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In the previous assessment, the following areas was stressed for improvement:Fieldwork and site visits - we undertake a couple of fieldwork in this course on water quality assessment. However, we could not visit the water treatment plant due to heightened security, and therefore the operator of the water treatment plant was invited to give a presentation to the students.

The course was assessed using an anonymous semi-structured questionnaire survey. The survey focused on the following: 1. Quality of teaching 2. Achievement or otherwise of the goals of the course 3. Comprehension of the course content 4. Suitability of the workload 5. General Skills acquired during the course 6. Level of satisfaction with the course and 7. Open ended questions related to the best thing about the course and what is required to improve the course. Scale Range 1-5 (1=Totally disagree, 2= disagree, 3 = unsure 4= agree and 5=Totally agree) Results: The result from the survey are as follows: 1.Quality of Teaching 2.Achievement of goals 3.Comprehension of course content 4.Suitability of the workload 5.General skills acquired during the course 6.Level of satisfaction with the course

General comments about what is considered to be the best thing about the course according to students: <ol><li>The course met my every expectation. The focus on understanding the concepts behind, and using those concepts to go more into details, was a very good way to learn.</li><li>As an outsider to the discipline of water engineering, I appreciated that this was not just a broad survey of water engineering topics, but rather focused on specific contemporary trends and themes such as virtual sensing, emerging contaminants, and urbanization. I think the class did a good job of making sure we understood concepts, not just keywords. </li><li>The best I have ever been in these courses was about the technology we going to use in the future, and the method on how to solve the problems.  </li><li>The course materials given were comprehensive. I like the presentations and videos.</li></ol> Recommendations:<ol><li>Study in groups. When so many of the master's degree students are part-time, perhaps it could be beneficial to organize study groups for in-depth learning.</li><li>More emphasis on how systems components functions although this is an introduction course.</li><li>More real-case examples on the pipe hydraulics although it is an introductory course. </li><li>Would be great if the lectures are made available also in video or voice recording</li></ol>

NTNU:TIA:REST

Institutt for havromsoperasjoner og byggteknikk

Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering

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Master of Science - Product and System Engineering

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This is a course that was taught for the first time. Generally, the overall assessment of the course is good.Nevertheless there are couple of measures that have to be undertaken to strengthen the course including the following:<ul><li>An introduction to fundamental principles of hydro informatics including statistical models with a focus on the application of probability distributions in water engineering.</li><li>The course should also limit the water &amp; wastewater treatment aspects to purely fundamental principles, with emphasis on physical, chemical &amp; biological processes required for more advanced courses in water &amp; wastewater treatment technologies.</li><li>More problem based lessons with field visits to water &amp; wastewater treatment plants. This was planned but could not be undertaken due to the covid-19 restrictions.</li><li>There should be more group instead of individual assignments.</li></ul>

TeachingA hybrid approach (digital &amp; physical meetings) was employed throughout the course. Although the course was supposed to have significant components of field visits and laboratory activities to deepen the understanding of students on basic concepts, this was not possible due to the covid restrictions. In lieu of this, students were given more problem sets that reflected real world challenges to work on in groups and on individual basis. There will be a need to return to the initial plan of more field visits and laboratory activities in the next course session as failure to undertake these activities meant that students could not grasp some basic skills in the laboratory setting. Feedback from students was generally good. Teaching, Lecture materials and relevance of the course were graded 5 by the students reference group. While exercises was graded (4), students assistance for tutorials was graded (3). The course had no study assistant, and with the overwhelming number of exercises, students without any background in Civil/Water Engineering may need support for some of the exercises. The following were some of the comments from the students1.     Suggestion: Give out exercises weekly. The workload in the beginning of the course was much less compared to the end of the course, because most of the exercises were given out later in the course.2.     The workload was OK, but for students without prior knowledge in water and environmental engineering the amount of topics to learn might be overwhelming.3.     Suggestion: Add more study time with assistance after exercises have been handed out. Evaluation formatThe course is evaluated as 100% written exam. This would have to be changed to a an oral exam or 50% semester assignment and 50% oral.to test students over a wide breadth of topics.

Master of Science - Product and System Design 

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