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2.2 WORKSHOPS
ECTS-credit: 15 pts
W1. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(KUL-code: I840)
Lecturer: WYSEURE G.
Contact hours: 60 hrs. of practical
Prerequisites: Elementary calculus
Time and place: 1st semester, 13 sessions of 3 hours each, K.U.Leuven
Course syllabus: Lecture notes available
Evaluation: Evaluation by continuous assessment of the exercises and submitted tasks
Comparable handbook: For Spreadsheet: Orvis W.J., 1996 (2nd edition). Excel for Scientists and Engineers.
Sybex. San Francisco. (ISBN 0-7821-1761-9; 547 pages).
Additional information: WWW-pages: http://www.agr.kuleuven.ac.be/vakken/i840/
Learning objectives:
The learning objective of the workshop is to enable students to effectively use Information and Communication
Technology for Water Resources Engineering. The training on networked PC's aims specificaly at finding
information, electronic communication, solving quantitative problems, reporting and presentation skills etc.
Emphasis is on learning how to tackle problems and find solutions rather than on specific (fastly outdating)
ICT-techniques.
Course description:
The fast evolution in ICT requires a continuous update of the content of the workshop and the hard- soft and
netware tools. Emphasis is on spreadsheet as a example of a software and as a tool for quantitative analysis. A
more detailed training in spreadsheet is preferred above a superficial review of many ICT-tools.
1. Introduction to PC, network, electronic communication and WWW.
2. Integrated offices as general toolbox for texts, databases, spreadsheets, presentations. Special attention to
equation editing in wordprocessing and graphical illustrations in presentations and documents.
3. Spreadsheet as calculation tool for water resource engineering. General principles of spreadsheet, formula's,
used defined functions, graphing, numerical techniques.
4. Editing of Web-pages by WYSIWIG-editors.
5. Illustrations and examples of custom-made programmes and programming (VBA in spreadsheet as an
example). Examples in statistical analysis, CAD etc...
The workshop consists of a combination of time-tabled PC-classes and independently executed tasks. During
the organized PC-classes exercises are solved with a "hands-on" approach and prepare the students for
individual tasks, relevant to Water Resources Engineering and tailored to their options. Each student selects a
relevant subject as a central theme to all tasks. These tasks are solved as supervised self-activity and submitted
for evaluation.
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