Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Emerging issues in communication systems, e.g., wired, wireless, mobile, and cyber security

• Signal processing and bioinformatics, including image processing, feature extraction, and their applications in biomedical engineering

• New and innovative methods and technologies in power and energy systems, ranging from generation to transmission and distribution, including control, grid/smart grid integration, industrial, and machinery

• Advances in modeling and simulation (M&S) and technologies related to its applications in the medical and health sciences, providing opportunities for collaboration

• Computer and software engineering, ranging from big data processing, requirements engineering, architectures, software analysis and testing, and software mining

• Automotive system engineering, related to connected car, car IT, and cyber security

• STEM education and instructional technology, ranging from educational techniques to methodologies to tools and practices.