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MPEPO 1112-3 Power system operation, ENM065

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Your own effort

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

30 svarande

At most 15 hours/week»		5		16%
Around 20 hours/week»		13		43%
Around 25 hours/week»		6		20%
Around 30 hours/week»		4		13%
At least 35 hours/week»		2		6%

Genomsnitt: 2.5

- The other course took a lot of time.» (At most 15 hours/week)
- It"s almost impossible to have time on the PSO-course when you have to spend around 30h on "drives 2"- assignments the first weeks. Can the courses control parts be combined?» (At most 15 hours/week)
- Below 15 hours» (At most 15 hours/week)
- Boring lecuors, so i have stopped going to them » (At most 15 hours/week) (den här kommentaren har blivit redigerad i efterhand)

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

30 svarande

0%»		0		0%
25%»		2		6%
50%»		8		26%
75%»		10		33%
100%»		10		33%

Genomsnitt: 3.93

- As always you to attend lectures and tutorials at the beginning of the course to see if it"s worth spending time on or not. After awhile I didn"t attend any lecture since it felt like wasting time. The turtorials got better and better, but it still more useful to try to solve the problems by yourself and ask for help if you don"t understand. » (50%)
- Sometimes I had a collision with another course where the lectures where mandatory.» (75%)
- The first 5 weeks, all the tutorials and lectures. Then I realized that I don"t get the lecture structure, so I stopped, and started to do the tutorials on my own and went to the scheduled tutorials, that gave me more.» (75%)
- I participated in almost all activities, except one or two lectures.» (100%)

Goals and goal fulfilment

3. How understandable are the course goals?

I have not seen/read the goals»		5		16%
The goals are difficult to understand»		3		10%
The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer»		9		30%
The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn»		13		43%

Genomsnitt: 3

- I haven"t read them.» (I have not seen/read the goals)
- the goals do not clearly describe» (The goals are difficult to understand)
- The goals around the synchronous machine were unclear.» (The goals are difficult to understand)
- Hard to know the "deepness" of the goals.» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)

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

26 svarande

No, the goals are set too low»		0		0%
Yes, the goals seem reasonable»		25		96%
No, the goals are set too high»		1		3%

Genomsnitt: 2.03

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

No, not at all»		0		0%
To some extent»		9		36%
Yes, definitely»		14		56%
I don"t know/have not been examined yet»		2		8%

Genomsnitt: 2.72

- Did not expect the QV curve since so little emphasize was put on them in the course» (To some extent)

Teaching and course administration

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

Small extent»		6		20%
Some extent»		13		43%
Large extent»		8		26%
Great extent»		3		10%

Genomsnitt: 2.26

- s. It"s is hard to follow the lectures and Tuan is in need of a pedagogic course and how to teach in a helpful way for the students.» (Small extent)
- The PP-presentations have sometimes been understadable to read by yourself. The lectures itself felt like waisting time. The first two week didn"t conect to the rest of the course at all and felt purposeless. » (Small extent) (den här kommentaren har blivit redigerad i efterhand)
- Very good slides but it"s difficult to understand what Tuan says. » (Some extent)
- Not that much. Better structure, the slides are too bad. Too much text, and hard to understand the lectures.» (Some extent)
- I am having problems to understand the explenations on the lectures. I have learned much through calculations and questions from tutorials. I went to a couple of tutorials but when the tutorial don"t learn more than is written on the answer there is no purpose of going there. Instead I did the calculations on my own and by looking at the right solutions. But when asking Gustavo for help he gave good explenations.» (Some extent)
- Tuan"s teaching was informative and well-structured. Gustavo" s tutorials supported successfully the lectures. » (Large extent)

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

Small extent»		3		10%
Some extent»		12		40%
Large extent»		10		33%
Great extent»		5		16%

Genomsnitt: 2.56

- The only thing I have read is the PP-presentations, sometime understadable and sometimes not.» (Small extent)
- From a student perspective it is not a very good idea to inly provide slides. Slides are not meant to be read as stand-alone material, but since there is no compendium in the course students are left to read the slides. An alternative is to use ONE text book from which the course draws its material. In that case many students will buy the book and read, but as it is now with at least four different recommended books that are all used, nobody actually buys those books.» (Some extent)
- Not the best e-books though... You cant search for words...» (Some extent)
- Its is always more difficult to review past lectures when the material only exists in power point slides or more then one book.» (Some extent)
- » (Some extent)
- Looking at slides and doing the tutorials.» (Large extent)
- I haven"t read any of the books but the slides were very good. » (Great extent)

