This course provided an understanding of power flows and systems to students while heavily focusing on individual projects. Also, the professor was accommodating to students’ needs and took their opinions into consideration. But students felt like there was too much emphasis put on circuit analysis during the first half of the course, the presentation requirements were vague, and the Power World lectures were boring. To improve this course, it was suggested that the presentation style of the professor change, there be less circuit analysis, another guest speaker, and better lectures. Prospective students should be prepared to do a great amount of researching.

The best aspects of this course included the professor’s experience, the interesting labs and interactive lectures, and the opportunity to learn applicable skills and fabrication techniques. Students felt that there were not enough homework assignments to practice concepts or enough time in the course to apply techniques learned. Suggestions for improvement included having more supplemental resources available and decreasing the amount of material covered in order to cover fewer concepts more in greater depth. Prospective students interested in microfabrication and biosensing will find this course chal enging and focused more on biomedical engineering.