I can't wait until they read this one.

Perhaps I spend too much time on my teaching evals or perhaps I am too harsh. In the mid-term evaluations I called them out for giving out a quiz to make sure that seniors in engineering could compute standard deviations.

This is from my final eval. The question is "What was the least valuable part of this course?" I sorta let it all out.

The lectures, all of the busy work. Honestly having a interim report due weeks after giving our project proposals was idiotic, especially when one of those weeks was spring break.

The emails that were sent out by the professor were unprofessional, and the emails sent out by the GSI were long winded and tiresome to read. Also, I would have appreciated it if the GSI paid attention in class instead of writing emails.

This course is supposed to integrate four years of courses and studies into one big project but often it felt like this was just a technical communication course with some engineering topics sprinkled in.

Instead of having our proposals and presentation given before the entire class where no one paid attention, I would have been much better served by sitting down with the professor and GSI and going over our project and offering advice. That way they could have given us some feedback and discussed our problems instead of just asking a few questions and moving on to the next group.

This class had the potential to be an invaluable learning experience, but instead was marred by unrealistically expectations and bothersome work by the faculty. More focus should be on the actual projects and less on the busy work and unrelated materials.

There is still much room for improvement.