We are hosting the 55th edition of the Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES). The SES Technical Meeting is held annually to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas and information among the various disciplines of engineering and the physical and life sciences as well as mathematics. The conference has been held during 54 years in a university campus in North America (with the exception of 1972 in Israel). Bringing this event to Europe is a bold movement of the Board of Directors of the Society of Engineering Science to spread the goals and objectives of the Society throughout the world.