sure we will ever learn on this basic operational level...! This course was good, but I hope we will learn those things aswell!» (No, the goals are set too low)
- I don"t know much about goals because in France we don"t care about that neither about credits.» (Yes, the goals seem reasonable)
- The goals are more related to what we really might work with other than just to have theoretical knowledge of the subject.» (Yes, the goals seem reasonable)
- I think that some is taken for granted that we allready knew» (No, the goals are set too high)

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

No, not at all»		0		0%
To some extent»		24		58%
Yes, definitely»		17		41%
I don"t know/have not been examined yet»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.41

- Hard to tell, you can not question everything in the exam.» (To some extent)
- The exam demanded more course explicit knowledge ("by heart") than course comprehension. But I guess that at this stage we cannot create much concerning SCM.» (To some extent)
- It is always hard to capture tacit knowledge in text. Maybe oral exams would be better to test the "real" knowlegde but that would be impossible as well I suppose.» (To some extent)
- No coherence between earlier exam and the current» (Yes, definitely)
- Skitbra tenta. var lite lurigt att veta om man skulle beskriva medtoder eller generel teori i fråga 2 och 5. Övriga var lättare att förstå vad man skulle svara (i de fall man kom på det). Tycker det var riktigt bra att man fick välja företag istället för att poängen hängde på om man lyssnat extra noga på rätt gästföreläsning.» (Yes, definitely)
- A fair exam, not testing any details but tested you on the whole content of the course.» (Yes, definitely)
- The questions were tied to what has been gone through during lectures.» (Yes, definitely)

Teaching and course administration

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

Small extent»		0		0%
Some extent»		5		11%
Large extent»		28		65%
Great extent»		10		23%

Genomsnitt: 3.11

- If I was able to read the readings prior to the lectures, I would have chosen "Large extent"» (Some extent)
- When the workload is to high you don"t have time to reflect properly and for that reason I didn"t have time to draw conclusions of my own.» (Large extent)
- To me, listening is much better than reading in order to understand something.» (Large extent)
- More examples... But the ones we had were good. » (Large extent)
- The lectures provided a good overview of the course.» (Large extent)
- Seminars were very useful in terms of understanding and using the studied theories.» (Large extent)
- Keep up the good work, Peter!» (Great extent)
- Excellent.» (Great extent)
- Good lectures and examples given, very clear lectures and it"s easy to follow. Peter is very good, he keeps me intrested in the area he is teaching about.» (Great extent)

7. To what extent has the "Gadde and Håkansson" book been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		6		13%
Some extent»		18		41%
Large extent»		17		39%
Great extent»		2		4%

Genomsnitt: 2.34

- Really hard book to read text-wise.» (Small extent)
- Hard to know what to read.» (Small extent)
- To much of an overview, too scattered. A more focused paper on 20-30 pages would be a good replacement from my piont of view.» (Some extent)
- It had too many repetitions and non-useful historical stuff. It also did not separate examples and descriptive parts from the more important ones. This resulted in wasting too much time distinguishing which paragraph is more important and which is not.» (Some extent)
- easy to read» (Large extent)
- in my opinion, it has very good topic to study however book is somewhat repetative and distinction between chapters is not very clear. It seems that it does not have clear borders to split and combine later.» (Large extent)
- Good book, but you need to read the whole book. It"s gives you a way of see Supply chain management and gives you a good and stable argument point if you like the book. Keep this book, very easy to read and very intresting with good cases.» (Great extent)

8. To what extent has the journal articles (and other material handed out) been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		2		4%
Some extent»		16		37%
Large extent»		24		55%
Great extent»		1		2%

Genomsnitt: 2.55

- because I do not manage to read them all» (Some extent)
- Good way to give practical examples of theory stated in the books.» (Some extent)
- Some where great, others not so much. They where too many also, it takes a lot of time to read an article compered to a chapter in a book. » (Some extent)
- It felt like some of them didn"t fit the course perfectly.» (Some extent)
- some were very good and some I didn"t hardly get any use of» (Large extent)
- heavily depends on the articles: e.g. Fisher excellent, Mahoney awfully tough.» (Large extent)
- Some were really good!» (Large extent)
- Some bettre than others but on the whole very good. I didn"t have time to read them all (read 15)but since they have a high standard I will read some of the others later.» (Large extent)

