Date: February 19-20, 2024

Venue: Bangkok, Thailand

Greetings from KMUTNB and Techno Park!!

The path of the revaluation of bio-based fibers and polymeric materials goes through the improvement of its production sectors, the continuous deepening of scientific knowledge in this area, new marketing strategies and indelibly, the generation of products based on bio-based fibers and polymers. EFPM aims to bring researchers from both academia and industry in and around the globe to exchange new ideas, share knowledge and explore recent developments in the area of eco-friendly fibers and polymeric materials. The conference includes keynote and invited lectures by an array of eminent speakers from reputed international organizations and institutions. The conference endeavours to encourage exchange of innovative ideas and facilitate future academic collaborations.

Important Dates:

Last date for submission of abstract                : October 1, 2023

Intimation of abstract acceptance                   : October 15, 2023

Last date for registration and fee payment     : November 15, 2023

Last date for submission of full paper             : 15th January 2024

Brochure

Abstract template

Submission

For more information, please visit: http://efpm.kmutnb.ac.th/

All accepted and presented papers will be published in SCOPUS indexed journals, free of charge.

We appreciate your esteemed participation at the conference and your support in making EFPM’24 a grand success.

Editors: Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa & Suchart Siengchin

• Highlights selected papers presented at the International Symposium on Lightweight and Sustainable Polymeric Materials
• Discusses the latest findings and cutting-edge research of environmentally friendly polymers
• Presents fresh insights and a broader perspective to bridge the gap between academia and the industrial applications

Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Materials (SPM, volume 32)
Conference series link(s): LSPM: International Symposium on Lightweight and Sustainable Polymeric Materials

eBook

ASEP has been included in SCOPUS database since 2019 (SCOPUS). It is announced in SCOPUS on 8 June 2023 that ASEP is indexed in Q2 (General Engineering and Computer Science) with CiteScore of 3.1 in 2022. Our journal publishes open access articles with free of charge and has average turnaround time for reviewing process less than 2 week/round. With our improved quality and visibility, ASEP gained submissions from authors of 34 countries worldwide. With supports from our authors, reviewers, readers and editors, ASEP aims to maintain high standard of peer-review process to make sure the integrity and reliability of publishing.

The Journal of Applied Science and Engineering Progress has been recognized for its exceptional performance at the TCI-TSRI Collaboration Project Conference held on May 26, 2023, at the Eastin Grand Payathai Hotel in Bangkok. This journal, under the editorship of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Suchart Siengchin, was awarded the Outstanding Performance Award, a highly cited journal, a testament to its continuous improvement and significant contributions to the field. Please see more detail at here.

ASEP has been included in SCOPUS database since 2019 (Scopus). It is announced by SCIMAGO on 25 May 2023 that ASEP is indexed in Q2 (Engineering and Computer Science) with SJR of 0.35 (SJR). Our journal publishes open access articles with free of charge and has turnaround time for reviewing process less than 1 month/round. With increased numbers of submission and our visibility, we select only high quality manuscripts that attract interest of our readers. Currently the acceptance rate of ASEP in 2023 is at 3%. With supports from our authors, reviewers, readers and editors, ASEP aims to maintain high standard of peer-review process to make sure the integrity and reliability of publishing. 

Lead Editor of Special Issue: Dr. Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa

Scope of Special issue

Sustainable and eco-friendly materials can be easily recycled and do not harm the environment during their creation, usage, or disposal. Long-term benefits of using sustainable and eco-friendly materials are enormous. This special issue therefore focuses on current advancements in such environmentally friendly and sustainable materials.

Manuscript submission via Thai Editorial System (ThaiES)

Applied Science and Engineering Progress is moving to Thail Editorial System (ThaiES) submission starting on 28 Dec 2022. This system is financially and technically supported by TCI-TSRI and NECTEC collaborations. Our authors, reviewers, and editors can find more information at https://ph02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/ijast. The manuscripts submitted to our journal before 28 Dec 2022 are still manually managed by Editorial Manager for reviewing process, and please email to asep@op.kmutnb.ac.th for any question and technical support.

Important dates

First draft – October 15th, 2023
Publication – ASEP Journal Issue 2, 2024

Please click for details

Greetings from KMUTNB!!

