University of Cincinnati, College of Engineering

On-line Evaluations

Class	20-MTEN-424-001
Class Name	X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Instructor	G. Beaucage
Quarter	Spring 2000: (00-S)
Respondent Size	10
Class Size	20
Quarter Size (Students)	451
Quarter Size (Classes)	112

#	Question	Excellent	A	B	C	D	E	Poor	N/A	Quarter Average	Class Average
1	Planning and organization of course.		1	7	2	0	0		0	4.29	3.90
2	Conveying ideas and concepts in an understandable manner.		1	6	3	0	0		0	4.04	3.80
3	Teaching in a style that holds my attention.		0	6	3	1	0		0	3.84	3.50
4	Encouraging interactive class participation when appropriate.		2	7	1	0	0		0	4.07	4.10
5	Motivating and challenging me to learn course material.		4	3	3	0	0		0	4.02	4.10
6	Communicating relevance of course content to my engineering education.		3	6	1	0	0		0	4.23	4.20
7	Answering students' questions thoroughly.		2	7	1	0	0		0	4.14	4.10
8	Emphasizing analytical thinking skills as opposed to memorizing information.		3	5	2	0	0		0	4.19	4.10
9	Using examples of practical engineering application to facilitate learning.		3	3	4	0	0		0	4.30	3.90
10	Approachability and availability to assist me.		8	2	0	0	0		0	4.41	4.80
11	Willingness to discuss and review difficult points during lectures.		8	2	0	0	0		0	4.34	4.80
12	Creating exams and quizzes of appropriate length.		4	4	2	0	0		0	4.06	4.20
13	Speaking skills.		4	5	1	0	0		0	4.27	4.30

#	Question	Strongly Agree	A	B	C	D	E	Strongly Disagree	N/A	Quarter Average	Class Average
14	The text helped me to learn the material.		4	3	3	0	0		0	3.45	4.10
15	The instructor's lectures increased my understanding of material beyond what I gained from the text.		3	5	2	0	0		0	4.22	4.10
16	The instructor's learning aids (text supplements, handouts, etc.) helped me learn the material.		3	6	1	0	0		0	4.22	4.20
17	The assigned homework helped me to learn the material.		1	5	0	1	0		3	4.36	3.86

The number of times the instructor started class late or ended class early.	0-1	2-3	4-5	6-7	8 or more	Average
Class Responses	9	1	0	0	0	4.90
Quarter Responses	347	59	19	7	19	4.57

The number of times the instructor canceled class without attempting to reschedule.	0	1	2	3	4 or more	Average
Class Responses	3	4	3	0	0	4.00
Quarter Responses	386	31	17	6	11	4.72

The instructor announced exams at least one week in advance.	Yes	No	N/A	Average
Class Responses	10	0	0	5.00
Quarter Responses	423	1	0	4.99

Effectiveness of	Question Numbers	Weighted Class Average	Weighted Quarter Average
Instruction	2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,15,16,17	4.06	4.16
Organization	1,10,12,18,19,20	4.47	4.50

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Free Response Questions

1) Describe at least one thing you like about this course or professor

Course was challenging and I learned a lot.

Dr. Beaucage is an excellent instructor. He is more than willing to take time and go back over material with a student or take them step by step through a lab.

Dr. Beaucage was very flexible and worked with us on deadlines so we weren't killing ourselves.

Labs reinforced what was done in class for the most part, which made things easier to understand. Dr. Beaucage was very approachable and helpful when the students needed help. I liked having everything from the class on the internet. I also liked having weekly quizes instead of tests.

New material and gave safty course on it since it was a potential danger.

The labs were good entry level stuff for X-ray diffraction. Also the ease at which the professor comunicated with the students was good.

The prfessor seemed interested in the development of the students.

The professor was easy to approach and talk to.

i enjoyed working with equiptment i hadn't worked with before.

2) Describe at least one improvement you feel would benefit this course or professor.

Dr. Beaucage combine the lab into one group. We never really did much of anything in lab but watched him run the machinery. We would have been better suited to spend one hour running a sample and the next hour running over an example completely.

Help the students to better understand the purpose of the labs and in turn help them to write better lab write ups. it is difficult do a good job understanding the lab when the person doing the write up does not fully understand what the lab data has given.

More organization in lab. Read through all lab handouts before passing them out to ensure that they are mistake-free. Communicate any lab changes to TA so that points are not unfairly deducted.

More real life exapmles

More structure and disipline in the lab. (from the students)

Presenting the material in a form that could be understood easier

The grade system unmotivated a few students from trying, especially near the end of the quarter. Dr. Beaucage needs to work on his blackboard handwriting.

The material needs to be broken down more, and the information should be organized in a way that would fall together better. If that is possible?

following better safely procedures in lab

3) If your answer to any question between #1 and #17 was `D' or `E', please identify the question number and explain why.

Lab write ups were, in my opinion, busy work. instead of trying to force the introduction and abstract, as the labs are mostly "get in touch with the machine" type labs, try to make the students understand the importance of the data collected and have them preform more calculations and interpretations.