9. To what extent has the Simchi-Levi book been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		1		2%
Some extent»		13		30%
Large extent»		22		51%
Great extent»		7		16%

Genomsnitt: 2.81

- difficul to read, not good material to learn from» (Some extent)
- Didn"t like the book at all, to light on intresting areas and then to deap in others. Didn"t feel like it was adding that much new knowledge for me as I would like a course book to do.» (Some extent)
- This book was very brief overview of SCM related topics. Some parts were rather useful (risk pooling) but most of it was too shallow to use the knowledge. Though, it helped to form the overall understanding and view on subjects (cases)» (Some extent)
- i think that there are alot of chapter in this book which was irrelevant/general to our class lectures.» (Some extent)
- not that deep but easily gives very good bases» (Large extent)
- Great book.» (Large extent)
- this book is easier to understand but looks more operational.» (Large extent)

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

Very badly»		0		0%
Rather badly»		0		0%
Rather well»		13		30%
Very well»		30		69%

Genomsnitt: 3.69

- (tiny detail) In the Handouts, difference between Admin / Course outline is not always clear, and literature can be founded in different folders.» (Rather well)
- Would hav been nice with all handouts, and lecture slides (part from guest lecturers who don"t want to hand them out) also avaliable on the webpage» (Rather well)
- Would be good to have all the groups finished before the course start for everybody to have a better chance to plan their time and know what seminars to participate in. It is not good when mandatory lectures are moved from one day to another, we have to be able to plan ahead. » (Rather well)
- I believe that if you are familier with the coure portal you can find what you need quite easy.» (Very well)
- Almost an optimal way of serving the students!» (Very well)
- Everything was ver well handled and the web page was updated quickly which was great.» (Very well)
- Good job Peter!» (Very well)

Course structure and contents

11. Mark the statements that best fit your view on the overall course structure.

- It is good to do something individual, it is very rare in this kind of education.»
- The many group assignments took a lot of time, and therefore it was difficult to also find time to study during the course. Although, having done the exam a lot of questions where based on the assignments. Maybe inform that the work put into the assignments will help on exam. (Some teachers have assignments for some parts and then they test other parts of the course on the exam.) Looking back at guest lectures and study visits some could be skipped. (Volvo study visit, and the lecture provided by Sony Ericsson was only few parts that where interesting.»
- I usually have a lots of traditiolnal lectures, no seminar, a few group assignments, hardly one personnal assignment and no study visit, what may explain my point of view about Swedish way of teaching... I just need some time to assimilate it.»
- One individual assignment is good. Definetly not more group assignments.»
- Seminars and guest lectures are good, but depends totally of the subject/person ie Obermeyer and IMI indoor climate were great!»
- Very good fit apart from the double deadline (term paper and global sourcing) week 7. »
- The work load was too high during all the group assignments and the term paper. I had allmost no time to read the literature.»
- Hard to say, would like to have more traditional and guset lectures but we wouldn"t have time for it, the coures is very wide and don"t go in to the subjects, but I guess that other courses will do that. »
- This is one of the best organised and thought through course that I have taken on Chalmers.»
- Current structure is quite well balanced. It is always good to have more stimulating games/seminars etc but if considering the 7 week time window, then it might ruin the balance between different study forms.»
- Good to have several of the guest lecturers on the same day. »
- Study visists give the best insight in "the real world".»

More traditional lectures
43 svarande

Totally agree»		0		0%
Agree»		9		20%
Present outline is good»		29		67%
Disagree»		5		11%
Totally disagree»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.9

More games/seminars
43 svarande

Totally agree»		2		4%
Agree»		5		11%
Present outline is good»		25		58%
Disagree»		7		16%
Totally disagree»		4		9%

Genomsnitt: 3.13

More group assignments
43 svarande

Totally agree»		1		2%
Agree»		1		2%
Present outline is good»		16		37%
Disagree»		17		39%
Totally disagree»		8		18%

Genomsnitt: 3.69

More individual assignments
43 svarande

Totally agree»		1		2%
Agree»		6		13%
Present outline is good»		27		62%
Disagree»		6		13%
Totally disagree»		3		6%

Genomsnitt: 3.09

More guest lectures and study visits
43 svarande

Totally agree»		2		4%
Agree»		7		16%
Present outline is good»		30		69%
Disagree»		4		9%
Totally disagree»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.83

12. How do you perceive the following parts of the course? Please give some brief comments if you rank any part as less than good.

