I-MECH partners from ZAPUNI, TU/e and UNIBS have joined forces during the IFAC Symposium of Advances of Control Education (ACE2019) in lovely Philadelphia (US). The educational and trainee impact of I-MECH was demonstrated by I-MECH technical coordinator Dr Martin Čech to the event attendees including experts, researchers, R&D specialists from industrial automation control, instrumentation, education fields. The meeting was very successful as it had a significant contribution to the enhancement of societies awareness in advanced automatic control systems.