We, the organizers are pleased to announce the International Symposium on Lightweight and Sustainable Polymeric Materials (LSPM’23) is going to be held in Bangkok, Thailand on 17th February 2023. This symposium will bring together experts in the fields of polymer chemistry, physics, and materials science from both academia and industry to share and discuss the latest findings from their research into cutting-edge and environmentally friendly polymers. At the end of the symposia, attendees will gain fresh insights and a broader perspective with which to forge stronger ties between academia and the industrial world. There will be keynote addresses, plenary discussions, and oral presentations at LSPM'23. The format and scheduling of the event will provide for ample time to meet and interact with peers from all around the world. The conference Brochure, Abstract template and registration link are attached herewith and also request you to submit your abstract through lspm23@tggs.kmutnb.ac.th before the deadline.

We are requesting you to submit your research findings in this conference and also looking forward your participation.

LSPM23_Brochure: Click
Abstract Template: Click
Registration Link: Click
Website Link: http://lspm.tggs.kmutnb.ac.th/

Topics:
1. Lightweight and Sustainable Materials
2. Manufacturing Technologies for Lightweight Polymeric Materials
3. Design Optimization of Lightweight Polymeric Materials

Important Dates:
Submission of Abstract deadline: 15 December 2022
Notification of Acceptance: 20 December 2022
Submission of first Draft: 20 January 2023
Submission of camera-ready Manuscript: 05 February 2023

** Publication (Free): No registration Fee
**All accepted and presented papers will be published in Scopus-indexed journals (Check the list of Journals in Brochure).

ASEP has been included in SCOPUS database since 2019 (SCOPUS). It is announced in SCOPUS on 8 June 2022 that ASEP is indexed in Q3 (General Engineering) with CiteScore of 1.1 in 2021 and the current CiteScore of 1.5 in 2022. Our journal publishes open access articles with free of charge and has turnaround time for reviewing process less than 1 month/round. With our improved quality and visibility, ASEP gained submissions from authors of 32 countries worldwide and our published articles were cited by 56 countries with the acceptance rate for publication at 9.8%. With supports from our authors, reviewers, readers and editors, ASEP aims to maintain high standard of peer-review process to make sure the integrity and reliability of publishing.

RI2C 2022
4-5 August 2022, Virtual Conference

*** Full paper submission deadline extended to 15 May 2022 ***

We are honored to invite you to attend the 2022 Research, Invention, and Innovation Congress (RI2C 2022) that will be held on 4 - 5 August 2022 via the virtual conference, organised by King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB).

Our last RI2C conferences were held in Bangkok in 2019 (Arnoma Grand Hotel Bangkok) and 2021 (Virtual). The RI2C 2022 virtual conference will continue to hold and exchange academic activities with high standards.

The RI2C 2022 offers opportunity for peer-researchers for submission and presentation of research works in three main categories, including i) Innovative Materials Engineering (iME), ii) Innovative Electricals and Electronics (iEE), and iii) Innovative Sustainable Sciences (iSS).

All accepted and presented papers will be published in Scopus indexed. For more information, please visit: https://www.ri2c-2022.com/

Important Dates
Extension of full paper submission closing date: 30 May 2022
Notification of full paper acceptance: 15 June 2022
Early bird registration: 15 June – 15 July 2022
Full Registration closing date: 30 July 2022

ASEP has been included in SCOPUS database since 2019 (https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100939572?origin=resultslist). It is announced in SJR website on 19 May 2021 that ASEP is indexed in Q3 with SJR score of 0.173 and cites/doc (2 yr average) of 1.889 (https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21100939572&tip=sid&clean=0) in 2020. Our journal publishes open access articles with free of charge and has turnaround time for reviewing process less than 1 month/round. During Jan-May 2021, we published 23 high quality articles from 156 submissions (rejection rate at 85%). With this progress, ASEP aims to maintain high standard of peer-review process to make sure the integrity and reliability of publishing. Lastly, we hope our readers, reviewers and authors keep support our journal to become the frontier journal in the future.

