The 25^th International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering (TE2018)

is an international forum to disseminate the most recent and relevant research, theories and practices on the new frontiers of engineering, evolving the paradigm of Concurrent Engineering and Collaborative Engineering.

TE2018 conference will take place in Modena (Italy), from July 3 to 6, 2018. Modena is located into the Emilia region, which is famous for Advanced Manufacturing, Automotive and Food industries. In particular, Modena is the beating heart of the “Motor Valley” (which includes companies like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, CHN Industrial, Ducati, Pagani).

The conference will link researchers and practitioners from industry and academia specialising in design and engineering disciplines from around the world. On July 2, a set of pre-conference interactive workshops will bring together students, researchers, professors and experts discussing crucial topics of Transdisciplinary Engineering. After the conference, on July 6, technical tour and industrial visit will make conference delegates know more about local initiatives, joint research between industry and University, and the most promising industrial innovations.

Why Transdisciplinary Engineering?

Transdisciplinary Engineering is an emerging field that extends and evolves the initial basic concepts known as Concurrent Engineering (CE). CE has matured and has become the foundations of many new ideas, methodologies, initiatives, approaches and tools. Generally, CE concentrates on enterprise collaboration and its many different elements; from integrating people and processes to very specific complete multi/inter/trans-disciplinary solutions, taking the user into account. Current research on CE is driven by many factors like increased customer demands, globalization, (international) collaboration and environmental strategies. The successful application of CE in the past opens also the perspective for future applications like overcoming natural catastrophes, sustainable mobility concepts with electrical vehicles, and intensive, integrated, data processing, with an increasing importance of Transdisciplinarity. User and application environments are more and more included into design and development to customize new products and implement solutions that are really needed and wanted. Research incorporates then also social science methodologies to acquire the necessary knowledge about users and context and to better implement solutions in their context. Engineering needs these approaches to be more successful with their innovation efforts.

Transdisciplinarity is characterising modern research areas, in which natural sciences are integrated with social sciences, requiring mixed methodologies for achieving the work. It is expected to be a significant basis for future evolution, especially in all Engineering areas.