Abstract Develop mobile applications with user friendly interfaces and multi-touch feature to improve the learning experience in different course subjects for students

YuYi Chen Advisor: Dr. SomsakSukittanon

Introduction Today, mobile device is one of the essentials of our daily life. It has many different convenient functions, such as accessing internet, executing programs, and playing games. As the technology advances, there will be more powerful mobile devices, and their role will become more and more important.

Method  For Engineering Economy, iPhone SDK and Xcode IDE are used to design the application which contain the equations within the source code. UI Builder used to design the layout of user interface.

Goals and Objectives

Mobile Learning Application for Beam Bending

2010-2011

 For Strength of Material App, the source code are developed to control the behavior of the beam. Also, multi-touch feature will be used as the information input. The beam will behave according the information given by touches.

The goal is to design the applications that relate to the causes in the Engineering Department and to help engineering students to have a better learning experience. In 2010 fall, the first app is designed for Engineering Economy which contain basic Input, output UI, and six equations for different applications. Those six applications deal with number payments, Payment amount, balance after N payments…etc.

The second app design targeted another course, Strength of Material. There are two applications: Point load and Uniform load. In these two apps, the graphical expression and multi-touch feature are included in the design. With graphical expression, students can learn the concepts of beam bending behavior by seeing its changing in real time. Also, this app provides information bottom for users to change the given information, such as Young’s Modulus, and moment of inertia.

Accomplishments   The application for Engineering Economy contains several equations for basic applications and understandable userinterface.

  The application for Strength of Material contains the beam bending behavior in graphical expression. Users can change the deflection of the beam by touching screen. Also provides the information page for users to input specific date.

Future Works   Combine the experience of instructors may improve the design which can not only used for students but also used for adding instructor.   Add web accessing feature in the design will allow users to be able to access the useful information when encounter problems