Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

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

Authors

Ilmi Yoon, San Francisco State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Diversity Research

administrators at SHS, and have obtained their supportskills in computer programing with a major computer languagessuch as Java and Python. SLO 2: Students will develop simple and buy-in. The team is confident about delivering a user-software programs integrating core concepts of computer science, friendly app that provides a rich experience to students ofincluding lists, stacks, queues, trees, tables, graphs, recursion, SFSU by the end of next term.iteration, sorting, search, and hash table. SLO 3: Students will CatGen: This project is focused on developing andemonstrate basic skills in setting up database applications by educational web application for an introductory geneticsapplying core concepts of

Conference Session

Diversity Research - Session I

Collection

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

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Diversity Research

-analysis of intergroup contact studies that encounterswith minority groups can lessen prejudice and that it does so via three separate mechanisms: byincreasing knowledge about the group, by reducing anxiety, and by increasing empathy. Whilethey found all three to be important actors in reducing prejudice, the last two, affective aspects,were more important. It is important that whatever pedagogy and curriculum we develop, weconsider and tend to students’ hearts as well as their minds.Placement in CurriculumThe task before us is to identify where to place diversity education in the engineering curriculum.The research suggests that sustained experiences that are integrated with the wider curriculumare more effective. Incorporating significant