Cutlip, M. B., & Shacham, M., & Elly, M. (2014, June), Enabling Extensive Numerical Problem Solving on Smartphones and Tablets  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE International Forum, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--17178

\bibitem{asee_peer_17178}
  Cutlip, M. B., \& Shacham, M., \& Elly, M. (2014, June), \emph{Enabling Extensive Numerical Problem Solving on Smartphones and Tablets}
  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE International Forum, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10.18260/1-2--17178

Michael B. Cutlip, Mordechai Shacham, and Michael Elly.  "Enabling Extensive Numerical Problem Solving on Smartphones and Tablets".  2014 ASEE International Forum, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2014.  https://peer.asee.org/17178 Internet.  19 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_17178}
  Michael B. Cutlip, Mordechai Shacham, and Michael Elly.
  "Enabling Extensive Numerical Problem Solving on Smartphones and Tablets".
  \emph{2014 ASEE International Forum, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2014.
  https://peer.asee.org/17178 Internet.  19 Apr, 2024

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AB  - Enabling Extensive Numerical Problem Solving on Smartphones and Tablets   Michael B. Cutlip* (Speaker), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA               Michael Elly, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel          Mordechai Shacham, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, IsraelComputing is rapidly moving into the world of Smartphones and Tables with theincreasingly popular Android, Apple and Microsoft operating systems for mobiledevices. This will have major impacts in engineering education, particularly indeveloping countries, that will enable the effective and accurate solutions to manysimple and advanced numerical problems. This computing advancement will benefitthe many disciplines involving Science, Technology, Engineering and Math(popularly referred as the STEM areas of study).As academics, we have worked since 1984 on the development of PolymathSoftware for PCs that easily allows engineering students, faculty and professionalengineers to apply numerical analysis methods to problem solving.Within the last year, our work has been expanded into the Android OS that isemployed in over 750 million devices worldwide. We have recently been successfulin creating an Android app called PolyMathLite that retains the problem solvingcapabilities of Polymath for PCs. This app only requires Android 2.2 or higher so itwill execute on even the older smartphones and tablets. PolyMathLite implementsthe same numerical algorithms and provides similar options to those in Polymath forPCs. Android devices generate comparable solutions to seven significant figureswhen compared to PC solutions. The calculational capabilities and execution speedof Android phones and tablets are extremely fast. Problem setup and execution iscompletely on the device so that no active internet connection is needed once theapp is installed.PolyMathLite solves systems of linear equations (LEs), nonlinear algebraic equations(NLEs), systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and carries outpolynomial, multiple linear and nonlinear regressions of data (REGs). This softwarealso provides for automatic creation of MATLAB m-files and also automaticallycreates Excel spreadsheets through the use of Polymath for the PC.This paper will present an overview of the PolyMathLite package for Android devicesin which Engineering problems will be solved. Implications for use in engineeringeducation will be considered. Dissemination of the software to interested attendeesis planned.__________________* Michael B. Cutlip is an emeritus professor at the University of Connecticut and is aco-author of POLYMATH along with the other authors of this paper. He is theManaging Director of Polymath Software. He has been very active with theAmerican Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the American Institute forChemical Engineers (AIChE). His email is: michael.cutlip@uconn.edu
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