The true assessment of a fundamental prerequisite course is a determination whether it achieved its goals of preparing the student for advanced study. This may only be ascertained after sufficient time has passed.
Students in DMSE will be given a questionnaire at the end of their first semester of their fourth year. This evaluation method will commence in December, 2002.
The questionnaire will be as follows:
| Course 3 Senior Questionnaire on Thermodynamics of Materials | ||
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| Did your course in thermodynamics (3.00) give you an appropriate preparation
for your upper division courses in course 3?
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| Do you understand where phase diagrams come from and how to read them?
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| To you understand the difference between thermodynamic driving forces
and kinetic processes?
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| Do you feel that you have developed an ability to use thermodynamics
to ``think on your feet'' when discussing topics about materials
phenomena?
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| Do you understand how to use thermodynamic constructions to answer
practical problems (i.e., common tangent construction, lever rule,
chemical potential by intercept)
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