History

The series of FAIM conferences was conceived by Professors Munir Ahmad of the University of Limerick, Ireland, and Bill Sullivan of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the USA in 1991. Since then, FAIM has been hosted by 26 Universities in 14 countries in Europe, America, and Asia, as follows.

No	Year	Organizer	Location
32	2023	Polytechnic Institute of Porto	Porto, Portugal
31	2022	Wayne State University	Detroit, USA
30	2020-2021	National Technical University of Athens	Athens, Greece.
29	2019	University of Limerick	Limerick, Ireland
28	2018	Ohio University	Columbus & Athens, Ohio, USA
27	2017	University of Modena and Reggio Emilia	Modena, Italy
26	2016	Chonbuk National University	Seoul, Republic of Korea
25	2015	University of Wolverhampton	Wolverhampton, UK
24	2014	University of Texas	San Antonio, TX, USA
23	2013	University of Porto	Porto, Portugal
22	2012	Tampere University of Technology	Helsinki, Finland
21	2011	Feng Chia University	Taichung, Taiwan
20	2010	University of California	Oakland, CA, USA
19	2009	University of Teesside	Middlesbrough, UK
18	2008	University of Skovde	Skovde, Sweden
17	2007	Penn State Great Valley	Philadelphia, PA, USA
16	2006	University of Limerick	Limerick, Ireland
15	2005	University of Deusto	Bilbao, Spain
14	2004	Ryerson University	Toronto, ON, Canada
13	2003	University of South Florida	Tampa, FL USA
12	2002	Dresden University of Technology	Dresden, Germany
11	2001	Dublin City University	Dublin, Ireland
10	2000	University of Maryland	Maryland, MD, USA
9	1999	Tilburg University	Tilburg, Netherlands
8	1998	Portland State University	Portland, OR, USA
7	1997	Teesside University	Middlesbrough, UK
6	1996	Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta, GA, USA
5	1995	University of Stuttgart	Stuttgart, Germany
4	1994	Virginia Tech	Blacksburg, VA, USA
3	1993	University of Limerick	Limerick, Ireland
2	1992	Virginia Tech (in)	Washington DC, USA
1	1991	University of Limerick	Limerick, Ireland