8. To what extent have the guest lecture been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		16		53%
Some extent»		9		30%
Large extent»		3		10%
Great extent»		2		6%

Genomsnitt: 1.7

- I didn"t attend and heard from other classmates I hadn"t missed anything at all.» (Small extent)
- I wasn"t there» (Small extent)
- Did not attend.» (Small extent)
- I was not able to attend the guest lecture.» (Small extent)
- Did not attend.» (Some extent)
- The man talking about modern power system protection probably knew a lot, but he tried to squeeze too much into a 90 minute lecture. About one third of the content would have been more appropriate and then the students would have been able to follow.» (Some extent)

9. To what extent have the worked-out examples been of help for your understanding of the lectures?

Small extent»		0		0%
Some extent»		6		21%
Large extent»		17		60%
Great extent»		5		17%

Genomsnitt: 2.96

- I dont know what that is.» (?)
- If the worked-out examples is the tutorial-materials it have been good. I have learned a lot from those problems.» (Large extent)
- But sometimes it is hard to follow examples in slides. For example slide 9 in lecture 10. There would be better to divide it with numbers maybe, or like a timeline of the events, like in aristo. Nice to have example in the topic also.» (Large extent)
- Some lectures at the beginning could be prepared in better way. These are lectures on synchronous machine.» (Large extent)
- Very well done by Gustavo! Some of the exercises are in need of revision due to faulty grammar and formulations. The questions on voltage stability could also preferably be altered to go deeper. As it is now you don"t learn very much about voltage stability from the exercises.» (Great extent)

10. To what extent has the practical laboratory experiment been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		2		6%
Some extent»		5		16%
Large extent»		13		43%
Great extent»		10		33%

Genomsnitt: 3.03

- Need to renew and improve, make it more interseting. » (Small extent)
- The laboration was good, especially when we were dicussing what will happend and why togheter before the practical lab started.» (Large extent)
- The best part of the course +ARISTO» (Large extent)
- The main benefit from the lab came from the home preparation. Feng ang Georgios were helpful and willing to answer our questions.» (Large extent)
- Very good lab.» (Great extent)
- Nice lab!» (Great extent)
- Very good laboratory, very clear and I"ve learned a lot» (Great extent)

11. To what extent has the computer-based project (DIgSILENT) been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		9		30%
Some extent»		9		30%
Large extent»		10		33%
Great extent»		2		6%

Genomsnitt: 2.16

- Totally waste of time clicking around in this program!!! Would be much better to analyize already done data or maybe do the simulation for only one case.» (Small extent)
- Spending time on putting in data into a computer software isn"t that fun, or exciting...» (Small extent)
- Very bad program which is hard to understand, and the amount of time that we put into this is to much comparing with what we learned. But the things learned was good. But I learned it by writing the report.» (Small extent)
- The information about what to do was unclear and led to frustration.for ecample: The terms unstable and voltage collapse where mixed.» (Some extent)
- Instructions could be more clearly written. As it is now I think there are at least 5 different handout on the project, one would be enough, and the instructions could be clearer. Furthermore, doing all the simulations were not very interesting. However, in the end I actually felt that I had learned some things. Therefore: keep the project but re-write the instructions for better clarity and try to motivate why all those simulations have to be run.» (Some extent)
- Could be better laid out. We were unsupervised the first session which was idiotic since the demo file couldn"t be found on the server. By the end of the project the material we had gotten was pretty good but it would have been better if we had gotten all the tasks during the first lecture. There was a really good pdf with what was supposed to be in the report but it would have been a lot better if it had been provided during the first session and not 8 days later. » (Large extent)
- The analysis of the simulation results was very beneficial. Pavan"s guidance was helpful.» (Large extent)

12. To what extent has the ARISTO-demonstration been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		2		6%
Some extent»		5		16%
Large extent»		16		53%
Great extent»		7		23%

