8th Annual Conference of
CoNECD
February 28-March 1, 2027
Call for Abstracts!
We invite you to submit an abstract to the 10th Annual Conference of CoNECD which will be held from Feb 28-Mar 2, 2027, in New Orleans, LA.
Authors should submit an abstract between 300 and 500 words on their paper/presentation topic.
Due Date: July 31, 2026
The only national conference focused on strengthening the full range of talent that contributes to the engineering and computing workforce. The vision of the CoNECD (pronounced “connected”) Conference is to offer a national forum for examining research and practices that strengthen participation, retention, and professional preparation across engineering and computing pathways.
CoNECD will accept both papers and presentations as final submissions. Submit presentations in PDF format with NOTES pages of your slides. For your full draft submission, the NOTES for each slide must have sufficient detail to explain the content on the PowerPoint slide. This will ensure that the reviewers have enough context to allow appropriate review of your presentation submission. See here for how to add notes to your slides.
CoNECD is seeking both evidence based research and practice abstracts for presentations at the 10th Annual Conference of CoNECD which will be held from Feb 28-Mar 2, 2027. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Outreach, mentoring and recruitment of K-12 students
Mentoring, innovative recruitment and retention programs, and assessment of groups of undergraduate and graduate students
Mentoring, recruitment, retention, leadership and professional development activities for faculty, administrators, and professionals in the engineering/computing workforce (including work/life balance and dual-career issues, listening and negotiation)
Company/university programs, policies or reviews that impact particular groups including, for example, military experience to academic recognition
Transformative research that informs the development of impactful and forward-thinking programs and policies on current issues
Innovative curricular issues
Issues across the global landscape in K-12 outreach, recruitment, retention, and academic success strategies
Unleashing the invisible factors of human potential to innovate, explore the unknown and develop community centered solutions to increase access to pathways into the engineering and computing workforce
CoNECD aims to include both researchers seeking peer-reviewed conference papers as well as practitioners who wish to submit a presentation (e.g., PowerPoint) associated with a successful practice. CoNECD will present a balance of basic research and development in the workforce development space as well as presentations that focus on promising practices successfully implemented in both academic and workplace environments. Authors may submit (individual or panel) papers or presentations based on accepted abstracts.
Authors should submit an extended abstract between 300 and 500 words on their paper/presentation topic. Authors of accepted abstracts must submit a full paper OR presentation for review, acceptance and publication in order to present at the conference.
Abstracts are due July 31, 2026
To submit an abstract,
You will be directed to a login page.
If you are a member of ASEE, please login to access the abstract submission page.
If you are not an ASEE member, please create a login to access the abstract submission page. You do not need to become an ASEE member to submit an abstract.
Posters and Pre-Conference Workshops are not accepted at this time. There will be a separate call for each as necessary.
For each abstract submitted, please identify the target population describing the topic you are presenting. This will enable CoNECD to group your presentation appropriately. Please select from this list of keywords The Keyword should be included in the first line of your Abstract Text, separated from the Abstract Title.
Pre-college
Undergraduate
(4 year Institutions)
(2 Year institutions)
Graduate
Faculty
Professional