Title: IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)

Abbreviated: FIE

First Year: 1971

Introduction: In 1971, about 100 engineering educators from

industry and academia gathered in Atlanta for the first

Frontiers in Education (FIE) conference. Its leaders had a

vision, and moved creatively to implement the vision. The

journey through the conferences, which we call FIE, is

worth documenting, as the conference has become a

premier and often-imitated conference. Some educators

have been involved right from the beginning and continue.

Others have disembarked, but many new contributors

have joined. This paper will document some data and will

also be an attempt to study the impact of the conference on

engineering and computing education over the last 35

years. What issues have been resolved? What new issues

have emerged? What issues continue? What might emerge

in the future? Of necessity it will contain personal

observations. The paper is an update of a similarly named

paper published at the 2000 FIE.

Website: fie-conference.org

Period: 1 year | Ongoing: Still holding