The conference will be devoted to various aspects of future cross-regional collaboration efforts in engineering education and research. The conference will focus first of all on the following topics:

• multimedia teaching tools,
• current trends in engineering education,
• K-12 issues,
• K-20 system,
• internationalization and globalization of engineering education (*),
• international exchange of students, credit systems (*),
• convergence of international higher education programs (*),
• accreditation and quality assessment (*),
• Bologna Declaration implementation (*),
• collaboration between universities and industry,
• research and development links,
• e-learning, internet technologies in education,
• engineering education in the age of digital technology and global communication,
• distance learning and self-access learning,
• virtual and tele-laboratories,
• role of engineering education in creating the information society and technologies ,
• biotechnology and environmental protection,
• multi-disciplinary design projects - specially proposed by J.J.Miau and V.Malyshev,
• multidisciplinary design integration,
• collaboration between Engineering and Education faculty - specially proposed by V.Lohani,
• constraint programming and expert systems,
• biotechnology education as interdisciplinary field between engineering and science - specially proposed by R.Buxeda,
• nanotechnology and mechatronics,
• engineering computer graphics and graphics education,
• theoretical and applied geometry and graphics,
• new technologies in mathematics for engineering and other sciences - specially proposed by L.M.Sanchez Ruiz and M.P.Legua,
• physics in engineering education - specially proposed by M.Urbanczyk,
• elements of ethics in engineering education - specially proposed by T.Kuczynski,
• indoor environment and occupational hygiene and safety - specially proposed by Z.Popiolek,
• technology entrepreneurship,
• other topics.