Dear colleague,

I would like to inform you about the 1st International Conference on Science and Technology Education STE 2020 that will take place in Porto, Portugal, 15-16 October 2020 (www.fe.up.pt/ste2020). The conference venue is Sheraton Porto Hotel, which offers excellent facilities for high quality scientific interactions.

The conference is co-chaired by me, António Ferreira (University of Porto, Portugal) and Claudio Brito (COPEC, Brazil). The Science and Education Research Organization (COPEC) and the International Institute of Education (IIE) support this conference. The focus is on education in science and technology. The conference will provide an international forum for the sharing, dissemination and discussion of research, experience and perspectives across a wide range of teaching and learning issues. The conference welcomes abstracts/papers related to the following topics:
- science and technology epistemologies (what makes science and technology thinking and knowledge),
- science and technology learning mechanisms (how people develop knowledge and competencies),
- science and technology learning systems (institutional practices),
- science and technology diversity and inclusiveness (how society in general contributes to science and technology processes and products), and
- science and technology assessment (development and use of assessment methods, instruments, and metrics).

The scientific committee includes Abel Nyamapfene (University College London, UK), Alejandro Ureña Fernández (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), Amélia Lopes (University of Porto, Portugal), Ana Neves (University of Porto, Portugal), Ana Q Barbosa (INEGI, Portugal), António Augusto Sousa (University of Porto, Portugal), António Porto (University of Porto, Portugal), Barbara Del Curto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Christian Kautz (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany), David Naylor (Ryerson University, Canada), Eugenio Dragoni (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy), Fernando Remião (University of Porto, Portugal), Fouad Abd-El-Khalick (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), Francisco José García-Peñalvo (University of Salamanca, Spain), Francisco Maio Matos (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Francisco Vasques (University of Porto, Portugal), Gaetano Cascini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Gillian Saunders-Smits (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Hans Joachim Kretzschmar (Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz, Germany), Henrique Santos (Universidade do Minho, Portugal), Inês Direito (University College London, UK), Jaime Villate (University of Porto, Portugal), Jarka Glassey (Newcastle University, UK), João Canas Ferreira (University of Porto, Portugal), João Falcão e Cunha (University of Porto, Portugal), João Pedro Pego (University of Porto, Portugal), Juan Carlos Del Real (Universidad Pontificia Comillas Madrid, Spain), Luis Miguel Madeira (University of Porto, Portugal), Marco Braga (CEFET/RJ, Brazil), Nuno Ramos (University of Porto, Portugal), Paulo Martins (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Pierpaolo Limone (Università degli Studi di Foggia, Italy), Robert Adams (University of Oxford, UK), Vassilopoulos Anastasios (EPFL, Switzerland) and Zita De Almeida Sampaio (University of Lisbon, Portugal).

Authors who wish to make a presentation (oral or poster) are requested to submit a short abstract (one single A4 page possibly with a diagram and references) in English, by 4 May 2020. The abstracts should be sent electronically to lucas@fe.up.pt. The abstract template can be downloaded from the  conference web site (www.fe.up.pt/ste2020).

Conference proceedings (cd-rom) with the accepted abstracts will be available at the registration. The cd-rom will have an ISBN number.
The full papers will be published in special issues of International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education (SAGE), Education Sciences (MDPI, no fees involved), Education for Chemical Engineers (Elsevier) and Open Engineering (De Gruyter, no fees involved) (provided they meet the journals standard).

Important dates
4 May 2020 Abstract submission deadline
22 May 2020 Notification of acceptance to authors
31 December 2019 Early bird registration

Yours sincerely,

Lucas

Lucas F M da Silva
Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Chairman of AB conferences
Chairman of CLBA conferences
Chairman of IAA conferences
Chairman of AJP conferences
Chairman of MDA conferences
Chairman of STE conferences
Editor in Chief of The Journal of Adhesion (TAYLOR & FRANCIS)
Editor in Chief of Proc. Inst. of Mech. Eng., Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications (SAGE)
Editor in Chief of Journal of Advanced Joining Processes (ELSEVIER)
Editor in Chief of U. Porto Journal of Engineering (UNIVERSITY OF PORTO)
President of the Portuguese Adhesion Society
Director of the Integrated Master in Mechanical Engineering

Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP)
Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec)
Rua Dr Roberto Frias
4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Phone: +351225081706, email: lucas@fe.up.pt