STUDT TOUR AT IIT WORK SHEETS Learning and experiencing

PREFACE: Briefing of work sheets

z These work sheets included all of knowledge about nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace for students who participate in the trip of STUDY TOUR AT IIT.

HOW TO USE THESE WORK SHEETS?

z Using these work sheets as information resources day by day and step by step.

跟著行程一邊練習你的作業單。

z You can get useful information about visiting trips and obtain further detail knowledge from these work sheets.

從這本學習單，你可以得到額外的資訊和更進一步的知識關於旅遊行程。

z It will be helpful if you pre‐study the information every day. Or you can pre study before the day beginning.

每天閱讀書本的資訊內容，加深你對這些知識的瞭解。

z Electrical dictionary will be required and helpful with these work sheets.

此本學習單將需要使用到電子辭典，遇到不會的單字可以查詢幫助記憶。

z Don’t be afraid of reading English information, the more you read, the more you will find interesting knowledge and information included on it.

不要害怕嚐試去瞭解英文的訊息。閱讀越多，越發現更多更有趣的資訊喔!!

z After daily visiting, combine what you have pre learned and with these work sheets will impress your understanding on this trip.

在每天參觀過後，結合今日所學與作業單裡的書面訊息做結合，加深對參訪的地方的瞭解。

z Don’t forget to finish the questions below after you have read the Chinese or English articles.

The answer could be from Chinese or English article. You can write answer in Chinese or English.

不要忘記讀完每日資料後，下方有題目可以測驗是否瞭解並深入內容。你可用英文或中文作答。答案在中文或英文的文章內可以找到，注意劃線的部份。

z You can discuss the questions with your friends and partner, try to brainstorm together and get conclusion.

你可以和你認識的新朋友或夥伴一起討論答案，腦力激盪一起想出結論。

z If you have further questions to ask, please ask teacher without hesitation, he/she will assist you to work out your enquiries.

如果你有任何不懂的資訊，可以問我們的課堂老師，請老師幫助你一起做答。

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◎哈佛大學 Harvard University

Harvard is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country. Harvard's history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

Harvard was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard. Although it was never formally affiliated with a church, the college primarily trained Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy. Harvard's curriculum and students became increasingly secular throughout the 18th century and by the 19th century had emerged as the central cultural establishment among Boston elites. Following the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's forty year tenure (1869–1909) transformed the college and affiliated professional schools into a centralized research university, and Harvard became a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900. James Bryant Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with Radcliffe College. Drew Gilpin Faust was elected the 28th president in 2007 and is the first woman to lead the university. Harvard has the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world, standing at $27.4 billion as of September 2010.

The university comprises eleven separate academic units — ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study — with campuses throughout the Boston metropolitan area. Harvard's 210‐acre (85 ha) main campus is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, approximately 3.4 miles (5.5 km) northwest of downtown Boston. The business school and athletics facilities, including Harvard Stadium, are located across the Charles River in Allston and the medical, dental, and public health schools are located in the Longwood Medical Area.

As of 2010, Harvard employs about 2,100 faculty to teach and advise approximately 6,700 undergraduates (Harvard College) and 14,500 graduate and professional students. Eight U.S. Presidents have graduated from Harvard and 75 Nobel Laureates have been affiliated with the university as students, faculty, or staff.

Harvard is also the alma mater of sixty‐two living billionaires, the most in the country. The Harvard University Library is the largest academic library in the United States, and the second largest library in the country.

The Harvard Crimson competes in 41 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division I Ivy League. Harvard has an intense athletic rivalry with Yale University traditionally culminating in The Game, although the Harvard–Yale Regatta predates the football game.

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◎哈佛大學 Harvard University-Rankings

Harvard's undergraduate program is ranked first among "National Universities" by U.S. News & World Report and eighth by Forbes The university is ranked ninth nationally by The Washington Monthly.

Internationally, Harvard is ranked first in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and second in the QS World University Rankings. When the two lists were published in partnership between 2004 and 2009 as the Times Higher Education‐QS World University Rankings, Harvard was ranked first each year.

Harvard is ranked first by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), a position it has held since the first ARWU rankings were released in 2003. In its individual subject tables, ARWU ranked Harvard first in natural sciences and mathematics, life and agricultural sciences, clinical medicine and pharmacy, social sciences, and 42nd in engineering/technology and computer sciences. In individual fields in 2010, Harvard is ranked first in Physics and Economics/Business, second in Chemistry, third in Mathematics, and ninth in Computer Science in the world.

In the 2009 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report, Harvard was ranked first in North America.

In 2010, according to University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP), Harvard is the best overall university in the world.

In 2010 Harvard University was, for its excellence in co‐operation projects with the corporate world globally and especially in the US, chosen to be a part of the BBNM Group. They are currently represented among the BBNM Member schools.

◎哈佛大學 Harvard University-Colonial

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Harvard was founded in 1636 by vote of the Great and General

Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, making it the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Initially called

"New College" or "the college at New Towne", the institution was renamed Harvard College on March 13, 1639. It was named after John Harvard, a young English clergyman from Southwark, London, an alumnus of the University of Cambridge (after which Cambridge, Massachusetts is named), who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and £779 pounds sterling, which was half of his estate. The charter creating the corporation of Harvard College came in 1650. In the early years, the College trained many Puritan ministers.

The college offered a classic academic course based on the English university model—many leaders in the colony had attended Cambridge University—but one consistent with the prevailing Puritan

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philosophy. The College was never affiliated with any particular denomination, but many of its earliest graduates went on to become clergymen in Congregational and Unitarian churches throughout New England. An early brochure, published in 1643, justified the College's existence: "To advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery to the Churche".

The leading Boston divine Increase Mather served as president from 1685 to 1701. In 1708, John Leverett became the first president who was not also a clergyman, which marked a turning of the College toward intellectual independence from Puritanism.

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