Special Sessions  

MERCon 2025 calls proposals for special sessions in multidisciplinary areas of research which complement the regular tracks by highlighting new and emerging research topics. The proposals for special sessions can be related to one of the following areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Air, Maritime, & Public Transport
  • Apparel Production Engineering
  • Applied Statistics
  • Automation Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Ceramic Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Climate Modeling
  • Composite Materials
  • Computer Vision and Image Processing
  • Construction Management
  • Control Systems
  • Data science and Artificial Intelligence
  • Design & Manufacturing Engineering
  • Electrical Machines & Solid State Drives
  • Electrical Power
  • Electronic Engineering
  • Energy & High Voltage Engineering
  • Engineering Mathematics & Statistics
  • Engineering Related HR & Marketing Management
  • Entrepreneurship & Innovation
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Fashion Design & Product Development
  • Fluid & Energy Engineering
  • Food & Biochemical Engineering
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Hydraulics Engineering
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Interdisciplinary Applications of Engineering
  • Mechatronics & Micromechatronics
  • Metallurgical Engineering
  • Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS)
  • Mineral Exploration & Process Engineering
  • Mining Engineering
  • Nano Science & Technology
  • Numerical Methods In Engineering
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Polymer Engineering
  • Quality Management
  • Robotics and Intelligent Systems
  • Signal Processing
  • Software Engineering and Cloud Computing
  • Structural Engineering
  • Supply Chain & Logistics
  • Technical Textiles
  • Technology Management
  • Telecommunication Systems
  • Textile Process Engineering
  • Thermodynamics
  • Transport and Logistics
  • Transportation Engineering

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A Special Session Proposal Submission

  • Title of the special session
  • Short description of the proposed field (one paragraph)
  • Novelty and motivation (one to two paragraphs)
  • Short biographies of the organizers
  • List of contributed papers (including titles, authors, and a short abstract) by prospecting authors (contacted by the organizers). No more than two papers in a special session can be authored by the organizers.

The organizers will be track chairs for the proposed special session. Accepted special sessions will be opened for submission and the submitted papers will be peer reviewed as in regular papers. At least there should be four accepted papers to appear in the conference program as the special session. If the number of papers is less than four, the accepted papers will be included in the most relevant regular track. Note that an accepted special will appear similar to a regular track in the conference program and keynotes or any other invited talks are not entertained.


Proposal Submission deadline: 7th April 2025

Notification of Proposal Acceptance: 14th April 2025

Submit your proposals to Special Session Chair below:

  • Dr. Wageesha Manamperi : wageesham@uom.lk