SPRING 2010 Lab Survey

SPRING 2010 Lab Survey

not, ME 100L - 001 Neutral Disagree Disagree 14 2 2 0 0 15 3 0 0 0 13 3 1 1 0 17 0 1 0 0 16 2 0 0 0 14 2 1 1 0 I hate programming. / Brianna is a great teacher. Make the lab 2 hours. The lecture material never touched on subjects we are doing in the lab. / The lab deals solely with the construction of the robot and while the lecture discusses this occasionally, separate courses of study are presented. Explain the programming tutorials more in-depth. / Brianna is great. Could use a few more parts to mess with. / It's not that it's lacking. I just wish we could have more options for customization. / The lab could have more pieces to customize the robots more.

not, ME 100L - 002 Neutral Disagree Disagree 2 7 3 0 0 4 4 3 1 0 4 3 3 1 1 8 4 0 0 0 7 4 1 0 0 7 3 2 0 0 Instructions between ME 100 and ME 100L don't always correspond; more coordination is definitely needed. / We went off online syllabus. / She definitely understands it. / Changes from previous years not recorded. It's easy to fall behind and there's not much time to get caught up in open lab. Computer labs are open almost around the clock, Lego is not. / We should have had more time from the beginning to just play around and build our robots instead of going into programming right away. / Not very long lectures mostly group work. / The tasks are sometimes frustrating; lack of examples. Yes lab lectures do, but ME 100 class lectures do not AT ALL. / Lecture has very little to do with the lab. / Not sure what this has to do with ME 100. / Sometimes but not consistently. She has been very helpful though she is in a difficult position with disorganized ME 100. / Very well understanding of material. Yes / we appear to be missing some items. / Computer freezes sometimes. Yes / More workspace perhaps example robots.

ME 100L - 003 Neutral Disagree Disagree 1) The lab not, 9 6 3 0 0 10 6 2 0 0 10 2 4 2 0 12 5 1 0 0 9 6 3 0 0 9 8 2 0 0 No manual A little more involvement would be nice. / LegoCAD is awful / Lego's? Seriously? / Limited parts. / A little worn out. / Awesomeness / Limited parts. / Weld robot instead of legos. / Actual building material / Give this man a raise. (Jordan Mayorga)

the lecture material? If not, ME 120-001 Neutral Disagree Disagree 12 8 2 0 0 12 10 0 0 0 13 9 0 0 0 14 8 0 0 0 13 9 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 Book is difficult to follow. The startup should have been handled before computers were refrozen; it asks to register every time we open the program. / The power cables sometimes come loose and when you knock it with your foot it'll turn off. / Power cables are loose, sometimes comes out. Objects on the screen (bottom part) cannot be seen very well. / Give this man a raise. / I wish I didn't have to be at UNLV to use the AutoCAD program but other than that the course is good.

the lecture material? If not, ME 130-001 Neutral Disagree Disagree 5 1 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 - Some of the machines have features that are broken, though I'm sure this is a budget issue.

not, ME 240-001 Neutral Disagree Disagree 2 5 7 3 3 1 7 9 1 3 4 7 6 2 1 5 3 6 4 3 8 5 4 2 2 11 5 2 2 1 Many components are missing from assignments so they take a while to figure out. / The material even though advance is not readily described in the book most of the time it is trial and error. The instructor is good to point out help but the books do not. / We never used any of the projects in the book. Plus it was not specified by the TA what book to use. He gives us several different books we "could" use. / We didn t follow the book. / No manual. The number and expectation with assignments is excessive for a course that is only worth 1 credit. / The solidworks version in the computer labs is not as nice as the one in class and simple assignment take forever to finish there. / Some students are able to grasp the material immediately probably due to having the class before or some other CADD class before. / Only about 30% of the class would finish before the class ends. / Sometimes too much to do in 3 hours. / The assignments don t always have full dimensions. / I believe the labs take quite a bit of time to complete. The TA practically wants the project perfect. Everything is explained / the instructor's lab s his material but, in no way does book material help easily when problems or difficulties arise. / There is no lecture class. / No lecture, just rudimentary examples of the basics. / He does not lecture well, we cannot follow him. / Too many students for one teacher with such difficult content / Lecture time is pretty short / The instructor knows his work and how to solve problems on computers regarding solid works but would like to be able to run the problems with the book too. / The TA was very unclear on how the HW format should be, no matter how many times we asked. Also, if we needed help in our sketchings, he would use features we never learned or was taught. / Explanations of how industry uses the various tools as well as guidance towards the solidworks certification. / Not completely clear at times / Actually give in class

direction on how to do the assignments. / Smaller class or more sections. One man is not enough to help everyone's needs. / He could explain how to do certain things better than he does. / Has a difficult time presenting material. / Doesn't teach good. He gives us ridiculous assignments without making sure we know the software. We teach ourselves. The number and expectation with assignments is excessive for a course that is only worth 1 credit. / The solidworks version in the computer labs is not as nice as the one in class and simple assignment take forever to finish there. / Okay / The program would crash 1/3 times. / Solidworks freezes often! / Program frequently freezes. / Can be slow at times. / Computers frequently crash and have graphical problems when displaying models. A better working printer would be useful, the current one takes anywhere from 5-30 mins to print a single document. / Need to speak a little louder during lecture. / Okay / A truly free printer. / Printer takes 20 minutes to print. / Free printer for inclass assignments. / Better computers.

