The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Metals
The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Metals
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Metals series
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
17th January 2025
17th February 2025
28th April 2025
Computational Materials Science and Engineering, Advanced Metallurgy Technology, Structural and Functional Metallic Materials, Material Design, Surface Failure and Protection
Announcement
IECME is Free to Participate.
Register and submit your abstract today to be part of cutting-edge discussions and networking opportunities!
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Welcome from the Chairs
Dear colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to join the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Metals, which will be hosted online from 5 to 7 May 2025.
As one of the pillar technologies that support the development of modern society, metallurgy, and Metals play a crucial role in addressing major societal challenges. In recent decades with rapid technological advances, metallic materials have been extended to many emerged technological fields for a wider range of applications, not only used as structural materials but also as functional ones. IECME 2025 will present the state-of-the-art of Metallurgy and Metals related to the following topics:
S1. Experiment, Computation, AI, and Machine-learning on Metals
S2. Metallic Materials Chemistry
S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
S4. Entropic Alloys and Meta-Metals
S5. Metallic Functional/ Electronics Materials
S6. Additive manufacturing
S7. Corrosion, Wear, and Protection
S8. Metallic Materials Processing
S9. Metallic Materials for Biomedical Applications
IECME 2025 will enable you to share and discuss your most recent research findings with the worldwide vibrant community of scientists and engineers in the field.
IECME 2025 will make your presentation accessible to hundreds of researchers worldwide, with the active engagement of the audience in question-and-answer sessions and discussion groups that will take place online.
The conference committee will review the submitted abstracts. The authors of accepted contributions will be invited to produce an extended abstract for the conference proceedings along with a slide presentation of their work. Following the conference, outstanding contributions will be invited to be submitted as a full-length paper for publication in Metals.
We hope you will join us, present your work at IECME 2025, and be part of this exciting online event.
Best regards,
Prof. D.Y. Li,
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Prof. Yung C. Shin
School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Event Chairs
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Dr. D.Y. Li is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Alberta. His research areas include material design, wear & corrosion, materials physics, and computational materials science. Dr. Li has in excess of 470 scientific publications, including over 430 journal publications. He is an invited contributor for authoritative handbooks (Elsevier, Springer, ASM International), and on the editorial board for 18 international journals. Dr. Li is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK), and Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK).
Yung C. Shin received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1984, and currently is the Donald A. & Nancy G. Roach Distinguished Professor of Advanced Manufacturing at Purdue University and Director of Center for Laser-based Manufacturing at Purdue University. His research areas include laser processing of materials, advanced manufacturing processes, and intelligent systems. He has published over 430 papers in archived journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is a fellow of SME and ASME. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing, a Springer Nature journal, and Advanced Manufacturing, ELS Publishing.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Juan José Suñol Martínez
Department of Physics, Escola Politècnica Superior, Universitat de Girona, 17073 Girona, Spain
Prof. Dr. Suñol Martínez has more than 250 articles in indexed (SCI) journals and more than 350 communications in scientific congress. He is the former President of the Spanish GECAT (Spanish Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Group) from 2015 to 2023. During his career, he was also the Head of the Physics department of the University of Girona between 2007 and 2010 and coordinator of the Materials and Thermodynamics Research group of the University of Girona.
Prof. Dr. Chuang Deng
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 5V6, Canada
Dr. Chuang Deng is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He received his B.Sc. in materials physics from Fudan University in 2004, Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Vermont in 2009, and his postdoctoral training from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012. His main research interests are towards the processing-structure-property correlation in metallic materials by using multi-scale simulation tools. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the field of metallurgy and computational materials science. He has been serving on the editor board for the journal Scientific Reports since 2016.
