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MPCOM 1213-3 Wireless communications SSY135

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

Yes»		21		100%
No»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 1

- Concerning points from the quizzes: I could find out, if i get e.g. 4 or 5 points for the final grade, if i received 4.5 points in total from the quizzes.» (Yes)

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

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		1		4%
Acceptable»		1		4%
Good»		12		57%
Very good»		7		33%

Genomsnitt: 4.19

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

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		1		4%
Acceptable»		3		14%
Good»		12		57%
Very good»		5		23%

Genomsnitt: 4

- The part of the project in the total score is a little big. Since the project needs cooperation between team members, the final score of the project depends other members to a large extent. So it is not a criterion good enough to measure the individule.» (Acceptable)
- It efficiently activates you during the study weeks, and requires you to think in other ways. Not just study for an exam, but rather also let"s you think about the how the concepts and theory fits in to real world systems.» (Good)
- I think the grading system of this course is the best one. A student should not be judged only by 4 hours of a written exam.» (Very good)
- It is very important and good for the students that we can get some extra points from projects and quizzes» (Very good)

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

No, not at all»		0		0%
No, not really»		2		9%
Somewhat»		6		28%
Yes, to some extent»		7		33%
Yes, to a large extent»		6		28%

Genomsnitt: 3.8

- Quizzes is a good way of getting students to the excersises» (Somewhat)
- Kinda "forced" me to review the study material/theory each week which was of course very good.» (Yes, to some extent)
- The quizzes touches those matters, both details and general aspects, of the theory that is critical for the understanding of wireless communications. Also, I think it rewards understanding rather than just blindly juggling with numbers because of the note-free and calculation-free nature of the test.» (Yes, to a large extent)
- yeah it makes me aware of where I m not clear about» (Yes, to a large extent)
- Even if we had a lot of project related problems and especially regarding the team co-operation, at the end I learned a lot of important things.» (Yes, to a large extent)

5. Indicate your attendance on scheduled sessions

- Exercises were somehow not so appealing to attend, because I did not like the way we handled the exercises (solving by groups)»

Lectures
21 svarande

0-25 %»		0		0%
26-50 %»		0		0%
51-75 %»		1		4%
76-100 %»		20		95%
Do not know»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 3.95

Exercises
21 svarande

0-25 %»		1		4%
26-50 %»		2		9%
51-75 %»		6		28%
76-100 %»		12		57%
Do not know»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 3.38

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

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		1		4%
Acceptable»		1		4%
Good»		6		28%
Very good»		13		61%

Genomsnitt: 4.47

- There was a lot of material and sometimes it was hard to follow the teaching pace» (Good)
- Often too much time spent on review considering the amount of material needing to be covered by the course.» (Very good)

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

- Of course, it is probably a quite new area of research, but the results from the research on biological seemed somewhat fruitless. Could it be possible to put more emphasis on how the different guidelines and regulations where worked through and motivated, I mean in a more detailed way. It seemed somewhat arbitrary to me.»
- The lecture for channel capacity is so quick, I think it can tell about capacity deeper.»

Channel Capacity, Giuseppe Durisi
21 svarande

Did not attend»		2		9%
Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		1		4%
Acceptable»		7		33%
Good»		4		19%
Very good»		7		33%

Genomsnitt: 4.52

Hardware Impairments, Thomas Eriksson
21 svarande

Did not attend»		3		14%
Poor»		1		4%
Fair»		1		4%
Acceptable»		7		33%
Good»		8		38%
Very good»		1		4%

Genomsnitt: 3.9

Biological Effects, Yngve Hamnerius
21 svarande

Did not attend»		1		4%
Poor»		1		4%
Fair»		3		14%
Acceptable»		9		42%
Good»		5		23%
Very good»		2		9%

Genomsnitt: 4.04

8. How would you rate the quality of the exercises? (with respect to your learning) Please use comment field for feedback to any specific teaching assistant (Jingya or Tilak)