- IHM business runner was a pretty fun game and a good way to get to know the group but i didn"t think i got use for what I learned in this course. The reason my answer is "ok" on the "SCM knowledge"-seminar is simular to my comment about the business runner game. What i learnt from it I didn"t get so much use for in this course.»
- Lecture just give a brif look on subject and skip throug them. During the preparation to the exam, from slides it was not clear if everything is important, what was some slides for. But Peter"s slides was much more better then others (still can be improved)!»
- The SCM Knowledge seminar did not feel relevant for the course and it was too much already at that time. The team development seminar was kind of nice but it did not give anything. Nothing was new and the exercises was too general.»
- Lectures about Suppliers were perhaps too dense.»
- Too theoretical. People would have learned more if it was on a more concrete level and occationally we could have gone deeper!»
- The assignment evaluating a master thesis was the only assignment I thought was a little bit unnecessary, but it might be more rewarding for exchange students than for old Chalmers students.»
- for the ihm seminar it would be great if more parameters influence the market mpc too general »
- Sport Obermeyer - seminar was good and covered the analysis of the case. But since the task was given for groups, it would be good to receive also some kind of more personal (group based) feedback of our papers. Lectures, purchasing and supply networks - topic is rather interesting but also rather theoretical and philosophical in terms of how to approach those issues. Therefore they tended to be hard to follow. So, personally I lost track of presented topics in lectures quite fast and felt much more comfortable reading them on my own. Maybe cover those more briefly in lectures or use more illustrative examples.»
- The IT lecture did not focus on the related information from the literature (the Simchi-Levi, ...) The sportObermeyer could be more described before we start the job. »
- Viss upprepning av det som sagt tidigare under dagen, mer koordinerat med Ihre och de andra. Tror inte riktigt meningen med Supply Chain Management seminariet gick fram innan, det är rätt bra att ha en slags sammanfattning av den första delen men kanske bör det framgå tydligare vad tanken bakom är. »
- Team development should have been late week 1 or week 2, now it was too late in the quarter. Ok contents, was the handin needed?»

Introduction (Program and course intro, 2 lectures on SCM and SCD)
43 svarande

Very good»		8		18%
Good»		30		69%
Ok»		5		11%
Bad»		0		0%
Very bad»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 1.93

Seminar: IHM Business Runner
42 svarande

Very good»		21		50%
Good»		18		42%
Ok»		3		7%
Bad»		0		0%
Very bad»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 1.57

Seminar: Supply Chain Game
43 svarande

Very good»		24		55%
Good»		16		37%
Ok»		3		6%
Bad»		0		0%
Very bad»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 1.51

Lectures on distribution, MPC and IT in SCM (by Chalmers faculty)
41 svarande

Very good»		3		7%
Good»		14		34%
Ok»		17		41%
Bad»		6		14%
Very bad»		1		2%

Genomsnitt: 2.7

Seminar: SportObermeyer
43 svarande

Very good»		4		9%
Good»		21		48%
Ok»		13		30%
Bad»		5		11%
Very bad»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.44

Seminar: Supply Chain Management
43 svarande

Very good»		6		13%
Good»		20		46%
Ok»		13		30%
Bad»		4		9%
Very bad»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.34

Lectures: Purchasing and Supply Network Management
43 svarande

Very good»		9		20%
Good»		25		58%
Ok»		8		18%
Bad»		1		2%
Very bad»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.02

Seminar: SCM knowledge creation and dispersion
43 svarande

Very good»		3		6%
Good»		18		41%
Ok»		13		30%
Bad»		9		20%
Very bad»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.65

