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CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper
Submission Deadline: March 26, 2019
The 15th
International Conference on Frontiers in Education:
Computer Science
and Computer Engineering (FECS'19)
(Includes a number of tracks about ABET)
https://americancse.org/events/csce2019/conferences/fecs19
https://americancse.org/events/csce2019
July 29 -
August 1, 2019, Luxor (MGM), Las Vegas, USA
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SCOPE: TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED
TO, THE FOLLOWING:
- ABET
Accreditation and assessment
- ABET
experiences and good practices
- Student recruitment and retention methods
- Promoting
multi-disciplinary initiatives - impact on curriculum
- Capstone
research projects: examples and case studies
- Distance
learning; methods, technologies and assessment
- Innovative
degree programs and certificates
- Innovative
uses of technology in the classroom
- Collaborative
learning
- Learning
models and learning from mistakes
- Computer and
web-based software for instruction
- Ethics in
computer science and engineering
- Incorporating
writing into CS and CE curriculum
- Preparing
graduates for academia
- Preparing
graduates for industry
- Partnerships
with industry and government
- Team projects
and case studies
- Undergraduate
research experiences
- Student
observation and mentoring strategies
- Advising
methods
- Evaluation
strategies (professors, students, ...)
- Transition to
graduate studies
- Integrating
gender and culture issues into computer science and
engineering
curriculum
- The balance
between course-work and research
- Issues related
to the choice of first programming language
- Debugging
tools and learning
- Projects,
software engineering, programming issues, and
laboratory practices
- Virtual
laboratories
- Computer
science and computer engineering curriculum
- Active
learning tools
- Undergraduates
as teaching assistants
- Funding
opportunities for curriculum development and studies
- Pilot studies
- STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) initiatives
- Teaching
methods
- Recruiting
methods to attract graduate students
- Proposed
methods for ranking CS and CE departments
- The role of
visualization and animation in education
- Academic
dishonesty in a high-tech environment
- Experiences in
the formation of Department Advisory Board
- Factors that
lead to success in CS and CE
- Software
Engineering for Embedded Systems in Education
The event ( https://americancse.org/events/csce2019 )
that this
conference is part of, is among the top five largest
international
annual gathering of researchers in computer science,
computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have
attendees
from about 75 countries and territories. To get a feeling
about the
conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos
available at
(over 2,000 photos): https://photos.ucmss.com/
INTRODUCTION:
We anticipate
having between 1,000 and 2,000 participants in the
event (CSCE
Congress) that this conference is part of. The congress
includes 20
major tracks ( https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2019 )
composed of: 122
technical, research, and panel sessions as well as a
number of
keynote lectures and tutorials; all will be held
simultaneously,
same location and dates: July 29 - August 1, 2019.
Last year, the
Congress had attracted speakers/authors and participants
affiliated with
over 169 different universities (including many from
the top 50
ranked institutions), major IT corporations (including:
Microsoft,
Google, Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo,
Samsung, IBM,
Ebay, GE, Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems,
Hitachi, NTT,
...), major corporations (including: Exxon Mobil,
Johnson &
Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC,
Airbus, Boeing,
Hyundai, ...), government research agencies (NSF, NIH,
DoE, US Air
Force, NSA National Security Agency, ...), US national
laboratories
(including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence
Berkeley
National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, National Cancer
Institute, NIST,
...), and a number of Venture Capitalists as well as
distinguished
speakers discussing Intellectual Property issues. Last
year, 55% of
attendees were from academia, 24% from industry; 20% from
government and
funding agencies; and 1% unknown. About half of the
attendees were
from outside USA; from 72 nations.
KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS:
There will be
between 10 and 15 Keynote lectures and Invited Talks;
speakers include
world-renowned scientists and educators. Featured
Keynote Speakers
in recent years have included:
- Prof. David A.
Patterson (pioneer, architecture, UC Berkeley)
- Prof. Ian
Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL)
- The Late Prof.
John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms;
U. of
Michigan)
- Prof. Barry
Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT)
- Prof. John
Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming; Stanford U.)
- Prof. Lotfi A.
Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic, UC Berkeley)
- Dr. Firouz
Naderi (former Head of NASA Mars Exploration Program;
former
Administrator and/or Director of Jet Propulsion Lab,
CalTech/NASA;
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration
- Dr. K. Eric
Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology)
- Prof. Ruzena
Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, UC Berkeley)
- Prof. Viktor
K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California)
- Dr. Jose L.
Munoz (NSF Program Director and CTO of NSF Office of
Cyberinfrastructure)
- Prof. David
Lorge Parnas (pioneer of software engineering)
- Prof. Eugene
H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor,
Purdue
University)
- Prof. Haym
Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University & former NSF admin)
- Prof. Alfred
Inselberg (Tel Aviv U, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego
Supercomputing
Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of
Parallel
Coordinates and author of textbook)
- Prof. H. J.
Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE
and Professor
of CS; Director, CSU Information Science and Technology
Center
(ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA)
- Prof. Amit
Sheth (LexisNexis Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director,
Ohio Center of
Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis))
- Dr. Leonid I.
Perlovsky (Harvard University and CEO LP Information Tech)
- Dr. James A.
Crowder (Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence)
- Prof. Diego
Galar (Director & Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Lulea University of
Technology,
Sweden)
- Prof. Michael
J. Flynn (Stanford U.; known for Flynn's taxonomy)
- and over 190
other distinguished speakers.
The Congress is
among the top five largest international annual
gathering of
researchers in computer science, computer engineering and
applied
computing. We anticipate to have attendees from about 75
countries and
territories. To get a feeling about the conferences'
atmosphere, see
some delegates photos available at (over 2,000 photos):
https://photos.ucmss.com/
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
https://americancse.org/events/csce2019/conferences/fecs19/submission_of_papers
CAREER, JOB, & EDUCATION FAIR:
The Congress
will host its two-day Career, Job, & Education Fair
on July 29-30,
2019. This annual strategic event provides congress
attendees and
participants with opportunities to connect with employers
and educators
and learn more about career options. Corporations can also
exhibit their
products during the event. Interested parties should refer to:
https://americancse.org/events/csce2019/career_job_fair
IMPORTANT DATES:
March 26,
2019: Submission of papers:
https://american-cse.org/
- Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 7 pages);
- Short Research Papers (maximum of 4 pages);
- Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 2 pages)
April 12,
2019: Notification of acceptance (+/-
two days)
May 05, 2019:
Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 29 - August
1, 2019:
The 15th International
Conference on Frontiers in Education:
Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'19)
https://americancse.org/events/csce2019/conferences/fecs19
Including affiliated federated/joint conferences
https://americancse.org/events/csce2019
LOCATION:
Luxor in Las
Vegas (renovated)
https://www.luxor.com/en/entertainment.html
CONTACT:
Questions and
inquiries should be sent to:
CSCE'19
Conference Secretariat: cs@american-cse.org
