Photo of Crystal Eney

Contact:

ceney (at) cs (dot) washington (dot) edu

Direct Line: 206-685-7571

Room 124 in the Paul Allen Center for CSE

Box 352350

 

About Me:

I have been an advisor in CSE since 2000, and the time sure does fly by.... I'm currently leading our awesome team of undergraduate advisors.

I think some of my earliest words were likely "Go Huskies" as my Dad was a returning student to UW after retiring from a 20 year Navy career. I followed in his footsteps and became a proud, second generation Husky. I graduated from the University of Washington with a double degree in history and psychology and a minor in music (or one might say minor in Marching Band). I thoroughly enjoyed my time here at the UW as a student, so I liked the idea of becoming a full time employee after graduation. I floated around as a substitute advisor/program assistant in both General Undergraduate Advising and Student Athlete Academic Services for about a year before leaving on a three month solo adventure through Australia. I needed an extended vacation after 5 years of college and traveling was the perfect outlet. I met some amazing people and saw several beautiful sunsets, it was the trip of a lifetime. I returned to the States with renewed energy and enthusiasm. As a student, I served as a tour guide, orientation leader, and FIG leader, and I am very pleased to be back in the student service sector once again. In my spare time, you can often find me hacking up a golf course, sailing, hiking, reading, playing touch rugby, traveling, or toying with some of the musical instruments that are least likely to annoy my neighbors.. During my time as an academic advisor with CSE, I have developed an interest in encouraging more women to pursue the field of Computer Science & Engineering. I co-led CSE 190e during it's first two years, a seminar designed to show women the breadth and depth of careers in CSE. The seminar serves as a place for women to meet others who share their same interests. In June 2005, my co-instructor (and the co-creator of the seminar), Crystal Hoyer and I presented a paper on our experiences at the American Society of Engineering Education Exposition in Portland, Oregon.

  • Eney, C., Hoyer, C., Making a Difference on $10 a day - Creating a 'Women in CSE' Seminar Linked to CS1, Proceedings, 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.

In June 2005 I was also thrilled to join an international working group at the Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Our working group has published two papers.

  • Pears, A. Seidman, S., Eney, C., Kinnunen, P. and Malmi, L. (2005) Constructing a core literature for computing education research. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 37(4):152-161
  • S. Seidman, A. Pears, C. Eney, P. Kinnunen, L. Malmi, Maintaining a Core Literature of Computing Education Research. Proceedings of Koli Calling 2005, Fifth Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education. TUCS General Publication No 41, Turku Centre for Computer Science, 2006, pp. 170-173.

In 2007, I was executive producer of our Pathways in Computer Science video production. That video, coupled with our previous two productions won a gold award in the regional CASE award.

More recently, I contributed to a paper with several of our faculty. Eney, C., Lazowska, E., Martin H., and Reges S., "Broadening Participation: The Why and the How."