翻譯：林海威(簡介並寄信)
修正校定：朱學恒
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麻省理工「開放式課程」計畫更新日期：2004年十月
每月發行給麻省理工「開放式課程」計畫的使用者及夥伴的電子報
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麻省理工開放式課程電子報 2004年十月號內容：
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麻省理工學院Frank Wilczek教授 (Pro. Frank Wilczek) 奪得2004年諾貝爾物理學獎，他在原子核的基本元素 -- 夸克(quark)領域有多采多姿的發現。
Wilczek教授的發現包含夸克之間的關鍵力量，這結果同時也是粒子物理學及其他學科中數個重大問題的關鍵。53歲的Wilczek教授與位於聖塔巴巴拉 (Santa Barbara)的加州大學的David J. Gross教授及加州理工學院之H. David Politzer教授共同分享這130萬美金的獎金。
歡迎閱讀在麻省理工學院「開放式課程」中的這兩門課程：8.325 – 相對量子場理論 III，此課程直接反應出威爾薩克奪得諾貝爾物理學獎的發現。8.012 - 物理學I，這是一門物理學的入門課程，包括了基礎力學、牛頓定律、動量概念、能量、角動量、剛體運動、與非慣性系統。
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麻省理工學院開放式課程的網站上可自由取閱 914 種課程，包括麻省理工學院的五大學院課程，共三十三種不同學科：建築與規劃學院、工程學院、理學院、人文、藝術與社會科學院、以及史隆管理學院。在九百門課程的數量之中，使用者常問「麻省理工學院開放式課程究竟有多少內容」？
麻省理工學院開放式課程是一內容豐富、總容量超過 48 Gb 的網站，提供 14,717 個 HTML 格式網頁、15,640 個不同的 PDF 文件檔案、與 16,078 個影像檔，共有 55,171 個檔案可提供給本網站之全球使用者使用。所有的這些文件檔案都是透過麻省理工學院 563 名教師慷慨相授，他們其中有許多人並且承諾加入我們未來持續出版的流程。
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麻省理工學院開放式課程的網站上可自由取閱 914 種課程，其中包含麻省理工學院航太工程科系最著名的課程之一：課號16.01-04：統合工程 I、II、 III、 IV。
此個富有挑戰性的課程是麻省理工學院航太工程學系二年級學生之主修惡夢，其內容包括材料與結構原理、電腦程式設計、流體力學、熱力學、推進力學、訊號與系統學、系統與實驗學，一整年的課程有效完整的介紹航太工程的系統性特色。此課程也是至目前為止麻省理工學院開放式課程內容最多的課程。這些課程的公開對麻省理工學院開放式課程計畫來說也是跨出了一大步，更是對麻省理工學院航太工程學系可將其獨步全球的教學方式公開分享的難得機會。
航太工程學系系主任Wesley L. Harris教授指出：「統合工程是航太工程學系大學部的代表性課程，也包含了麻省理工學院航太工程教育的本質」。並說「此次讓我們有機會透過開放式課程公開統合工程課程不僅使使用者受惠更多，也讓參與這門課程教學的教職員收穫，更讓本系以外或本校之外的其他人受惠。再我們的教師可以如此輕易的獲得這些資訊之後，我們更有機會持續改善統合工程課程。」
新課程網站比麻省理工學院傳統的一學期之教材要多出4倍，約有 1500個不同檔案，包括Charles Coleman教授與Ian Waitz教授的錄影課程介紹、統合工程概念之課成講義、以及該學期航空設計專題競賽的錄影。在春季課程間，系統設計問題多半都和當學期的航空設計競賽有關。每組 4 到 5 名學員共同設計出一航空器以期奪得最高分數。為了將航空器最佳化，每一組需在載重量、持久力、機動性、與耐久性之間取捨，這些考量點隨著每次競賽的目標而有所不同。
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問：我要如何適當的引用麻省理工學院開放式課程的資料？
答：如果您選擇要改寫或是轉載麻省理工學院開放式課程資料，你必須適當的註明資料的出處。請利用下面的聲明：「本資料是由麻省理工學院教員（姓名），（教授），（創作年份）。Copyright © （年份）（教員姓名）」。
舉例來說，若是引用麻省理工學院教授Gibert Strang教導的18.06 2002秋季課程：線性代數，英文的引用說明如下：「This material was created or adapted from material created by MIT faculty member Gilbert Strang, Professor. Copyright © 2002 Gilbert Strang.」
如果你想要在網頁上使用麻省理工學院開放式課程的資料，你就必須包含一份麻省理工學院開放式課程的創作共享授權書，或是清楚、顯而易見的連結到 (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/terms-of-use.htm)，每一份你所使用的麻省理工學院開放式課程和衍生作品都必須要加上這樣的聲明。
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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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