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Forging Engineering Pathways

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Electrical Engineering Education:   B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics with minors in Global Engineering Leadership and Arabic, University of Maryland Mentors:   Joyce D. Georgia Tech University; Dr. Ehsan Adeli, Stanford University Favour Nerrise was interested in engineering even before she knew what it was.

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Inspiring Tech Context

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Marcus Bright The meaning that context provides can make a critical difference in tech educational curriculum like computer science. I believe that there is a need to intentionally build context around computer science education specifically. Context addresses the important “for what” question.

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Study: Undergraduate Women Majoring in STEM More Frequently Face Sexual Assault Than Those Outside of STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to the study, women in gender-balanced STEM fields (chemistry, math and biology) reported the most sexual violence, nearly three times more rapes than in non-gender-balanced STEM fields and more than in predominantly male STEM disciplines (engineering, physics and computer science). attempted rapes, the study found.

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Job search tips for entry-level roles

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That definition is quite vague because different fields may qualify ‘entry level’ differently. Visit Career Academy to explore options in business, marketing, software engineering, IT, and data analytics. Let’s break it down: Minimal prior experience is usually less than two years of experience. Talk to you then!

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

Kelly Kang, who manages the survey for the NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, said the pandemic indeed “appears to be one of the factors in a significant decline in the number of doctorate recipients in 2021.” in 2021 had definite commitments for work or postdoctoral training.

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Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing

Inside Higher Ed

“If I’m a very intelligent AI and I want to bypass your detection, I could insert typos into my writing on purpose,” said Diyi Yang, assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University. Bengio is a professor of computer science at the University of Montreal.

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Colleges go offbeat for cybersecurity training

Inside Higher Ed

“Being in costume on campus as clowns was definitely a lesson learned— not effective.” ” Stanford University also recently hosted a cybersecurity festival —one focused on safe cloud computing practices. “Most humans encountered the clowns, and it was like the magnetic opposition,” Grundy said.