Focus Group

[TheShocker]

As part of the Aviation Department Assessment Plan, each spring
semester we conduct focus group lunches with aviation students in hopes
of getting valuable feedback for ways to improve the aviation program at
UND. You have been randomly selected to participate in a focus group
lunch on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 from 11:30-12:30pm. The focus group
will take place in Odegard Hall room 244 (the conference room right off
of Odegard Hall room 200). Lunch will be provided by the department!

Every year we get great feedback from students that have helped improve
the aviation department’s operation. For example at one lunch
students raised concerns about the Financial Aid assistance at UND, we
now have a specific aviation financial aid representative. Another
example of change has been with the Aviation 100 class, last year
students raised concern with how the class was being taught, and major
improvements were made based on that feedback for this year. There have
been numerous other topics discussed and addressed as well, the
department greatly values student insights.

I will be part of this "insightful" process next week. I have my own gripes I will be sharing. If there is anything else you guys feel strongly about, I can try to facilitate such opinions. Oh yeah, the next round of Laptops are going to be the Latitude 630.

Specs

2.0 Gigahertz Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo Processor
120GB Hard Drive
DVD +/- RW drive with CD-RW
2GB RAM
14.1" WXGA+ LCD Screen
Nvidia NVS 135M with 128-MB memory
Four USB 2.0
Bluetooth Enabled
Full Size Keyboard and Touchpad
9-cell Battery
802.11G Wireless

[Micaoct]

I'm doing the focus group thing on the 17th, same time/place.

[av8or91]

Originally Posted by TheShocker

Oh yeah, the next round of Laptops are going to be the Latitude 630.

Specs

2.0 Gigahertz Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo Processor
120GB Hard Drive
DVD +/- RW drive with CD-RW
2GB RAM
14.1" WXGA+ LCD Screen
Nvidia NVS 135M with 128-MB memory
Four USB 2.0
Bluetooth Enabled
Full Size Keyboard and Touchpad
9-cell Battery
802.11G Wireless

When do we get those laptops?

[TheShocker]

Originally Posted by av8or91

When do we get those laptops?

If you are here for the summer session, they will be distributing them around mid June. I guess Fall distribution for everyone else.

[TXaviator]

gripe 1 would be the laptop program as a whole

[av8or91]

Originally Posted by TXaviator

gripe 1 would be the laptop program as a whole

Does anyone know anyone in the aviation program without an aviation laptop?

[Evan]

I got invited to the focus group but can't make it...

Originally Posted by av8or91

Does anyone know anyone in the aviation program without an aviation laptop?

Even if you don't pick it up they charge you for it.

I'm glad that they are finally getting a 14" laptop. These D820's are waaaay too bulky for my taste. But yet again, I'm an Apple person.

What they should do is either distribute the new laptops in May before everyone leaves or have people trade in their old one for the new one in August. We pay a lot of money for these things and to be cheated out of four months of usage is ridiculous. We get to keep the laptop every other summer... Just another negative of the laptop program. Hopefully this will be the last round of it.


One other problem at UND is the ridiculous amount of required general education courses. I get the idea behind a "liberal arts" education, but it's pointless if the mandatory courses are taught at a 2nd grade level. My high school general education classes were a LOT more advanced than the general education courses here. I'd much rather not waste my time and be able to take more aviation courses.

[juxtapilot]

Originally Posted by Evan

I got invited to the focus group but can't make it...


Even if you don't pick it up they charge you for it.

I'm glad that they are finally getting a 14" laptop. These D820's are waaaay too bulky for my taste. But yet again, I'm an Apple person.

What they should do is either distribute the new laptops in May before everyone leaves or have people trade in their old one for the new one in August. We pay a lot of money for these things and to be cheated out of four months of usage is ridiculous. We get to keep the laptop every other summer... Just another negative of the laptop program. Hopefully this will be the last round of it.


One other problem at UND is the ridiculous amount of required general education courses. I get the idea behind a "liberal arts" education, but it's pointless if the mandatory courses are taught at a 2nd grade level. My high school general education classes were a LOT more advanced than the general education courses here. I'd much rather not waste my time and be able to take more aviation courses.

x One Billion

[belliott]

I know a couple guys that simply refused to use the laptops provided.... so they used their own while still paying for the universities pos...

good call on the classes... I would rather take a course on the economics of the aviation industry than one that is so freaking boring that you may not even pay attention. My graduation was held up for an addtiontional semester because I didn't have a 3 credit social science elective.... when I had completed over 160 total credits..... just didn't make sense to me.

[Stinger]

I'll be doing April 16th from 12-1:00.

[UAL747400]

Originally Posted by belliott

I know a couple guys that simply refused to use the laptops provided.... so they used their own while still paying for the universities pos...

good call on the classes... I would rather take a course on the economics of the aviation industry than one that is so freaking boring that you may not even pay attention. My graduation was held up for an addtiontional semester because I didn't have a 3 credit social science elective.... when I had completed over 160 total credits..... just didn't make sense to me.

I bet you could have talked to the dean and received an academic grievance for that. Or did you try that?