翻译：林海威(简介并寄信)
修正校定：朱学恒
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麻省理工“开放式课程”计划更新日期：2004年十月
每月发行给麻省理工“开放式课程”计划的使用者及伙伴的电子报
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麻省理工开放式课程电子报 2004年十月号内容：
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麻省理工学院Frank Wilczek教授 (Pro. Frank Wilczek) 夺得2004年诺贝尔物理学奖，他在原子核的基本元素 -- 夸克(quark)领域有多采多姿的发现。
Wilczek教授的发现包含夸克之间的关键力量，这结果同时也是粒子物理学及其他学科中数个重大问题的关键。53岁的Wilczek教授与位于圣塔巴巴拉 (Santa Barbara)的加州大学的David J. Gross教授及加州理工学院之H. David Politzer教授共同分享这130万美金的奖金。
欢迎阅读在麻省理工学院“开放式课程”中的这两门课程：8.325 – 相对量子场理论 III，此课程直接反应出威尔萨克夺得诺贝尔物理学奖的发现。8.012 - 物理学I，这是一门物理学的入门课程，包括了基础力学、牛顿定律、动量概念、能量、角动量、刚体运动、与非惯性系统。
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麻省理工学院开放式课程的网站上可自由取阅 914 种课程，包括麻省理工学院的五大学院课程，共三十三种不同学科：建筑与规划学院、工程学院、理学院、人文、艺术与社会科学院、以及史隆管理学院。在九百门课程的数量之中，使用者常问“麻省理工学院开放式课程究竟有多少内容”？
麻省理工学院开放式课程是一内容丰富、总容量超过 48 Gb 的网站，提供 14,717 个 HTML 格式网页、15,640 个不同的 PDF 文件文件、与 16,078 个影像档，共有 55,171 个文件可提供给本网站之全球使用者使用。所有的这些文件文件都是透过麻省理工学院 563 名教师慷慨相授，他们其中有许多人并且承诺加入我们未来持续出版的流程。
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麻省理工学院开放式课程的网站上可自由取阅 914 种课程，其中包含麻省理工学院航太工程科系最著名的课程之一：课号16.01-04：统合工程 I、II、 III、 IV。
此个富有挑战性的课程是麻省理工学院航太工程学系二年级学生之主修恶梦，其内容包括材料与结构原理、计算机程式设计、流体力学、热力学、推进力学、讯号与系统学、系统与实验学，一整年的课程有效完整的介绍航太工程的系统性特色。此课程也是至目前为止麻省理工学院开放式课程内容最多的课程。这些课程的公开对麻省理工学院开放式课程计划来说也是跨出了一大步，更是对麻省理工学院航太工程学系可将其独步全球的教学方式公开分享的难得机会。
航太工程学系系主任Wesley L. Harris教授指出：“统合工程是航太工程学系大学部的代表性课程，也包含了麻省理工学院航太工程教育的本质”。并说“此次让我们有机会透过开放式课程公开统合工程课程不仅使使用者受惠更多，也让参与这门课程教学的教职员收获，更让本系以外或本校之外的其他人受惠。再我们的教师可以如此轻易的获得这些资讯之后，我们更有机会持续改善统合工程课程。”
新课程网站比麻省理工学院传统的一学期之教材要多出4倍，约有 1500个不同文件，包括Charles Coleman教授与Ian Waitz教授的录影课程介绍、统合工程概念之课成讲义、以及该学期航空设计专题竞赛的录影。在春季课程间，系统设计问题多半都和当学期的航空设计竞赛有关。每组 4 到 5 名学员共同设计出一航空器以期夺得最高分数。为了将航空器最优化，每一组需在载重量、持久力、机动性、与耐久性之间取舍，这些考量点随着每次竞赛的目标而有所不同。
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问：我要如何适当的引用麻省理工学院开放式课程的资料？
答：如果您选择要改写或是转载麻省理工学院开放式课程资料，你必须适当的注明资料的出处。请利用下面的声明：“本资料是由麻省理工学院教员（姓名），（教授），（创作年份）。Copyright © （年份）（教员姓名）”。
举例来说，若是引用麻省理工学院教授Gibert Strang教导的18.06 2002秋季课程：线性代数，英文的引用说明如下：“This material was created or adapted from material created by MIT faculty member Gilbert Strang, Professor. Copyright © 2002 Gilbert Strang.”
