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

Lead Editor of Special Issue: Dr. Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa

Scope of Special issue

Recently, it is very essential to expand knowledge about advanced materials, recent manufacturing processes, and technologies to broaden its application range. This special issue focuses on recent developments, and modern processing technologies in advanced materials like metals/metal composites, ceramics/ceramic composites, polymers/polymer composite, implant materials, biomaterials, and tissue engineering.

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted to Editorial Manager (EM) submission powered by Elsevier and Aries. All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be published in the special issue of the journal. Original research and review articles are invited with a minimum of 8 pages as per the journal template. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (including conference proceedings papers). A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page (https://www.editorialmanager.com/asep/default.aspx).

Important dates

First draft – October 15th, 2022
Publication – ASEP Journal Issue 2, 2023

Please click for details.

The Composite Sciences and Technology International Conference (COMSAT) 2022 will be held on 22-23 August 2022 as a virtual event. The COMSAT2022 is organised by Centre for Advanced Composite Materials (CACM), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and co-organised by:

1. Newcastle University in Singapore, Singapore
2. Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia
3. Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia
4. UCSI University, Malaysia
5. Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia
6. Politecnico di Bari, Italy
7. King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB), Thailand
8. Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
9. Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic
10. Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), Malaysia
11. Oklahoma State University (OSU), United States
12. Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Malaysia
13. Andalas University, Indonesia
14. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn (UTHM), Malaysia
15. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTEM), Malaysia
16. National Textile University, Pakistan
17. Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK), Malaysia
18. Research Center for Biomaterial, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia

This virtual international conference will give the opportunity to participate, discuss and exchange the ideas and experiences in the latest research and development in composite sciences and technology. Five (5) renowned Keynote Speakers and eighteen (18) Invited Speakers from various universities will share their knowledge and experience in the recent and cutting edge topics in this field.

http://www.utm.my/comsat

The International Conference on Sustainable materials, Manufacturing and Renewable Technologies (i-SMaRT) is an international peer-reviewed annual academic conference. The 2nd in series, the i-SMaRT 2022 is organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal Institute of Science and Technology in association with King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB), Thailand. The event is set up during 25-27 May 2022 with both online and on site event.

i-SMaRT is an ongoing attempt to provide a forum for high-quality academic papers and to promote rapid communication and exchange between researchers, scientists, and engineers in the field of mechanical engineering. The conference also offers a good number of invited lectures from renowned speakers from different parts of the world. The conference will facilitate opportunities to network, collaborate and exchange ideas with renowned scientists and researchers in the field.

The conference publishes original research articles, review articles and feature articles. All the accepted and presented research articles will be published in the conference proceedings book with ISBN number.

https://www.ismartconference.in/home

18th February 2022 | ONLINE Live

Dear Colleague,

The organizers on behalf of King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB) are delighted to cordially invite you to join our International Workshop on Hybrid Composites for Railway Applications on 18th February 2022.

Register now (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pNdvFHQwGAO6MhtKBajTK74PEtziG125gPIvLeqWF5Q/viewform?edit_requested=true) to interact with international eminent speakers during the live conference sessions at the ‘International Workshop on Hybrid Composites for Railway Applications'. The presentations will describe new and recent advances in composite materials for railway applications.

Lead Editor of Special Issue: Dr. Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa

Scope of Special issue
Composite materials have been successfully used in railway applications. Due to the implementation of highly restrictive safety and pollution legislations in the railway industry, hybrid composites have become an increasingly important topic over the last decade. Hybrid composites constitute an excellent alternative to traditional materials, due to their highly specific mechanical, thermal and other properties. In this regard, the main aim of the special issue includes new and recent advances in composite materials for railway applications. This special issue will be a collection of 10 peer-reviewed contributions that present original breakthrough research in the field of composites for railway applications. Moreover, the special edition expects to provide a platform to publish cutting-edge research from around the globe.

Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted to Editorial Manager (EM) submission powered by Elsevier and Aries. All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be published in the special issue of the journal. Original research and review articles are invited with a minimum of 8 pages as per the journal template. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (including conference proceedings papers). A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page (https://www.editorialmanager.com/asep/default.aspx).

Important dates
Deadline of submission – October 30th, 2021
Acceptance and Notification – January 2022
Publication– February 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 invites papers for the special issue on Trends and Developments in Natural Fiber Composites. This special issue will be a collection of 10-15 peer-reviewed contributions on recent advances in natural fibers and their composites. Kindly note that during the submission, the author should mention the paper belongs to special issue in the comment section of EM link. More information on submission of manuscripts is available on here. Kindly contact mavinkere.r.s@op.kmutnb.ac.th for any queries.

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.