Please consider that your submission will be judged against the following criteria when submitting material for a NAFEMS event:
- Relevance to the NAFEMS audience,
- Technical quality,
- Commercial neutrality,
- Presentation of results and language,
- Originality and ethics.
All submissions are subject to these NAFEMS guidelines. Submission will go through editorial review, and in the case of conference papers, peer-review. Non-conforming submissions may be advised to provide revisions prior to acceptance. NAFEMS reserves the right to reject, withdraw, or take-down submissions at any stage.
When coming up with a Title
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| Use Title Case (Capitalise Each Main Word), |
| Include only well-established acronyms (such as FEA, CFD, MBD, V&V, UQ), |
| Aim for something short yet fitting, |
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| Include any software product names or company specific jargon, |
| Include computational hardware product names, |
| Use superlative and evaluative phrases. |
In your Abstract
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| Include original text describing a topic relevant to the NAFEMS membership, |
| Keep it between 300-600 words, |
| State the engineering problem that you are addressing, |
| Refer to the methods that you use to address this problem, |
| State the main conclusion. |
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| Add references to external works (e.g. [3]), |
| Use superlative and evaluative phrases, |
| Add images or equations. |
When preparing an Extended Abstract
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| Follow the additional guidance included in the template, |
| Consider this as a document accompanying your presentation that will enable people missing that to catch up. |
| Favour continuous text over bullets. |
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| Submit purely AI generated material. |
Working on your Presentation
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| Focus on what others can learn and utilise: engineering methods, underlying physics, practical lessons learned. |
| Use the provided template, |
| Include your name and affiliation on the first slide, |
| Make sure that texts, graphs and graphics are readable visible when using a projector, |
| Please ensure your presentation runs within the allowed time, our conference chairs are asked to strictly control the time to promote discussions and maintain schedule. |
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| Overload slides without visuals, |
| Include video tutorials of a software tool, |
| Include any corporate branding except for the opening and closing slides. |
Writing a Conference Paper
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| Include a complete description of methods, assumptions, models, verification and validation, |
| Describe datasets, boundary conditions, material models, etc., in detail, |
| Discuss results critically, |
| Include a short state-of-the-art section with references in the introduction to reflect how others address similar problems. |
| Follow the additional guidance included in the template. |
| Don’t |
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| Submit purely AI generated material. |
