International Enginnering Education Conference 2011 Madinah al-Munawarah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 25-27 December 2011 ISBN xxxx-xxxx @2011 FEIIC 1 Using Applicable and User-Friendly Methods in Education Mehrzad Mohabbi Yadollahi 1 , Fatemeh Goharkhaneh Asli 2 , Rüstem Gül 1 , Rıza polat 1 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Atatürk University, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey 2 Department of English Language Teaching, Atatürk University, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey Email: mehrzad@atauni.edu.tr Email: rgul@atauni.edu.tr ABSTRACT This article studies the advantages of using multimedia software in the education of civil engineering. PowerPoint is one of the useful multi-purpose software provided by Microsoft Company equipped with high- quality graphic, being easy to learn, having video and picture presentation feasibility. Indeed, most of the typical educational tools such as white/black board have some problems in complete conveying pedagogical materials. Even occasionally, the students encounter some problems in comprehension of the course material. Hence, in order to deal with such educational problem, PowerPoint software and videos are used.in fact PowerPoint paves the route of sound transferring educational materials such as 3D views, perspectives and structure framing/loading.in summery, this article highlights the importance of applying PowerPoint in education especially due to being economic in saving time and energy. Keywords: Engineering education, PowerPoint INTRODUCTION Delirious technology growth affected training, industry, economic and social life. As, technology growth made affordable purchase and public access to such facilities consequently it led to offer electronic presentation.one of the most applicable and recognized multimedia software’s for presentation is PowerPoint used extensively in academic and practical projects. Guney[1] study shows that audible-assisted training assigns 25%, visual- assisted training 30%, audio-visual training 50% and finally audio-visual and experimental training 90% of complete convey of materials. Also in the similar study carried out by Bilecen[2] audio-assisted training assigns 55%, aural 35%, and textual training has assigned 7% of complete convey of materials. Also, in teaching both projector and PowerPoint are used furthermore Bartsch and Cobren[3] believed that PowerPoint is much more applicable than projector[4]. At the advent of PowerPoint, it was used in seminars and congresses but nowadays not only has powerpoint been used in high schools but also at the higher education as one of the most efficient educational methods. PowerPoint popularity increased due to being economic and provoking students to learn.one of the essential subjects in education of civil engineering is designing technical plans, architectural views and materials strength course. Usually, engineers work at shapes, volumes, surfaces, plans and mostly 2D images which are used in education of such 3D images .it is clear that, plans are very important in most of the project and occasionally the quantity of designing is much more than calculations. Sometimes 2D plans cannot be an acceptable solution to accomplish projects accurately .Hence, PowerPoint and maquette making can be used. Using 3D animation in comparison to 2D models, lead to decrease in educational cost and increase in learning speed. And they make easy the imagination of some structural modes, plans, structures deformation resulting from earthquake, loading and better understanding of structures vibrating models. It is clear that, applying PowerPoint would not guarantee the quantity of learning and the quality of education not only does depend on the content of the materials but also the method of the presentation. PowerPoint would be a good substitute to traditional (black board and chalk) if only the titles of presentation are written and the rest are explained by the presenter. BACKGROUND Humans receive data through multiple channels, i.e. media, including audio and visual channels [5] as well as touch, taste and smell. Multimedia is most commonly defined as the use of at least two of these elements: sound (audio), and text, still graphics, and motion graphics (visual) [6]. To date, the majority of the educational research projects do not include the other media of touch, taste and smell. The importance of multiple channels for delivery of educational content can be found in the theory of multi-channel