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The use of live demonstrations in courses related to numerical problem solving combined with PowerPoint presentations is advocated in order to stimulate student interest and involvement and enhance learning. The proposed approach is demonstrated by solving a system of ordinary differential equations as a boundary value problem, utilizing finite difference approximations for solving partial differential equations, and investigating ill-conditioning in multiple linear regression. The educational benefits of this approach are discussed in detail. ß

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and has served as department head and director of the university's Honors Program. He has B. Ch. E. and M. S. degrees from Ohio State and a Ph. D. from the University of Colorado. He has been the Chair and National Program Chair for the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division plus he co-chaired the ASEE Summer School for Chemical Engineering faculty in 2002. His current interests include the development of general software for numerical problem solving and application to chemical and biochemical engineering. Dr. Cutlip is also managing director of Polymath Software that develops and provides problem solving software to higher educational institutions and to individual professional and academics users. Dr. Mordechai Shacham, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Mordechai Shacham is professor emeritus of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He has served as department head, as the chairman of the Israeli Inter-University Center for e-Learning (IUCEL) and as the president of the Israel Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE). He is the recipient of the of the 2000 CACHE Award, the 2010 Himmelblau Award of the CAST division of the AIChE and he is a Fellow of the IIChE. Dr. Shacham received his BSc and DSc degrees from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. His research interests include analysis, modeling and regression of data, applied numerical methods and prediction and consistency analysis of physical properties.