This year's conference will take place at the Delta Sherbrooke Hôtel & Palace Des Congrès,, Sherbrooke, Québec, June 22 (Thursday) to 23 (Friday), 2006. The conference is hosted by the Génie électrique et génie informatique, Faculté de génie, Université de Sherbrooke, and chaired by Professor Ruben Gonzalez-Rubio.

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, as well as the recent developments in nanotechnology at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

We hope that this year's conference will also be a success.