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SP2_12/13_Sustainable Electric Power Systems, ENM125

Your own effort

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

27 svarande

At most 15 hours/week»		4		14%
Around 20 hours/week»		10		37%
Around 25 hours/week»		8		29%
Around 30 hours/week»		4		14%
At least 35 hours/week»		1		3%

Genomsnitt: 2.55

- I tried to read the book. Most of the chapters I read it twice or more. But it"s difficult to understand everything since it is quite new for me and I don"t have any backgrounds from electric power. The chapters I read the first weeks I"ve already forgot it later. There should be more consulting time for exercise where one can try to solve the problem by oneself. Not only where the supervisor is going through everything on the black board. I didn"t follow everything he did.» (Around 20 hours/week)
- I set a specific time per course, so, I did not have time to cover all material of the course.» (Around 20 hours/week)
- Would have been good to have more home assignments. » (Around 25 hours/week)

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

27 svarande

0%»		0		0%
25%»		0		0%
50%»		0		0%
75%»		8		29%
100%»		19		70%

Genomsnitt: 4.7

- I decided to stop attending classes at some point, because the qualitiy of the lectures was very poor (see below). » (75%)
- missed beginning due to health issues.» (75%)
- I think the computer lab could be better. I felt that I wasted a lot of time by just trying to make an electric power system to work. For so many hours of computer lab, I didn"t learn that much from it. I mean instead we could use that time to actually learn something. Like having exercise/consulting for example. Moreover, there were many things that the teachers could have informed us in the beginning of the lab exercise. Now, everybody is sitting there waiting for help and wasting our time, probably everyone has the same question. I would suggest that they state it in the project instruction or go through it for everybody at the same time in the very beginning.» (100%)
- Very confusing lectures. Maby stick to either only black board with more structure or only powerpoint slides. » (100%)

Goals and goal fulfilment

3. How understandable are the course goals?

I have not seen/read the goals»		3		11%
The goals are difficult to understand»		0		0%
The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer»		10		38%
The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn»		13		50%

Genomsnitt: 3.26

- they were presented to us and in the end of the course I kind of understood what they meant.» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)
- The Theoretical part was a bit difficult to understand what one should have learned from the course» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)
- Though I"m not completely sure of them still, it is a good idea to link them here by the question next time.» (The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn)

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

23 svarande

No, the goals are set too low»		1		4%
Yes, the goals seem reasonable»		20		86%
No, the goals are set too high»		2		8%

Genomsnitt: 2.04

- The goals seems reasonable. But as I said berfore. For me who don"t have the right background might need more exercises.» (Yes, the goals seem reasonable)
- "The course will start from fundamental basic concepts of the physics of electricity." This is true, but even though most calculations were not very difficult to perform it is very hard to understand the meaning of the calculations e.g. in the case of a 3 phase AC system if you have never dealt with these kind of problems before. Basic concepts of electricity are treated, but very very fast. "This course is addressed to students without a background in electrical engineering." This might be true, but it is very hard to follow the calculations if you have never performed similar ones during previous classes. » (No, the goals are set too high)
- it says that no knowledge in electric power are needed, but i think it would be very hard for a student who don"t know anything about circuits before to catch up» (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»		11		47%
Yes, definitely»		11		47%
I don"t know/have not been examined yet»		1		4%

Genomsnitt: 2.56

- I think it"s wrong to spend so little time in the course on pricing but have so many points on the subject in the exam. If pricing is that important, then cut back on the computer lab (or remove it completely) and spend more time on pricing. At least it could be introduced earlier in the course. » (To some extent)
- i think that the theory part was a bit blurry, a lot questions was very precise and i asked my self whether it was relevant to the course.. but i guess thats up to the examiner to decide» (To some extent)

Teaching and course administration

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

Small extent»		4		14%
Some extent»		8		29%
Large extent»		13		48%
Great extent»		2		7%

Genomsnitt: 2.48

- The lectures of Prof. Bertling were very poor. It seemed she was not well prepared. It was hard to follow her explainations because she changed topics very often during her sentences. » (Small extent)
- Personally I would like less information in each slide since it"s packed with text. One gets tired just by looking at them.» (Some extent)
- The lectures with Lina was hard to follow she was talking about one thing and then a second later about something else. But her enthusiasm over the subject really rubbed off on me. Pramods lectures was really good, he really knew how to explain things. One of the best excercise teachers I"ve had at Chalmers.» (Large extent)
- The tutorials were the biggest help for my learning as all the topics have been explained really good and all the questions have been answered. The lessons could have been more useful if there had not been that much information on the slides. Fewer points but those therefore discussed and explained would have been better than a lot of points, but only briefly mentioned.» (Large extent)
- Lectures and calculations with Pramod has been really good! Pramod is very helpful and good at explaining! I do not feel that the computer-lab assistants was nice nor helpful. The American guy who had the practical lab was very good though!» (Large extent)

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

Small extent»		3		11%
Some extent»		9		33%
Large extent»		10		37%
Great extent»		5		18%

