Paper ID #8381IGIP Co-Plenary - Present and Future Challenges in Engineering Educationand the Strategies of IGIPProf. Michael E. Auer, International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP) Since 1995 Dr.-Ing. Dr.sc. Dr. h.c. Michael E. Auer is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Sys- tems Engineering Dept. of the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences Villach, Austria and has also teaching positions at the Universities of Klagenfurt (Austria), Amman (Jordan), Brasov (Romania) and Patras (Greece). He is a senior member of IEEE, author or co-author of more than 170 publications and leading member of numerous