School of engineering

Program wrap-up session
Spring 2011

Program _Electrical Engineering and MSECE_______________________________

Course _EE315/ECE 452 Course name _Nanoelectronics II____________________

Instructor __Ryan Munden________________________________________________

High points of the course (“successes”):

Pedagogy employed__Lecture, class discussion, Student Presentations_______
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Homework - level of student response and feedback __only 4 HW problems sets, student response was adequate, problems came from a textbook that they did not buy, so it added a small amount of difficulty

Exams and Projects – level of student response and feedback __No exams, replaced by two major research presentations.  Students worked in teams of 2, and each prepared a 30 minute presentation on a current topic in nanoelectronics.  Presentations were much better as most have done this before.  They also sparked good class discussion about the different topics.
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Student Attendance and overall Performance__Generally excellent attendance and performance
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Any exceptionally good students? __Mike Buckenmeyer (1st in State to complete the Nanotechnology Minor) will pursue grad school, Mike Nieskoski (accepted to grad school at Dartmouth), David Lath (3/2 to Columbia).  

Any exceptionally poor students? ____none_______________________________________
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Problems encountered:

Textbook _None, select chapters were chosen from different texts.  It would be nice to find a good support textbook, but as yet, none are available.

Return on Assignments __generally good, some late submissions of portions of presentation preparation____________________________________________________________________

Instruction method – was it student-centered? _Entirely, most of the time was spent preparing for student presentations, even lecture topics were chosen in part based on topics the students had chosen to present on.____________________________________________________________
Have you had the chance to try new methods, e.g. inductive learning? Did it work? __________
__Entire course was based on student research, and their own product design, it was quite successful

Problems with Course prerequisites__none_________________________________________

Student feedback__generally very good__________________________________________

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Student Performance, on the average.___above average____________________________
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Grade distribution__A (5), A- (2), C+ (1)________________________________________

Action steps

State of completion of Course Portfolio___all materials available____________________

Has the course syllabus addressed Goals and Outcomes (as in Form A), and has class time per outcome been allocated as scheduled (Form F)?  __forms A & F need to be completed, but syllabus outlines goals and outcomes for inclusion.          _______________
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Change course prerequisites? ___No_Comments*_____________________________________
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Change course content? __No___Comments*_________________________________________
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Change course objectives and/or outcomes__No_Comments*____________________________
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Recommendations for further improvement*__important that students be aware of library resources early on for their research.  We attended a library workshop, but that should be scheduled as the first thing in the semester, or possibly even a previous semester, especially to introduce the use of Web of Science and Interlibrary Loan.
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Any advice to your fellow faculty?__Use the library, and encourage student research into current topics._______________________________________________________________________

instructional environment

Please comment on any problems that were encountered because of inadequacies in the classroom environment, lack of supplies, inadequate service from staff:
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_none_________________________________________________________________________
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Were the problems brought to the attention of the Dean? ___NA____________________

Were the problems corrected in a timely fashion? ____NA_________________________

use an additional sheet if necessary.

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