not, ME 240L - 001 Neutral Disagree Disagree 2 5 7 3 3 1 7 9 1 3 4 7 6 2 1 5 3 6 4 3 8 5 4 2 2 11 5 2 2 1 Many components are missing from assignments so they take a while to figure out. / The material even though advance is not readily described in the book most of the time it is trial and error. The instructor is good to point out help but the books do not. / We never used any of the projects in the book. Plus it was not specified by the TA what book to use. He gives us several different books we "could" use. / We didn t follow the book. / No manual. The number and expectation with assignments is excessive for a course that is only worth 1 credit. / The solidworks version in the computer labs is not as nice as the one in class and simple assignment take forever to finish there. / Some students are able to grasp the material immediately probably due to having the class before or some other CADD class before. / Only about 30% of the class would finish before the class ends. / Sometimes too much to do in 3 hours. / The assignments don t always have full dimensions. / I believe the labs take quite a bit of time to complete. The TA practically wants the project perfect. Everything is explained / The instructor's lab s his material but, in no way does book material help easily when problems or difficulties arise. / There is no lecture class. / No lecture, just rudimentary examples of the basics. / He does not lecture well, we cannot follow him. / Too many students for one teacher with such difficult content / Lecture time is pretty short / The instructor knows his work and how to solve problems on computers regarding solid works but would like to be able to run the problems with the book too. / The TA was very unclear on how the HW format should be, no matter how many times we asked. Also, if we needed help in our sketchings, he would use features we never learned or was taught. / Explanations of how industry uses the various tools as well as guidance towards the solidworks certification. / Not completely clear at times / Actually give in class direction on how to do the assignments. / Smaller class or

more sections. One man is not enough to help everyone's needs. / He could explain how to do certain things better than he does. / Has a difficult time presenting material. / Doesn't teach good. He gives us ridiculous assignments without making sure we know the software. We teach ourselves. The number and expectation with assignments is excessive for a course that is only worth 1 credit. / The solidworks version in the computer labs is not as nice as the one in class and simple assignment take forever to finish there. / Okay / The program would crash 1/3 times. / Solidworks freezes often! / Program frequently freezes. / Can be slow at times. / Computers frequently crash and have graphical problems when displaying models. A better working printer would be useful, the current one takes anywhere from 5-30 mins to print a single document. / Need to speak a little louder during lecture. / Okay / A truly free printer. / Printer takes 20 minutes to print. / Free printer for inclass assignments. / Better computers.

not, ME 302L - 001 Neutral Disagree Disagree 5 10 0 1 0 7 9 0 0 0 5 10 1 0 0 7 8 1 0 0 8 7 1 0 0 7 8 1 0 0 The lab manual is given online; differs slightly from the class. / The directions don't always match the lab manual. Class tends to be purely theoretical.

not, 04) The performance of ME 302L - 002 Neutral Disagree Disagree 2 6 1 1 0 3 3 3 1 0 4 4 2 0 0 1 4 5 0 0 4 2 2 2 0 2 4 3 1 0 Somewhat vague. / There's no details on some of the labs, for example the torsion lab was a little confusing in the manual. Experiments are but discussions may sometimes be lengthy. / We don't conduct any experiments we just watch. May benefit from being more thorough with explanations. / Not lecture as long before lab is conducted. It's hard to pay attention for 2 hours straight. / Hard to understand sometimes; language barrier. / Quiz questions are bad. / He's not the best person to answer questions as asked, he sometimes thinks we're asking something differently and doesn't address the question. Most of the equipment is janky. Like the torsion machine. We ran out of strain gages when each of us needed to apply one. It was not cool.

not, ME 315L - 001 Neutral Disagree Disagree 5 6 1 1 0 5 7 1 0 0 6 5 2 0 0 10 3 0 0 0 9 4 0 0 0 7 6 0 0 0 Could use more given equations. The weekly lab reports are very time consuming. Too much for a 1 credit course. Some of the lab reports require more time than should be invested in a 1 credit class. The first lab is very time consuming. It made me cry. Did not follow lab procedures but instructor does instruct clearly new procedures so we were not confused. The lab is ahead of the lecture material by about one chapter. Better correlation between the two schedules would be beneficial. Speaks too softly. Sometimes I am unable to hear what he is saying. Functional but boring. The strain gauges are broken on a lot of the rods. We spent most of a couple of experiments waiting for equipment to be passed to us. (More rulers, weights) Well equipped, and fascinating. Awesome TA.!! Highly recommend!! Awesome TA. Needs more than one or two experimental apparatuses. He is a good instructor! Explains instructions adequate and grades fairly. A tad out of date.