Prof. Dr. Michael McNallan
Prof. Dr. Michael McNallan, Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
Michael McNallan is currently Professor of Materials Science Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He earned a PhD in Metallurgy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977 focused on chemical and process metallurgy, and joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in 1978 after completing a 1.5 year post‐doctoral appointment at MIT where he worked on high temperature corrosion phenomena. At UIC, he has supervised 31 PhD theses and 34 M.S. theses in Metallurgy or Materials Engineering, with most of the work addressing materials processing or high temperature corrosion in aggressive environments containing halogens or halide vapors. In 1989/1990, he spent a sabbatical year at the Center for Advanced Materials at the Pennsylvania State University, where his work addressed nonoxide ceramics for high temperature heat exchangers. In 1998, he was named a Fellow of ASM International for his work on high temperature corrosion of metals and ceramics. In 2003, his work on formation of nanostructured carbide derived carbon coatings received the R & D 100 award. He holds four U.S. and International patents, and has edited five volumes of technical papers on chemical processing and corrosion of metals and ceramics. In 2006, he took on administrative responsibilities at UIC, becoming the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs of the College of Engineering at UIC. He continued in that position until 2015, when he returned to his regular faculty position in the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering. He gave up full time teaching in 2018, after 40 years at UIC, when he became Professor of Materials Science Emeritus. He continues to have involvement with publications and graduate students in the Materials Science program at UIC.
Event Committee
Affiliation: Machine Manufacturing Department, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University, Iași 700050, Romania
S8. Metallic Materials Processing
School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University of
Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China
S7. Corrosion, Wear, and Protection & S8. Metallic Materials Processing
WMG, International Manufacturing Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
S6. Additive manufacturing
School of Civil Aviation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
S1. Experiment, Computation, AI, and Machine-learning on Metals & S8. Metallic Materials Processing
Instituto de Materiales de Misiones - IMAM (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) - Universidad Nacional de Misiones (UNaM)), Posadas-Misiones, Argentina, 3300, Argentina.
S1. Experiment, Computation, AI, and Machine-learning on Metals & S2. Metallic Materials Chemistry & S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
S8. Metallic Materials Processing
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures, Targu Mures 540139, Romania
S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
S8. Metallic Materials Processing
Additive Manufacturing Research Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu Jagti, Jammu & Kashmir, 181221, India
S6. Additive manufacturing
Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China.
S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
Faculty of Materials Science & Engineering, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, 700050, Iași, Romania.
S9. Metallic Materials for Biomedical Applications
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Qassim University, Buraidah 52571, Saudi Arabia
S6. Additive manufacturing
S4. Entropic Alloys and Meta-Metals
Invited Speakers
Department of Physics, Badji Mokhtar - Annaba University, Laboratory of Magnetism and Spectroscopy of Solids (LM2S), B.P. 12, Annaba 23000, Algeria
Effect of the sintering conditions on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the high entropy alloys
Sessions
S2. Metallic Materials Chemistry
S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
S4. Entropic Alloys and Meta-Metals
S5. Metallic Functional/ Electronics Materials
S6. Additive manufacturing
S7. Corrosion, Wear, and Protection
S8. Metallic Materials Processing
S9. Metallic Materials for Biomedical Applications
Registration
The registration for IECME 2025 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 28th April 2025.
Instructions for Authors
IECME 2025 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
1. Deadline for abstract submission: 17 January 2025.
2. Announcement of oral and poster abstract results: 17 February 2025. 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.
Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "Submit Abstract" function once logged into the system. No physical template is necessary.
- The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
- All accepted abstracts will be published as one dedicated volume in Proceedings journal (ISSN: 2504-3900). If you wish to publish a full-length proceedings paper, please refer to the “Publication Opportunities” Section.
- All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
- You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
Detailed Requirements:
- The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
- 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.
- 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.
The Poster Sessions will take place in Zoom break-out rooms. The rooms will be called after your surname. You will automatically be assigned to your break-out room, however, you will be responsible for your own room, i.e. sharing your screen by yourself, handling the comments in the chat if there are any, etc. People will then be able to visit your room and discuss your poster with you. Please make sure you have the Zoom Desktop client or mobile app, version 5.3.0 or higher.
We will reach out to you closer to the dates of the conference with more information.
Metals Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue, published in Metals (ISSN: ISSN 2075-4701, Impact Factor 2.9), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. 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.
It is the author's responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 6 awards including the Best Oral Presentation Award and the Best Poster Presentation Award.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Oral Presentation Award is given to the paper judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Award is given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
The winners will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Sponsors and Partners
Organizers
Co-organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Teodora Cremene
Ms. Hilda Hou
Ms. Teodora Stepanov
Email: iecme2025@mdpi.com
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
