翻译：王龙(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：2003年九月
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 2003年九月号内容：
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麻省理工学院将于2003年9月发布500门课程，正式启动麻省理工开放式课程项目。在7、8、9这几个月中，我们将采用“滚动”发布时间表，以周为单位分批发布新课程到项目网站上。
本月我们很高兴又提供50门新的课程，如下表所示：
机械工程
2.27: 2002春季课程：扰动的流动与传输
2.875: 在?品发展中机械组装与其所扮演的角色
2.971: 设计动手做
3.00: 2002年秋季课程：材料热力学
3.91J: 塑料的机械行为
电机工程与计算机科学
6.013: 2002秋季课程：电磁学与应用
6.035: 2002秋季课程：计算机语言工程
6.345: 自动语音辨识
6.823: 计算机系统结构
6.824: 2002秋季课程：分散式计算机系统
6.867: 机器学习
6.976: 高速通讯网络与系统
6.977: 光电半导体：理论与设计
物理学
8.05: 量子物理 II
8.06: 量子物理 III
8.231: 固态物理 I
8.251: 超弦理论
8.513: 2002年秋季课程，浓缩物体系统的多体理论
都市研究与计划
11.128 资讯科技和劳动市场
11.364: 国际环境协商
地球、大气与行星科学
12.620J: 古典力学：计算机运算取向
经济学
14.02: 宏观经济学原理
14.06: 中级宏观经济学理论
14.12: 2002秋季课程：博奕论的经济应用
14.128: 动态最优化与经济应用(递回法)
14.41: 公共经济学
14.453: 2002秋季课程：宏观经济学理论
史隆管理学院
15.279: 管理沟通
15.343: 管理工作、组织、社会变革
15.433: 投资学
15.821: 倾听客户
15.822: 策略营销的评估
15.834: 营销策略
政治学
17.01J: 2002秋季课程：正义
17.537:当代日本的政治和政策
外语和文学
21F.704: 西班牙语 4
21F.711: 进阶西语对话与写作
21H.346: 法国大革命
21H.418: 公元1450年到2000年的印刷科技
21L.704: 诗歌研究：“诗歌重要吗？”
写作和人文学科
21W.730-1: 撰写说明文：自传-理论与实务
医学科学与技术
HST.176: 细胞和分子免疫学
HST.730: 听觉系统的分子生物学
媒体艺术和科学
MAS.863: 如何制造（几乎）一切
想获取完整的麻省理工开放式课程课程列表，请访问完整课程列表。往后可在由麻省理工开放式课程计划负责更新的电子报中获得新课程的消息。
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我们希望全世界的教师将能利用麻省理工开放式课程网站提供的课程资源进行课程开发，自学者可以用来自学或其他辅助用途。
随着我们不断努力，网站将在2003年9月发布总数达500门课程，麻省理工开放式课程的员工将非常关注项目网站的评估和测量。我们将尝试回答这些问题：网站的课程资源访问情形怎样？人们是怎样使用这些资源的？麻省理工开放式课程项目产生的影响是什么？教师们能改编麻省理工开放式课程课程资源用于自己的教学吗？
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The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: September 2003
A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The September 2003 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. New Courses Bring Total to 262
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The official "launch" of MIT OpenCourseWare, with the publication of approximately 500 courses, is now just two weeks away. However, over the course of the summer, we have employed a rolling publication schedule, releasing batches of new courses to the public site on a weekly basis.
