FECS'12: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 Schedule

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


SESSION 7-FECS:   SOFTWARE ENGINEERING & SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT + PROGRAMMING/LANGUAGE ISSUES
                  Co-Chairs: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Monett Diaz,
                             Berlin School of Economics and Law Berlin, Germany;
                             Prof. Stephanie Elzer Schwartz, Millersville University, PA, USA
                  July 18, 2012 (Wednesday); 08:00am - 10:20am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 8)

08:00 - 08:20am:  FREE SLOT

08:20 - 08:40am:  Characterization of CS1 Student Programming
                  Nigel Bosch, Dwayne Towell, John Homer
                  Abilene Christian University, Texas, USA

08:40 - 09:00am:  IPLP: A Method of Delivery Programming Techniques by Making Analogy
                  Hari Mohan Pandey and Andrew Turner
                  Middle East College of Information Technology, Muscat, Oman;
                  Coventry University, Coventry, UK

09:00 - 09:20am:  Internal Conferences as a Constructivism Based Learning Arrangement for
                  Research Master Students in Software Engeenring
                  Jurgen Mottok, Irmgard Schroll-Decker, Michael Niemetz,
                  Georg Scharfenberg, Georg Hagel
                  Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany;
                  Kempten University of Applied Sciences, Germany

09:20 - 09:40am:  A Process for Collecting and Analyzing Chronological Data for CS1
                  Programming Assignments
                  Raymond Pettit, Ryan Clement, Susan Mengel
                  Abilene Christian University, USA; Texas Tech University, USA

09:40 - 10:00am:  A Fast and Effective Design and Implementation of Online Programming
                  Drills
                  Zhuhan Jiang and Jiansheng Huang
                  University of Western Sydney, Australia

10:00 - 10:20am:  Testing Students' Knowledge of C Language Using Bonus Questions
                  Mark Korenblit
                  Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel

10:20 - 10:40am:  BREAK


SESSION 8-FECS:   TOOLS + WEB USAGE METHODS + LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS + ETHICS & RELATED ISSUES
                  Co-Chairs: Prof. Donald R. Schwartz; Chair, Department of CS,
                             Millsaps College Jackson, MS, USA;
                             Dr. Justin Ehrlich, Western Illinois University, Illinois, USA.
                  July 18, 2012 (Wednesday); 10:40am - 04:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 8)

10:40 - 11:00am:  Strategies for Teaching Ideation and Ethics in the Computer Science
                  Classroom
                  Kendall E. Nygard, Lisa Bender, Gursimran Walia, Krishna Kambhampaty,
                  and Travis E. Nygard
                  North Dakota State University, North Dakota, USA; Ripon College, USA

11:00 - 11:20am:  Individual Student Capstone Projects Focused on Community Engagement -
                  Service Learning
                  Donald R. Schwartz, Andrew Habers and Oliver Galicki
                  Millsaps College, Jackson, MS, USA

11:20 - 11:40am:  A Semantic Web Framework for Teaching Logic Circuits
                  Francisco-Edgar Castillo-Barrera, Carolina Medina-Ramirez,
                  Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, and S. Masoud Sadjadi
                  Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico;
                  Universidad de Oviedo, Spain; Florida International University, USA

11:40 - 12:00pm:  Experiential Learning: Applying Software Engineering Principles and
                  Mobile Programming in UVa-Wise's Undergraduate Capstone Project
                  Carlos E. Otero, Dru Luce Edward, Jeremy Smith, Steve Clark, Matthew Whitt,
                  Brandon Hines, Abrar Qureshi
                  University of Virginia, Wise, Virginia, USA;
                  University of South Florida, Florida, USA

12:00 - 12:20pm:  A Peer-supported Integrated Model to Promote High School Girls Learning
                  Programming
                  Yi Fen Chen and Cheng-Chih Wu
                  National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan;
                  Taipei Municipal First Girls' Senior High School, Taiwan

12:20 - 12:40pm:  Learning the Concepts of Classes and Objects in a Game
                  Jinghua Zhang, Elvira R. Caldwell, Mustafa Atay, Elva J. Jones
                  Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina, USA

12:40 - 01:20pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  Standard Evaluation of Interventions for Those with Autism Spectrum Disorder
                  Justin Ehrlich
                  Western Illinois University, Illinois, USA

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Ethical Concerns in the Virtual World
                  Suhair H. Amer
                  Southeast Missouri State University, Missouri, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  International Students Attitudes Concerning Academic Dishonesty Situations
                  James Frost and Alan Hamlin
                  Idaho State University, USA;
                  Southern Utah University, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Ethical Perceptions of College Students on Emerging and Converging
                  Technologies
                  Suhair H. Amer
                  Southeast Missouri State University, Missouri, USA

02:40 - 03:00pm:  Data Warehouse Implementation of Examination Databases
                  Muheet Ahmed Butt, S. M. Quadri, Majid Zaman
                  University of Kashmir, India

03:00 - 03:20pm:  Virtualization for a Cyber-Security Laboratory
                  Thomas Brookshire, Guillermo A Francia III, and Aaron Garrett
                  Jacksonville State University, Alabama, USA

03:20 - 03:40pm:  New Active Learning Tools
                  Marcella Coccanari and Rocco Lanata
                  Studio Legale Coccanari & Partners Rome City Government, Italy

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Teaching Ethics Across Disciplines
                  Suhair H. Amer
                  Southeast Missouri State University, Missouri, USA


SESSION 9-FECS:   DEGREE PROGRAMS, CURRICULUM, & COURSE DEVELOPMENT + ASSESSMENT +
                  LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AND RELATED ISSUES
                  Co-Chairs: Prof. Victor Clincy, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA
                  July 18, 2012 (Wednesday); 04:00pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 8)

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Data Representation in Digital Design, a Single Conversion Equation
                  and a Formal Languages Approach
                  Hassan Farhat
                  University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska, USA

04:20 - 04:40pm:  The Need for the Development of Graduate Schools of Telecommunications
                  Mark Cummings, Victor Clincy, Victor Marshall
                  Kennesaw State University, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Discrete Mathematics as a Transitional Course
                  Chung-Chih Li, Kishan Mehrotra, Chu Jong
                  Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, USA;
                  Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Comparison of Elite and Regional School Computer Education and the
                  Impact on Students' Ability
                  Shuhua Ren, Jie Liu, David Olson
                  Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, P. R. China;
                  Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Oregon, USA

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Terminal Efficiency Analysis of a Postgraduate Degree, Under the Theory
                  of Hierarchical Distances Geometric Structure
                  Casanova del Angel, Francisco and Rosas Sanchez, Maria Elena
                  Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Industry Towards Embedded Curriculum Development
                  Pin Tao, Shiqiang Yang, Ninghan Zheng, Yongqiang Chen
                  Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China


06:00 - 09:00pm:  TUTORIALS + INVITED PRESENTATIONS
                  (Please see the lists at the begining of this booklet)

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