如果你想要在网页上使用麻省理工学院开放式课程的资料，你就必须包含一份麻省理工学院开放式课程的创作共享授权书，或是清楚、显而易见的连结到 (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/terms-of-use.htm)，每一份你所使用的麻省理工学院开放式课程和衍生作品都必须要加上这样的声明。
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The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: October 2004
A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The October 2004 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. Nobelist Publishes Two Courses
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MIT Professor Frank Wilczek has won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for a "colorful" discovery in the world of quarks, the building blocks of the atomic nucleus.
Wilczek's work , which involves the dominant -- or "color," force between quarks -- is key to several major problems in particle physics and beyond. Wilczek, 53, shares the prize of about $1.3 million with David J. Gross of the University of California at Santa Barbara, and H. David Politzer of the California Institute of Technology.
Check out his two courses published on MIT OCW: Course 8.325 -- Relativistic Quantum Field Theory III , which directly reflects on the work that won Wilczek the Nobel Prize, and Course 8.012 -- Physics I , an introductory physics course which presents elementary mechanics, Newton's laws, concepts of momentum, energy, angular momentum, rigid body motion, and non-inertial systems.
2.How Big is the MIT OCW Web Site?
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The MIT OCW Web site now offers free and open access to 914 courses, ranging from 33 academic disciplines and all five of MIT schools -- Architecture and Planning , Engineering, Science, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences , and the Sloan School of Management . With more than 900 courses available, users frequently ask, "Just how much educational content is really available on the MIT OCW Web site?"
MIT OCW is a content-rich Web site that is 48 gigabytes in size; offering courses that contain 14,717 HTML pages, 15,640 unique PDF documents, and 16,078 images -- overall 55,171 total files for use by MIT's global audience. All of this is made available through the generosity of 536 MIT faculty, with many more signed on for future publication cycles.
3.Digging Deeper: Unified Engineering
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The MIT OCW Web site now offers free and open access to 914 courses, including one of the most famous courses from MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Course 16.01-04: Unified Engineering I, II, III, & IV .
The challenging course is the bane of sophomore year for MIT Aero/Astro majors. It combines the disciplines of materials and structures, computer programming, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, propulsion, signals and systems, and systems and labs, into a year-long course designed to introduce the systemic nature of aerospace engineering... And it is by far the biggest course ever published on the MIT OCW site. Its inclusion marks a major publishing milestone for MIT OCW and a unique opportunity for the MIT Department of Aero/Astro to share its pedagogical approach with the world.
"Unified Engineering is the signature course for aero/astro at the undergraduate level and it embodies the essence of aerospace engineering education at MIT," said Professor Wesley L. Harris , the head of the aero/astro department. "The opportunity afforded us to publish Unified through OCW brings benefits to the students, to the faculty involved in the teaching of the materials, and to others outside of the department and beyond MIT. We are better equipped to continuously improve Unified Engineering now that it is so easily accessible to all our faculty."
The new course site features more than four times the volume of educational materials of a typical one-semester MIT course -- about 1,500 different files, including video course introductions by Professors Charles Coleman and Ian Waitz, Lecture Notes on the Unified Concept , and Video Footage of the semester project -- an aerial design contest. During the spring semester, most systems problems relate to the semester's aerial design competition. Teams of four or five students work together to design an aircraft to achieve the highest score. To optimize their system, each team must evaluate trades between payload, endurance, maneuverability and durability, subject to the constraints and objectives of the aerial competition.
Read more about Unified Engineering on the Syllabus Magazine Web site.
4.A Frequently Asked Question
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QUESTION: How do I properly cite my reuse of MIT OCW materials?
ANSWER: If you choose to reuse or repost MIT OCW materials you must give proper attribution to the original MIT faculty author(s). Please utilize the following citation: "This material was created by or adapted from material created by MIT faculty member, (Name), (Title). Copyright © (Year) (Faculty Member's Name)."
As an example, the citation for Course 18.06 Linear Algebra taught by MIT Professor Gilbert Strang would read, "This material was created or adapted from material created by MIT faculty member Gilbert Strang, Professor. Copyright © 2002 Gilbert Strang."
If you want to use the materials on your Web site, you must also include a copy of the MIT OCW Creative Commons license , or clear and reasonable link to its URL ( http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/terms-of-use.htm), with every copy of the MIT materials or the derivative work you create from it.
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