FECS'07: June 27, 2007 Schedule

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6:45am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


SESSION 4-FECS:   STUDIES AND ASSESSMENTS
                  Chair: Dr. GuoQiang (George) Peng, Toronto, Canada
                  June 27, 2007 (Wednesday); 08:00am - 08:40am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 8)

08:00 - 08:20am:  Academic, Industry Collaboration in Undergraduate Software
                  Engineering - A Fifteen Year Perspective
                  James P. Early

08:20 - 08:40am:  Providing Experiential Learning Through Transnational Teamwork
                  Kirsten Wahlstrom, Susan Tyerman, Rebecca Witt, and
                  Kylie Jarrett
                  University of South Australia, Australia


SESSION 5-FECS:   NEW COURSES AND RELATED ISSUES
                  Chairs: Prof. Art Gittleman* and Prof. Andrea De Palma**
                  *California State University, Long Beach, USA
                  **University of Wisconsin-Marshfield, USA
                  June 27, 2007 (Wednesday); 08:40am - 10:00am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 8)

08:40 - 09:00am:  Data Visualization in the High-School Physics Classroom:
                  Pathway to Engineering and Computer Science Careers?
                  David J. Russomanno, Anna Phillips-Lambert, and J. Caleb Goodwin
                  The University of Memphis, USA

09:00 - 09:20am:  Using Visualization to Teach Recursion throughout a Computer
                  Science Curriculum
                  Irena Pevac
                  Central Connecticut State University, USA

09:20 - 09:40am:  Creating a High-Density Computer Enhanced Classroom
                  Troy Kammerdiener
                  Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana, USA

09:40 - 10:00am:  Use of the ispMACH 4A as a Low Cost Teaching Aid of VHDL in an
                  Engineering Curriculum
                  Gerd W. Wostenkuhler and Daren R. Wilcox
                  Southern Polytechnic State University, USA;
                  University of Applied Studies and Research, Germany

10:00 - 10:20am:  BREAK


SESSION 6-FECS:   INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES AND DISTANCE LEARNING
                  Chair: Dr. Cynthia Y. Lester, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, USA
                  June 27, 2007 (Wednesday); 10:20am - 12:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 8)

10:20 - 10:40am:  Teaching Security through Active Learning
                  Blair Taylor and Shiva Azadegan
                  Towson University, USA

10:40 - 11:00am:  Growing the Pipeline: The Influence of Collaborative
                  Learning
                  Cynthia Y. Lester
                  Tuskegee University, USA

11:00 - 11:20am:  Online Education: Teaching the Teachers
                  Michael L. Nelson
                  International College, Florida, USA

11:20 - 11:40am:  Team-Based Project Design of an Autonomous Robot
                  Thomas J. Norrie and John S. Seng
                  California Polytechnic State University, USA

11:40 - 12:00pm:  Using Software Development Cycle to Integrate Software
                  Engineering Principles Throughout The Undergraduate
                  Computer Science Curriculum
                  Rochelle Elva and David Workman

12:00 - 12:20pm:  A Learning Environment in Courses with Team Projects
                  Hassan Pournaghshband and Shahriar Movafaghi

12:20 - 12:40pm:  Shared Syllabus for CS and IS: A Strategy for Common
                  Course Delivery
                  Ying Xie, Solomon Negash, and Tonya Byrd

12:40 - 01:40pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


01:40 - 03:40pm:  During this period, FECS attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to FCS'07, SERP'07, or ICOMP'07.
                  These sessions discuss topics that overlap the scope of FECS.


02:40 - 03:20pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION C-FECS (Refreshments will be available)
                  June 27 (Wednesday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 6-8)

                  O.  Combining Data Mining in Effectiveness of Educational Results
                      Baldev Singh and Hardeep Singh
                      Lyallpur Khalsa College, India
                  O.  Eclipse as an Integrated Platform for Teaching Software
                      Engineering
                      Venkat N Gudivada, Jagadeesh Nandigam, and Rekha Bhowmik
                      Marshall University, USA;  Grand Valley State University, USA;
                      Winston-Salem State University, USA
                  O.  Infusing Critical Thinking Skill Classification into a
                      Software Engineering Course
                      Muhammad Shafique, Kanaan A. Faisal, and M. R. K. Krishna Rao
                      KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
                  O.  Pedagogical Use of a Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) in a
                      Computer Science Curriculum
                      Troy Kammerdiener and Steele Russell
                      Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana, USA
                  O.  Technology News in the Introduction to Computer Science Classroom
                      Andrea De Palma
                      University of Wisconsin-Marshfield Wood County, USA


SESSION 7-FECS:   TEACHING STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES
                  Chair: Prof. Asai Asaithambi
                  Professor & Chair, CS, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA
                  June 27, 2007 (Wednesday); 03:20pm - 05:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 8)

03:20 - 03:40pm:  Collaboratory: An Open Source Teaching and Learning for Computer
                  Science and Engineering Education
                  Jeff Wright, Stefano Carpin, Alberto Cerpa, German Gavilan,
                  Marcelo Kallmann, Cameron Laird, Kyler Laird, Shawn Newsam, and
                  David Noelle

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Design of a Laboratory for an Undergraduate Distributed
                  Systems Course
                  Cristina L. Abad and Carmen K. Vaca
                  Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador

04:00 - 04:20pm:  A Competency-Based Strategy to Support the Writing Skills
                  Development in the Computer Science Curricula
                  Reyes Juarez-Ramirez, Alfredo Cristobal-Salas, Guillermo Licea,
                  and Adriana Nava-Vega
                  Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico

04:20 - 04:40pm:  A Guide for Establishing and Managing a Computer Science
                  Industrial Advisory Board
                  Andre Trudel and Daniel Silver;  Canada

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Soft Skills Development in a Diversified Small Class
                  Huanmei Wu


SESSION 8-FECS:   SESSION: ADVANCEMENTS IN COMPUTING, SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY
                  IN THE GULF
                  Chair: Dr. Jalal Karam, Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait
                  June 27, 2007 (Wednesday); 05:00pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 8)

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Effects of Hall Current on Flow of an Oldroyd 6-constant Fluid
                  Between Concentric Cylinders
                  M. A. Rana, A. M. Siddiqui, and Rashid Qamar

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Automatic Segmentation and Recognition of Arabic Speech
                  Nawrass Abdel Razzak, Mohammad Chami, Jalal Karam, and Maen Artimy
                  Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait

05:40 - 06:00pm:  A New Algorithm for Matching Minutia in Fingerprint Technology
                  Amer Marafie and Munir Mahmood
                  Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait


06:00 - 09:00pm:  FOUR TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  Factor Graphs for Advanced Algorithm Design in Wireless Communications
                  Dr. Henk Wymeersch
                  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 2

                  Data Mining in Time Series and Multimedia Databases
                  Dr. Eamonn Keogh
                  University of California - Riverside, California, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 1

                  Cryptographic Features and Applications in Java (and C++)
                  Prof. Ray Kresman
                  Bowling Green State University, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 4

                  Mobile Terminal Software Architecture - Present and Future
                  S. Vijay Anand
                  General Manager, SASKEN Communication Technologies Limited - CTO Team, India
                  Location: Ballroom 3

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