Poor»		1		4%
Fair»		1		4%
Acceptable»		9		42%
Good»		7		33%
Very good»		3		14%

Genomsnitt: 3.47

- Generally speaking, the exercise sessions given by Jingya are good. But Tilak did nothing in the exercise sessions. Neither did he review the essential theory in the course nor give us useful hint when asked how to solve the problem of the exercise. Tilak is not qualified as a TA. » (Poor)
- I think the previous method was better since the way that TA helped students was not efficient at all.» (Fair)
- The "group forming" technique did not work for me. I was following behind my fellow group students that they were solving faster than I did, so I could not solve the exercises by my own. The TAs sometimes were helpful, and sometimes not.» (Acceptable)
- The first weeks the exercises were not goog at all, no examples. Not much help and to complicated tasks that not were coverd by the lectures.(Tilak) But lates it was getting better. So a short review and an example and much help is good. (Jingya)» (Acceptable)
- Overall the format of the early exercises was not conductive as too much time was spent trying to solve the first problem of the exercise without much guidance or useful feedback but it improved in the later exercises when Jingya took over.» (Acceptable)
- I did not like Tilaks ways at all. He didn"t seem interested in helping us at all, especially not in the beginning. It was a little bit better at the end. I didn"t like the way the exercises were done, I would have learnt much more if the TA"s would go through a problem slowly on the board. There is a path between nearly-light-speed and figure-it-out-yourselfs, because non of those ways are any good!» (Acceptable)
- Tilak should improve his way of explaining the exercises and the theory.» (Acceptable)
- Prefer Jingya"s exercise as she gave more skill of solving problems.» (Good)
- I would have appreciated a more structured introduction/hints by Tilak» (Good)
- Jingya gave more complete guidelines, although Tilak was nice as well. In general, i would prefer the TAs to give the guidelines in terms of solving simple problems.» (Good)
- I think the TAs where exemplary when it comes to aiding the problem solving. Rather than giving too many hints, the TAs directed the thoughts in the right direction. This is highly appreciated.» (Very good)
- Jingya is really a good TA.» (Very good)

9. How would you rate the quality of the consultation from the Teaching Assistants? (with respect to your learning)

Did not attend»		3		14%
Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		2		9%
Acceptable»		5		23%
Good»		9		42%
Very good»		2		9%

Genomsnitt: 4.09

- They were almost always available. See also comment under question nr. 8.» (Good)
- Jingya did a good job, but Tilak didn"t.» (Good)

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

- There were a few contradictions in notation vs. the lecture. Also some schematic figure in Goldsmith were a bit confusing.»
- I would have liked to have some very easy problems at the beginning of each exercise, before moving on to "standard exercise difficulcy"»
- There must have been somemistakes in the exercises solutions»
- The font in the exercise solutions was often unclear (missing or blurred signs)»

Text book (Goldsmith)
21 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		0		0%
Acceptable»		3		14%
Good»		9		42%
Very good»		6		28%
Did not read»		3		14%

Genomsnitt: 4.42

Selected exercises in SSY135 Wireless Communications
21 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		0		0%
Acceptable»		2		9%
Good»		10		47%
Very good»		7		33%
Did not read»		2		9%

Genomsnitt: 4.42

Solutions to selected exercises
21 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		1		4%
Acceptable»		3		14%
Good»		12		57%
Very good»		4		19%
Did not read»		1		4%

Genomsnitt: 4.04

Exercise solution for course book
21 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		2		9%
Acceptable»		3		14%
Good»		6		28%
Very good»		3		14%
Did not read»		7		33%

Genomsnitt: 4.47

11. How well did your project group work? (workload split, cooperation, etc.)

Did not attend»		0		0%
Poor»		2		9%
Fair»		2		9%
Acceptable»		8		38%
Good»		6		28%
Very good»		3		14%

Genomsnitt: 4.28

- I did all of it» (Poor)
- As always, group work is hard to coordinate.» (Acceptable)
- workload split was okay, but we could have been way more coordinated (maybe a ~2 minutes introduction to group work with some hints would have been nice)» (Acceptable)
- We had problems with group members, and the workload per group member was not fair.» (Acceptable)
- Good cooperation between group members.» (Very good)

12. How was the workload of the projects?

- For the second part of the project, the workload was increased because there was not a good team co-operation»

Project part 1: Fading Wireless Channels
21 svarande

Too little work»		0		0%
A bit too little work»		1		4%
Just right amount of work»		16		76%
A bit too much work»		4		19%
Too much work»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 3.14

Project part 2: OFDM System
20 svarande

Too little work»		0		0%
A bit too little work»		2		10%
Just right amount of work»		12		60%
A bit too much work»		5		25%
Too much work»		1		5%

Genomsnitt: 3.25

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

Too little work»		0		0%
A bit too little work»		0		0%
Just right amount of work»		10		47%
A bit too much work»		9		42%
Too much work»		2		9%

Genomsnitt: 3.61

- The theoretical material was too much. Combined with projects and exercises, I did not know where to focus.» (A bit too much work)

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

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		0		0%
Acceptable»		4		19%
Good»		11		52%
Very good»		6		28%

Genomsnitt: 4.09

- Very organized course with well balanced workload. The only comment is that there is some overlap with other courses, which of course can be both negative and positive. To connect the dots, some overlap is of course needed. As of the whole experience, one of the best courses I attended at Chalmers.» (Good)
- Great course experience. Of course the field of study is very interesting but the teaching method made it even more exciting.» (Very good)

15. What should definitely be changed in the course?

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