[Phys-L] Re: Maximum Physics Lab Enrollment

[Roger Haar <haar@PHYSICS.ARIZONA.EDU>]

HI
        At the University of Arizona's Physics
Department, our lab enrollment cap is 22, but this
limit exists in part because the rooms are a bit
small and the often we only have 11 sets of
working equipment.

        In our smaller rooms, if a TA has overloaded
his/her section to 23 or 24, I can usually feel
the crowding right at the door.

Sincerely,
 Roger Haar

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> Our school is in the design phase for a new science
> building and one issue is the maximum student
> enrollment for labs.  Currently, we have a maximum
> enrollment of eighteen students per instructor in our
> physics and chemistry labs with biology labs ranging
> from eighteen to twenty-four students per instructor
> depending on the course.  Administration wants all
> labs to be at a maximum enrollment of twenty-four
> students per instructor.
>
> What is your maximum student to instructor enrollment
> ratio for first year physics labs?  Here, instructor
> could be a faculty member and/or a TA.
>
> I'll start with my school, Minneapolis Community &
> Technical College.  Please add to the table.
>
> School and student to instructor ratio.
>
> Minneapolis Community & Technical College  18/1
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Carlson
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