Workshops
Join our hands-on workshops led by industry experts. Enhance your skills through practical learning experiences and interactive sessions.
Visualize Your Science – Turning Research into Impactful Visual Narratives through Concepts, Literature, and Methodology
Develop skills to visualize research concepts, literature, and methodologies. This workshop will guide participants in turning abstract ideas into meaningful research visuals, mapping knowledge networks, and communicating research approaches clearly.
Participants will learn how to apply practical visualization tools and adopt visual thinking approaches to solve complex engineering research problems.
Communicating STEM Research Clearly: Academic Writing, Scientific Discourse and Presentation Skills
This workshop is designed to help you write clearer STEM abstracts and research arguments using effective rhetorical organization. You will learn to use technical vocabulary and disciplinary language with greater clarity, precision, and readability.
The session also covers communicating research findings appropriately, presenting complex research ideas clearly to both specialist and non-specialist audiences, and improving conference presentation and visual communication choices for STEM research.
Optimization for Complex Engineering Problems
Optimization is a core aspect of modern engineering, enabling professionals to design efficient systems and make optimal decisions under constraints. This workshop focuses on the formulation of engineering optimization problems and introduces both classical optimization methods and advanced techniques such as genetic algorithms and biologically inspired methods.
Participants will engage in guided problem-solving and demonstrations, gaining practical experience that bridges the gap between theoretical fundamentals and real-world engineering applications.
Power System Fault Analysis Using PSCAD: A Practical Introduction to Electromagnetic Transient Simulations
The increasing complexity of modern power systems, driven by renewable energy integration, power electronic converters, and advanced protection technologies, has created a growing need for detailed transient analysis techniques. Electromagnetic Transient (EMT) simulations provide engineers and researchers with the ability to investigate system behavior during fast dynamic events that cannot be adequately captured using conventional steady-state or phasor-domain methods.
PSCAD/EMTDC is one of the most widely adopted EMT simulation tools used by utilities, consultants, equipment manufacturers, and researchers worldwide for analyzing power system transients, protection performance, switching events, and fault conditions. This workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of electromagnetic transient simulations and demonstrate the practical application of PSCAD for detailed power system fault analysis.
LiDAR360 Fast Track Workshop
Take your first step into the world of LiDAR and geospatial analysis with the LiDAR360 Fast Track Workshop at MERCon 2026. Learn industry-standard workflows with practical demonstrations, real datasets, and interactive sessions led by field experts.
Start your LiDAR journey with practical learning covering point cloud visualization, classification, terrain models, feature extraction, forestry analysis, and data export.
Workshop Highlights
- Point Cloud Visualization
- Classification
- Terrain Models
- Feature Extraction
- Forestry Analysis
- Data Export
Modern Research Paper Writing for Engineering and Computing Researchers
This workshop is designed to equip researchers with practical, up-to-date skills for writing high-quality research papers aligned with international conference and journal standards. With increasing expectations on clarity, reproducibility, visual quality, and ethical use of AI tools, effective research communication has become as critical as technical novelty. Aligned with the requirements of major engineering and computing conferences, the workshop provides a hands-on, end-to-end guide to research paper preparation from structuring ideas to producing camera-ready manuscripts using professional tools.
Target Audience
- Undergraduate and postgraduate students
- Early-career researchers, PhD candidates, academics, and industry researchers