Use of a Business Process Model as a Teaching Tool in an Undergraduate Weather Forecasting Course
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The applied meteorology degree program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s (ERAU) Daytona Beach campus has been in existence since 2000. At the end of the fall 2007 semester, there were 106 undergraduate majors and 35 minors in the program. Forecasting Techniques is a three-credit course. It is the second in a three-course sequence that begins with a five-credit Weather Analysis course (essentially a combination of basic and advanced synoptic meteorology and computer applications), and ends with a capstone course called Weather Operations Seminar, which prepares the students for the different types of career paths that may be chosen upon graduation.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008