MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Admission Admission to the program as a regular student requires a BS degree in Engineering. Students with a degree in computer science or engineering can be admitted provisionally and must take certain undergraduate courses to pave the way for graduate work. Undergraduate degrees must be from an accredited program, and for regular admission must be with an ave...

Data was collected on technology-related issues involved in the conversion of a teacher preparation program into an online, competency, and field-based model. Faculty issues involving instructional design, workload, and merit/tenure were examined, as well as the effects of webbased course delivery on student and faculty interaction, competency acquisition, technology proficiency, and learning o...

Thirty healthy male volunteers were used in this double blind trial. Two kinds of iron preparation and a placebo tablet containing no iron salt were used. The subjects were given one three times a day after meals in courses of 21 tablets. Stools collected before and after administration of the tablets were subjected to a benzidine test (Thornton and Illingworth, 1955). The results showed that b...

Genetic nurses and counsellors work as part of the professional team providing clinical genetic services from regional centres in the United Kingdom. The education and training needs of genetic nurses and counsellors have not previously been formally identified. The guidelines presented have been devised to equip practitioners to fulfil their professional role as defined in a previous study, by...

An international course in Family Medicine has been held annually in Slovenia for the past 7 years. This paper describes the philosophy, content and methods of the course and discusses its impact. The course is centred around the preparation of a teaching module exploring the central themes of Family Medicine. Course methods include individual assignments prior to the course, keynote lectures t...

As the number of e-learning courses grows at institutions, the academic experience changes for an increasing number of instructors and students. Both groups must adapt as the institutional support processes evolve. Course preparation might entail, for example, learning a new software application to convey a concept more effectively; students may express their learning efforts via text, audio, o...

The broad aim of this symposium and set of associated papers is to motivate the use of inquiry-based, active-learning teaching techniques in undergraduate quantitative biology courses. Practical information, resources, and ready-to-use classroom exercises relevant to physicists, mathematicians, biologists, and engineers are presented. These resources can be used to address the lack of preparati...

Individual submission of programming assignments should be considered in all introductory programming courses. We describe a custom web support system for submission and management of programming assignments in an introductory C programming course. Experience from the first time use of the system is reported. In addition, we compare the pattern of use with the results of the final exam in order...

The mStar environment for distributed education utilizes the WWW and IPmulticast to enable teacher-student collaboration over large geographic distances. Several educational projects, spanning from secondary school courses to company internal training, have deployed the mStar environment. This paper reports on experiences gained over a year of practice at the Luleå University of Technology and ...