This paper describes how a one-semester advanced-level course can be designed so that the students conduct original research in graphics and visualization. The course aims to produce papers that are acceptable at a peer-reviewed technical conference. I describe my experience teaching such a course in the spring semester of 1996. This report is intended to encourage others who wish to undertake ...

Main Courses lect. prac. lab. cr. prerequisite Semester 1 (autumn) Advanced Programming [1] 2 2 5 Cryptography and Information Security [2] 2 1 4 Modern measurement techniques [3] 2 3 Mathematics for Engineers II [4] 2 2 5 History of the physical and technical science [5] 2 2 Legal, Ethical and Informatics Issues of Personal [6] 2 3 Scientific and technical modeling [7] 2 3 Required facultative...

The objective of the project is to design and run a system to answer Jeopardy questions, similar to Watson. In the course of a semester, we developed an open source question answering system using the Indri, Lucene, Bing and Google search engines, Apache UIMA, OpenNLP, and Weka among many additional modules. By the end of the semester, we achieved 18% accuracy on Jeopardy questions, and work ha...

The benefits to using robots in the artificial intelligence and robotics classrooms are now fairly well established. However, most projects demonstrated so far are fairly simple. In this paper we explore advanced robotics projects that have been (or could be) successfully implemented by undergraduate students in a one-semester or two-semester course. We explore what makes a good undergraduate a...

Main Courses lect. prac. lab. cr. prerequisite Semester 1 (autumn) Advanced Programming [1] 2 2 5 Cryptography and Information Security [2] 2 1 4 Modern measurement techniques [3] 2 3 Mathematics for Engineers II [4] 2 2 5 History of the physical and technical science [5] 2 2 Legal, Ethical and Informatics Issues of Personal [6] 2 3 Scientific and technical modeling [7] 2 3 Required facultative...

Main Courses lect. prac. lab. cr. prerequisite Semester 1 (autumn) Advanced Programming [1] 2 2 5 Cryptography and Information Security [2] 2 1 4 Modern measurement techniques [3] 2 3 Mathematics for Engineers II [4] 2 2 5 History of the physical and technical science [5] 2 2 Legal, Ethical and Informatics Issues of Personal [6] 2 3 Scientific and technical modeling [7] 2 3 Required facultative...

Undergraduate biochemistry laboratory courses often do not provide students with an authentic research experience, particularly when the express purpose of the laboratory is purely instructional. However, an instructional laboratory course that is inquiry- and research-based could simultaneously impart scientific knowledge and foster a student's research expertise and confidence. We have develo...

To make higher education in India more dynamic and responsive to a fast-developing society and its aspirations, there has been widespread recognition of a need for reform. Among the proposed changes, expert committees and the National Knowledge Commission have recommended the introduction of a credits and semester system starting in undergraduate education. Technical institutions and some unive...

Student overconfidence challenges success in introductory biology. This study examined the impact of classroom learning communities and self-assessment on student metacognition and subsequent impact on student epistemological beliefs, behaviors, and learning. Students wrote weekly self-assessments reflecting on the process of learning and received individual feedback. Students completed a learn...