Genomsnitt: 2.62

- The book was good. What was not told in the lectures could be found in the book. » (Some extent)
- For the theoretical part we don"t have any course litterature for that. Only some slides from the lecture, which I don"t think is enough. I mean if one happens to miss a lecture then there"s nowhere you can find material for that part. Even if I attended every single lecture I still need litterature/ more material to go back to for repetition. » (Some extent)
- Almost all of the fundamentals discussed during the lectures had to be looked up in the course book because the lectures were of an unsufficient quality. The course book was a great help for my studies. The lecture slides were of no use at all. The tutorial handouts and solutions were of a very good quality, with detailled explainations. » (Some extent)
- The tutorial handouts were great, and concentrated enough» (Some extent)
- The explanation text, given in handouts on calculation exercises, describing the theory behind the calculations have been very helpful.» (Large extent)
- Very good handouts with the exercises!» (Large extent)
- The hand outs from the excercises has been great, excellent descriptions.» (Great extent)
- The book was a big help for understanding.» (Great extent)

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

Very badly»		0		0%
Rather badly»		3		11%
Rather well»		15		55%
Very well»		9		33%

Genomsnitt: 3.22

- There were alot of corrections on the handouts for the exercises which were confusing.» (Rather badly)
- Difficult to see how the exersices where organized.» (Rather badly)
- It would be great if there was extra material for the theoretical part of the course. Since only the slides are not enough. The slides just contains some key words and there are poor explanations.» (Rather well)
- it was good that power points were handed out. » (Rather well)
- Most very well, but the computer project was not at all. These instructions need to be reconsidered if used another year» (Rather well)
- Sometimes not everything was printed out or there were some mistakes in the handouts, but that was not a problem at all. » (Very well)

9. What do you think about the laboratory work?

- The computer lab was like trying to work with something even though you don"t know what to do at all. The information wasn"t that good and sometimes inaccurate. We spent a lot of unnessecary time on this project to re-do things when the information came too late. »
- I think the computer lab could be better. I felt that I wasted a lot of time by just trying to make an electric power system to work. For so many hours of computer lab, I didn"t learn that much from it. I mean instead we could use that time to actually learn something. Like having exercise/consulting for example. Moreover, there were many things that the teachers could have informed us in the beginning of the lab exercise. Now, everybody is sitting there waiting for help and wasting our time, probably everyone has the same question. I would suggest that they state it in the project instruction or go through it for everybody at the same time in the very beginning.»
- The computer lab was quite interesting, but the tasks to perform are very unspecified. It is rather disappointing to write a report about a solution you found completely random by trial and error, struggeling with the crashes of the program. The idea of including this computer lab is very good, but I think the tasks should be re-designed in some way. The experimental lab was very very good, the talk to the supervisors was very helpful for understanding the properties of electicity. »
- The computer lab was a big waste of time. I learned nothing but wasted a hole lot of hours.»
- These both lab´,s gave you more in depth view over the electrical installations.»
- The conputer lab was not well prepared and it basicly didn"t give you any understanding of power systems, it was quite the opposite, it made you more confused. There were alot of faults in the pm too which was the only thing you had as a guide. Maby a larger and better tutorial in the begginging of the project would be a good idea so that you can handel the program better.»
- Really bad that the teachers didn"t know what was asked in the task. we had to re do our project because of this.»
- the experimental lab was good for thinking about the topics and get a chance to discuss them in more detail. The computer lab and especially the tasks in it sounded really interesting in the beginning, but unfortunately we did not learn a lot from the expected matter. Most students were not sure about how to reacht the goals, there was no methodology introduced or tips how the programme could be used in an efficient way. A little talk in the beginning of each lab would have been great, explaining different steps we should do or mistakes we should avoid. NOw every group had to ask a lot of questions and as the teachers took a lot of time to answer one groups questions others sometimes had to wait very long to efficiently continue their work. in my opinion we could have learnt a lot more from that computer lab if the way how the work should be done and questions to the subject would have been discussed a bit more. »
- Use a better program than power world!! It"s better to use a program that works than the possibility to have it on your own computer.»
- Computer lab could be clearer. The point of it is good, but it was too time consuming to figure out the instructions and get the computer program to work»
- The computer lab is too time consuming, specially with not helpful instructors. Did they even understand that we had not used the program before? It some times felt as if they tried to trick us into doing unnecessary mistakes!»

Computer lab
26 svarande

Poor»		9		34%
Fair»		7		26%
Adequate»		5		19%
Good»		4		15%
Very good»		1		3%

Genomsnitt: 2.26

Experimental lab
26 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		2		7%
Adequate»		4		15%
Good»		6		23%
Very good»		14		53%

Genomsnitt: 4.23

10. What do you think about the external guest lectures?

- The external lectures was quite good when one can get an insigt of how this course can be applied in real life. »
- These external guests are necessary since they describe electricity in real life.»
- intresting to see were you can use the knowledge you get from the course in reality»

External guest lecture from Svenska
26 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		0		0%
Adequate»		1		3%
Good»		11		42%
Very good»		14		53%

Genomsnitt: 4.5

External guest lecture from ABB
24 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		1		4%
Adequate»		2		8%
Good»		10		41%
Very good»		11		45%

