This year's conference will take place at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, May 16 to 17, 2002, immediately after the IEEE 2002 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE02. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba.

The conference was originally introduced to discuss concerns related to the growth of Computer Engineering. Many universities now have accredited Computer Engineering (CTE) programs within Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) departments, and the pertinent educational issues relate to the expansion and improvements of this area. As it was at the beginning of the CTE programs, many new urgent issues have emerged with respect to the implementation of Software Engineering (SWE) programs and their relationship to the existing programs not only in the ECE departments, but also in Computer Science (CS) departments.

We hope that the Winnipeg conference will also be a success.