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 NAFEMS guidelines. NAFEMS reserves the right to reject, withdraw, or unpublish submissions at any stage, whether they have been previously accepted or not.
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, |
| Consider that our Chairs are asked to strictly control the time of presentations to promote discussions and maintain schedules. |
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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. |
