Call for Papers 2022

How Emerging Technologies Are Driving Sustainability

Call for Papers (Download Late CFP PDF)

VIRTUAL – Hosted from Sunny Riverside, CA. — April 21-23, 2022

Sustainability: the pursuit of environmentally sound development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the future!

The 9^th Annual IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2022) is designed to explore technical development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the future generations. The conference brings together scientists, engineers, technologists and scholars from disparate disciplines to conduct a dialogue on environmental issues and collaborate on ideas to develop and utilize innovative tools and intelligent systems to address them. Attendees will explore emerging relevant technologies, latest tools, and proactive solutions to take their sustainability programs to the next level.

SusTech 2022 is a virtual and on-demand event and will feature technical papers & presentations, posters and workshops.

Prominent experts will be giving keynotes, plenary presentations and invited talks.
Best Posters and Papers in the conference will be eligible for an award.
Full papers will be considered for publication in the IEEE SusTech 2022 Proceedings.

Conference content that meets IEEE quality review standards and format will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting & Indexing (A&I) databases.

Papers are solicited for presentations from industry, government, and academia (including students) covering relevant research, technologies, methodologies, tools, case studies and public policy.

Conference Fields of Interest
Technologies that drive sustainable infrastructure design and implementation

New for 2022: Sustainable Aviation

Focus Area	Topics
Agriculture and Food Technology	(e.g. control and production of fertilizers, soil, water conservation, irrigation, fisheries)
Energy Efficiency	(e.g. sensors and measurement, retrofits of existing infrastructure, energy saving controls, data centers, power saving, Smart Environment)
Renewable/Alternative Energy	(e.g. solar, wind, tidal, fuel cells, energy harvesting, nuclear, thermal, power distribution)
Sustainable Electronics	(e.g. sustainable manufacturing and industrial applications, components and systems, global materials supply, reuse and repair of consumer electronics, Open repair manuals and on-line repair and electronics sustainability resources, best practices)
Internet of Things (IOT) for sustainability	(e.g.: sensors, computing, control, communication, storage and drive electronics targeted for IOT applications, medical electronics)
Smart Grid	(e.g. communications, control, power electronics, industrial and home applications, energy storage, demand control and response)
Smart Cities	(e.g. intelligent infrastructure, smart environment, smart buildings, connected ecosystem, AI/ML for sustainability, data collection and analytics)
Intelligent Transportation Systems	(e.g. transportation electrification, electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, aviation/drones, motors, drive controls, batteries, sensors, electronics & fuel economy, environmental & power distribution impacts)
Ecological Sustainability and Conservation	(e.g. technology to monitor global environmental change, technology for conserving nature on the high and deep seas, technology for nature conservation and management, technology to reduce the spread of invasive species, technologies to reduce the ecological foot print of a growing (blue) economy, technology to measure progress towards the sustainable development goals)
Sustainable Aviation	(e. g. airframes, propulsion systems and zero emissions, maintenance, safety, reliability, fly by wire, air traffic management, airworthiness certification, airport decarbonization)
Sustainable Management	(e.g. sustainable projects management, leading societal change, adoption and deployment of new technologies, leading and managing innovation, business cases and planning, partnering and collaboration, cybersecurity planning and implementation, environmental and social governance (ESG))
Societal Implications / Quality of Life / Public Policy	(e.g. engineering of sustainable solutions, implementation challenges for sustainable technologies, ethics of Smart Cities, health & medical electronics, global education & human resources, ethics and professional responsibility, risk management, public policy)
eWaste	(e.g. reduction, conversion, disposal, recycling, materials harvesting, reuse, managing product lifecycle)
Ocean Waste & Pollution Management	(e.g. engineering solutions for industrial & military dumping in the oceans, CO2 trapping in the oceans effect, acoustic pollution, technologies for managing coastal oceans)
Water Resources Management	(e.g. quantity and distribution of water in natural and the built environment, sensors, controls, systems to treat, reclaim, and conserve water)

Instructions to Authors: Submit in PDF form, a full submission of the paper for oral presentation via the SusTech website. For information for authors, please visit the conference website at https://ieee-sustech.org/authors and follow the instructions.

There will be a separate Student Poster Competition.

2022 Key Dates

Regular Papers Acceptance notification	15-Dec-2021
Early registration opens	15-Dec-2021
Oral Only Abstracts Submission Deadline	16-Jan-2022
Late Papers Submission Deadline	16-Jan-2022
Author Early Registration ends	30-Jan-2022
Regular Papers Final submission deadline	31-Jan-2022
Late Papers Acceptance notification	1-Feb-2022
Late Papers Final submission deadline	2-Mar-2022
Student Poster Abstracts submission deadline	30-Jan-2022
Early Registration ends	30-Mar-2022

For more information or questions, please contact: sustech@ieee.org

SusTech 2022 Leadership

Conference Chair:	David E. Gonzalez	davidgonzalez@ieee.org
Vice Chair:	Sharan Kalwani	sharan.kalwani@ieee.org
Technical Program Chair:	Rakesh Mahto	ramahto@fullerton.edu
Past Chair:	Gora Datta	gora.datta@ieee.org
Emeritus Chair and Co-Founder:	Ed Perkins	e.perkins@ieee.org

Sponsors for SusTech 2022 include the IEEE Oregon, Phoenix, San Fernando Valley, Inland Empire (Foothill), Orange County, Metro Los Angeles, and Coastal Los Angeles Sections, IEEE Region 6, IEEE-USA; and co-sponsored by the IEEE Standards Association, and the IEEE PES, SSIT and TEMS Societies.