Dear Colleagues and Friends,

On behalf of the organizing committee, I am glad to invite you to attend the VI IEEE World Engineering Education Conference (EDUNINE2022). The conference will be held as a Smart Distributed Conference in Ibero-America, from March 13 to 16, 2022, hosted by the International Institute of Education.

The IEEE World Engineering Education Conference - EDUNINE is a unique and innovative international conference that favors the exchange of knowledge, experiences and is a meeting point for academics, professionals, researchers and students of education in Engineering, Technology, and Computing and related topics. The program of the conference covers the main issues that are presented in education today, among which stand out: the design and development of new learning environments, the use of new technologies and experiences, the motivation of students, the evaluation of learning and competences, intervention in the face of learning difficulties, etc.

The EDUNINE2022 Smart Distributed Conference will be a multi-city hybrid (virtual and traditional face-to-face) conference split between the cities/countries of Latin America that hosted previous editions of EDUNINE, in Spain and Portugal, linked to each other using Internet-based video communication applications. The goal of this international multi-location (or multi-hub) hybrid conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia to focus on Engineering, Computing / Informatics, and Technology educational advances and connect groups of participants in different cities and continents in a hybrid way so it feels like all participants share the same place. The conference will host simultaneous in-person sessions to allow face-to-face social interaction within hubs and virtual sessions and social interaction among hubs. This new way of doing conferences improves accessibility for all participants bringing conference activities closer to participants in order to comply with travel and indoor gathering restrictions that may still be in place in March 2022.

The theme of this edition of the conference is "Rethinking Engineering Education After COVID-19: A Path to the New Normal". Conferences on Education in Engineering, Computing, and Technology are more relevant than ever for bridging communities and helping educators and policymakers to find creative and innovative solutions as a response to teaching and learning in the present crisis and in the longer-term future.

Authors may choose to present their papers in person at the nearest conference hub or online. Presenters (in-person and online-only) would be treated equally. Every talk is seen by two audiences (local and remote) only to registered participants. Also, every talk will be recorded with the advantage that it can be viewed at any time. On-site presentations will be subject to the safety and health recommendations of the venue´s local authorities. The health of the participants and organizers is our priority.

We also invite authors to submit contributions that address the unprecedented disruption caused by COVID-19 on all aspects of higher education in our special thematic stream about Distance Education during COVID-19 .

The language of the papers for publication in the IEEE Xplore® digital library of IEEE is English for further international dissemination. The languages ​​for the oral presentations of the papers in the sessions of the conference are English and also Portuguese and Spanish, corresponding to the most spoken languages ​​in the Latin American region. The papers will be evaluated by peers based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability in English.

Through a mix of workshops, special sessions, and parallel author oral presentation sessions, the four-day conference seeks to explore and to focus on the key challenges of the theme of the conference and disrupting times. Education in Engineering, Computing, and Technology have become a multifaceted and complex phenomenon. Therefore, reflection on needs, challenges, paradigm shifts, innovations, and localized and contextualized experiences shaped by specific academic cultures and education systems provides us a better understanding of the urgent demands of this new era. It is an ideal forum for sharing ideas, learning about developments, and interacting with colleagues.

EDUNINE2022 Best Paper Awards are given to the best papers presented at the annual EDUNINE conference, which will be nominated by reviewers, Technical Program and Awards Committees. Also, EDUNINE2022 Recognition Awards and EDUNINE 2022 Meritorious Services Awards are given to members of the EDUNINE organization committees who distinguished themselves by outstanding meritorious achievement or service to this conference.

The IEEE World Engineering Education conference - EDUNINE will be held every year in a different Latin American city. For this edition, in multiple cities of Ibero-America. It is an annual conference of the IEEE Education Society organized jointly with COPEC (Science and Education Research Organization) for Region 9 (Latin America). This conference is part of the renowned list of regional conferences of this Society that are: FIE (FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION, mainly in the United States and Canada, Regions 1-7), EDUCON (GLOBAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION CONFERENCE, in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, Region 8), EDUNINE (WORLD ENGINEERING EDUCATION CONFERENCE, Latin America, Region 9) and TALE (TEACHING ASSESSMENT AND LEARNING IN ENGINEERING, Asia and Oceania, Region 10).

The organizers are proud to organize this multimodal-multicity conference and we look forward to welcoming you to our first Smart Distributed conference in Ibero-America. We hope an approach of this kind can help our participants reduce their dependence on universities' financial status, travel, health, visa, and other restrictions while at the same time improving inclusiveness and cultural diversity.

Join us at EDUNINE2022 so that together we can enjoy the conference activities and, as always, offer the best opportunities to strengthen and create new networks among all participants!

Prof. Dr. Claudio R. Brito
General Coordinator EDUNINE2022