Details: The impact of computers, particularly over last four decades, has changed practices in electrical engineering beyond recognition even though the process is not yet complete. CERA-09 aims to provide platform for bringing together teachers, researchers, professionals, managers and policy makers not only to discuss recent advances in off-line and on-line computer application techniques including use of associated fields of optimization, modeling, simulation, expert systems, artificial intelligence, neural network etc., but also to discuss the absorption of these areas in academic curriculum and industrial practices and to deliberate on directions needed to be taken up for future course of R&D and training in this vital areas.