Why CoNECD?

Corporate Partners

• Want to ensure access to students?  At CoNECD, many attendees have direct contact with students, from all academic majors and levels.  They know the students and can connect you directly to them.

• Enabling a collective corporate impact approach, networking at CoNECD can remove the barriers, silos, and interference found when seeking to connect with educational institutions and students.

Researchers and Practitioners 

• This is your community if your work supports access to engineering and computing – well pretty much all STEM fields. CoNECD supports both researchers and practitioners!

• Find collaborators for your own research and learn what is currently being done within this discipline. See practical applications of evidenced based research into how to increase access to engineering and computing.

• Showcase your work through a technical session or a workshop.

Graduate Students

• Meet the individuals who actually did the research you read about.  Talk with them about your ideas for future research activities.

• Meet individuals whose career path has led them to a position where they are making a difference in the numbers of individuals who can join our engineering and computing workforce in academic and industry.

• Meet other graduate students and expand your professional network.