Besides imparting knowledge, the other important task dealt with through education is to guide students toward analysing and solving problems by applying the knowledge learned. With computer networks as a compulsory course for students who major in computing, teachers and students must co-operate to cultivate students’ abilities. This cooperation can be substantially improved through reform of ...

PREAMBLE This document is an educational tool designed to assist practitioners in providing appropriate radiologic care for patients. Practice Parameters and Technical Standards are not inflexible rules or requirements of practice and are not intended, nor should they be used, to establish a legal standard of care. For these reasons and those set forth below, the American College of Radiology (...

1 This report contains the MS thesis of the same title written by Lloyd Noronha under the supervision of Eric Hanson, September 1999. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor, Dr. Eric Hanson, for giving me an opportunity to work on this challenging project and also for providing continuous guidance, advice, and support throughout the course of my work. for ...

Some of the challenges of an IT fluency course are to effectively engage students with diverse backgrounds and demonstrate the relevance of the subject matter. In this paper we describe our experience with a course that uses Web 2.0 as an underlying theme to motivate the students, most of whom are non-majors. Students chose applications that they used on a daily basis and conducted research und...

Because many new information systems (IS) projects involve business process reengineering, project managers need the necessary skills to manage organizational change. The purpose of this tutorial is to familiarize the participants with the fundamental principles of project and change management and show how these concepts can be integrated and taught in a graduate level IS course. The tutorial ...

This paper describes a model for implementing on-line learning in engineering education. Relationships between traditional learning strategies and network-enabled engineering education are discussed. The model proposed is based on a World Wide Web implementation that includes presentation materials, on-line conferencing, demonstrations, and interactive capabilities that permit computer-mediated...

In this paper, a new guidance law is designed to improve the performance of a homing missiles guidance system in terminal phase. For this purpose first of all, the two dimensions equations of motion are formulated, then the approximation dynamic of missile control loop is added to these equations which are nonlinear whit unmatched uncertainty. Then, a new adaptive back-stepping method is develo...

In this paper a new nonlinear guidance law with finite time convergence is proposed. The second order integrated guidance and control loop is formulated considering a first order control loop dynamics. By transforming the state equations to the normal form, a finite time stabilizer feedback linearization technique is proposed to guarantee the finite time convergence of the system states to zero...

In missile guidance system, to reduce the interception “miss distance,” it is important to choose a suitable guidance law and navigation constant. This paper investigates and compares the system behavior of guidance laws under different navigation constants. Based on use of the adjoint technique, miss distance sensitivity analyses which consider the system noise, target step maneuver, initial h...

Based on developments in educational psychology from the late 1980s, the authors present a model of an approach to teaching. Students' learning processes were analyzed to determine teacher functions. The learning-oriented teaching (LOT) model aims at following and guiding the learning process. The main characteristics of the model are (1) the components of learning: cognition (what to learn), a...