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V13 - Embedded control system, SSY190

Your own effort

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

24 svarande

At most 15 hours/week»		0		0%
Around 20 hours/week»		7		29%
Around 25 hours/week»		11		45%
Around 30 hours/week»		6		25%
At least 35 hours/week»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 2.95

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

24 svarande

0%»		0		0%
25%»		0		0%
50%»		2		8%
75%»		12		50%
100%»		10		41%

Genomsnitt: 4.33

- Knut needs to stop asking everybody if they follow every other minute. Just do your lecture» (75%)

Goals and goal fulfilment

3. How understandable are the course goals?

I have not seen/read the goals»		3		12%
The goals are difficult to understand»		0		0%
The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer»		10		41%
The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn»		11		45%

Genomsnitt: 3.2

- It was a summation of almost everything of the 4:th year» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)

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»		21		91%
No, the goals are set too high»		1		4%

Genomsnitt: 2

- The C-coding can be introduced better and in more connection to the project. Hard to learn.» (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»		10		43%
Yes, definitely»		12		52%
I don"t know/have not been examined yet»		1		4%

Genomsnitt: 2.6

- A lot of large question in little time. Did not had time to write all that I know.» (To some extent)
- The task of the exam that concerned to write a piece of code for a PID controller did not test if we had reached the goals as student. It felt like a bad task and overall on the exam it could be more tasks that actually concerned the new course extent. The reason I feel this way is that this write a code task came out of the blue, we had no exercise like this. So there was no opportunity to actually learn how to do. And if you as examiner think “,but you did some programming in the project”, this is defiantly not enough. Instead of this task there could be more tasks about the new course extent that we actually had seen and recognized from our VERY POOR collection of exercises. And I will also like to say that it was very bad that we didn´,t get a test exam! » (To some extent)
- The examination was not sufficiently representative for the course.» (To some extent)
- The exam did not cover all the parts in the course. I belivie to many topics were left out.. e.g. » (To some extent)
- Good to have learing outcomes (exact ones) to study from, the exam really tested them.» (Yes, definitely)

Teaching and course administration

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

Small extent»		2		8%
Some extent»		12		50%
Large extent»		9		37%
Great extent»		1		4%

Genomsnitt: 2.37

- it seemed a bit random» (Small extent)
- In the middle of small and some extent! The lectures were not very good. The slides were very boring. Some parts of the course it would be much better to do on the board. » (Some extent)
- The lectures were OK. But the problem solving sessions were useless, in fact.. they were really bad. Mohammed just fast tracked through the problems without doing any real notes on the board or trying to explain problem. It seemed like he expected us to already know these things before coming to the excercise. Further, most of the times he did not even explain the problem we were about to solve before solving it. Mohammad explected us to have the problem descriptions in front of us.. which means that we must ha a computer with us (which weren"t possible for all of us..), since we could not print the book or buy a hard copy of it. The best thing to do for the course would be improve the excercises dramatically!! » (Some extent)

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

Small extent»		3		12%
Some extent»		10		41%
Large extent»		10		41%
Great extent»		1		4%

Genomsnitt: 2.37

- Some chapters in the book where outside the course, so it could be written earlier whats in the course.» (Some extent)
- First of all the book was not very good! It was too detailed and therefore hard to understand what to focus on. The examiner told us to not read more than the level of the lectures. For next year I would like more guidance of the book, like what to read and what to put effort on. We did get some guidance in the end of the course, but we should have had it very much earlier. Like after every week or something. But without the book it would have been much harder to follow the course.» (Large extent)

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

Very badly»		0		0%
Rather badly»		2		8%
Rather well»		17		70%
Very well»		5		20%

Genomsnitt: 3.12

- Piazza felt unnecessary, we barely used it. I think we could have used Ping pong instead.» (Rather badly)
- Some documents where handed out too late (understand that Knut was very busy sometimes)» (Rather well)

Study climate

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

Very poor»		0		0%
Rather poor»		3		13%
Rather good»		11		47%
Very good»		7		30%
I did not seek help»		2		8%

Genomsnitt: 3.34

- Knut was very good in his field but he had not so much time. Mohammad could never answer one single question that I had without confusing me. Mohammad was available but I always tried to avoid him because he was very cocky and it felt like he was guessing. I always double checked with Knut after.» (Rather poor)
- Knut have been to a lot of help during the course.» (Rather good)

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

Very poorly»		1		4%
Rather poorly»		0		0%
Rather well»		9		37%
Very well»		14		58%
I did not seek cooperation»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 3.5

- The workload in my project group was unevenly distributed.» (Very poorly)

11. How was the course workload?

Too low»		1		4%
Low»		0		0%
Adequate»		12		50%
High»		9		37%
Too high»		2		8%

Genomsnitt: 3.45

- Spent a lot of time on the project so it took up too much time in the course for my part.» (High)
- But this is only because of the projects.» (High)
- The project consumed a lot of time. » (Too high)
- Did not see the point of the hand in. The help found for projects was very different for the two projects. More material for mathematical model would have made it possible to focus in programming and controlling the system. » (Too high)

12. How was the total workload this study period?

Too low»		1		4%
Low»		1		4%
Adequate»		8		33%
High»		10		41%
Too high»		4		16%

Genomsnitt: 3.62

- As stated the project took a lot of my time.» (High)

Summarizing questions

13. What is your general impression of the course?

Poor»		2		8%
Fair»		3		12%
Adequate»		7		29%
Good»		11		45%
Excellent»		1		4%

Genomsnitt: 3.25 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

- Not very good impression. Have to work so much harder with this course. The projects were not so good. I think the feedback Knut got on the oral presentation is enough. That he has to figure out how to do with the projects, because right now they are too extensive. Maybe for next year give the students a very good model to work with. And also hand out the lego way much earlier. » (Poor)
- The contents of the course were way too divided. » (Poor)
- Learn"t alot but some parts (low level parts) where really hard to understand and the exercises where really bad (didn"t learn much on them)» (Good)
- For the project it would have been a better idea that the students were given a control system for the Lego mindstorm projects so that the effort would be more focused on the "Embedded" programming it self rather than the control structure. Although, it was nice to implement a control system it was very time consuming.» (Good)

14. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

15. What should definitely be changed to next year?

16. Additional comments