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Power Electronic Converters, ENM060

Your own effort

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

28 svarande

At most 15 hours/week»		3		10%
Around 20 hours/week»		2		7%
Around 25 hours/week»		11		39%
Around 30 hours/week»		9		32%
At least 35 hours/week»		3		10%

Genomsnitt: 3.25

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

28 svarande

0%»		1		3%
25%»		0		0%
50%»		1		3%
75%»		7		25%
100%»		19		67%

Genomsnitt: 4.53

- all lectures, but about only 50% of the tutorials» (75%)
- As usual it was more beneficial to read the same material in the book and do not spent time on the lectures...just come to get an idea on what to study at home» (75%)
- Very early lectures, about 80% of all lectures were at 8 o"clock in the morning.» (75%)
- 100 % lectures, but maybe 65 % of tutorials» (100%)

Goals and goal fulfilment

3. How understandable are the learning outcomes?

I have not seen/read the goals»		1		3%
The goals are difficult to understand»		3		10%
The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer»		8		28%
The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn»		16		57%

Genomsnitt: 3.39 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

- The goal are not clear at all and need to be rewritten much more clearly» (The goals are difficult to understand)
- The exam didn"t show what was expected!» (The goals are difficult to understand)

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

27 svarande

No, the goals are set too low»		0		0%
Yes, the goals seem reasonable»		20		74%
No, the goals are set too high»		7		25%

Genomsnitt: 2.25

- The way I read them it seem resonable, but the way Andreas reads them it feels a bit too much» (Yes, the goals seem reasonable)
- The course tries to cover a very wide range of converters in a limited amount of time. Unavoidably the knowledge offered is quite hard to be absorbed.» (No, the goals are set too high)
- too many topics to cover and memorize all of the questions for the exam» (No, the goals are set too high)
- the exam was harder than expected from lections and laboration» (No, the goals are set too high)

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

No, not at all»		3		11%
To some extent»		11		40%
Yes, definitely»		11		40%
I don"t know/have not been examined yet»		2		7%

Genomsnitt: 2.44

- Not enough focus was laid on what the examination questions asked for. » (To some extent)
- The exam required good understanding of the concepts covered. However, because of the large amount of information that had to be absorbed before the exam, it was very hard to achieve a solid knowledge and also have a clear mind during the exam. » (To some extent)
- The exam did not reflect the learning outcomes or the focus from the lectures of the course. For example there were five different data sheets attach to the exam. I think this is an important part to learn during the master program, but if we are suppose to know how to do it we need to spend more time on this part in the course. Also there were many unclear question on the exam! As well as very many questions which makes it very stressful. » (To some extent)
- The exam seemed very extensive relative to the time you had to finish. I had to leave incomplete answer simply because I didn"t have any time left. This was frustrating.» (Yes, definitely)
Genomsnitt totalt för detta stycke: 3.39

Teaching and course administration

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

Small extent»		2		7%
Some extent»		13		46%
Large extent»		7		25%
Great extent»		6		21%

Genomsnitt: 2.6

- Worthless powerpoints since there are no commments, just graphs. Whenever Andreas wrote a formula on the blackboard he never wrote the context of the formula. » (Some extent)
- For the Buck and Boost converters I think Andreas did a very good job. This we really understood. But then the lectures become very stressful with many converters at same time, inverters and rectifiers...He also many time said that Christian will explain things more on the demos, but he never did...that left us students with lots of questions... » (Some extent)
- the exam was different compare to the lecturing» (Some extent)
- The lecturer was always well-prepared and understandable. He combined slide presentations and board-writing in a fine balance. The demonstration sessions were unfortunately not equally helpful, partly because of the tutor"s lack of experience.» (Large extent)
- Not the tutorials held by Dubar though.» (Large extent)
- Lectures was very helpful but tutorials did not help much because the things that came up on tutorials was copy/paste from solutions uploaded at webpage. Then it"s better for me to do the tutorials on your own at home, when I go on tutorials I expect the tutor to explain more or in other ways then it"s said on the solutions.» (Great extent)

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

Small extent»		1		3%
Some extent»		9		32%
Large extent»		10		35%
Great extent»		8		28%

Genomsnitt: 2.89

- The lecture slides were very helpful, even though they would have been even more useful without the frequent last minute changes and updates to them afterwards.» (Large extent)
- The book was very helpful and the demonstration solutions were very informative and well-written.» (Great extent)

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

Very badly»		0		0%
Rather badly»		1		3%
Rather well»		12		42%
Very well»		15		53%

Genomsnitt: 3.5

- The P-spice assignments could be put on the homepage a little bit earlier.» (Rather badly)
- It was not good that the course book was not available for purchase until one week after the beginning of the study period.» (Rather well)
- It would have been helpful to put up the material for tutorial exercises and lectures beforehand, but the important thing is that everything you needed eventually was on the course homepage.» (Very well)
- Excellent handouts!!! And very good course material overall» (Very well)

Study climate

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

Very poor»		0		0%
Rather poor»		2		7%
Rather good»		11		39%
Very good»		11		39%
I did not seek help»		4		14%

Genomsnitt: 3.6

- the exercises were only reading from handouts. Low entusiasm and personal joy about having these classes from the assistent.» (Rather poor)
- the self-study times were good when there is teachers at Fredrik Lamm and you could go there with what ever in the cousre you got stuck with. Though, when it was exam-week, there were nobody to answer our quetions» (Rather good)
- they were good, but often the answers were not so good. E.g. I got "I don"t know, i"ve just copied from the book" as answer or "that is a good question and it can be a good exercise for you to find the answer"» (Rather good)

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

Very poorly»		0		0%
Rather poorly»		1		3%
Rather well»		5		17%
Very well»		21		75%
I did not seek cooperation»		1		3%

Genomsnitt: 3.78

11. How was the course workload?

Too low»		1		3%
Low»		0		0%
Adequate»		3		10%
High»		15		53%
Too high»		9		32%

Genomsnitt: 4.1

- when i saw the exam I realized that the load should be harder and different» (Too low)
- This was mainly due to the Pspice-assignments but I found them to be really good for the forced learning process.» (High)
- The P-spice assignments took a lot of time, time that had been better spent if we had been sitting and doing exercises instead.» (Too high)
- To many P-spice assigments, and to much preparation for them. Even though I studied alot the hole period through I almost never had the time to start with tasks from the book, as there were always some preparations for a lab that had to be done. Also, be clearer on to what extent the preparations need to be done, as some of us spent alot of time on them, drawing nice graphs etc, while others just doodled some things (would never have done it like that if I knew I didnt really have too). » (Too high)

12. How was the total workload this study period?

Too low»		0		0%
Low»		0		0%
Adequate»		5		18%
High»		15		55%
Too high»		7		25%

Genomsnitt: 4.07

Summarizing questions

13. What is your general impression of the course?

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		5		17%
Adequate»		7		25%
Good»		13		46%
Excellent»		3		10%

Genomsnitt: 3.5

- The course content is very Interesting, but both the lecturer and the exercise assistant were not often unprepared.» (Fair)
- More on the board exercises done by the teacher instead of all theese power point slides.» (Adequate)
- I didn´,t feel that I learned very much from the PSpice exercises, even if I have now suggestion of what should be instead. The learning outcome was perhaps due to the preparations and to some extent from learning how to use the computer program. By the way I don´,t understand wy we have to use a problematic demo version of PSpice.» (Good)
- Especially the very clear and elaborate solutions to demonstrations and exams are very good.» (Good)
- The course material was fine, teaching should have been better, the load could be distributed more evenly between topics.» (Good)

14. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

15. What should definitely be changed to next year?

16. Additional comments