The 19th CCSC Southwest Region Conference March 27-28, 2026

Paper Session I

Enhancing Engineering Design Thinking and Transferable Skills Through Personalized TinkerCAD Projects
Si Jung Kim and Emma Regentova and Venki Muthukumar (University of Nevada Las Vegas)

Evaluating Large Language Models on Solved and Unsolved Problems in Graph Theory: Implications for Computing Education
Adithya Kulkarni (Ball State University) and Mohna Chakraborty (Jio Institute) and Jay Bagga (Ball State University)

Paper Session II

Student Scheduling Patterns and Associated Outcomes for Computer Science Courses in a High Utilization Testing Facility
Kelly Downey and Paea LePendu (University of California, Riverside)

Exploring the Impact of Slide vs. Poster Presentations on Student Engagement in a Data Analytics Class
Julia Olivieri (University of the Pacific)

Paper Session III

Exploring Students’ Self-Reported Collaboration on Pair Programming Assignments
Sophia Krause-Levy and Wanda Young and Jenna Tumlos and Jennifer Olsen (University of San Diego)

Putting "Active" into Learning Theory of Computation
Tammy VanDeGrift (University of Portland)

Exploring Data Mining Algorithms and Ethics Via a News Journal
Kevin Treu (Furman University)

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