The 2011 International Conference on Materials Engineering for Advanced Technologies was held on May 5-6, 2011, in Singapore. The objective of the conference was to bring together researchers from academia and industry, as well as end-users, in order to share ideas, problems and solutions related to the multifaceted aspects of Materials Engineering for Advanced Technologies. The resultant timely overview will be appreciated by anyone involved in these fields. Review from Book News Inc.: Some 200 papers discuss such aspects as applying rough sets in customer classification, metaphor and interest in graphic design, the role of the cities in Western economic development, minus domination numbers of directed graphs, a novel method to calculate the frequency control work of a direct digital synthesizer, a flexible query answering approach for autonomous web databases, a metabolic algorithm for software requirement engineering, a license plate recognition technology based on digital image processing, an electronic commerce recommender system based on product character, an index tracking method based on the neural networks and its empirical study, and a semantics-based routing scheme for cloud computing.