Course survey

The questions below are due on Tuesday May 13, 2025; 12:30:00 PM.
 
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The lectures helped prepare me for the individual and term projects.
The guest lecture from Bose on packaging & ingress protection helped reinforce the concepts in the class.
The lecture by Tony Hu on industrial design was useful for our project.
I wish we had more material (lecture, lab, homework, or reference) on the following topic(s):

What topics for the term project did you have to learn on your own?

In the last month, how many hours on average did you spend on the term project each week?
In the first half of the term, how many hours on average did you spend on homework & individual labs each week?
The class would be better if we split up by roles earlier, and so a subset of students learned PCB design, another subset did backend/server, a third subset did industrial design, etc.
The team project would work better if one of the students acted as a project manager.
I wish we had more help managing teams.
What could we do to improve the team experience?

Teams should be smaller to be more manageable, even if it means we will not accomplish as much.
The staff should be stricter to keep our teams on track.
The staff should provide a curated set of electrical/mechanical parts that teams choose from, rather than letting us pick everything.
What else could we do to improve the class?