ASEP has been included in SCOPUS database since 2019 (https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100939572?origin=resultslist). Currently, we adopt EM manuscript submission system powered by Elsevier and Aries (https://www.editorialmanager.com/asep/default.aspx), the same platform with high standard journal worldwide and our turnaround time for reviewing process is less than 1 month in average. During 2020, we published 40 high quality articles from 263 submissions (rejection rate at 85%). Our SCOPUS citescores are growing to 0.5 in 2020 and the number of citation/article during 2019-2020 is 0.7 (updated 20 Jan 2021). With this progress, ASEP aims to maintain high standard of peer-review process to make sure the integrity and reliability of publishing. We are looking forward to provide service for worldwide authors to publish the research to strengthen our research community and society.

Applied Science and Engineering Progress (ASEP) is currently indexed in SCOPUS database. We would like to invite authors to submit the manuscript to publish in the forms of Review article and Research article with free-of-charge policy. The turnaround time for one round of peer reviewing process is less than 4 weeks in average. Starting from Vol. 14 in 2021, ASEP will publish 4 issues per year with 14 articles per issue. Please check out the scope and focus of ASEP at http://ojs.kmutnb.ac.th/index.php/ijst/pages/view/AboutTheJournal.

ASEP has been included in SCOPUS database since 2019 coverage. Since then, we have rising numbers of submitted manuscripts during 2019 (Jan-Dec 2019) and 2020 (Jan-Jun 2020) of 81 and 110 articles, respectively. Among these numbers, we received warm welcome from international authors (49.5% in 2019 and 50% in 2020 of total numbers of submitted manuscripts) we still maintain high standard of peer-review process to make sure the integrity and reliability of publishing. Thus, we have responses back to authors with rejection rate for 55.6% in 2019 and 64.5% in 2020, calculated from total numbers of submitted manuscripts. Collectively, the statistical data of ASEP, continuing from KMUTNB: IJAST (previous journal name), we have published manuscripts with authors from 29 countries and citation from 55 countries. We are looking for further supports from readers, authors and reviewers to ASEP to strengthen our research community and society.

Regarding to the the worldwide trend of readers, the electronic version of published articles has been become the major preference. Applied Science and Engineering Progress’s publisher comes to the conclusive policy to reduce the use of paper to become environmental friendly journal. Therefore, starting from vol 13 in 2020, the hardcopy version of published articles will be printed out upon the request of corresponding authors. We encourage our readers and authors to welcome our policy to reduce the effect of global warming together.

We are pleased to announce that Applied Science and Engineering Progress (ASEP) has been accepted for inclusion in the SCOPUS since August 6, 2019. It is one of the 31st Thai Journals which are recently included in SCOPUS database. ASEP is deeply grateful to the TCI-TRF-SCOPUS Collaboration Project, Thai-Journal Citation Index (TCI) Center, and the local board for their suggestions that are especially useful to the journal quality enrichment. For more detail, please see TCI-TRF-Scopus Collaboration Project

As a member of TCI-SCOPUS collaboration project (http://www.kmutt.ac.th/jif/TCI_Collaboration/), Applied Science and Engineering Progress Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Suchart Siengchin, and editorial team, including Assoc. Prof. Dr. Montree Siripruchyanun, Sumonchai Suteerawatananon, Siriwan Yuphong, Junjiraporn Thongprasit, Jeerapol Kumkeam and Tongpool Heeptaisong have a chance to have a meeting with Prof. Dr. Narongrit Sombatsompop, a head of TCI-SCOPUS collaboration project and TCI center. Our editorial team received comments and suggestion from TCI to improve quality of the journal to reach the standard of high impact international journal.

Applied Science and Engineering Progress (Former journal names are King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok International Journal of Applied Science and Technology [KMUTNB: IJAST] (2014–2018) Print ISSN: 2465-4531 , E-ISSN: 2465-4574 and ASIAN International Journal of Science and Technology in Production and Manufacturing Engineering [AIJSTPME] (2008–2014) Print ISSN: 1906-151X) is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open access scientific journal published by King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB) since 2008. Applied Science and Engineering Progress is currently indexed in TCI1, ACI, Google Scholar, Publons, Researchgate, and CrossRef.