International Conference on

Information Technology Based

Higher Education and Training

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### IEEE Networking the WorldTM

July 4-6, 2002, Budapest, Hungary

http://mecha.ee.boun.edu.tr/educ.html

Objectives: As Europe enters into the emerging global information society, new opportunities are arising for cost-effective solutions to education and training. The convergence of information and communication technologies is enabling the creation and implementation of computer aided and/or multimedia based techniques. It is recognized that traditional, mass-produced, highly controlled static and rigid educational and training methods cannot cope with the greatly increased demand for higher education and with the need to bring ever-increasing amounts of information, knowledge and expert reasoning to students who may be far from a traditional classroom. We increasingly hear concepts like "virtual class" or "virtual laboratory". The planned conference is one of the series initiated by the Euro-Med Information Society Steering Group and has the goal of bringing together experts to discuss the current state of the art in this area. Internet-based education and training will be a topic of particular interest.

Topics: The scope of the conference will cover but not be limited to:

· New strategies for higher education and training

· Network based education and training

· Intelligent training technology

· Authoring technology

· Virtual classroom, virtual university

· Asynchronous learning

· Distance education

· Quality management in higher education

· Accreditation issues

· Industry-institute partnership

· Small and medium scale enterprises and the use of new technologies in their

training programs

· Role of information society and global communication system

Scientific Program: The duration of the conference will be three days. The scientific program will include:

· Oral presentations

· Video presentations

· Demonstrations of technology based training material

· Panel sessions

Proceedings: The proceedings of the conference will be published and be available at the time of the conference. Additionally, it is planned to publish some selected papers of the conference in IEEE Transactions on Education and the journal Industry & Higher Education.

Paper submission: Prospective participants are invited to submit electronically a 700-1000 word extended summary. The details are

available on the web site of the conference.

Submission deadlines:

Extended summary | 1 February 2002
Notification of acceptance | 15 March 2002
Camera-ready submission of full papers | 30 April 2002

Organized by:

Budapest Polytechnic, Hungary

UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics,

Bogazici University, Turkey

IEEE Hungary Section

Hungarian Fuzzy Association

In Technical Co-operation with:

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##### EAEEIE

ERM Div. of ASEE

##### IEEE Education Society

##### IGIP

##### SEFI

Honorary Chairman:

President IEEE ES

József Erdélyi (Budapest Polytechnic)

General Chair:

Imre J. Rudas (Budapest Polytechnic)

General Co-Chair:

Okyay Kaynak (Bogazici University)

Program Co-chairs:

Victor Schutz - IEEE Education Society

Advisory Committee:

Ted E. Batchman - Univ. of Nevada, USA

Fumio Harashima - TMIT, Japan

Kruno A. Hernaut - Siemens AG, Germany

Magdy Iskander - NSF, USA

Hans Peter Jensen - Tech. U. of Denmark

Adolf Melezinek - IGIP

Michael J. Pavelich - ASEE

Stephen Seidman - Colorado State Univ., USA

Dezső Sima - Budapest Polytechnic

Anselmo Seoane – EAEEIE

Address for Correspondence

Prof. Dr. Imre J. Rudas

Budapest Polytechnic,

Népszínház u. 8.

H-1081, Hungary

Tel:+36-1 313-8657

Fax:+36 1 333-9183

e-mail: rudas@bmf.hu

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### International Program Committee

Terry Berreen (Monash University, Australia)

Walter Buchanan (Northeastern University, USA)

Christophe Cerin (Universite d'Amiens, France)

Alan Clements (University of Teesside, UK)

Dante Del Corso (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Patrick Crehan (EC, Belgium)

Gordon Davies (Open University, UK)

Shahriar Emami, (Motorola, Inc., USA)

Gerald L. Engel University of Connecticut, USA)

Judith Gal-Ezer (Open University, Israel)

Keiichi Fukushi (Kobe Univ. of Mercantile Marine, Japan)

Margalit Ganor (Open University, Israel)

J. David Irwin (Auburn University, USA)

Karel Jezernik (University of Maribor, Slovenia)

Mohammed Karim (University of Tennessee, USA)

Haniph Latchman (University of Florida, USA)

Maria Joao Martins (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)

Susan Mengel (Texas Tech University, USA)

Vito Antonio Monaco (University of Bologna, Italy)

Burks Oakley II (University of Illinois, USA)

Roy Rada (Pace University, USA)

Michel Robert (Université Henri Poincaré, France)

Zenon A. Sosnowski (Tech. Univ. of Bialystok, Poland)

Rodney J. Soukup (University of Minnesota, USA)

Ramon Vasquez-Espinosa (Univ. of Puerto Rico, USA)