On the morning of December 07^th, 2017, the 4^th International Conference on Advanced engineering - Theory and Applications 2017 (AETA 2017) was officially opened at Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU). This workshop was founded by TDTU and was held for the first time in 2013, and is now a prestigious scientific conference held every year. The yearbook is not only published globally by Springer but also indexed in the ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, MetaPress and Springerlink databases.

In the opening speech, Dr. Vo Hoang Duy, Vice president of TDTU said that "The establishment of AETA by TDTU and the yearly organization with the participation of lots of scientists have confirmed the prestige of the University in the international academy. Following the success of world-class scientific events held in recent years and AETA 2017, Ton Duc Thang University hopes to continue to be a good place to support Training cooperation and research activities between advanced countries and Vietnam”.

Taking place between December 7^th and 9^th, 2017, there were hundreds of leading experts from 14 countries around the world who took part in the AETA 2017 with 104 presentations on theoretical and applied issues in the fields of Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering. The 1^st AETA (2013) and the 2^nd AETA (2015) were held at TDTU, the 3^rd AETA (2016) was held at Pukyong National University (Korean) at the end of the year. This year, the 4^th AETA will be organized at TDTU; The 5^th AETA (2018) will be held at the Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) and the 6^th AETA (2019) will be held at Feng Chia University (Taiwan).

Some pictures of AETA 2017: