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On this page, you can track the course's development over time. Once the course analysis is published, data for each course offering is displayed, including the number of registered students, course results, and planned improvements for the next session. All course syllabuses and course memos are shown on the page Archive.

The information can help prospective, current, and former students with course selection, or to follow up on their own participation. Teachers, course coordinators, examiners, program directors, and others can use the page as a resource for course development.

2025

Course analysis not published

2024

Autumn 2024-50782 ( Start date 28 Oct 2024, English )

Changes planned for the next course offering

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Coordinator
Gunnar Malm
Examiners
Gunnar Malm
Students
17
Compulsory within programme
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Results on course
Total number
15
A
4
B
2
C
6
D
2
E
1
FX
0
F
0

2023

Autumn 2023-50352 ( Start date 30 Oct 2023, English ) , Autumn 2023-50954 ( Start date 30 Oct 2023, English )

Changes planned for the next course offering

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Coordinator
Gunnar Malm
Examiners
Gunnar Malm
Students
13
Compulsory within programme
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Changes introduced for this course offering
The course is centered around the tutorial/homework assignments/computer labs. These are reviewed and refreshed on a yearly basis. This round more emphasis was put on compact models and quantum effects. In general I try to use NanoHub and COMSOL as the main tools even though some coding parts in Matlab and Python remain.
Examination grade
100%

2022

Course analysis not published

2021

Autumn 2021-1 ( Start date 01/11/2021, English )

Changes planned for the next course offering

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Coordinator
Gunnar Malm
Examiners
Gunnar Malm
Students
13
Compulsory within programme
No information inserted
Changes introduced for this course offering
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.
Examination grade
69.2%

2020

Autumn 2020-1 ( Start date 26/10/2020, English )

Changes planned for the next course offering

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Coordinator
Gunnar Malm
Examiners
Gunnar Malm
Students
12
Compulsory within programme
No information inserted
Changes introduced for this course offering
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.
Examination grade
100%

2019

Autumn 2019-1 ( Start date 28/10/2019, English )

Changes planned for the next course offering

No information inserted
Coordinator
Gunnar Malm
Examiners
Gunnar Malm
Students
11
Compulsory within programme
No information inserted
Changes introduced for this course offering
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.

Course data has been registered manually

Examination grade
100%*