Conference Session

Graduate Education Track - Technical Session V

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Heather Doty, University of Delaware; L. Pamela Cook, University of Delaware

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Graduate Education

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