Premier Courseware of 2005
Late October 2005, the Premier Courseware of 2005 were announced at the 2005 Frontiers in Education at an awards ceremony sponsored by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Biological Information Handling: Essentials for Engineers
By Mary Lidstrom, Cate Speake, David Farkas, Alicia Ann McBride, Patricia Kirkham and Quan Zhou of the University of Washington, and Marc Hoffman and Bob Lindenmayer of Poison Dart Frog Media.
Biological Information Handling: Essentials for Engineers enables engineering students to acquire the language and understand the most fundamental of all biological processes, those involved in information transfer of the cell (replication, transcription, and translation). The Biological Information Handling is a self-paced, interactive independent study tutorial that teaches the fundamentals of information transfer in biology to engineers from an engineering perspective. It has been used as a curricular supplement to introductory bioengineering courses in chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering.
Pyro: Python Robotics
By Doug Blank and Deepak Kumar of Bryn Mawr College, Lisa Meeden of Swarthmore College and Holly Yanco of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
Pyro is a Python-based robotics programming environment that enables students to explore topics in robotics and artificial intelligence. Programming robot behaviors in Pyro is akin to programming in a high-level general purpose programming language; Pyro provides abstractions for low-level robot-specific features so that a single program can run on many different types of robots. The Pyro project consists of the software as well as a set of curriculum modules that can be assembled to teach a variety of courses.
Obtaining Copies of the Premier Courseware of 2005
To obtain a complimentary copy of the Premier Courseware of 2005 on CD,
please click here.
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