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Simply said, there are far too many courses that deliver the program objectives. Moreover, too many conflicting demands are placed on the curriculum.
the curriculum “overloads” students, effectively
depriving them from valuable time that could and should be used to study for homework,
projects, and midterm exams.
Electromagnetic Fields I (T10Y, semester 3), Electromagnetic Fields II (T11Y, semester 4),
Applied Electrodynamics (T09Y, semester 5), Principles of Telecommunication Systems
(T37Y, semester 6) and Principles of Systems of Telecommunication Links (T36Y, semester6).
While all these mandatory courses could make sense to offer for the Telecommunications
specialized students, the committee feels that they are an overkill and that the appropriate
mandatory material could easily be condensed into two courses, or three at the most.
Another example of an opportunity for material consolidation is Physics I, Physics II, applied thermodynamics and engineering mechanics.
The student/teaching staff ratio is very good. Itshould be noted that overseas institutions of similar size have higher student/teaching staff ratios.
Individual teaching staff at the Department perpetually offer the same courses, thus exam questions and problems tendto repeat. This is taken advantage by some students that just study the exam, often over looking the broader course material.
A more engineering applied process for teaching mathematics and physics could enhance the student learning.
The EEC finds the research activity of the Department to be strong.
The EEC was told that the Department had decided to focus its near future growth in Power.
An outstanding career services office supports the School of Engineering and the Department.The EEC considers the career services office a
strong asset to the Department and recommends capitalizing on this strength.
A possible cost efficiency would be to use doctoral and graduate students supported by teaching assistantships, while reducing the number of base-budgeted technical staff.
EEC members twice tried to visit the Library at the old campus (downtown Xanthi) during working hours and found its doors locked. This
is of serious concern since libraries in most research universities are open to the public twenty-four hours a day, throughout the week
(including weekends). Another very serious problem, identified by many members of the Department community, was the limited or non-existentl ectronic access of the Library to important journal gateways such as IEEE Xplore.
The School of Engineering offers students free bus rides between the "old" campus (educational labs) and "new" campus (Department base and classrooms), which is very positive
However, an effort to harmonize the English and Greek terminology is needed to avoid confusion, especially for students and professors who nteract with international collaborators and institutions.
The EEC encountered several times the situation where, when a reasonable solution to some problems was mentioned, an almost immediate response from the academic staff was that said solution could not be implemented because of either state or University regulations.Often, the EC could not determine whether the said obstacles were imposed by the actual state laws, the interpretation of said laws, or by University and/or Department internal regulations, or if they were simply artefacts of the inertia of the status quo
For example, the Department is called an Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department. Yet, none of its sectors is Computer Engineering. None of its Laboratories is Computer Engineering either.Furthermore, the largest sector, Electronics and Information System Technology, has 17 members while the second smallest, Software and Applications Development, has 7. All the while, the current importance of this small sector, at least as measured by the admittedly inadequate metric of a single factor, per capita research funding, is much higher than other sectors.
Some academic staff discussed the desire to have the 5 year program at the Department recognized as a MSc degree. While it is quite possible for a good student to graduate with a good thesis project and fulfil in essence all the requirements of a MSc degree from accredited universities, the EEC has doubts that this can be done for the entire Department without some critical changes to the program and its delivery.
Because of tenure, the hiring process at universities worldwide is inherently slow. In DUTH, is well as other universities in Greece, it is even slower.
Overall the EEC found that the Department accepts a reasonable number of students with good background, percentage wise, from the pool of candidates entering universities in Greece. Also, the level of graduates is solid.
The Department also has a loyal group of alumni who have expressed the desire to assist with their time and talents in offering feedback.
Recs:
condense the material and reduce the number of required courses for graduation to about 45
enhance the fundamental courses of math and physics with more engineering related problems for a better student learning experience
