November 27, 2006

TO: Members of the iNEER Network

Cc: Prof. Tomas Cermak, Chair of iNEER Board, Rector of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Dear Colleagues:

We are pleased to append below the text of a special invitation for you from Prof. Fernando Seabra Santos, Rector of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal,  to participate in ICEE-2007 to be held during September 3-7, 2007 in Coimbra, Portugal. The signed letter has been posted along with the main pages from the conference website at:

http://www.ineer.org/Events/ICEE2007Info/Welcome.htm

We encourage you to reply directly to  Prof. Carlos Sá Furtado, and  Prof. Maria da Graça Rasteiro, Co-Chairs of ICEE-2007, concerning suggestions for conference sessions (no later than December 31, 2006), and submission of abstracts (no later than February 16, 2007).  Professor Furtado and Prof. Rasteiro may be reached at:

safurtado@deec.uc.pt
mgr@eq.uc.pt

Please plan to participate in ICEE-2007, the premier event for the iNEER community. As is the practice in iNEER conferences, a copy of "Innovations 2007", the iNEER Special Volume for 2007 that will be published in the summer of 2007, will be included in the registration package for each participant who pays the full registration fee for ICEE-2007.

Please feel free to forward this e-mail to your colleagues.

Sincerely,

Tomas Cermak, Ph.D.
Rector, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava
Ostrava, Czech Republic
Chair, iNEER Board

Win Aung, Ph.D.
Secretary-General
iNEER Secretariat
Potomac, MD, USA

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November 2006

Dear Colleague,

The 2007 International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE-2007) will be held in Coimbra, Portugal, from the 3rd to the 7th of September 2007.  The ICEEs, sponsored by the International Network on Engineering Education and Research – iNEER, are prestigious and renowned conferences in the domain of engineering education.  They attract hundreds of academics and educators from all over the World. Past conferences have been hosted by reputed universities in Taiwan, Brazil, Czech Republic, United States, Norway, United Kingdom, Spain, Poland and Puerto Rico.  Preliminary information about ICEE-007 is attached.

We invite you to submit abstracts and to be with us in the ICEE 2007. The deadline for the presentation of abstracts, which can be done directly on line at http://icee2007.dei.uc.pt <http://icee2007.dei.uc.pt/> , is February 16, 2007. Also we will appreciate your suggestions of topics for regular and workshop sessions; the due date for suggestions, which may be done online or by e-mail addressed to the Conference Chair or Co-Chair, is December 31, 2006.

ICEE-2007 will take place at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, the perfect environment to discuss the big challenges facing engineering education in our modern society.  The University of Coimbra, now seven-century old, is the oldest University in Portugal and one of the oldest universities in Europe.  Its historical buildings are the premises of a medieval palace situated on the highest hill of the town of Coimbra overlooking the Mondego River.  St. Peter College, St. Michael Chapel, the Rector’s Palace, the Grand Hall, the King John Library are world-renown landmarks situated on campus.

Coimbra, the first capital of Portugal, is a place full of tradition and beauty.  Cathedrals, churches, monasteries, museums and gardens are jewels of a past where history and legend mix and interweave delight and enchant all visitors.

We will be delighted to have you with us in Coimbra next September.  Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any question or need further information.

Yours cordially,

Prof. Fernando Seabra Santos                           Prof. João Gabriel Silva
Rector, University of Coimbra                          Dean, Faculty of Sciences and Technology

Prof. Carlos Sá Furtado Prof. Maria da Graça Rasteiro
Faculty of Sciences and Technology                 Faculty of Sciences and Technology