MAA Southwestern Section/NMMATYC 2025 

MAA Southwestern Section and NMMATYC will host its 37th annual conference jointly with MAA at
Doña Ana Community College in Las Cruces, NM.

The conference will be on Friday & Saturday, May 9th and 10th, 2025 in the DACC East Mesa  campus.
The theme is  Mathematics: Strategies that Shine!

We hope you can join us!

Click here to view the 2025 Conference Program.

Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Jenna Carpenter

Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter is Founding Dean and Professor of the School of Engineering at Campbell University. She is a Past President of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), President-Elect of the Mathematical Association of America, and a past president of WEPAN (Women in Engineering ProActive Network). Prior to Campbell, Dr. Carpenter was Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Director of the Office for Women in Science and Engineering, and Wayne and Juanita Spinks Endowed Professor in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University, where she served on the faculty for 26 years.

Dr. Carpenter is a national expert and thought leader on issues impacting STEM education, innovative STEM curricula, as well as student success of diverse communities of students, faculty, and staff in STEM fields, particularly issues impacting the success of women. She has received over $4.5 million in federal funding and authored more than 150 publications and presentations. In demand as an international speaker, she is a Fellow of ASEE and an ABET Program Evaluator. She chaired for seven years as the Steering Committee for the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars Program. She also chaired the Pilot Program Ad-Hoc Committee for the Gulf Scholars Program for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

Dr. Carpenter has received numerous awards, including the 2023 ABET Claire Felbinger Award for Diversity and Inclusion. She is a 2023 ASEE Hall of Fame Inductee, one of only 22 people recognized for contributions and impact to engineering education in the US over the last 35 years. Along with Drs. Yannis Yortsos, Rick Miller, and Tom Katsouleas, she is a co-recipient of the 2022 National Academy of Engineering Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Engineering Technology Education (considered the Nobel Prize for Engineering Education) for her role as a co-founder of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program. Dr. Carpenter was the recipient of the 2019 ASEE Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education, the 2018 WEPAN Founder’s Award, which honors a WEPAN member who has made a significant impact for the organization, as well as the 2013 WEPAN Distinguished Service Award. In 2015 DreamBox Learning selected Dr. Carpenter as one of 10 Women in STEM Who Rock! (the only academic among a list of CEOs, politicians and actresses) for her advocacy and her TEDx talk, “Engineering: Where are the Girls and Why Aren’t They Here?”

Submit a Proposal

We are currently accepting proposals for the 2025 conference. Please fill out the form below to have your proposal considered for the upcoming conference.

Click here to open proposal form  

Deadline to submit a proposal has been extended to:  

Friday, April 11, 2025.

Any questions, contact:
Verónica Murga
vmurga@dacc.nmsu.edu

Registration

To register for this year's conference, please complete the following two steps below. 

Note: Registration for the conference will include annual membership fee to NMMATYC.

*Lifetime registration option is only for current Lifetime members. If you would like to become a Lifetime member, please see our Membership page for details.

Hotels in the vicinity

Schedule

FRIDAY May 9th, 2025

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION

DASR Building Commons Area 8:30AM – 8:55 AM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

9:00AM – 9:50 AM

BREAKOUT SESSION 1

10:30AM – 10:50 AM

BREAKOUT SESSION 2

11:00AM – 11:50 AM

LUNCH & AWARDS CEREMONY

Lobby 12:00PM – 1:50 PM

BREAKOUT SESSION 3

2:00PM – 2:50 PM

BREAKOUT SESSION 4

3:00PM – 3:50 PM

BREAKOUT SESSION 5

4:00PM – 4:20 PM

SATURDAY May 10th, 2025

COFFEE & PASTRIES

Lobby 8:30AM – 8:55AM

BREAKOUT SESSION 6

9:00AM – 9:50 AM

BREAKOUT SESSION 7

10:00AM – 10:50AM

BREAKOUT SESSION 8

11:00AM – 11:20AM 

THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING!

Places to visit!

Past Conferences

Vendors

If you would like to have a booth and/or present, please
download, complete with Adobe Acrobat, and submit the Vendor Application Form via email to the contact as indicated in the document.