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

-Development Activities These activities are designed to build professional skills.Many are led by UD faculty or staff. For example, UD COE faculty have hosted WIE brown-baglunches on topics including communicating in the STEM workplace, handling rejected papers orproposals, implicit bias, and impostor syndrome. We have collaborated with our university’sOffice of Career Services to provide workshops on preparing professional resumes andinterviewing for jobs. We have partnered a number of times with UD’s Office of InternationalStudents and Scholars (OISS) to provide a workshop for international students on the visaprocess after they graduate1. Finally, while most WIE activities are focused on grad students, wehave assembled panels for undergraduates on