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Carol Zander, Ph.D.

Computing & Software Systems (CSS)
University of Washington, Bothell
Box 358534, 18115 Campus Way NE
Bothell, WA 98011-8246

Email -- zander at u dot washington dot edu
Phone -- (425) 352-5276      
FAX -- (425) 352-5216
Office -- UW1-353   (prime number and palindrome!)

Dr. Zander received a B.A. degree in mathematics from San Diego State University, an M.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Colorado, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Colorado State University. She has worked in the software industry at Hewlett-Packard and IBM, and her many interests include object-oriented programming and design, programming languages and compiler theory, and computer science education. She has been a long time member of the ACM . She is active in SIGCSE (Special Interest Group of the ACM in Computer Science Education) and CCSC (Consortium for the Computing Sciences in Colleges), in particular the Northwest Region of the CCSC. She was the speaker chair for the CCSC-NW conference 2002 and will be conference chair for CCSC-NW'05 conference.

She is the founding faculty member of CSS, started in autumn of 1996, and is heavily involved with curriculum development. She is faculty advisor to the Bothell student chapter of the ACM and has served as faculty advisor to a bzillion CSS internship students. She has spent many years shaping the minds of students, teaching mathematics and computer science at the University of Maine, Colorado State University, and Seattle University. At Seattle University her students rewarded her efforts by voting her the Outstanding Faculty Member Award for 1995 and the Excellence in Teaching Award in the College of Science of Engineering in 1996. She has been nominated three times for the Distinguished Teaching Award at UWB and received the honor in 2002.

She is actively involved in service to the department, university, and computing community. She serves as chair of the CSS Curriculum Committee as well as the campus Curriculum Committee. She has served on the campus Executive Council and Strategic Planning Committee, Faculty Affairs Committee, Instructional/Research Support Committee, Honors and Ceremony Committee, as well as involvement with many other related activities. She serves the computer science community by reviewing papers for the annual SIGCSE and CCSC-NW conferences.

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(425) 352-5000
(425) 352-5303 (TDD)

Carol Zander
URL: http://faculty.washington.edu/zander/index.html