An IEEE Region-4 sponsored conference, the 2013 IEEE-EIT, is hosted by South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. This conference provides a high profile forum for disseminating the latest research on electrical and computer engineering with application in information technology. It brings together academic researchers, industrial scientists, and IT professionals from electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, and informatics to share late-breaking advances of these interdisciplinary fields.

The 2013 IEEE-EIT welcomes the submission of original full research papers, short papers, posters, workshop proposals, tutorials, and industry professional reports. In the EIT exhibits, the latest technology, tools, and products will be showcased. There will be excellent opportunities for professional development, workshops, and tutorials.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Biomedical Engineering: Biomedical Applications, Telemedicine, Biometrics, Bioinformatics
- Computing and Information Technology: Cloud Computing, Embedded Systems, Computer Virtualization, Distributed Computing, Mobile Computing, Software Engineering and Middleware Architecture, Sensor Networks, Distributed Data Fusion and Mining
- Micro-Nano Systems: Micro Electromechanical Systems & Mechatronics, Solid State, Consumer and Automotive Electronics, Nanotechnology, Electronic Design Automation
- Information Technology Education: Educational Trends - Engineering and IT, Green IT, Information Security, Innovative IT Services – Practices, Research in Engineering and IT Education, Emerging Technology Trends
- Power and Controls: Power Electronics, Storage Technologies, Intelligent and Multi-Agent Control Systems
- Signal Processing: Signal/Image and Video Processing, Unified Communications, Wireless Communication