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Robert Bryant

Rob Bryant is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Information Technology and Society (ITEC) Program at Gonzaga University.

Professor Bryant has taught in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Gonzaga University for more than twenty years. In 2009, Professor Bryant became the Gonzaga Information Technology and Society (ITEC) Program Director and developed a new program in Information Technology designed to address a growing need for teaching computational thinking to undergraduate students in the liberal arts and other disciplines. His research interest are in Software Engineering and Computer Science Education.

In his 28 at years at Gonzaga Professor Bryant has received over two million dollars in grants from private and public funding agencies, and has published in both areas of research. From 2008 to 20012, as Co-PI of the Distributed Northwest Computer Science Department grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF 08-516, CISE – CPATH award # 0829651), Bryant was a liaison with high schools in Washington and Oregon to help coordinate the development of new STEM curriculum. He currently is the principle lead for a consortium of Spokane area high schools partnering with Code.org to provide professional development for mathematics, science, and career and technical education teachers who are teaching a new computing curriculum in schools begun in the fall of 2014. Professor Bryant has served as chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department. He is a past president of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges and currently serves at the national comptroller for CCSC. Presently he is also a Faculty Fellow for the Gonzaga Center for Teaching and Advising to promote technology integration to enhance pedagogy.