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OS_CFD_2014

1. If you started but did not finish this course, please state why.

2. Give your general impression of the course.

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Adequate»		0		0%
Good»		4		33%
Excellent»		8		66%

Genomsnitt: 4.66

- It can cover less material in better detail. Some of the invited speakers made me feel lost.» (Good)
- More hands on experience on OpenFOAM code and tips and tricks would make this course excellent. » (Good)
- the fact that the course is intensive and that in the end the projects cover such a wide range of subjects and they add to a library always available is considered a quite easy way to follow up and work with OpenFOAM» (Excellent)
- I am really satisfied to attend this course. Because, i found lots of opportunities to improve myself.» (Excellent)

3. How much time did you spend on this course, and did it correspond to 7.5 "Higher education credits"?

- 52h lectures, and about 25h for assignments, 160h for the project, and 5h for the peer-review»
- More than 100 hours of fully OpenFOAM time.»
- I spent a little bit more than 7.5 credits but that was intentional. »
- I can"t give a number, but it was the most time I have spent on any 7.5 credits course, by far.»
- of course it did correspond to 7.5 "Higher education credits" because it took exactly the time spread within a semester for a single Master/PhD course, but within a very compact period of 4 weeks (with the presentation days). Along with the time in class, an exactly equal time has been spent on my own to work the examples and make the project as well.»
- It depends on the difficulty of the course project but for me it DOES correspond to 7.5 credit.»
- i spent around 150 hours including the classes, homeworks and final project.»
- Actually, I have know idea about my hours, but comparing with my other courses with 7.5 credits, I spent more time on this course. Say roughly 25% more. »
- Since the project of the course was included as part of my PhD project, I cannot give a fair comment. However I think that a minimum requirement for the project should be given in order to spend a sufficient amount of time.»
- Around 200 hours. May be you can add few more c++ functions which are essential for foam development.»
- Nothing to add»

4. Comment the schedule of the course.

- It would be better to define the project very early so to have a couple of meetings for questions and answers with the tutors in Chalmers to get the project going because the internationals have the distance disadvantage after the course. Regarding the full days, it can stay like that, maybe three days of less hours each.»
- As a Phd student from UK I would say this time schedule is reasonable.»
- The schedule was good»
- I liked it. It gave plenty of time for the own work, though I, and I guess most was kind of tired at the end of the day.»
- The schedule was compact and intense. I strongly believe that spending 3 days instead of 2 per week, should make the course easier to accumulate the knowledge provided. I strongly believe that distance PhD students (such as myself) did stayed at Gothenburg anyways, and definitely students studying closely would surely not bother to stay a night more in Gothenburg. I believe 3 days per week with the same workload would be optimal.»
- Satisfactory»
- I think that it would be better if the lectures are distributed more evenly, say in the first three weeks, the morning is the lecture and afternoon is the exercise.»
- Truly speking, the days having classes seem to heavy and too intensive. Therefore, sometimes it was difficult to follow, especially if someone has beginner level about openfoam or linux etc...The classes may be extended into 3 days of the week and also can have a bit longer discussion time about the topics.»
- No comments. »
- The schedule was perfect.»
- Schedule was perfect. I don"t fell the need to change it. »
- the allocation of the time is perfect»

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

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Large extent»		6		50%
Great extent»		6		50%

Genomsnitt: 3.5

- the slides provide just what a student requires to learn from the course. Judging from myself, having no knowledge whatsoever on OpenFOAM, I strongly believe that the course"s slides at least in the first occasion should be more detailed, like command by command, so that students with no knowledge should find it easier to follow. The next occasions were much easier to keep up with the schedule, but in the first occasion I needed to practice more at home, so that I could tune up my mind.» (Large extent)

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

Small extent»		1		8%
Some extent»		0		0%
Large extent»		2		16%
Great extent»		9		75%

Genomsnitt: 3.58

- each year of the course improve the material!» (Small extent)
- Very good slides and nice that they are on the homepage.» (Great extent)
- The course material was the guide to practice what we did in every occasion again at home.» (Great extent)
- The ppt is really good and in detail.» (Great extent)
- The materials and the lectures were extremely perfect. » (Great extent)
- In my opinion the slides of the invited guests (for the last part of the course) should be very detailed, since they could ve very helpful for working on the project.» (Great extent)

7. To what extent have the assignments been of help for your learning?

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Some extent»		0		0%
Large extent»		10		83%
Great extent»		2		16%

Genomsnitt: 3.16

- If assignments included more testing on OpenFOAM hands on experience it would"ve made this course excellent.» (Large extent)
- Many of the questions helped me to clarify some of the terms that were a bit blurry.» (Large extent)
- To my opinion in the first small assignments, it is good to have both questions and the exercises as in the previous years.» (Large extent)
- Maybe most of the final assignement may require more modifications of the source code in order to better understand the theoretical concepts introduced during the lesson.» (Large extent)
- I think that would be good if you add some short scripts in the assignments to be checked by the students. Another suggestion would be doing some simulation by OpenFOAM and answering the questions in assignment 2.» (Great extent)

8. To what extent has the project been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		0		0%
Some extent»		2		16%
Large extent»		4		33%
Great extent»		6		50%

Genomsnitt: 3.33

- Of course the final project made me confident that I could work with OpenFOAM at some extend independently.» (Great extent)

9. Comment the assessment of your learning.

- I would like to have some extra practical assignments to practice compiling etc before the project»
- Yes, it was appropriate. »
- Yes I think it was. It was a bit much in the end to get the peer-review and the corrections from it but I think it was a great learning.»
- Of course they are appropriate. Especially for the PhD students, as they provide the general idea they will face in scientific publishing. However, since this is a course and not a journal, I would recommend adding a short Skype meeting of the teacher with the student right after the submitting of the review, so that they would discuss ways to improve the result of the project (as there is always room for improvement, otherwise the course wouldn"t be needed)»
- I think that it was really good experience for me to finish one of the project successfully. The course is including many steps. Therefore, people who attends this course should be determined to finish it. Otherwise, it is quite difficult to complete the all of the steps. »
- I think one of the main purpose of this course is creating a tutorial. I think sticking on creating a tutorial is not a good idea, as it takes much time to prepare a good one. Consider some students have no experience to write a tutorial. In my opinion, tutorial (as I learnt to write it in this course too) is very different from a project report. Learning OpenFOAM is very different from crating a tutorial for it. »
- It is very helpful. Moreover I would suggest to add a second step of revision. »
- It was apt. I don"t think one need to change these.»
- as should be everywhere»

10. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

11. What should definitely be changed to next year?

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

Very badly»		0		0%
Rather badly»		0		0%
Rather well»		3		27%
Very well»		8		72%

Genomsnitt: 3.72

- I would find really helpful having communication with the course"s teachers when working on the projects.» (Rather well)
- Ping pong worked well, it"s also great that one can look through old projects » (Very well)
- The course homepage is very good and previous year projects can be easily searched.» (Very well)

13. Additional comments