Dear ICGG Community Members,

Following our previous information, on behalf of the International Conference on 
Engineering Education 2005 Organizing Committee we would like to inform you that 
the *deadline for submitting abstracts* of presentations intended for ICEE 2005 
conference in Gliwice, July 25-29, 2005, has been *extended up to March 15, 
2005*. As you possibly know the original deadline was January 31, 2005, and we 
have managed to collect around 250 abstracts, which is more than satisfactory 
result. On the other hand, several authors asked us if it would be possible to 
submit their abstracts some time later and they also mentioned, that they had 
not enough time to spread the information about ICEE 2005 among educators and 
researchers possibly interested in this event. In view of this wide interest in 
ICEE 2005, and our own attitude towards making this event as broad and rich in 
engineering education and research achievements reports as possible, we have 
decided to once extend the abstract submission deadline. We are sure that this 
decision would allow us to make ICEE 2005 conference in Gliwice substantially 
more interesting, important and successful, and we seek your help in 
accomplishing this mission. We would like to ask you to submit your abstract as 
soon as possible because it helps us in the ICEE 2005 planning and makes it 
possible to earlier inform you about your abstract acceptance.

We would like to use this occasion to share with you some data concerning the 
shaping of ICEE 2005 in Gliwice. With respect to the country oriented statistics 
of the abstracts submitted so far, we observe traditionally strong participation 
of colleagues from United States, Taiwan and Brazil. We can expect important 
representation from United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Germany, Spain and Australia 
universities. We would like to stress that we are impressed by the number of 
abstracts that we have collected from such countries as Russia, Ukraine, 
Lithuania and Romania. We hoped that the organization of ICEE 2005 in Poland 
would enable to get more participants from these Central and Eastern Europe 
countries and it seems that we were right. As for now we have collected 
*abstracts from people representing 38 countries*!
With respect to the categories of highest interest for ICEE 2005 participants we 
should mention current trends in engineering education, e-learning, internet 
technologies and multimedia, as well as special topics on computer graphics and 
graphics education. The latter topic has been specially prepared for ICEE 2005 
in Gliwice with the world-wide *community of Geometry and Graphics educators* in 
mind. The number of abstracts conserning the Geometry and Graphics related 
fields is about 30 at present and we are absolutely sure that it could be 
substantially larger. We have also observed interest in such important topics as 
collaboration with industry, internationalization and globalization of 
education, biotechnology and special topics on physics in engineering education 
and elements of ethics while educating engineers. We would like to stress once 
again that we expect abstracts and subsequent presentations on any engineering 
education and research related topic, and even if you cannot find the thematic 
category that directly corresponds to your area of specialization please do not 
hesitate to submit your contribution.

We would like to repeat our invitation to participate in the ICEE 2005, 
organized by the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, July 
25-29, 2005. Please refer to the ICEE 2005 website - http://icee2005.polsl.pl - 
for major topics and special sessions of the conference, and remember that the 
general objective of ICEE conferences is the promotion of international 
networking and collaboration. We would like also to remind you that together 
with the rich technical program of the conference we would like you to visit 
some of the truly lovely and interesting places in the south of Poland, 
including the unique industrial infrastructure of Upper Silesia region, the 
magnificent monuments of Kraków - one of the oldest and the most beatiful towns 
in Poland, and the absolutely special salt mine in Wieliczka. The accompanying 
persons program includes among other the possibility of important *visit to 
Auschwitz* which could be also made available to regular conference participants 
via special arrangement.

We look forward to meet you in Gliwice in July.

Prof. Wojciech ZIELINSKI
ICEE 2005 General Chair
Rector of the Silesian University of Technology

Dr Jerzy MOSCINSKI
ICEE 2005 Organizing Committee Chair
The SIlesian University of Technology

E-mail: icee2005@polsl.pl