The material reflects the stylistic variety that advanced learners have to be able to deal with. The course gives practice in specific of grammar to consolidate and extend learners existing knowledge. Analysis of syntax; comprehension; Skimming and scanning exercises develop listening, learner's skills; comprehension question interpretation and implication. The activities and games used develop listening speaking and writing skills through a communicative, functional approach, with suggested topics for discussion and exercises in summary writing and composition .
Introduction to natural language processing, different levels of language analysis. Linguistic background, words, verbs and phrases. Grammar and parsing, sentence structure, top-down and bottom up charts, finite state models. Feature and augmented grammar, morphological analysis, parsing with features. Auxiliary verbs, relative clauses. Human preference in parsing, deterministic parser and efficient encoding of ambiguity, statistical methods for ambiguity resolution, Arabic/English semantics and logical forms. Linking syntax and semantic interpretation using feature unification. Ambiguity resolution using selectional restrictions. Different strategies for Arabic/English semantics interpretation and reasoning frames. Hybrid knowledge representation using knowledge about action and causality. Symbolic computation, symbol data structure, matching, search and unification algorithms. Speech processing and recognition.
Perception, learning, motivation and value; individual differences and work performance; understanding yourself; motivating yourself and others, working within groups, achieving success through goal setting, achieving high personal productivity and quality; achieving rewarding and satisfying career; communicating. With people; leading and influencing others; building relationships with supervisors, co-workers and customers.
Management concepts, levels and types of management, characteristics of successful management, the planning process, setting organization objectives and goals, organization, people and production, decision making, fundamentals of control, control techniques and methods of human resources-management, role of purchasing and materials management in business.
Pre-calculus review. Sets. Real-valued function. The continuity and the differentiability of a real function. Techniques of differentiation. Derivatives of the trigonometric functions. Implicit differentiation. Linear approximations and differentials. Applications of the derivative: Extreme of functions, optimization problems, velocity and acceleration. Integrals: Indefinite integrals, change of variables, definite integrals, the fundamental theorem of calculus, numerical integration. Applications of definite integrals: Areas, solids of revolution, arc length and surfaces of revolution, work, moments and centers of mass. Transcendental functions: Derivative of inverse function, natural logarithm function, exponential functions, inverse trigonometric functions, hyperbolic and inverse hyperbolic functions, indeterminate forms and rule.
Techniques of integration: Integration by parts, trigonometric integrals and substitutions, integrals of rational functions, quadratic expressions, tables of integrals, improper integrals. Infinite series: Sequences, convergent or divergent series, positive-term series (basic comparison test, limit comparison test, ratio and root tests), alternating series and absolute convergence, power series, power series representations of functions, Maclaurin and Taylor series, applications of Taylor polynomials. Differential equations: Definition, classifications and terminology, techniques of solution of ordinary first-order first-degree differential equations (separable, reducible to separable, homogeneous, reducible to homogeneous, linear, reducible to linear, exact differential, nonexact differential-integrating factor), applications.
Mechanics: physics and measurements, motion in one dimension, vectors, motion in two dimensions, laws of motion, circular motion and its applications, work and energy, potential energy and conservation of energy, linear momentum and collision, rotation of a rigid body, rolling motion, law of gravity. Waves: Oscillatory motion, wave motion, sound waves.
Optics: Superposition of waves, interference, diffraction and polarization. Electricity and magnetism: electric field, Gausss law, magnetic field, sources of magnetic field and Faradys law, electromagnetic waves.Selected topics: Introduction to modern physics and applications, molecules and solids, superconductivity.
Electronic components and basic laws. Principles of circuit-analysis: Dividers, equivalent sources, methods of solutions, circuits with nonlinear resistance, maximum power-transfer, sinusoidal excitation and impedance concept, magnitude and phase-shift of RLC circuits. Frequency response of linear circuits, passive filter types and characteristics. Diode-circuits: half and full-wave rectifiers, Zener regulators and limiters. Transistor circuits: BJT characteristics, types, basic configuration, biasing and load line, equivalent circuits, voltage gain, input and output impedance, coupling, practical circuits, FET circuits: Characteristics, types, basic configuration, switching modes. Operational amplifiers: Principles, basic circuits: adder, follower, differentiator, integrator, comparator, schmitt-circuit, special circuits. Active filters: types, characteristics. Oscillators: Relaxation, feedback, RC, LC, and Voltage controlled oscillators. Display elements: Light-emitting-diodes, liquid-crystal displays, and cathode-ray tubes.
