A society for work that has to hold up outside the lab

The International Society of Applied Science, Technology and Engineering (ISASTE) is an independent, non-profit professional association — an international cooperative of researchers, engineers, and academic practitioners dedicated to the applied sciences.

Rather than operating in isolation, ISASTE partners with universities, research institutes, and regional academic bodies. Its function is to set the conditions a conference must meet before we put our name to it, to publish those conditions in full, and to keep a public record of what has been endorsed.

Our Mission: To bridge the gap between theoretical research and applied engineering by supporting academic communication. We aim to provide technical sponsorship, peer-review management, and operational support to academic conferences globally, ensuring that regional events meet international scientific standards.

Our Vision: To build a reliable and inclusive academic network that connects early-career researchers with established academic institutions, fostering collaborative engineering solutions for real-world challenges.

• Scientific Integrity: We uphold stringent publication ethics. Through rigorous double-blind peer-review processes and adherence to COPE guidelines, we strive to safeguard the integrity of the scientific record.
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration: We believe that modern engineering bottlenecks cannot be solved in silos. We actively support platforms where computer scientists, materials engineers, and domain experts can exchange ideas.
• Open Knowledge: We are committed to making critical engineering knowledge accessible to developing nations and marginalized scientific communities.

The work the society endorses sits in six areas. They are listed here in the same order as on the home page, and a conference is assessed against the one it declares:

• Applied physics and materials — condensed matter, functional and structural materials, metrology.
• Photonics and optical systems — optical computing, imaging, fibre and free-space links.
• Energy conversion and storage — photovoltaics, power electronics, batteries and grid integration.
• Control, instrumentation and measurement — embedded systems, sensors, robotics and automation.
• Data and computing systems — machine learning, distributed systems, scientific computing.
• Engineering for medicine and biology — medical devices, biomedical signal processing, clinical translation.

To actualize our mission, ISASTE focuses on providing structural and technical support to the global academic community:

• Conference Co-Sponsorship & Organization Support: We actively partner with universities and local academic chapters to co-organize and technically sponsor international conferences. ISASTE provides the necessary infrastructural support—from peer-review management systems to publishing ethics oversight—ensuring that regional academic events are executed seamlessly.
• Publishing Assistance: We assist organizing committees in managing the editorial workflow, so that accepted papers are systematically formatted, archived, and published in the proceedings designated by the organising committee.
• Technical Committees (TCs): We form ad-hoc and permanent working groups to evaluate emerging research trends and provide academic guidance for conference themes.

We are continuously building a supportive, equitable, and inclusive academic ecosystem. ISASTE recognizes that the future of engineering lies in the hands of today's young scholars.

We are particularly focused on empowering Early-Career Researchers (ECRs) and students. Whenever financially feasible, ISASTE strives to provide travel grants and registration subsidies for our co-sponsored events, ensuring that financial barriers do not prevent promising young minds from participating in international discourse.

Furthermore, we systematically strive to amplify voices from the Global South and underrepresented demographics in STEM, aiming for geographical and demographic diversity within our technical program committees.