Vanessa Dyce graduated from UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science in May with a computer science degree and started a job as a software engineer for Microsoft. As a child, Dyce was good at math and science, but says she didn’t really have a clear idea of what engineering was about until she attended an outreach program of UVA’s Center for Diversity in Engineering aimed at reaching minority high school students like Dyce, who is African-American.