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EPIC FACULTY FEEDBACK FALL 2002
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GENERAL OBSERVATIONS FOLLOWING REVIEW BY EPIC:
- Many faculty desire to go to more Powerpoint slides and to use more internet tools like Prometheus in their lectures.
- Integration of labs with related lecture courses is still not working well.
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PROCEED sections will change some of the traditional courses and may eliminate some (e.g.
ME 242L TFS Lab).
- Use more software simulations (Matlab, Working Model, Solidworks, etc.)
- Students seem less prepared and less motivated than in the past. No student leaders seem to surface in the
class. They are not interested in theory/analysis.
- Use more examples, such as case studies and real-world projects, in class.
- Students seem to like guest lectures from industry, who talk about topics pertinent to the course.
- Lab TA's are not uniformly trained. Do we need to re-institute
ME 398T again?
- The proper ethics (etiquette?) of web-based references and copying from the web, needs to be emphasized
to all ME students.
- Faculty need to take more care when they write up tests. Many comments about how tests went wrong,
could be improved, etc., even in experienced classes and by experienced teachers.
- It appears that many ME courses do not use a textbook, or use a textbook that is not satisfactory to the
instructor. This appears true even in well-established traditional courses. Are the days of classic, hardback
textbooks numbered?
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