We are pleased to present in this volume a dynamic portfolio of studies that represent but a small segment of the work of the global community. Like its predecessors, Innovations 2012 attempts to provide a glimpse of the recent innovative, dynamic and diverse accomplishments of the community. As if responding to the exhortations of the keynote speakers in 2009, the authors in this volume have brought forth issues from multiple disciplines in topics that stand at the forefront of contemporary engineering education. We thank these authors, and the reviewers, for their hard work and conscientious cooperation.

We offer this book to them and to members of the iNEER Network as a token of our gratitude for their support, and our best wishes for their continued success in surmounting the lingering global economic crisis.

iNEER is a registered, global networking professional organization formed by the world engineering community to promote mutual progress in teaching and learning through international cooperation. The widening iNEER network of educators and researchers covers 98 countries and is linked through regularly scheduled conferences and workshops, publications, and the Internet. For more information, send e-mail to ineer@ineer.org or visit http://www.ineer.org