Message from the Technical Program Chair

Dear Member of the EDUNINE Community,

The 1st IEEE World Engineering Education Conference - EDUNINE2017 - will take place in Santos, S. Paulo, Brazil. On behalf of the Scientific Committee it is a great pleasure to welcome you to this event and to share the community latest achievements, findings and innovations.

The conference is one of the flagship EDUNINE's conferences, organized within the framework of IEEE Region 9, addressing topics ranging from teaching and learning engineer competencies in different contexts, to exploration of innovative technologies for education support, as well as formal aspects of engineering education policies, administration and curricula. With your help we aim to make EDUNINE a world leading event, sharing the latest research results in this area.

We face a world of technological innovation that constantly challenges our capacity to effectively and efficiently develop the skills required to engineer proper and safe systems. Additionally, social habits, mainly pushed by mobile and ubiquitous technologies, are changing the way learners, educators and employers perform their functions and interactions aiming to the same global objective: better engineers, for a better world.

Responding to suggestions from the scientific community, the EDUNINE Conference program addresses these challenges with the adaptation of the topical structure to the latest developments and trends. To accomplish a more effective sharing of good practices, we have prepared also some workshops devoted to more objective issues and promoting group discussions.

Recognizing the high scientific level of this conference, all submitted final papers will be coded by a digital identifier (DOI code) and those exposed to plenary, oral and visual presentations will be indexed by IEEEXplore, which will increase the visibility of those papers and the conference. To guarantee the scientific quality of the program, each abstract was scored by three independent reviewers, and each final paper was scored by a minimum of four expert reviewers, before the topic organizers select the plenary, oral and visual presentations. Excellence, novelty and scope for innovation were the strict criteria for paper selection.

I am looking forward to meeting you in Santos to present, follow and discuss the latest trends and developments in Engineering Education field.

 

Prof. Dr. Henrique D. Santos
EDUNINE2017 Technical Program Chair
IEEE Education Society VP for Conferences and Workshops