not, ME 315L - 001 Neutral Disagree Disagree 5 6 1 1 0 5 7 1 0 0 6 5 2 0 0 10 3 0 0 0 9 4 0 0 0 7 6 0 0 0 The labs did not thoroughly go over the working process of most labs. / For some labs we were not given any guidance to where to find tables, etc. / More help on how to get the desired results for the report would help. Reasonable length in given amount of time. I took thermodynamics a year ago. I think it should be required to take 315 and 311 at the same time. Jeff Markle is a great help.

not, ME 315L - 002 Neutral Disagree Disagree 4 2 1 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 4 2 1 0 0 6 1 0 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 Lab C- Conversion from volt reading to w/m^2

not, ME 319L - 001 Neutral Disagree Disagree 9 13 3 1 0 10 12 4 0 0 16 8 1 1 0 12 7 3 3 2 18 8 0 0 0 20 6 0 0 0 This is good for MATLAB. However it does not seem to give much aid for other programming languages. / There is no lab manual. / There weren't really any notes except for in class examples, PowerPoint and the textbook. I am fine with this. One lab had us do unnecessary busy work exporting/importing data to excel for 19 This took 6 hours. / We usually get out early. I don t like that it is all on Friday though. / Some were long but some were short so happy medium. They are one after another so we get intro then we get to apply in the lab. Tests do not reflect assignments. Level of expected knowledge is more than some students possess. / Tests are unclear. / The lab instructor needs to be more encouraging. He has a pretty cold personality. / The quizzes and tests are focused too harshly on things not fully explained. / He could cover some issues seen on tests in the HW, lab time. 1 or 2 problems on test were not covered in practices. / Very well prepared. / He explains well however sometimes he forgets to send out the homework which can be annoying. / He gave out huge homework assignment by email a day or two before due date instead of beginning of week because he forgot!! / Instructor is not helpful and seems to be indifferent to student's Instructor never encouraged me to do better in the course. To the contrary he made me develop s negative attitude towards the course.

the lecture material? If not, ME 337L - 001 Neutral Disagree Disagree 5 6 3 2 0 3 9 1 3 0 2 7 5 2 0 6 9 1 0 0 9 6 1 0 0 11 3 2 0 0 Certain procedures are vague. / Some labs should contain more background information, or perhaps references. / Unclear on what needs to be done. / They did at the start of the semester but as the labs went on the explanation decreased. / There is way too much gray area the manual needs more pictures. The labs are short enough that they could be combined; thus reducing number of meetings or increasing material covered is an option. / Too much content, not enough time to understand everything. / Most of the time spent trying to find out what to do. / The labs can be extended or time can be shortened, we always finish early. / A bit lengthy. Teacher's new and we do not learn much; but that is another survey. He's good but lab is too large, he has to help too many people. / I wish there was more group instruction instead of writing for a little question and answer period. Most of the time. Keg!. / I don't believe anything is missing, other than equipment for every student. / Has every thing we need.

not, ME 337L - 002 Neutral Disagree Disagree 5 9 0 0 0 4 7 2 1 0 2 4 3 3 2 9 4 1 0 0 5 8 1 0 0 8 5 0 1 0 They have some mistakes. / Most labs are well described, some are lacking. Lab #2 is too long. / Labs are too long. / Labs sometimes go too long. / Seems a little bit tedious at times. Easy to lose interest. / Most length and content did not fit in any given time (too much in too little time). It takes a while for the class to catch up. / First couple of labs were only about programming, which wasn't discussed in class. / Lecture is very different from lab. / Somewhat. / Lab lectures were not covered in class; thus we were basically learning new material before initiating labs. / Not really related. Ahmad is exceptional. / He is thorough. / Always helpful. Computer station #3 is faulty. / Computers get a little slow sometimes. / On our second lab, one of the connector inserts broke. / Lab equipment were all functional. But please fix router!!! There was never functional wireless internet that was accessible. Need faster computers. / Maybe cushioned chairs? / More time needed, materials needed to cover prior lab so lab can be done more efficiently.

not, ME 380L - 002 Neutral Disagree Disagree 4 9 2 0 0 8 7 0 0 0 4 10 1 0 0 8 7 0 0 0 3 8 3 1 0 Need to be revised, check for grammatical errors. 4 9 2 0 0 Great instruction of lab content and available for help. Some malfunctions here and there but they were fixed quickly. / Except for 1 problem everything else is good. / Times where we had to wait because malfunctioning equipment. / Old faulty equipment. / Some were not functioning and seemed unprepared. Equipment still works but fragile and easy to break. / One of the machines had faulty equipment (could not seal a space).