School of engineering

Program wrap-up session
Spring 2011

Program __Electrical Engineering and MSECE______________________________

Course EE352/ECE485  Course name __Digital Communications___________________

Instructor __Ryan Munden__________________________________________________

High points of the course (“successes”):

Pedagogy employed__Lecture_________________________________________________
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Homework - level of student response and feedback _Very good, weekly assignments were almost always turned in on time.________________________________________________

Exams and Projects – level of student response and feedback __Two exams, good performance, no projects, which would be nice to incorporate in the future.
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Student Attendance and overall Performance_Generally good attendance and performance.
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Any exceptionally good students? _Anu Raju, Scott Sinnott, Sinh Hoang, ______          

Any exceptionally poor students? _Jhonny Lenard (copied some answers from a solution set), Geza Ziegler (failed course due to no HW, and very poor exam performance).  
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Problems encountered:

Textbook _Sklar – good text, rather theoretical, it would be good to look at some more practical examples or actual hardware occasionally.  I think I would reuse this text, but supplement with additional material.

Return on Assignments __Very good, though challenging HW problems all were possible, and students generally solved with diligent work.________________________________

Instruction method – was it student-centered? __Primarily lecture, _____________
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Have you had the chance to try new methods, e.g. inductive learning? Did it work? __NA_____
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Problems with Course prerequisites___none________________________________________

Student feedback___some good feedback, most students learned from the course.  
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Student Performance, on the average._Excellent____________________________________
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Grade distribution__A (6), B+ (1), B (1), C(1), F(1)____________________________

Action steps

State of completion of Course Portfolio___have all course materials__________________

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 still to be completed, but syllabus states goals and outcomes to put on Forms A&F
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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*___I would like to include actual hardware demonstrations, and possibly a project or two in a future implementation of the course.  As this was my first time teaching the course, I was not as familiar with the material, text, nor pace, so I had a lot to learn about how to effectively teach this course as well.  The next time will be much better.________________________________________________________________________
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Any advice to your fellow faculty?_____NA_________________________________________
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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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