CCSC Central Plains 2025

Program

9:00

Pre-Conference Workshop
 C-S 301


Teaching with AI (GPT)

Carter Zenke, Rongxin Liu

Workshop 

:15
:30
:45
10:00
:15
:30
:45
11:00
:15
:30
:45
12:00

Lunch Break
 Des Moines Restaurants

Lunch on your own

:15
:30
:45
13:00

Welcome & Keynote
 Shivers
Moderator: Eric Manley


Accessible Computing: What Every CS Educator Should Know

Meredith Moore

Plenary 

:15
:30
:45
14:00
:15
:30

Student Success
 C-S 301


Improving Student Success Through Parachuting

Chris Bourke, Nirnimesh Ghose

Paper 


Impact of COVID-19 on Live-Coding in First-Year Computer Science Education: A Literature Review

Sourabh Kulkarni, Abbas Attarwala, Jaime Raigoza

Paper 


The Impact of Class Size and Course Modality on Student Learning Outcomes: A Case Study of Applying Infrastructure as Code Principles in IS/Cyber Graduate Course Design

Annamaria Szakonyi

Paper 

AI Program Panel
 C-S 207


Prompting Collaboration: Development of an Interdisciplinary Applied AI Minor Program

Ajay Bandi, Benjamin Blackford, Aziz Fellah, Trevor Meyer, Robert Voss

Panel 

Collaborative Projects Workshop
 C-S 235


Fending Off Gitastrophe: a Workshop on Architecting Collaborative Projects and Giving Great Feedback

Michael P Rogers, Bill Siever

Workshop 

:45
15:00
:15
:30

Break
 C-S 3rd Floor

:45
16:00
:15

Curriculum and Course Design
 C-S 301
Moderator: Andrei Migunov


Getting Your Hands Dirty: Teaching an IoT Course with an Interdisciplinary Component

Nathan W. Eloe, Alexander W. Taylor

Paper 


Creating a Consolidated 3-in-1 Multi-B.S. Program Structure in a Resource-Limited Computer Science & IT Department to Achieve ABET Accreditation for All Three Programs

Kriti Chauhan, Katherine Lehtola, Dylan Hulon, Antoni Sayre, James Church, Leong Lee

Paper 


A Comparison of Three Lab Environments for Digital Forensics Course

Zhengrui Qin

Paper 

Nifty Assignments
 C-S 207


Remote Protocol Analysis Lab

Michael J. Ham

Nifty Assignment 


Dynamic Bracketology with C++ AI for NCAA March Madness

Roy Michael Manfredi

Nifty Assignment 


Teaching Cellular Concepts: An Into With GSM

Kyle Cronin, Michael J. Ham

Nifty Assignment 

Codespaces and Containers Tutorial
 C-S 235


An Instructor's Introduction to Codespaces & Development Containers

Bill Siever, Michael P Rogers

Tutorial 

:30
:45
17:00
:15

Break
 C-S 3rd Floor

Board Meeting (C-S 301), Meet and Greet

:30
:45
18:00

Conference Banquet
 Shivers
Moderator: Eric Manley


AI Engineering: Lessons from the Frontlines

John Emmons

Plenary 

:15
:30
:45
19:00
:15
:30
8:00
:15
:30

Early Saturday TBA
 C-S 301

Student Papers or Lightning Talks

Hack-a-thon Presetations
 C-S 207
Moderator: Scott Sigman

Poster Contest Setup
 C-S 3rd Floor
Moderator: Joseph Kendall-Morwick

:45
9:00

Assignments and Assessments
 C-S 301

If needed: Lightning Talks or Works-in-progress


Domino Tilings: Projects and Assignments for Students

Keith Brandt, William Klasinski

Paper 


Pedagogical Evaluation of Generative AI course for Technologists

Ajay Bandi

Paper 

Partner Presentation
 C-S 308


Creating Effective Learning Outcomes and Competencies with Bloom’s for Computing

Markus Geissler, Tim Preuss

Sponsor 

Hack-a-thon Presetations
 C-S 207
Moderator: Scott Sigman

Poster Contest
 C-S 3rd Floor
Moderator: Joseph Kendall-Morwick

:15
:30
:45
10:00

Break
 C-S 3rd Floor

Refreshments and Poster Viewing

:15
:30

Bridging Education and Industry
 C-S 301


Adapt DevOps Method to Information Systems Capstone Course Projects

Gary Yu Zhao, Cindy Zhiling Tu

Paper 


Developing a Enterprise Application Tool to Discover Midwest Job Trends

Chandra Bathula, Maria Weber

Paper 


Internship Experience Sharing

Bin Peng, Wen-Jung Hsin

Nifty Assignment 

Saturday Morning TBA
 C-S 308

Student Papers, Lightning Talks, or Works-in-progress

Hack-a-thon Presetations
 C-S 207
Moderator: Scott Sigman

:45
11:00
:15
:30
:45
12:00

Conference Luncheon
 Shivers
Moderator: Eric Manley

Lunch, Awards, and Meeting

:15
:30
:45
13:00

Student Programming Contest
 Upper Carnegie
Moderator: Tim Urness

Includes pizza for participants

:15
:30
:45
14:00
:15
:30
:45
15:00
:15
:30
:45
16:00
:15
:30
:45
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