Main Courses lect. prac. lab. cr. prerequisite Semester 1 (spring) Applications of optimization [1] 2 1 4 Formal methods [2]

These are some notes for a second-semester algebraic topology course at UC Berkeley which I taught in 2004 and 2005. The topics of the course are: higher homotopy groups and obstruction theory, bundles and characteristic classes, spectral sequences, and Morse theory and applications to differential topology. Disclaimers: These notes are intended as an elementary introduction to selected core id...

This article applied meta-analytic methodology to integrate findings from 22 comparisons of the effectiveness of student-rating feedback at the college level. On the average, feedback had a modest but significant effect on improving instruction. Instructors receiving mid-semester feedback averaged.16 of a rating point higher on end-of-semester overall ratings than did instructors receiving no m...

Active and cooperative learning techniques have been researched extensively and shown to be effective teaching tools. This paper describes how a senior/introductory graduate course in very large scale integration (VLSI) design was adapted to make extensive use of active and cooperative learning techniques. Heterogeneous student teams are formed by the instructor early in the semester. These tea...

We examined discrimination of a second-language (L2) vowel duration contrast in English learners of Japanese (JP) with different amounts of experience using the magnetoencephalography mismatch field (MMF) component. Twelve L2 learners were tested before and after a second semester of college-level JP; half attended a regular rate course and half an accelerated course with more hours per week. R...

The goal of our senior design project was to design and implement an autonomous control system for an indoor blimp. The Coast Guard Academy Electrical and Computer Engineering section is sponsoring this effort to develop a model Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to study the development and implementation of this technology. The information gained from this study will be used to further knowledge o...

AIMS To assess dental students' achieved competencies and perceived satisfaction with their temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and orofacial pain education and to compare these with the results of their final examination in TMD and orofacial pain. METHODS Dental students from two consecutive classes (2011/2012 and 2012/2013) at the Department of Orofacial Pain and Jaw Function at the dental sc...

A three semester, 60-credit course package in the topic of Administrative Data Processing (ADP), offered in 1966 at Stockholm University (SU) and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) is described. The package had an information systems engineering orientation. The first semester focused on datalogical topics, while the second semester focused on the infological topics. The third semester aim...