Engineering Education: Balancing generalist and specialist formation in technological carriers: A current challenge

The purpose of this paper is to present the new IEEE Education Society Conference in its Region 9, Latin America, the IEEE World Engineering Education Conference - EDUNINE2017. Its first edition is in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, an important city for its characteristics and History. It is a historical conference that has been designed to happen in the next years, in the different countries of Latin America that encompasses a vast and very diverse area of the world, multicultural and multilingual. It is a unique and innovative congress that brings decision makers, researchers and academics from many countries together, for a lively exchange of ideas and research related to the development and sustainability of Engineering Education quality and related subjects. It offers unparalleled networking opportunities with peers worldwide, keynote speakers, discussing international perspectives on engineering education, not to mention the value resulting from human-to-human connections.