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Danyelle Ireland is the associate director of the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). At CWIT, Dr. Ireland develops and assesses the impact of programming to support the academic achievement, professional development, and overall success of underrepresented students in computing and engineering majors. She also collaborates with the UMBC College of Engineering and IT (COEIT) to improve the social climate of the College and foster a more diverse and inclusive COEIT community. As an educational psychologist, Dr. Ireland’s research centers on the intersectional nature of social, academic, and occupational identities among underrepresented students in STEM majors, and factors impacting their motivation and persistence in STEM fields. Dr. Ireland holds a B.A. in African American studies and family studies from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Howard University.

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Penny Rheingans is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CSEE) and Director of the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is currently on sabbatical leave as a Visiting Professor in the College of Computing and Information Sciences at Northeastern University. She received a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and an AB in Computer Science from Harvard University. She established an internationally recognized visualization research program supported by over $9,000,000 in external funding as PI or CoPI, including the NSF CAREER award. Dr. Rheingans has over eighty peer-reviewed publications, including the NIH/NSF Visualization Research Challenges report, published in 2006 by IEEE. Dr. Rheingans co-chaired the papers program for Eurovis 2013 (Leipzig, Germany) and 2014 (Swansea, Wales), the premier European visualization publication venue, and co-founded the IEEE Vis/Infovis/VAST Doctoral Colloquium to provide mentoring to PhD candidates in visualization at the annual conference. She served on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (2003 – 2015) and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Graphics (2007 - 2010). She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA). Her current research interests include the visualization of data important to increasing student success, visualization of predictive models, visualization of data with variability or uncertainty, perceptual and illustration issues in visualization, and learning analytics. As CWIT Director, she oversees three scholars programs for undergraduates committed to increasing gender diversity in the technology fields and develops programs to increase the interest and retention of women in technology. Together, these programs have a persistence and graduation rate of over 90% in technology majors. She has garnered over $1,800,000 from government and industry sources to support CWIT initiatives in curriculum development, student support, and computing/engineering education research. In 2012, Dr. Rheingans was awarded the University System Maryland (USM) Regents Mentoring Award.

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Dr. Lee Blaney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering at UMBC. His research primarily focuses on (1) investigating the occurrence, fate, transport, and toxicity of contaminants of emerging concern and (2) developing new technologies for resource recovery. At UMBC, he teaches courses in environmental chemistry, reaction kinetics, and chemical separations.

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Dr. Marie desJardins is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and Information Technology, and Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Prior to joining the faculty in 2001, Dr. desJardins was a senior computer scientist at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. Her research is in artificial intelligence, focusing on the areas of machine learning, multi-agent systems, planning, interactive AI techniques, information management, reasoning with uncertainty, and decision theory. She has mentored 12 Ph.D. students, 27 M.S. students, and 90 undergraduate researchers. She is also active in the CS education community, chairs the Maryland Steering Committee for Computer Science Education, and frequently serves as a mentor and invited speaker at CS education and outreach events.

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E. F. Charles (Chuck) LaBerge is Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Undergraduate Program Director for the Computer Engineering Program at UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), where he teaches a wide variety of courses ranging from Introduction to Engineering for freshmen to Error Correcting Codes and Information Theory for graduate students. From 1975-2008, he was employed by Honeywell’s Aerospace Research and Technology Center and its predecessor organizations. His expertise and professional experience includes precision landing systems and a wide variety of aeronautical radios and applications. His technical, writing and editorial contributions have received numerous citations from both regulatory bodies and technical conferences. Dr. LaBerge is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of Tau Beta Pi and an inductee in the Order of the Engineer. He received his BES-EE and MSE-EE, degrees, both with Honors, from The Johns Hopkins University and the PhD. in Electrical Engineering from UMBC.

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Dr. Martin currently serves as the Program Director for Doctoral Career and Professional Development at the University of Maryland. As a team member of both the University Career Center & The President’s Promise and The Graduate School, she creates, builds, and implements programs and services that support doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers to fully explore and actively prepare for a wide range of highly satisfying careers in academia, industry, nonprofits, and government. She has held advising, career development, administrative, research and assessment positions that directly impacted student success at research universities and in the community college setting. Her work has positively impacted hundreds of culturally diverse college students, including adult learners and transfer students, to identify and achieve their academic and professional goals. While serving as the Associate Director of the Center for Women in Technology at UMBC she was a co-investigator on a number of successful NSF funded research projects related to improving the retention and success of transfer students, underrepresented groups in STEM, and first-year computing majors. Dr. Martin earned her Ed.D. in Higher Education from The George Washington University, a M.A. in College Student Personnel from The University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Dr. Seaman is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Her research generally falls under the umbrella of empirical studies of software engineering, with particular emphases on maintenance, organizational structure, communication, measurement, and technical debt. She also conducts methodological research in qualitative research methods, as well as research in computing pedagogy. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, a MS in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Tech, and a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from the College of Wooster (Ohio). She has worked in the software industry as a software engineer and consultant, and has conducted most of her research in industrial and governmental settings (e.g. IBM Canada Ltd., NASA, Samsung, Xerox).

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Mechanical Engineering

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