Students Feedback
… Your video lectures are great by the way. Nga mihi
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Hi Andrew, I hope everything is going well. It feels good to be back in NZ and have everything wrapped up with Weltec for the degree. I really want to say thank you for connecting me with Stefan for the project and all the support, teaching and advice you've offered throughout my degree. It's been a fantastic experience and really had a large impact on me. I feel really privileged. If you did want to meet up and have a bit of a debrief I'd be more than happy. I truly appreciate your help. Kind Regards
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Hi Andrew, Appreciate for your teaching! I learned a lot from your teaching from computing to the importance of accuracy and precision in engineer’s work. At the beginning of this course, I was basically a “BABY-like computer guy”. To be honesty, I was using the google drive and video recording for the first time of my life. Now, I know how to make the shared files in correct orders with right link. You guided me through the entrance of computing and programming. Really appreciate that! Thank you very much!
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Hi Andrew, Here's my Labview project, thank you very much for teaching me this semester, it has certainly been very different from usual! Cheers
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Hi Andrew, Thanks for that, spoke to the Associate Head of School last Monday told him how much I enjoyed the class format, as in the multi-layered/multi-skilled/multi-themed approach to learning and how it forced me to work through problems rather than learn through rote. I will definitely be trying to adapt my learning and application as an Engineer to anything I can going forward. Again thank you and have a good holiday. Regards
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I also wanted to take this opportunity to let you know that out of all the courses I did at WelTec, yours were the ones I enjoyed and engaged with most - by a long shot. I appreciate your approach to education and you do it right. I believe all engineering courses should be project based and about demonstrating what you have learnt rather than what you can remember. Yours captured it perfectly. I've even wanted to do your embedded systems course after finishing my degree. Cheers
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Hello Andrew, This is …. (I omit the name of the student here) from the computing class. I decided to send you email to say thank you. I'm really glad you covered the special relativity in the course. Sometimes, I felt it was adding extra complexity to the class, but it was intellectually stimulating and I quite enjoyed it. My motivation for studying math is I can understand complicated physics concepts such as the relativity, Maxwell's equations and etc. So I can understand some part of the underlying law of the universe which could be permanent. To me those are keys to change assumptions we make about the world. Maybe less relevant to our everyday life, but it's very mentally stimulating, profound and mind-boggling. I was quite intimidated by the relativity and I assumed in order to understand it, I need to know very complicated mathematical concepts. However, by learning more about the special relativity during the class and talking to you, I found out the special relativity is not difficult to understand. The most of the concepts in the special relativity revolve around the Lorentz factor. I was reading more about the special relativity a month ago, and I was quite surprised to find out the length contraction and the time dilation are just multiplication and division of the Lorentz factor. It's so simple, thanks to you, now I can remember the Lorentz factor from my memory. I hope I can spare some time to study some concepts of the general relativity, astrophysics and electro-magnetism during the summer break. By the way, before I started studying at WelTec, I was trying to teach myself vector calculus, so I can understand Maxwell's equations. Now I have the right tools which I learned how to use during the class, I hope I can actually understand some of those concepts. I'm also grateful that assignments in your class need to be submitted with video presentations. At first, I didn't like it because I didn't have any idea what to say during the video and it took very long time to make one. In fact, it took more time to make video than completing all of the tasks for the first assignment. However, I got hang of it gradually. In the end, making a video presentation for the final assignment, I was much more relaxed and I knew how to present and explain what I did. I think making the video presentation helped me to improve my communication skills too. Thank you so much Andrew! Best Regards
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Hi Andrew, You were right. The final exam was a great learning experience. Most exams are more a "show what you know" event. It was tough, but also very rewarding. Only when I thought about plotting y=x then y=2x then y=3x and what was happening did I select my function. I must say, bloody rewarding seeing the line spin in a similar manner as the video. Of all the papers I have done at Weltec, I think your lecture approach has pulled more effort from every student, and obtained the best results and created achievements for the students to be proud of. Well done. Talk to you soon
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Hi Andrew, How are you doing? This has been a long time coming. I've been meaning to write this email for a while now, as one of my favorite tutors at Weltec I wanted to let you know where I'm at. In February I applied for a Mechatronics and Control systems engineering role at a small company called Omeo Technology even though they were asking for someone with 2+ years experience. My first interview was presenting a project, which was my final year project my autonomous beach trash picker, but what really won them over was when they asked me to create a display on a computer which showed what the machine was doing in real time, which I managed to easily do with LabVIEW, all thanks to your classes. Thanks for your help. If it wasn't for your Instrumentation and Control and Engineering Computing classes I never would have been able to finish my final year project, or create a real time display so easily, which means I probably wouldn't have got the job. Cheers
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I learned a hang of a lot from Andrew’s computer knowledge and I considered myself already proficient with computing… If you ever are in the situation of having to provide remote labs again, this beats watching videos and filling in the data from someone else’s recordings hands-down. As a kinaesthetic learner and experimenter, I want to do it for myself. All in all, this electrical lab turned what was going to be a potentially humdrum academic exercise into an absorbing and interesting hands on series of experiments. It really turned a negative situation (lockdown) into a positive and interactive one. I recommend it. Regards
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Overall I found the course to be very informative… It also allowed me to be more flexible around my work day since I'm also doing two asset management papers and working full time currently. Previously I have done papers by travelling up to Dunedin and it essentially used up 2 afternoons, nights by the time I travelled there and back. This time could have been spent studying instead. Thanks for your time and effort Andrew
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I thoroughly enjoyed the course and have gained a great appreciation for programming. I wish you well for the future. Thank you for your time and expertise
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Hi Andrew! I've been meaning to say thank you for teaching and mentoring me during my time at WelTec. You're easily the best teacher there, and your classes left a big impression on me. I often think of pieces of wisdom and insights you shared. You always made the classes interesting with your enthusiasm for the topics, and made science/engineering exciting by challenging the status quo and talking about how much there still is to explore. I was lucky to have you for so many of my classes. Thank you! Hope you are well. It would be great to hear from you and maybe catch up sometime soon. Cheers
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These web browser extensions are so cool, I always wanted to know and find out how to better guard at least, my personal information online. And wow, I knew I was missing a lot of knowledge but this just opened my mind. This is so cool and handy to know, Thanks for the Basics of Browsing the Internet video. Appreciate it
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Kia ora, Thank you so much Andrew. I appreciated all your help and the way you teach your course. I will keep your life lessons in mind and aim to be more confident for my future. Nga mihi
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