QUALITY ASSURANCE COMMITTEE REPORTING Every quartile, the Quality Assurance Committee (QAC) evaluates a selection of the Bachelor and Master courses of Mechanical Engineering and the Master courses of Sustainable Energy Technology. We do this by sending a questionnaire to all the students that follow a specific course. Thanks to everyone that fills in these questionnaires, we are able to evaluate the different courses and write our reports. Thank you for your input! In four editions of De Appel, we name the most important highlights of these evaluations. This way, you can get a short view of the results of the committee and, in some cases, the comments of the lecturers. In this edition, the courses of quartile 3 of the year 2018-2019 are mentioned. If you are curious about the full report of a course, you can go to our website: http://www.utwente.nl/wb/evaluatie. On behalf of the Quality Assurance Committee ME/SET, ALICIA KNIJNENBURG CHAIRMAN
19%
3,6
ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS 2
• Students are pleased with the learning materials. • The lectures would improve by elaborating the content.
17%
4,1
MATERIAL SCIENCE 2
• Students are positive about the course, it was experienced as interesting and well organized.
39%
4,3
4,0
HEAT TRANSFER
• The ‘how to solve it’ sessions are really appreciated. • The structure of the lectures can be improved according to the students.
11%
3,8
AR&S 1 - PREPARATION BACHELOR ASSIGNMENT
• The students appreciate the free planning of writing the proposal. • The occurrence of the assignment market was not communicated clearly enough towards the students.
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2,6
AR&S 1 - SOCIETAL EMBEDDING
• The students struggled to see the relevance of this module part. • With the deadline for the assignments placed during the exam week, students experienced a huge work load in around this period.
44%
4,2
AEROACOUSTICS
• Students find the course Aeroacoustics very interesting. • The lecturer is often available for questions and is willing to help the students.
FLUID MECHANICS 1
• Students like the way the course is taugh. • More scheduled tutorials would be useful to keep up with the lectures.
22%
14%
32%
3,2
BIOMECHANICS OF HUMAN MOVEMENT
• In general, students are very appreciative of the course and find it interesting. • The workload for the course is quite high, which is mainly due to the amount of assignments and the written exam.
52%
4,6
COMPOSITES
• This course scores very well, especially the availability of the teacher and the value of the lectures were rated extremely high. • No points of improvement were mentioned by the students in the open comments.