16th EAEEIE Annual Conference on
Innovation in Education for Electrical and Information Engineering (EIE)

Lappeenranta, Finland
6th-8th June 2005

The venue

EAEEIE 05 will be held at the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT). The University is a national university, financed by the Ministry of Education. It specialises in technology and economics. It has more than 4900 students studying in the master degree programmes, with an annual intake of about 850. Postgraduate degrees include Licentiate in Technology, Licentiate in Economic Sciences, Doctor of Technology, Doctor of Economic Sciences and Doctor of Philosophy. There are about 450 postgraduate students. Approximately 25% of LUT students complete part of their degree studies at partner universities in Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia.

Kuva: Arto Hämäläinen eKarjalan Kuvapankki

Kuva: Vesa Mikkonen eKarjalan Kuvapankki

Lappeenranta is the administrative, business and cultural centre of the South Karelia region. The eleventh-largest Finnish city by number of inhabitants, Lappeenranta is a city renowned for its friendly and good-humoured people, its natural beauty, its happy Karelian character and its good prospects for the future.