IETEC’11: Taylor’s University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (January 2011)
The inaugural IETEC (IETEC’11) was successfully organised and staged at Taylor’s University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in January 2011 with collaboration between Central Queensland University, Australia and three Malaysian universities, i.e. Taylor’s University, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Universiti Tun Hussein Onn (UTHM) Malaysia. IETEC’11 exhibitors were National Instruments and Taylors and Francis Asia-Pacific.
The conference was inaugurated by the Malaysian Higher Education Minster’s representative. The 130 academics and experts who attended from 25 different countries covering the Asia Pacific, North and South America, Europe, the Indian sub-continent and the Middle East regions contributed 75 papers across 16 plenary presentation sessions, including special sessions. The conference provided opportunity for international participants to interact and discuss concepts, ideas and practices at the conference and stimulated highly productive discussion and reflection. The IETEC’11 featured significant keynote addresses, plenary presentation sessions, poster presentations, interactive workshops, a panel discussion, exhibition stalls and opportunities for international collaborations which helped participants to foster their knowledge and expertise in engineering and technology education.
