Course development

One out of six homework or lab sessions in total was cancelled since it dealt with numerical methods outside the direct scope of the learning objectives. That content could be considered as prerequisites and the course plan should be updated to reflect suitable background courses in a better way. The grading scale was amended to reflect five homework assignments worth 80% and a final exam that completed the remaining 20%. Grading was done based on a cumulative effort after homework and final exam. This was a minor change from previous years.

More material that supported the Python environment for the weekly assignments was added. In this way it became optional to use either Python or Matlab for the assignments according to the student's own preference and previous experience. Still some student had very limited experience in either software environment. A short (30 minute) oral examination was added, to complete the weekly assignments. Assignment completion counted as 80% of the course requirements and the exam counted for the remaining 20%. Examination questions were predefined to ensure fairness in the individual examination sessions. All questions were connected to the homework assignment. All lecture slides have been renewed, some content has been added. Significant parts towards numerical methods and electro-magnetic field theory have been cancelled or simplified, since they were not inline with the intended learning outcomes.

course offering. The course was designed with continuous assessment, where two lectures per week where followed by one homework assignment. One tutorial session per week provided an opportunity to solve the HW with support from the teacher and in discussion with peers. The tutorials were also used for individualized feedback on submitted HW. The tutorials were now reintroduced, for a few years they were not offered. I am convinced that this was a significant improvement.