Engineering should attract, promote, foster and retain talents, considering that individuals are different, and they can have characteristics that can require flexibility in the education system in order to guarantee equal opportunities of anyone regardless their gender, race or condition. These characteristics can make the developing of their skills more challenging for the students and for the educational institutions and their professionals.
Some of these characteristics can have a physical reason, such as deafness or blindness, other can be neurological, like autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and other students can be part of groups that are still underrepresented in academia, like women, or they belong to some minorities or ethnical groups.
The IDEE’22 at EDUCON 2022 aims to start a discussion and a reflection about the diversity and inclusion in Engineering Education (EE), identifying the problems and proposing solutions. It also wants to create a bridge from schools to universities, highlighting that many problems that are visible in universities are the results of base problems that appear in early stages of education.
This special track wants to promote new ways to face and deal with the problem of the lack of representativeness in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
Authors are invited to submit complete papers for the IDEE special session. The topics includes the following:
25 Oct 2021 | Abstract submission, Proposals for Special Sessions, Panels and Workshops |
05 Nov 2021 | Notification of Abstracts and Special Sessions acceptance |
12 Dec 2021 | EXTENDED - Complete paper upload for accepted abstracts (main conference) - Submission of complete papers for Special Sessions - Submission of Work-in-Progress and Student Poster Papers - Proposals for Panels and Workshops |
15 Jan 2022 | Notification of Acceptance |
10 Feb 2022 | Author registration deadline Camera-ready submission for all submission types |
28 Mar 2022 | Pre-conference Workshops |
29 Mar 2022 | Conference Opening |
31 Mar 2022 | Conference Closing |