EEL3701C

Schwartz

Semester: Spring 2004

Number of students responding: 75

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	4.57	were informative and useful	2.13
easy to understand	4.19	were easy to learn from	2.08
relevant to course material	4.83	were relevant to course material	2.95
important to attend	4.61	contained useful examples	2.48
The professor was...	1(Disagree) - 5(Agree)	The tests and quizzes...	1(Disagree) - 5(Agree)
acessible for help	4.56	were difficult	4.07
fair in grading	4.13	were fair	4.05
easy to understand	4.33	covered enough material	4.50
The homework assigned was...	1(Disagree) - 5(Agree)	The % of the students thought the class was...
excessive (in quantity)	3.23	Too Large 4.00%	Just Right 96.00%	Too Small 0.00%
difficult	3.47	Too fast 23.29%	Just Right 75.34%	Too slow 1.37%
time consuming	3.99	Too hard 20.55%	Just Right 79.45%	Too easy 0.00%
relevant to course material	4.55
representative of test questions	3.80
The labs...	1(Disagree) - 5(Agree)	The lab equipment...	1(Disagree) - 5(Agree)
taught valuable, practical skills	4.60	worked properly all of the time	4.07
reinforced the lecture material	4.71	was well maintained	4.25
were synchronized with the lecture	4.57	had to be shared with other students	2.28
		was older than I am	1.83
The TA...	1(Disagree) - 5(Agree)
was prepared for each lab	3.69
knew the material well	3.87
understood the professor’s methods	3.73
was available for help outside of lab	3.24
was available for help during the lab	3.61
graded fairly	3.47

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

90.41% spent more time.
6.85% spent same amount of time.
2.74% spent less time.

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

57.08%

Would you recommend taking this class with other difficult classes?

17.33% said yes
82.67% said no

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

89.04% said yes
10.96% said no

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

83.78% said yes
16.22% said no

Lab Reports?

25.35% said yes.
74.65% said no.

How often were the lab reports due?

100.00% said Weekly.
0.00% said Biweekly.

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

9.24 hours

Average report length:

Text: 4.08 pages
Data: 5.54 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?

9.95 hours

Aside from tuition and fees, about how much of money did you spend for this lab? $25.52

How many cups of coffee/Mt. Dew did you consume this semester while preparing for lab? 396.36

Does the class' value outweigh its difficulty? Explain.

78.57% said yes
21.43% said no
Yes: A lot of work, very frustrating at times. But the labs and such are designed to force you to learn this priceless material.
Yes: Practical applications learned are very important as building blocks in future learning.

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

Focus on this class as much as possible. Start labs early and really try to understand what you are doing.

The only real problem I have with this class is the length of the exams--they are not too hard, they simply so long to finish because of the ammount of material that there is no time to go back over earlier problems.

Take this class before or at the same time as COT3100. A lot of the same material is covered, and what you learn in one class will help you in another.

Schwartz is really good -- you should take his class.

Difficult exams but well worth it!