07:00 – 17:00	Registration
07:00 – 08:00	Continental Breakfast
08:00 – 09:00	General Session # 1: Chaired by Arthur Winston Welcome remarks from Josef A. Nossek, President of VDE Keynote address: Leah Jamieson
09:15 – 10:30	Paper Session #1: Focus on Attracting Students, Moderated by Tony Ward Paper Session #2: Focus on Collaborations, Moderated by Kristen Harris Paper Session #3: Focus on Educators, Moderated by Charles Turner Paper Session #4: Focus on Pedagogical Approaches, Moderated by Michael Schanz
10:30	Break
10:45 – 12:00	Paper Session #5: Focus on Attracting Students, Moderated by Gerald Gerlach Paper Session #6: Focus on Collaborations, Moderated by Moshe Kam Paper Session #7: Focus on National Systems, Moderated by William Sparkman Paper Session #8: Focus on Pedagogical Approaches, Moderated by Rolf Remshardt
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
13:15 - 14:30	Breakout Group Discussion # 1 How can industry, academia, professional societies and the government collaborate to address engineering workforce issues?
14:30	Break
14:45 – 16:00	Breakout Group Discussion # 2 How can industry, academia, professional societies and government collaborate to address the supply and demand of pre-university science, technology, engineering and mathematics educators?
16:00	Break
16:15 - 18:00	Paper Session #9: Focus on Educators, Moderated by Gerald Anleitner Paper Session #10: Focus on National Systems, Moderated by Andreas Luxa Paper Session #11: Focus on Collaborations, Moderated by David Janosz Paper Session #12: Focus on Pedagogical Approaches, Moderated by Fanny Klett
18:30	Dinner, sponsored by Siemens, chaired by Andreas Luxa Keynote address: Reinhold Achatz

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Sunday, 11 November 2007

07:30 – 11:00	Registration
06:30 – 08:00	Continental Breakfast
08:00 – 09:00	Paper Session #13: Focus on Educators and Attracting Students, Moderated by Douglas Gorham Paper Session #14: Focus on Collaborations and Pedagogical Approaches, Moderated by Victor Fouad Hanna
08:00 – 09:00	General Session # 2: Chaired by William Sparkman Keynote address: “Europe’s need for a qualified workforce for new technologies like RFID” by Peter Friess, European Commission, Directorate General Information Society and Media, Converged Networks & Serves Networked Enterprise & Radio Frequency Identification
09:15 – 09:45	Recap of Breakout Group Discussion
09:45 – 12:00	Breakout Group Session #3: Development of an Action Plan Identify collaborative strategies to address the issues
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
13:15 - 14:00	Breakout Groups Report: Chaired by Arthur Winston
14:00 – 14:45	Attendees “vote” on best strategies
14:45 – 15:00	Closing Session - Chaired by Arthur Winston The next steps - where do we go from here?
12:00 – 13:00	Panel Session: Focus on Industry and Academic Collaborations, Moderated by Kristin Harris Joseph Urban, National Science Foundation Cartsen Johnson, Cisco, Director of the Cisco Networking Academy in Europe Tricia Baker, Cisco, Director of Software Applications Mauricio Ulargui, Microsoft, Academic Director Jennifer Ng, Mercury Systems and IEEE Julie Grady, HP University Relations (UK)

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