Written feedback - AOS 640 / S07
Transcribed completely and unedited, in the same order as filed.

Comments on the Instruction

"Much too squeaky on the chalkboard!!!!!!!!!"

"Very clear, good use of blackboard and graphs.  Excellent lecturing."

"The instruction was very clear and organized."

"Very enthusiastic instruction + good handwriting is appreciated.  Also, the instructor was amazingly patient with student questions and available in person and by email.  You can tell he wants students to succeed."

"Please work on not squeaking with the chalk -- makes it hard to concentrate."

"Very clear, very helpful outside of class and straight forward."

"The book was clear and very helpful towards understanding covered material."

"Instruction was great for the most part, however clearer instructions/expectations would be helpful fo rthe projects because they were often ambiguous, i.e., Streamer.  And, when we got behind in the syllabus we were often slammed with a lot of material all in one power lecture."

"In my case, the radiation and remote sensing were totally unfamiliar with me.  However owing to this class, this subject is most interesting scientific field for me."

Comments on the Course

"The book was great.  I very much enjoy reading it from a more "conversive" angle."

"The projects were useful and interesting.  Some may have been difficult for students without much computational background.  Also some were introduced before we had covered the material in class (Streamer especially) which made the interpretation difficult."

"I thought the workload and textbook were appropriate. 
The only thing I would possibly complain about is the fact that the reading and lectures were almost identical."

"I feel that not having mandatory homework sets in a graduate course worked well, allowing the student to work on problems at their own pace in preparation for exams."

"This class took more work than all others put together!  I would have rather had one project + assigned homework, since projects were very time consuming but only applied to a very specific topic.  The midterm did not seem to reflect the effort + learning put in."

"Maybe use lecture for more examples so there is less repetition of book.  Maybe assign select HW problems for a very small grade.  I did not mind computer projects that much, but as always it is good to remember that not everyone has same computer skills, which is a problem that needs to be addressed outside this class."

"Computer projects very helpful in learning computer programming, might be helpful to have clearer explanations of what exactly you want for projects and task involved, maybe provide a list of good programming books. Because so much material would be helpful to split into 3 50 min. classes."

"I enjoyed doing the projects, my only suggestion would be for project due dates before the end of the semester."

"Personally, it would be more helpful to have homework assignments due and either cut out a project or the exams.  I did do them on my own, but generally not following the corresponding lecture and it seems a lot of people can be left behind if they're overwhelmed with the projects or other course material."

"Because I'm a foreign student, I'm usually hard to understand any lecture.  However text book in this class is so much helpful to follow this class.  I'm so lucky to have this textbook and his good lecture.  I wish to have any further class like this time.  Thank you Grant!"

Other comments

"I really enjoyed the projects.  I learned quite a bit from them.  Rather than having exams, you could have homework due."

"I thought the book was clear and well written/organized."

"The book is great, although many of the problems did not seem to help me learn the material.  However, if the lecture could be more emphasized it would be helpful since we often skipped over parts of the book that did not seem trivial or straightforward."

"Book very straight forward.  Simple enough for undergrads but still very challenging at grad level.  This course works very well with 745."

"The only real drawback wa there was no separation from the lecture to actual book material.  I understand this was stated by the prof. @ the start of the semester, but for future, some separation would help to stimulate the lectures."

"The book was good, well laid out and obviously well-correlated with lecture.  More and better-written homework problems would be helpful and also a better difficulty distribution.  It seems they were ridiculously hard, i.e., derive complex relations, or really easy - x = 2pi r/lambda  solve for r.  And, homework problems were not reflected in the exam questions, so they're not that helpful."

My main goals for next year