Genomsnitt: 4.29

11. Do you have any special feed back about the technical tour

27 svarande

Poor»		1		7%
Fair»		0		0%
Adequate»		1		7%
Good»		7		53%
Very good»		4		30%
Did not attend»		14

Genomsnitt: 4

- The group was to big. I couldn"t barely see or hear anything» (Poor)
- It was more interesting than I expected. Also it was quite cool to be able to enter the AC/DC converter room.» (Good)
- To bad we didn"t get the text material before the tour.» (Very good)
- Good to see things in real life, to get a glimps of the size of things!» (Very good)
- Wanted to, but was ill» (Did not attend)

Study climate

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

Very poor»		1		3%
Rather poor»		0		0%
Rather good»		10		37%
Very good»		15		55%
I did not seek help»		1		3%

Genomsnitt: 3.55

- I could often find someone to ask, most often it was pramod.» (Very poor)
- Special thanks to Pramod who answered all my mails immediately!» (Very good)
- Could be good to explain were the teachers are sitting a little better. » (Very good)
- especially in the tutorial the topic itself as well as the examples were really good explained » (Very good)
- Pramod was always very helpfull! Thanks for that!» (Very good)

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

Very poorly»		0		0%
Rather poorly»		0		0%
Rather well»		10		37%
Very well»		16		59%
I did not seek cooperation»		1		3%

Genomsnitt: 3.66

- Because the computer lab was rather frustrating there was no real team spirit, everybody just wanted to finish the report as soon as possible to focus on studying for the exam. » (Rather well)
- The project was carried out with too many persons.» (Rather well)
- Too big group in the computer lab, so it was hard to be in the same page. Thus it was only 3 of us that did the final hand in.» (Rather well)
- it was almost impossible to work 5 together on the project though» (Very well)

14. How was the course workload?

Too low»		0		0%
Low»		1		3%
Adequate»		19		70%
High»		7		25%
Too high»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 3.22

- not much were required to do. Maybe it will be good if there were some kind of small exercise/project every week. Maybe some quiz about theory. for instance about the market.» (Low)
- Except for the frequency regulation control part, we knew too little for that. All other exercises felt relevant. Replace frequency control with something else next year!» (Adequate)
- It was interesting, but a bit confusing with the lectures and excercises.» (High)
- i would have liked to spend more time on calculations or reading instead of the computer lab» (High)

15. How was the total workload this study period?

Too low»		0		0%
Low»		0		0%
Adequate»		21		77%
High»		6		22%
Too high»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 3.22

- maybe just i felt that way since i missed the beginning» (High)

Summarizing questions

16. What is your general impression of the course?

Poor»		1		3%
Fair»		6		22%
Adequate»		7		25%
Good»		10		37%
Excellent»		3		11%

Genomsnitt: 3.29 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

- The thing that brings this course down are the unstructured lectures and the bad computer lab.» (Poor)
- The goals set were very basic and the course content had things which are not related to the course goals. The lectures except for a couple of them were absolutely not useful at all. the exercise classes were really useful.» (Fair)
- To state that again: The main lecturer, Prof. Bertling, was not able to perform an adequate standard of teaching. The rest of the course (other lecturers, exercises) was of a good quality. But the total impression is rather poor than good, because of the issues with the lectures. » (Fair)
- With some minor changes, I guess the course can be very good.» (Good)
- The goals in the courses and the content is really good but it is not always easy for the students to learn the things from it that would be expected» (Good)
- It was much better than i expected. Started from real lo level to high so everyone got the chance to understand.» (Excellent)

17. What are main strengths of the course according to you?

18. What are your suggestions for improvements for next year?

19. How did you learn about the course?

Recommendation from other students»		1		3%
Course information presentation»		17		65%
From the web pages»		4		15%
Other»		4		15%

Genomsnitt: 2.42

- I heard this course was recommended. I think from David Pallares. » (Other)
- It was recommended by David» (Other)
- I had to take it since it is semi-compulsory, I would not have taken it otherwise,» (Other)

20. Would you recommend the course to other students?

Yes»		13		72%
No»		5		27%
I don"t know»		9

Genomsnitt: 1.27

- It"s a semicompulsory course in Sustainable Energy Systems but I have a hard time to see the real need for this course for ous.» (No)
- as it is now? Absolutely not.» (No)
- Not in it"s current layout and performance.» (No)
- Yes if the course is made better. No if it remains the same.» (I don"t know)
- Depends on the students background and interest.» (I don"t know)
- It depends to who I speak. If there is no interest in transmission systems, then I wouldn"t recommend that course.» (I don"t know)

21. Would you be interested to study more courses on the subject of power systems?

Yes»		11		50%
No»		11		50%
I don"t know»		5

Genomsnitt: 1.5

- Power Market Management» (Yes)
- very interesting subject with a lot of research and working opportunities both now and in the future» (Yes)
- No, I think that this course provided a good overall knowledge for the purposes I have. » (No)
- mainly just beacuse I"ve figured out I"m not intrested in this subject» (No)

22. Additional comments