Seminar: Strategic Purchasing
43 svarande

Very good»		16		37%
Good»		24		55%
Ok»		2		4%
Bad»		1		2%
Very bad»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 1.72

Seminar: Global sourcing
43 svarande

Very good»		7		16%
Good»		17		39%
Ok»		15		34%
Bad»		4		9%
Very bad»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.37

Seminar: Team Development
42 svarande

Very good»		17		40%
Good»		11		26%
Ok»		9		21%
Bad»		5		11%
Very bad»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.04

Individual term paper
43 svarande

Very good»		12		27%
Good»		24		55%
Ok»		6		13%
Bad»		1		2%
Very bad»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 1.9

Course summary
40 svarande

Very good»		13		32%
Good»		19		47%
Ok»		7		17%
Bad»		1		2%
Very bad»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 1.9

Study climate

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

Very poor»		1		2%
Rather poor»		1		2%
Rather good»		8		18%
Very good»		32		74%
I did not seek help»		1		2%

Genomsnitt: 3.72

- I did not really ask for some help, but it was clear that the opportunities for that were numerous, all over the quarter.» (Very good)
- Linea was helpful for the term paper = good» (Very good)
- The supervisors gave quick answers when you sent email to them.» (Very good)
- Climate is totally different than Turkey. I would like to present my thanks to all lecturers for being warm and helpful because we are used to have more strict lecturers.» (Very good)

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

Very poorly»		0		0%
Rather poorly»		0		0%
Rather well»		19		44%
Very well»		24		55%
I did not seek cooperation»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 3.55

- Depends on the groups, but because of the mediocre class integration some meetings were very formal.» (Rather well)
- Sometimes it is hard in group works, some doesn"t want to work as hard as the others. » (Rather well)
- Some groups are better than other.» (Rather well)
- I had great group members!» (Very well)
- Good to have mixed groups with students from different countries and schools.» (Very well)

15. How was the course workload?

Too low»		0		0%
Low»		0		0%
Adequate»		7		16%
High»		25		58%
Too high»		11		25%

Genomsnitt: 4.09

- If I look back, it was not too much, maybe a bit too concentrated in some weeks, but overall not to much.» (Adequate)
- Perhaps outline ideas to "challenge" on our own what we learn (e.g. exercises, questions) so that we not only learn.» (Adequate)
- Not too much for me!» (Adequate)
- Just about right. Double deadline last week was quite tough so eaither putting it early or skipping in would have released some preasure at the end.» (Adequate)
- Was only in the end (with term paper and seminares at the same time) it felt like it was high workload. Before that it was adequate. » (High)
- I would like to have a possibility between "Adequate" and "High"... it was a bit high, but it was possible to reach the goals with an acceptable average number of hours of work in the week.» (High)
- Because of all the group assignments. Take a lot of time just to set meetings.» (High)
- I didn"t have time to learn everything that I wanted to learn and knew that I could learn that was sad cause now we have two new courses and I don"t have time to go through this course now cause I have to focus on the new courses. » (High)
- too many hand out so less time to personal work (reading artcles, books,etc.)» (High)
- High, but in a good way. It kept the positive stress throughout the course. I never had a feeling that I won"t make it. It was not too high but a bit more than adequate. It"s good, keeps me (and possibly others) of being lazy.» (High)
- Too much group activities and hand ins in a short time.» (Too high)
- there was too course load, specially two book in a very short period and almost all of the lectues, in my oppinion, was general and we learn everything in general. i think the course goal ws not in general.» (Too high)

Summarizing questions

16. What is your general impression of the course?

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		1		2%
Adequate»		3		6%
Good»		28		65%
Excellent»		11		25%

Genomsnitt: 4.13

- there were many good and excelent parts, like study visits, but course was in general and did not feel well with that, however i know that it was a good start., may be there is no alternative.» (Fair)
- I was looking for some more detailed/specific knowledge related to transports/logistics. Not "only" theoretical parts. » (Adequate)
- I"m a bit careful of using word "excellent" but my impression is very good. » (Good)
- Good introduction to the program.» (Good)
- but I am exchange student and I can only compare with my university courses.» (Excellent)

17. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

18. What should definitely be changed to next year?

19. Additional comments