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Young Members’ Technical Conference 2020

Background:

YMS2020: Young Members Section 2020

Colombo, Sri Lanka, October, 2020

Technical conference of Young Members’ section - The Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (YMS - IESL) will be held in October 2020 along with IESL Annual Sessions. It is an opportunity for all young members of IESL to present their technical papers and discuss engineering related topics with industry professionals and academia.

Submission Guidelines:

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Specially, you can submit your paper either to the IESL main sessions or to the YMS conference, and not to both. Papers from the following categories are welcome:

• Aeronautical Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Science Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
• Marine Engineering
• Material Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Authors are invited to submit their paper to IESL Young Members’ Conference. The review process is carried out using the double-blinded method. Therefore, when submitting the abstracts, please do not enter the author names and affiliations.

Please upload the full paper prepared in MSWord format through “EasyChair''. Since MSWord documents may distort your figures and tables with different versions, it is advisable to send a PDF version of the full paper to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as well. Please include the submission number in all correspondence. 

Since the full paper will be double-blind reviewed (i.e., the details of the authors are not provided to reviewers, and reviewers’ details will not be known to the authors), please DO NOT include the Authors’ names and their affiliations in the full paper.

For the further details, please read the instructions carefully which was given in the accepted email and follow the instructions properly.

Notification of the acceptance of the full paper will be sent on or before 31^st of August 2020.

Camera ready paper

You should submit the final camera ready paper on or before 11^th of September 2020. All accepted papers are to be presented at the “Technical conference of YMS – IESL” which will be held in October 2020.

Note: Since the conference encourages young members, at least one author (except supervisor) must be a young member (below 35 years old). 
Further, the accepted paper should be presented at the conference only by a young member. 

Schedule of key dates:

Last date for receipt of abstracts                                 - 15th May 2020

Notification of acceptance                                           - 30th May 2020

Last date for submission of full paper                         - 30th June 2020

Notification of the acceptance of the full paper           - 31^st August 2020

Last date for submission of Camera ready paper      - 11^th September 2020

Presentations of accepted papers                              - October 2020

Best paper award

Best paper based on the marks given by referees and judges at the presentation will be entitled to the prestigious late Eng. Chandrasena Award.

Formats and agreement forms

Full paper format - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_yDoYB_mCfoOczggoQc2Rovu3DX9uTX0?usp=sharing

Agreement form - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ze-XUh3MITFtRhjoF6VzGIdLZwP3lrFZ?usp=sharing

Easychair submission link - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=youngmemberssection2

Committees

Program Committee

Dr. Ishani Dias

Eng. Jayantha Dayananda

Eng. Nadeera Sugandi

Organizing committee

B. Danthasinghe

A. S. C. Samarasinghe

N.T.Senarathna 

S.P.Somathilaka

E.M.A.G.N.C. Ekanayake

J.M.D.S. Jeewandara 

W.M.C.S.B Walisundara

H.K.K.S. Gunaweera

M.T. Gunasekara

Siriwardhana

H.M.N.A Herath

K.T.R. Wickramasinghe

M.Y.L. Salgado

K.M.W.O.V. Jayawardane

Contact

All inquiries about submissions should be emailed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Telephone - 2698426, ext- 207,232 or Eng. Navodana Kankanamge, YMS Chairman - 0716876676

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Engineering Council Sri Lanka (ECSL) Registration Fee

 ECSL Registration Fee - Rs. 1000.00 per annum

 Relevant information on ECSL registration fee: 

Engineering Council, Sri Lanka has been established by Engineering Council, Sri Lanka Act, No 4 of 2017 passed in the Parliament of The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. According to clause 14 of said act,  no engineering practitioner shall engage in the practice of engineering profession unless such engineering practitioner is registered under ECSL. In order to register in the ECSL under one of the following Member categories, one has to be an active Member of the IESL and has paid annual subscriptions for the IESL and ECSL membership for the current year. Please note that IESL Members have to pay ECSL registration fee to the IESL by using any of the payment methods indicated under “Instructions for Payment” section below. Names of those Members will be sent to the ECSL by the IESL for registration

 a) Chartered Engineer - Corporate Members of the IESL (Fellow and Member Categories of the IESL)

 b) Associate Engineer - Associate Members of the IESL

c) Affiliate Engineer - Affiliate Members of the IESL

• IESL will generate two separate invoices each year; one for the IESL annual membership payment and the other for the ECSL annual registration payment.
• Honorary Life Fellows (HLF) and Honorary Life Members (HLM) who are not required to pay IESL membership fee, will have to pay the ECSL registration fee if they intend to actively practice as engineers.
• IESL Members who are employed overseas may not need to register for ECSL.
• Those who do not pay ECSL registration fee on or before 31^st January of each year will be removed from the ECSL Registries (pls refer ECSL website: www.ecsl.lk) and will appear in ECSL registries only upon such payments to IESL. Note that, only paying ECSL registration fee, one cannot register in ECSL. 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAYMENT

Please note that the following modes of payment are now available:

1. Online Payment Method 

A) Online payments (using  Internet Payment Gateway (IPG)) by logging in to our website, iesl.lk

        The easiest and simple way is to use IESL MIS system to pay subscriptions ONLINE. (This method will update your profile on time)

        Steps involved:

1. Login to MIS System by using your User Name and Password (if you do not know how to login to MIS system Click Here) 
2. Go to “My Payments” submenu
3. Click the submenu ”Outstanding”  
4. If you have any outstanding payments, they are displayed in your profile
5. Please click the icon/s in front of the outstanding invoice/s
6. Press “Pay Online” button
7. You will be directed to the Internet Payment Gateway (IPG)
8. You will get two options to pay, through “BOC” or “Sampath Bank”. You can select any option as appropriate
9. Enter the details requested by the Bank and click “Pay Now” button. As per your agreement with Credit/Debit Card supplier, an OTP (One Time Password) will be sent to your registered mobile/email with the Credit/Debit card supplier

Additional information about Debit /Credit Cards (eCommerce transactions)

Following banks allow eCommerce transactions with their cards by default

• Sampath Bank Debit/Credit/Web Cards
• HSBC Debit/Credit Cards
• Commercial Bank Debit/Credit Cards
• BOC Credit Card
• People's Bank Credit Card

*Some banks DO NOT allow eCommerce transactions with their cards by default, Please check with the Bank whether your card is acceptable for eCommerce transactions or not before using  BOC or Sampath Bank Internet Payment Gateway (IPG)

B) Inform Payment Method of MIS Using Emails

a) Online funds transfer to the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka Account No: 0002323113 maintained at the Torrington Square Branch of the Bank of Ceylon with the confirmation of payment received from the bank sent to us using the informed payment method of MIS  or via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and quoting your membership number and name with initials

b) Cash payments made directly at any branch of Bank of Ceylon to the Account No. 002323113 of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka maintained at the Torrington Square Branch of the Bank of Ceylon using the special payment slip available at the bank. A copy of the slip should be sent to us, preferably using informed payment method of MIS  or via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. along with the payment slip.

C) Other Payment Method (Without MIS)

a) Cheques drawn in favor of "The Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka" and posted to IESL

b) Cash/Cheque /Credit Card/Debit card payments made in person during normal working hours(8.30 am to 4.30 pm)at IESL Headquarters, Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 7.