Message from the General Chair

MERCon 2020 is 6th International Multidisciplinary Engineering Research Conference organized by the Engineering research unit of the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and it solicits research papers describing significant and innovative research contributions in all disciplines of engineering. We initially planned the conference as a face-to-face (physical) conference. However, due to the prevailing COVID 19 pandemic situation, the conference organizing committee and technical programme committee decided to transform it into a fully virtual conference by providing all expectations of a physical conference. The virtual conference runs from July 28 to July 30, 2020. In a physical conference, participants have two main expectations: publication and networking. The organizing committee of the virtual MERCon 2020 has taken every possible effort to fulfil the expectations of its participants by designing its programme very carefully. MERCon 2020 programme includes three keynote speeches, four workshops and twenty four technical sessions run in three parallel tracks for two days. There are 114 papers to be presented in technical sessions via the virtual mode during the conference. I am confident that the technical programme of the conference will be stimulating, valuable, and inspiring.