Daily Bulletin

Thursday, August 7, 1997

Something else to do in your pyjamas

Designed to give a head start to students facing co-op interviews for the first time this fall or winter, the course will be run with online conference groups composed of six students and a "trained resume expert/online facilitator". Each group member will be required to play an active role by posting a resume and giving feedback on the work of others. Reference materials will be provided online.

Why disrupt your summer holidays with a course? According to the co-op department:

• A strong resume is your ticket to co-op interviews.
• Be prepared before you come on campus so that you will have one less thing to do in September.
• Seven brains are better than one.
• Experience the online learning medium.
• You can do the assignments from your own convenient location at times you choose.

Eligible co-op students must have an email address, access to the Web with a current Web browser, and be willing to commit an average of an hour or two daily during the term of the course. The deadline for registration is Friday, August 8, and enrolment is limited to the first 84 students. For more information, phone ext. 2009.

PhD theses announced

Management Science. Ekachidd Chungcharoen, "Economic Analysis of Hydrocarbon Exploration by Simulation with Geological Uncertainties". Supervisor, Dr. J.D. Fuller. Thesis on deposit in the Engineering Graduate Studies Office, CPH 4367, and available for perusal and may be signed out overnight until August 25; oral defence date to be announced.

Biology. Rosemarie Catherine Ganassin, "The Development of In Vitro Techniques to Facilitate the Study of Hemopoiesis in the Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)". Supervisor, Dr. N.C. Bols. Thesis on deposit in the Faculty of Science Graduate Office, ESC 254A, and available for perusal until August 26; oral defence to be held Friday, August 29 at 3 p.m. in C2 361.

Electrical and Computer Engineering. Tony Savor, "Automatic Detection of Software Failures with Hierarchical Supervisors". Supervisors, Dr. R.E. Seviora and Dr. P.P. Dasiewicz. Thesis on deposit in the Engineering Graduate Studies Office, CPH 4367, and available for perusal and may be signed out overnight until August 26; oral defence date to be announced.

Mechanical Engineering. Andrew Warkentin, "Multi-Point Machining of Sculptured Surfaces". Supervisors, Dr. F. Ismail and Dr. S. Bedi. Thesis on deposit in the Engineering Graduate Studies Office, CPH 4367, and available for perusal and may be signed out overnight until August 27; oral defence date to be announced.

Systems Design Engineering. Seyed Jafar Sadjadi, "Nonlinear Programming Using an Expanded Lagrangian Function". Supervisor, Dr. K. Ponnambalam. Thesis on deposit in the Engineering Graduate Studies Office, CPH 4367, and available for perusal and may be signed out overnight until August 28; oral defence date to be announced.

Management Sciences. Joseph Nalukulu Khamalah, "An a priori Resource-Based Classification Methodology for Specialty/Secondary Ambulatory Patients". Supervisor, Dr. D.M. Dilts. Thesis on deposit for perusal and may be signed out overnight until August 29; oral defence date to be announced.

Health Studies and Gerontology. Paul McDonald, "Enhancing the Dissemination of Population Based Smoking Cessation Programs: A Study of Selected Communication Variables". Supervisor, Dr. Roy Cameron. Thesis on deposit in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, BMH 3120, and available for perusal until September 4; oral defence to be held Friday, September 5 at 10 a.m. in BMH 3119.

Statistics and Actuarial Science. Matthias Schonlau, "Computer Experiments and Global Optimization". Supervisor, Dr. W.J. Welch. Thesis on deposit in the Mathematics Faculty Graduate Office, MC 5090, and available for perusal and may be signed out overnight until September 12; oral defence to be held Friday, September 12 at 1:30 p.m. in MC 5136.

Statistics and Actuarial Science. Lin Yuan, "Bayesian Nonparametric Survival Analysis". Supervisor, Dr. J.D. Kalbfleisch. Thesis on deposit in the Mathematics Faculty Graduate Office, MC 5090, and available for perusal and may be signed out overnight until September 12; oral defence to be held Friday, September 12 at 2 p.m. in MC 5136B.

Computer Science. Weiye Zhang, "Improving the Performance of Concurrent Sorts in Database Systems". Supervisors, Dr. P.A. Larson and Dr. J.I Munro. Thesis on deposit in the Mathematics Faculty Graduate Office, MC 5090, and available for perusal and may be signed out overnight until September 15; oral defence to be held Monday, September 15 at 1:30 p.m. in DC 1304.

Waterloo Web site of the day

There's a certain irony -- and a certain convenience -- in learning an ancient language through a modern technology. Ecce, Latin lessons on the World Wide Web, as devised by Lucinda Neuru and Len Curchin of UW's classical studies department, and put in place by Carl Hennig of the language laboratory, as "the computer component of Latin 100".

Says Hennig:

The lesson pages currently exist primarily as a showcase of computer based learning on the web using existing programmes. The idea is to present to students the same or similar material they would encounter when attending a scheduled computer lab. This is not distance education. No supplementary teaching material is provided. We are presently assuming the students have attended classes.

The future of the web site is toward distance education. To that end we are acquiring professional level authoring tools designed to deliver content via the WWW. One of our goals is to be able to use the same lessons on both the web and our computer lab. Hopefully reducing development time and redundancy. As a matter of fact, we see no reason why we cannot use a web browser to deliver the lessons to students in the computer lab.

I wrote the lessons in Microsoft Visual Basic and installed them on our Watstar server. The lessons are small modules and self contained, but required a runtime module to be downloaded before the programmes are run for the first time. The lessons have been designed to be used "off-line" and I encourage users to collect all of the lessons and run them as often as desired.

Barbara Elve
bmelve@nh4.adm.uwaterloo.ca

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