EEL3701C

Schwartz

Semester: Spring 2004

Number of students responding: 23

The following numbers are the averages of the student responses
The Lectures were...	1(Disagree) - 5(Agree)	The textbooks...	1(Disagree) - 5(Agree)
informative and useful	4.35	were informative and useful	2.45
easy to understand	4.04	were easy to learn from	2.52
relevant to course material	4.52	were relevant to course material	3.32
important to attend	4.09	contained useful examples	2.82
The professor was...	1(Disagree) - 5(Agree)	The tests and quizzes...	1(Disagree) - 5(Agree)
acessible for help	4.74	were difficult	4.13
fair in grading	4.52	were fair	4.30
easy to understand	4.39	covered enough material	4.65
The homework assigned was...	1(Disagree) - 5(Agree)	The % of the students thought the class was...
excessive (in quantity)	1.90	Too Large 9.09%	Just Right 90.91%	Too Small 0.00%
difficult	3.33	Too fast 19.05%	Just Right 76.19%	Too slow 4.76%
time consuming	3.38	Too hard 14.29%	Just Right 85.71%	Too easy 0.00%
relevant to course material	4.38
representative of test questions	4.00
The labs...	1(Disagree) - 5(Agree)	The lab equipment...	1(Disagree) - 5(Agree)
taught valuable, practical skills	4.55	worked properly all of the time	4.55
reinforced the lecture material	4.70	was well maintained	4.55
were synchronized with the lecture	4.70	had to be shared with other students	1.25
		was older than I am	1.80
The TA...	1(Disagree) - 5(Agree)
was prepared for each lab	4.30
knew the material well	4.40
understood the professor’s methods	4.05
was available for help outside of lab	4.06
was available for help during the lab	4.25
graded fairly	4.15

Relative to other classes, in studying for this class, did you spend more time, same amount of time, or less time

65.22% spent more time.
26.09% spent same amount of time.
8.70% spent less time.

On average the the percentage of total study time that was spent on work related to this class was

41.14%

Would you recommend taking this class with other difficult classes?

34.78% said yes
65.22% said no

If you had to take this class over, would you take the same Professor?

73.91% said yes
26.09% said no

Are you intrested in taking other classes with the same Professor?

69.57% said yes
30.43% said no

Lab Reports?

0.00% said yes.
100.00% said no.

How often were the lab reports due?

N/A said Weekly.
N/A said Biweekly.

How much time did you spend on average working on lab reports?

N/A hours

Average report length:

Text: N/A pages
Data: N/A pages

Were there Pre-labs?

100.00% said yes.
0.00% said no.

How often were pre-labs required?

100.00% said Weekly.
0.00% said Biweekly.

How much time did you spend on average working on pre-labs?

5.94 hours

Aside from tuition and fees, about how much of money did you spend for this lab? $38.33

How many cups of coffee/Mt. Dew did you consume this semester while preparing for lab? 88.58

Does the class' value outweigh its difficulty? Explain.

86.36% said yes
13.64% said no
It is a great class which teaches the basics and gets the students excited.
I've become very interested in continuing learning similar material.

Some repersentative comments/advice from students that they would have liked to have prior to taking this course

Take this class seriously, study hard, and start labs early!

Do not take another course with a lab with this one. The lab takes a lot of time.

Try to have lab later in the week so that all the material has been covered before you have to design your circuits.

Schwartz doesn't use the projector like Dr. Lam and covers more theory than examples/problems in class.