Carolyn England is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at COD. Her own curiosity has served her well in a diverse career. After attending Moraine Valley Community College, she earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees in industrial engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For 10 years she worked in the manufacturing, insurance, and financial industries before starting as a part-time instructor at College of DuPage. Her industry experience at Andersen Consulting, Covia/United Airlines, and O'Connor and Associates transformed her engineering degree into experience in software design and development.
England's early career focused on applications of artificial intelligence in rule-based and object-oriented systems for the manufacturing, insurance, and financial industries.
"I've always been curious about knowing how things work and making things more efficient," she said. "It was a natural progression from engineering to software development."
During her tenure at Andersen Consulting, England participated in seminars at their former St. Charles training facility and realized she enjoyed the process. This was the incentive she needed to begin teaching at College of DuPage part-time before a full-time position opened up in the Computer and Information Science program.
Contact England at england@cod.edu or (630) 942-4125.
Teaching allows me to pursue areas of interest that I would not be able to do if I was working in industry. I like the changes that technology brings, such as mobile development, and I've turned that interest into a class.
- Carolyn England, Professor, Computer and Information Science
Areas of Expertise
- Computer and Information Science
- Software Design and Development
- Linux Unix OS