1 Edward F. Crawley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, 33-207, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 Abstract  This paper details how a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology identified and codified a set of goals for engineering education, which can serve as the basis for curricular improvement and outcome based assessment. The res...

We present a decentralized, behavior-based approach to assembling and maintaining robot formations. Our approach dynamically grows formations from single robots into line segments and ultimately larger and more complex formations. Formation growth occurs by negotiation when robots are in close proximity. The approach has been validated using simulation as well as experiments with physical robot...

The increasing bureaucratisation of the New South Wales [NSW] Board of Studies [BOS], the statutory body responsible for curriculum determination in NSW, has led to a tightening of curricular controls and the further marginalisation of teacher participation in curriculum decision-making processes. The prevalence of acontextual mandated curriculum change initiatives compromises teacher professio...

Public attitudes toward animal welfare have improved with growing social affluence, and veterinarians are increasingly expected to be informed about animal welfare in a broader sense than health alone. However, animal welfare has not been a traditional component of the veterinary curriculum. To help address this lack, the World Society for the Protection of Animals(WSPA) and the University of B...

Recall that a homeomorphism is a continuous bijection with a continuous inverse. Definition 1.1. Let U be a domain in R. Consider vector fields X,Y ∈ X(U) with flows F , F : I × U → U , where I is an open interval in R such that 0 ∈ I. The dynamics of X and Y is said to be C-equivalent if there exists a homeomorphism φ : U → U with the following property: for all t ∈ I there exists a t′ ∈ I suc...

BACKGROUND The acquisition of new knowledge is a primary goal of residency training. Retrieving and retaining influential primary and secondary medical literature can be challenging for house officers. We set out to investigate the effect of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) drive loaded with landmark scientific articles on housestaff education in a pilot study. METHODS We created a USB syllabus t...

This paper introduces a number theoretical and practical issues related to the “Syllabus”. Syllabus is a multi-lingua ontology based tool, designed to improve the applications of the European Directives in the various European countries.