FECS'07: June 28, 2007 Schedule

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


SESSION 9-FECS:   TEACHING STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES
                  Chairs: Dr. Osamuyimen (Uyi) Stewart* and Dr. Irena Pevac**
                  *IBM Research Labs, New York, USA
                  **Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, USA
                  June 28, 2007 (Thursday); 08:00am - 09:40am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 8)

08:00 - 08:20am:  Knowledge Retention from Introductory CS Courses
                  Anthony Baxter and Paul Piwowarski
                  University of Kentucky, USA

08:20 - 08:40am:  A Games Class Using XNA Game Studio
                  Art Gittleman
                  California Sate University Long Beach, USA

08:40 - 09:00am:  The Semantics of Tracing: Transitivity of Reference
                  Tom M. Warms
                  Penn State University Abington College, USA

09:00 - 09:20am:  Designing Software Engineering Option within Computer Science
                  Bachelor of Science Program
                  Jan Bergandy, Paul Bergstein, Boleslaw Mikolajczak, and Haiping Xu
                  University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA, USA

09:20 - 09:40am:  Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking Skills of Experts and
                  Their Importance in Computer Science Education
                  Dean Bushey and Steve Stevenson
                  Clemson University, USA


SESSION 10-FECS:  STUDIES AND ASSESSMENTS
                  Chairs: Dr. Irena Pevac* and Prof. Asai Asaithambi**
                  *Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, USA
                  **Professor & Chair, CS, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA
                  June 28, 2007 (Thursday); 09:40am - 10:20am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 8)

09:40 - 10:00am:  General Computer Application Knowledge: Is There a Difference
                  Between the Genders?
                  Laurie J. Patterson
                  University of North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

10:00 - 10:20am:  Tuition Raffle System: A Capstone Research Project
                  James Dusseau, Aj Kuntz, Ray Kresman
                  Bowling Green State University, USA

10:20 - 10:40am:  BREAK


10:40a - 06:00p:  During this period, FECS attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to FCS'07, SERP'07, EEE'07, or ICOMP'07.
                  These sessions discuss topics that overlap the scope of FECS.

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