Message from the Local Chair

Is a great pleasure to be co-Chair of the first EDUNINE conference in 2017, to be held in Santos, Brazil, in March 2017. Congratulations to the other two co-Chairs, Claudio R. Brito and Melany M. Ciampi, for their support and dynamic activities to have a successful starting.

Has been a very long trip to organize and start-up this new conference of the IEEE Education Society, closing the loop of Education Society conferences in all the IEEE Regions. EDUNINE in the IEEE Region 9, Latin and South America and will yearly covering this friendly and Spanish and Portuguese speaking area.

FIE (Frontiers in Education) is well stabilized, having the 47th conference in Indianapolis, IN, USA, during next October, and we have a new internationalization action the celebration in Madrid, Spain, of the FIE 2014, starting a new five years cycle of outside United States site election (that is mainly organized the other four years in IEEE Regions 1 to 7).

EDUCON (IEEE Global Engineering Conference) continue his growing in the eight edition in Athens in April, 2017, and covering IEEE Region 8 continue growing in Europe, Middle East and African colleagues friendly meeting every year.

TALE (IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering) faces the stabilization in this sixth edition next December 2017 in Hong Kong again, city where born 6 years ago, and shows the brilliant future of the Far East Pacific area of the IEEE Region 10.

And now EDUNINE (IEEE World Engineering Education Conference) our new and starting conference in IEEE Region 9, where will be a pleasure to receive your ideas, submissions, technical papers as well as to have the best networking of our Engineering Education community around the world.

Thanks to all of our colleagues of the Board of Directors of the IEEE Education Society to believe in this idea to have a new conference in IEEE Region 9, as well as to the Past President Jr, Jim Sluss and to the Past Vice President on Conferences and Workshops, Russ Meier, that both bring their experience and time to have a new conference from Brazil to Latin and South America.

 

Prof. Dr. Manuel A. Castro, IEEE Fellow
EDUNINE2017 Co-Chair
IEEE Education Society Past President, Sr.