The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Machines and Applications
The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Machines and Applications
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Machines and Applications series
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
9 January 2026
9 February 2026
6 May 2026
Condition Monitoring, Robotics, Automation and Control, Fault Diagnosis, Machines Design, Additive Manufacturing, Electrical Machines
Welcome from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Machines and Applications (IECMA 2026), promoted by the open access MDPI journal Machines (ISSN 2075-1702), which will be held online on 12-14 May 2026.
Machinery and engineering areas play a key role in an ever-increasingly technological society. Transportation, renewable energies, and more efficient buildings are only some of the domains where the intensive application of these systems has been most noticed. In all these applications, efficiency and reliability, automation and control, and advanced manufacturing are of major concern.
The scope of this online conference is to bring together well-known worldwide experts who are currently working on machinery and engineering and to provide an online forum for presenting and discussing new results.
Throughout this event, we aim to cover, among others, the following topics:
S1. Automation and Control Systems
S2. Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis
S3. Machines Design and Additive Manufacturing
S4. Electrical Machines and Drives
S5. Electromechanical Energy-Conversion Systems
S6. Mechatronics/Electromechatronics
All accepted abstracts will be published on the website of the conference. You are required to submit an abstract (minimum 200—maximum 300-word limit). Please see the abstract guidelines in "Instructions for Authors".
After the conference, the participants may submit a full paper to MDPI’s Machines journal. After the review process, the authors of the accepted papers will receive a 20% discount on the APC before the paper is published in Machines.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we cordially invite you to join us at the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Machines and Applications (IECMA 2026).
We look forward to your contributions.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso
Conference Chair
CISE—Electromechatronic Systems Research Centre, Department of Electromechanical Engineering, University of Beira Interior, Calçada Fonte do Lameiro, Covilhã, Portugal
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Event Chairs
CISE—Electromechatronic Systems Research Centre, Department of Electromechanical Engineering, University of Beira Interior, Calçada Fonte do Lameiro, Covilhã, Portugal
Antonio J. Marques Cardoso received the Dipl. Eng., Dr. Eng., and Habilitation degrees from the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, in 1985, 1995 and 2008, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1985 until 2011 he was with the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, where he was Director of the Electrical Machines Laboratory. Since 2011 he has been with the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã, Portugal, where he is Full Professor at the Department of Electromechanical Engineering and Director of CISE - Electromechatronic Systems Research Centre (http://cise.ubi.pt). He was Vice-Rector of UBI (2013-2014). His current research interests are in fault diagnosis and fault tolerance in electrical machines, power electronics and drives. He is the author of a book entitled Fault Diagnosis in Three-Phase Induction Motors (Coimbra, Portugal: Coimbra Editora, 1991), (in Portuguese), editor of a book entitled Diagnosis and Fault Tolerance of Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (IET/SciTech, UK, 2018) and also author of more than 600 papers published in technical journals and conference proceedings. Prof. Marques Cardoso currently serves as Editor in Chief of the MDPI journal Machines, Co-Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion and IEEE Power Engineering Letters, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, IET The Journal of Engineering, as well of the Springer journal Electrical Engineering and the International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management.
Registration
Instructions for Authors
Important Deadlines
- Deadline for abstract submission: 9 January 2026.
- Announcement of oral and poster abstract results: 9 February 2026. You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Certificates of Participation are available in your logged-in area of Sciforum.net, under “My Certificates” after the conference.
1. The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
2. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
Detailed Requirements:
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 12 mins, leaving at least 3 mins for the Q&A session. Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.
- Poster should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures and graphs where necessary.
- File format: PDF (.pdf).
- Size in pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3).
You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded HERE.
Authors who wish to present a poster are invited to send it to the conference email at iecma2026@mdpi.com . All posters will be permanently exhibited online in the Poster Gallery.
Publication Opportunities
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue (will be announced soon), published in Machines( ISSN: 2075-1702, Impact Factor: 2.1). Please note that no other discounts are applicable. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of The 1st International Online Conference on Environments in journal Engineering Proceedings (ISSN: 2673-4591); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference. There will be no additional fees.
Proceedings submission deadline: 30 June 2026.
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
Title;
Full author names;
Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses;
Abstract;
Keywords;
Introduction;
Methods;
Results and Discussion;
Conclusions;
Acknowledgements;
References.
Event Awards
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 4
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
Sponsors and Partners
For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please click here.
Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Charlene Dong
Ms. Missy Wu
Ms. Ana-Maria Prodan
Email: iecma2026@mdpi.com
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