This issue of the newsletter, we are pleased to highlight the course materials from 50 new MIT subjects, including:
Mechanical Engineering
2.27: Turbulent Flow and Transport
2.875: Mechanical Assembly and Its Role in Product Development
2.971: Second Summer Introduction to Design
3.00: Thermodynamics of Materials, Fall 2002
3.91J: Mechanical Behavior of Plastics
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
6.013: Electromagnetics and Applications, Fall 2002
6.035: Computer Language Engineering, Fall 2002
6.345: Automatic Speech Recognition
6.823: Computer System Architecture
6.824: Distributed Computer Systems, Fall 2002
6.867: Machine Learning
6.976: High-Speed Communication Circuits and Systems
6.977: Semiconductor Optoelectronics: Theory and Design
Physics
8.05: Quantum Physics II
8.06: Quantum Physics III
8.231: Physics of Solids I
8.251: String Theory for Undergraduates
8.513: Many-Body Theory for Condensed Matter Systems, Fall 2002
Brain and Cognitive Sciences
9.10: Cognitive Neuroscience
Urban Studies and Planning
11.128 Information Technology and the Labor Market
11.364: International Environmental Negotiation
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
12.620J: Classical Mechanics: A Computational Approach
Ocean Engineering
13.012: Hydrodynamics for Ocean Engineering
Economics
14.02: Principles of Macroeconomics
14.06: Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
14.12: Economic Applications of Game Theory, Fall 2002
14.128: Dynamic Optimization & Economic Applications (Recursive Methods)
14.41: Public Economics
14.453: Macroeconomic Theory III, Fall 2002
Sloan School of Management
15.279: Management Communication for Undergraduates
15.343: Managing Transformations in Work, Organizations, and Society
15.433: Investments
15.821: Listening to the Customer
15.822: Strategic Marketing Measurement
15.834: Marketing Strategy
Political Science
17.01J: Justice, Fall 2002
17.537: Politics and Policy in Contemporary Japan
Anthropology
21A.215: Medical Anthropology
Foreign Languages & Literatures
21F.704: Spanish 4
21F.711: Advanced Spanish Conversation & Composition: Perspectives on Technology and Culture
History
21H.223: War & American Society
21H.346: The French Revolution
21H.418: Technologies of Word 1450-2000, Fall 2002
21L.704: Studies in Poetry: "Does Poetry Matter"
Writing and Humanistic Studies
21W.730-1: Expository Writing: Exploring Social and Ethical Issues through Film and Print
Nuclear Engineering
22.105: Electromagnetic Interactions
Engineering Systems Division
ESD.140: Organizational Processes
Health Sciences and Technology
HST.176: Cellular and Molecular Immunology
HST.730: Molecular Biology for the Auditory System
Media Arts and Sciences
MAS.863: How to Make (Almost) Anything
For a complete list of all MIT OCW offerings, visit the complete course list. Look for notice of new courses in subsequent issues of "The MIT OpenCourseWare Update" email newsletter.
2. How You Are Using MIT OCW?
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The hope is that educators around the world will be able to utilize the course materials presented on the MIT OCW Web site for curriculum development, and self-learners will be able to draw upon the materials for self-study or supplementary use.
As we move forward to the publication of the course materials from 500 more MIT subjects at the end of this month, the staff of MIT OCW is focused on evaluation and measurement of the MIT OCW Web site. We are trying to answer such questions as: How accessible are the MIT OCW course materials? How are people using the materials? What is the impact of MIT OCW? Are educators able to adapt MIT OCW materials for their own teaching?
We would like to ask you to share your story with us for the purposes of developing user profiles, we will interview you and post your photo on the MIT OCW Web site. Please contact Jon Paul Potts, the MIT OCW Communications Manager, at jpotts@mit.edu, if you would like to tell us about yourself.
3. Digging Deeper: Course 2.875
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Each month, this newsletter offers subscribers an in-depth guide to one particular subject. This month, we delve into Course 2.875: Mechanical Assembly and Its Role in Product Development. MIT Professor Daniel E. Whitney, a senior research scientist at the MIT Center For Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development, presents a systematic approach to design and assembly of mechanical assemblies, which should be of interest to engineering professionals, as well as post-baccalaureate students of mechanical, manufacturing, and industrial engineering.
While much is written about the design and manufacture of individual parts, there is surprisingly little information about how those parts go together into a product that actually does something. This course addresses the following question: What is a competently designed assembly, and how would we know one if we saw one?
Specific objectives for students include understanding a systematic approach to analyzing assembly problems; appreciation of the many ways assembly influences product development and manufacturing; seeing a complete approach that includes technology, systems engineering, and economic analysis; and practicing the systematic process on a semester-long project of their own. The course site offers a complete set of Project Guidelines.
Professor Whitney's Lecture Notes delve into such topics as Assembly in the Small, Design for Assembly, Assembly System Design Software and Discrete Event Simulation, and offers students a case study in design for the 767 Horizontal Stabilizer.
4. A Frequently Asked Question
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Q. Will MIT OCW publish 500 courses?
A. With just two weeks left until September 30, we are a little more than half-way to our stated publication goal of 500 courses. The MIT OCW staff is working days, nights, weekends (and every other hour!) to achieve that goal, and it is well within reach. The publication of 500 courses, spanning 33 of MIT's academic disciplines and all five of its schools, will be the culmination of a process that began with the announcement of MIT OCW in April 2001. By offering 500 courses from all of MIT's academic disciplines, MIT OCW will have delivered on the promise of open knowledge sharing in a way that befits MIT's reputation as a leading institute of world-class teaching and research. Stay tuned for the big announcement and 500 courses on September 30!
