CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

The ASEE Zone 1 Conference is held once every 5-6 years and this issue of the conference is anticipated to attract more than 1000 faculty, students and experts from academia and industry who are interested in engineering education, STEM Education, Research and Development in Engineering and Engineering Technology: including design, performance and optimization, manufacturing, nanotechnology, energy, biotechnology, software, computing, robotics, modeling, simulation, technology, materials, electronics, aerospace and bioengineering. Please visit the conference website at http://www.asee2014.org/ for more details.

The theme of this year’s Conference is: “Engineering Education: Industry Involvement and Interdisciplinary Trends.” The conference is committed to fostering the exchange of ideas, enhancing teaching methods and curricula, and providing prime networking opportunities for faculty members, students and industry and government representatives.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The ASEE 2014 Zone 1 Conference is accepting Professional Papers, Student Papers and Student Posters. Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers or posters electronically through the Conference website at http://www.asee2014.org/. The Conference will also host panels, workshops, tutorials, industry exhibits, and will feature several prominent speakers.

For more details about the conference schedule and for questions about participating in the conference events, please visit the conference site or send an e-mail to info@asee2014.org.

IMPORTANT DATES & DEADLINES Professional Paper Submission Deadline: February 7, 2014 Student Paper Submission Deadline: February 14, 2014 Poster Abstract Submission Deadline: March 7, 2014

Information Theory, Uncertainty, Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods, Evidence and Possibility Theory, Utility Theory, Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic, Approximate Reasoning, Non-classical Logics, Default Reasoning, Belief Revision, Argumentation, Uncertainty in Cognition, Graphical Models, Knowledge Acquisition, Information Fusion and Aggregation, Knowledge Representation, Ontologies, Decision Support, Cognitive Modeling, Game Theory, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Granular Computing, Computing with Words, Human-Centric Computing, Rough Sets, Evolutionary Computation, Neural Networks, Hybrid Architectures

Applications and Tools:

Intelligent and Multi-agent Systems, Information Processing and Retrieval, Intelligent Data Analysis, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Database and Information Systems, Intelligent Search, Internet and Semantic Web, Social Networks and Trust, Multi-Media, Control and Robotics, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Medicine and Bioinformatics, Finance, Software Engineering, Industrial Engineering, e-Commerce, Security

Focused Sessions

Proposals for special sessions concentrating on fundamentals, algorithms, and innovative applications of fuzzy sets soft computing are welcome.  Submission of proposals should include a short description of the session, its relevance to the conference, and a list of potential contributors. Focused sessions will be open to all participants. Organizers of Focused Sessions will be responsible for a reviewing process.

Best Paper Awards

Two awards will be given to authors of outstanding papers, one of  them for the best student paper award. To qualify for the competition, a student  must be  the principal (first) author pf the paper and he/she  should present the paper. The awardees will be decided based on the manuscript as well as  on the presentation.

IMPORTANT DATES

Regular Paper Submission                                       February 25, 2014

Notification of Acceptance                                      March 15, 2014

Final Paper Submission                                           April 25, 2014

Early Registration                                                    April 25, 2014

Proposals for Special Sessions                               February 15, 2014