Call for Papers

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TE2021 WILL BE HELD VIRTUALLY

The ISTE has been closely monitoring the global COVID-19 situation. With uncertainty around government restrictions and regulations still high we have made the decision to run TE2021 as a virtual event.  Rest assured that conference proceedings will still be published with IOSpress in OPEN ACCESS BOOK and fully indexed by Thomson Reuters/SCI, Scopus, Compendex/Ei and others.  

 

 

If the events of 2020 have taught us anything it is that changes within a system will cause disruptions and that these disruptions can have a major impact on society.  But it is not only abrupt events such as global pandemics or natural disasters which can cause disturbance.  Digitalisation, which has been playing out over a number of years, has the potential to radically change engineering research and practice: how it is conducted, the skills required, and the solutions produced. The theme of the 28th Transdisciplinary Engineering Conference is the application of Transdisciplinary Engineering for resilience and responding to system disruptions.  

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Scope:

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The TE conference series welcomes papers on topics that address transdisciplinary engineering topics. Important for characterising papers as transdisciplinary engineering is that they:

1. Address a real-world problem.

2. Include collaborations between different disciplines which is not limited to purely technical ones.

3. Integrate knowledge from across disciplines and stakeholders.

 

Areas of interest:

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The following list identifies areas of interest for the conference. It is not an exhaustive list. If you as an author wish to submit a paper that fits within the theme of the conference and can be characterised as transdisciplinary, then please, do so.

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Resilience:

• Responsiveness to external and internal disruptions

• Training a resilient workforce

• Data-driven robustness

• Robustness through transdisciplinarity

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Product and process design:

• Design of Personalised Products and Services

• Product and production platforms

• Transdisciplinary Engineering for design optimisation

• Democratisation of design

• Citizen-/ community-led design

• Concurrent Engineering

• Human-centred Design

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Man-machine interactions:

• Ergonomics, Human Factors and Social Sustainability

• Human-Robot Collaboration

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Team Working:

• Managing cultural and disciplinary differences

• Methods for Transdisciplinary Teamwork

• Transdisciplinary Team Performance Measurement

• Collaborative Design Environments

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Transdisciplinary approaches to:

• Decision Support Tools and Methods

• Value Engineering

• Risk Management

• Knowledge Management

• Enterprise Knowledge Management

• Cost Modelling, Analysis, and Engineering

• Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing

• Smart Factory, IoT, and Industry 4.0

• Digitisation and Virtualisation

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Education:

• Transdisciplinary approach to education design and operation

• Transdisciplinary student projects

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Collaboration and Management:

• Supply Chain Management

• Supply Chain Logistics

• Sustainable Energy Transition

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Systems:

• Modelling of Complex Transdisciplinary Systems

• Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering

• Product Service Systems

Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability:

• Sustainable Manufacturing Engineering

• Circular Economy

• Global Challenges

• Sustainable Energy Transition

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Theoretical contributions to:

• Transdisciplinary Engineering Thinking and Practice

• Transdisciplinary Systems Thinking

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Publication:

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TE2020 proceedings will be published by IOS Press in OPEN ACCESS BOOK and fully indexed by Thomson Reuters/SCI, Scopus, Compendex/Ei and others.

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Authors of distinguished papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to one of the following international journals:

• International Journal of Agile Systems and Management 

• Advanced Engineering Informatics  

• Journal of Industrial Information Integration

• Journal of Industrial Integration and Management

• Journal of Management Analytics

• Journal of Computational Design and Engineering

• World Patent Information