Genomsnitt: 2.93

- Best part of the course, to understand how things work in reality and what our work can do and result in.» (Large extent)
- Kalid was clear and understandable.» (Large extent)
- It was very good.» (Great extent)
- Very interesting!» (Great extent)
- Very intresting» (Great extent)

13. To what extent has the "lamp model"-demonstration been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		8		29%
Some extent»		8		29%
Large extent»		7		25%
Great extent»		4		14%

Genomsnitt: 2.25

- Dont know what it is» (?)
- ?» (?)
- I wasn"t there...» (Small extent)
- Pretty good. » (Some extent)

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

Very badly»		1		3%
Rather badly»		0		0%
Rather well»		18		60%
Very well»		11		36%

Genomsnitt: 3.3

- Tutorials of the week should be put in the home page as fast as possible » (Very badly)
- As well as it could considering how bad the student portal is. » (Rather well)
- It would be great if the solutions from the tutorials could be uploaded earlier. Than you can be in phase with the course even if you not attending the tutorials.» (Rather well)
- The answer for tutorials was uploaded to late.» (Rather well)

Study climate

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

Very poor»		0		0%
Rather poor»		1		3%
Rather good»		13		43%
Very good»		12		40%
I did not seek help»		4		13%

Genomsnitt: 3.63

- Gustavo was really good to help! When asking Tuan it felt like being in his way, that he had other more important things to do.» (Rather good)
- All course staff have been very willing to answer questions and to help, thanks.» (Very good)
- Gustavo was good in explaining.» (Very good)

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

Very poorly»		0		0%
Rather poorly»		3		10%
Rather well»		10		33%
Very well»		17		56%
I did not seek cooperation»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 3.46

- It would be better to have no more than two students in a group for the DIgSILENT project. In that way everyone would equally contribute to the project report and thus would be able to express clearly all the points in the project report individually. Even more, I think this project report should be graded and be a part of final grade for the course. Otherwise, students pass this project without diligence. Everyone must be assessed not only for formula knowledge but also for ability to communicate and express oneself, thus proving his expertise in a field of knowledge.» (Rather poorly)

17. How was the course workload?

Too low»		1		3%
Low»		2		6%
Adequate»		21		70%
High»		6		20%
Too high»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 3.06

- No time to study pso because of electric drives 2» (Too low)
- Very low first week - which felt like waste of time! Let"s start the course week 1! The things that the drive course should have learned us before didn"t matter.» (Adequate)
- The work load is good, since the workload of drives 2 is high.» (Adequate)

18. How was the total workload this study period?

Too low»		0		0%
Low»		2		6%
Adequate»		5		16%
High»		10		33%
Too high»		13		43%

Genomsnitt: 4.13

- I have to say low, due to that I didn"t spend any time on this course. Except, the teaching activities, in the beginning.» (Low)
- The drives 2 assignment took a lot of time.» (High)
- Drives 2 is too demanding.» (Too high)

Summarizing questions

19. What is your general impression of the course?

Poor»		3		10%
Fair»		4		13%
Adequate»		7		23%
Good»		14		46%
Excellent»		2		6%

Genomsnitt: 3.26 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

- The topic is very intressting, but I have a hard time following at lectures. More clearer of differences between for example with/without supplemental control» (Adequate)
- I wish we had gone more in detail on stability problems and simulations regarding them.» (Adequate)
- It"s hard to understand what Tuan says. » (Good)
- The course is good but can get better. The main thing to improve (according to me) is to skip the powerpoint teaching, use the blackboard (primarily) and use ONE text book as course literature. Powerpoint presentation are very difficult to learn from and print out slides are not a favourable way of studying a new subject on your own. A comment on the synchronous generator part also. I would suggest focusing on the general understanding of the SG, e.g. operating principles, main circuit diagram, reactive power capabilities and questions like "why do we have all these inductances?" and "how do SG:s interact with the main grid?". This has been done in the course but in my opinion there was a too large focus on calculating inductance values. I find it to be more important to know what a specific inductance represents and how it is a part of how the generator operates, instead of being able to calculate its exact value.» (Good)
- The course is both important and interesting. However this quarter has been very heavy and it was often hard to give this course the amount of studying it deserves. » (Good)

20. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

21. What should definitely be changed to next year?

22. Additional comments