The 1st International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) will take place in Porto on October 31st and November 1st 2013, under the theme "Education in Engineering: Challenges for Innovation".

Engineering Education faces global challenges that are being widely and continuously studied worldwide. The first CISPEE edition occurs in the same year the American Society for Engineering Education (founded on 1893) organizes its 120th conference, thus confirming  the importance and actuality of this area.

The SPEE - Portuguese Society for Engineering Education, founded in 2010, aims to promote engineering education through better teacher pedagogical formation and personal development; projects dissemination and participation; and collaboration between national and international experts and institutions.

CISPEE will be a key opportunity to gather - in Portugal - a number of national and international experts in the area of engineering education, under the topics of the present SPEE working groups, namely:
- Engineering Ethics;
- ICT in Engineering Education;
- Continuing Engineering Education;
- Tools to Develop Higher Order Thinking Skills;
- Mathematics in Engineering Education;

Topics of interest (include, but are not limited to)

Engineering Ethics 
· Embedding Ethics in Engineering Education 
· Teaching Codes of Ethics 
· Plagiarism 
· Credits, Rights, and Responsibilities of Dissertation Advisor 
· Reverse Engineering 
· Role of Engineers in Society 
· Ethics and Risk Assessment 

ICT in Engineering Education 
· Computers in Engineering Education 
· Mobile Devices in Education 
· Human-Computer Interaction 
· Web Interface Design 
· Collaborative Environments and Tools 
· Assessment Tools 
· E-learning in Engineering Education 
· Multimedia Contents for e/b/m-learning 
· Augmented and Virtual Reality 
· Serious Games 

Continuing Engineering Education (CEE) 
· Joint academic-industry initiatives in CEE 
· Curricula Development in Engineering Degrees 
· Role of Professional and Technical Societies in CEE 
· Role of Government in CEE 
· CEE programs and initiatives 
· Lifelong Learning in Engineering 
· Impact of Educational and Scientific Research in Engineering Programs 
· Informal and non-formal Learning in Engineering 
· Non-traditional students in Engineering 
· Economical aspects of CEE 
· Training in the workplace as part of CEE 
· The contributing role of CEE for job creation in a global economic crisis 

Tools to Develop Higher Order Thinking Skills 
· Concept Mapping for Learning and Assessment 
· Self-regulated Learning Strategies 
· Problem solving and Creativity 
· Designing Courses for Higher Order Thinking 
· Using Online Tools to Facilitate Learning 
· Communication Skills for Technical Thinkers 
· Information Literacy and Our Tech-savvy Students
· Developing Skeptical Thinkers

Mathematics in Engineering Education 
· Logic Knowledge and Mathematical Competences in Engineering
· Computational Tools for Teaching Mathematics in Engineering
· Use of Mathematical Models and Simulators in Engineering Education
· Case Studies