Coaching Questions Group 15

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?

• • Performing research to find the current state of art, and expanding from there.

• • Modeling a problem, and applying user expectancies to find a fitting solution.

• • How to learn from published experiences.

• • Working together in an interdisciplinary team.

• What kind of coaching do you expect?

• • Critical questions to guide our process.

• • Help with in-depth technical questions, when necessary.

• • Feedback on our wiki page.

• What kind of coaching would you prefer?

• • Feedback on the feasibility of our plans.

• • We would prefer a hands-off approach as long as we are doing well, but if we are getting off track we would like the coaches to step in.

• What will the coaches expect of you?

• • To work like a professional team

• • To deliver work on time

• • Show initiative

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?

Our proposed problem was not in line with USE principles, and did not have a clear deliverable. Additionally, we were warned that our 'programming challenge' could easily become either a trivial or an almost impossible problem to solve.

These are the most interesting aspects that we took home from the tutor meeting in week 2, since they lead us to mostly redesign and plan our project.

• 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?

We reconsidered our approach and decided to take more time to reorient ourselves, and put the USE aspects first before our solution. We started more research on the exact causes and aspects of the litter problem, and will use this to arrive at an exact user or societal problem which we will attempt to solve.

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

For next week's meeting (week 3), we wish to present our new approach and review it with the tutors.

We have held a meeting, and updated our wiki page accordingly.

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?

The most interesting thing we learned during the coaching meeting was that our schedule incorporated too much literature research and that we should decide sooner rather than later over the exact direction we want to go in, regarding our robot design.

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

Their feedback made us focus more on determining what exactly are we going to design and how, instead of endless literature research.

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

The specifications of the robot, that we will design, have been determined. The design tasks of the robot have been distributed among the members of the group and a small start has been made to these tasks.

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

We will present the specifications of the robot that we will design, along with the planning of who will work on which part of the robot and review this new plan with the tutors.

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