Coaching Questions Group 11

To help your group and the teachers prepare for the tutor meetings, we would like you to answer a few questions in between sessions. The following paragraphs list the questions for each of the weeks, please write you answers directly underneath the questions.

After the kick-off - Week 1

• What are you expecting to learn during the Robots course?

Learning how to set up a completely self-created project, without a handbook helping step after step.

• What kind of coaching do you expect?

We expect the coaches to indicate to us whether we are doing enough work on the project and if we are going in the right direction. Also, we see the coaching as an opportunity to ask questions about issues we can't figure out ourselves

• What kind of coaching would you prefer?

We prefer the coaching as a meeting in which we get to know from the coaches on how we are doing in the project and what we could improve.

• What will the coaches expect of you?

The coaches will expect from us that we put enough effort in the project and that we come with concrete questions if necessary.

After the first tutor meeting - Week 2

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

We learned that we had to specify our case, which made us think about the course in a new way.

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

We completely revised our problem statement and deliverables.

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

We set up a list of RPCs and did a new literature study on our specific case.

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

We looked up sources, wrote RPCs and made up some first concepts.

After the second tutor meeting - Week 3

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

That we need to be very specific in defining our problem, design requirements en planning

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

We created a clear overview of the work that needs to be done, and we defined concepts and updated the RPC's.

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

We made concepts of possible designs and picked one as the optimal solution.

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

We had several meetings to dicus the RPC's and concepts we made outside the meeting

After the third tutor meeting - Week 4

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

After the fourth tutor meeting - Week 5

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

After the fifth tutor meeting - Week 6

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

After the final presentation - Week 7

• What are the major steps of the project? Please list

• What is the most important thing you learned in this project? (e.g .about design or working in groups, etc)

• What do you wish you had spent more time on or done differently?

• What was the most enjoyable part of this project? Please explain why

• What was the least enjoyable part of this project? Please explain why