CONFERENCE TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Product Design and Development:
- Design of Personalized Products and Services
- Product and Production Platforms
- Democratization of Design
- Citizen/ Community-Led Design
- Concurrent Engineering
- Human-Centric Design
- Co-Creation
- Customer Experience Design
Team Working:
- Managing Cultural and Disciplinary Differences
- Methods for Transdisciplinary Teamwork
- Transdisciplinary Team Performance Measurement
- Collaborative Design Environments
Smart Operations for Value Chain Management:
- Supply Chain Management
- Smart Factory
- Product Service Systems
- Collaborative Manufacturing
- Digital Manufacturing
- Additive Manufacturing
- Digital Twin
- Internet of Things
- Cyber-Physical Systems
Transdisciplinary Approaches to
- Decision Support Tools and Methods
- Value Engineering
- Risk Management
- Knowledge Management and Knowledge Engineering
Engineering Education
- Learning Strategies and Instructional Design for Engineering
- Problem-Based Learning and Project-based Learning in Engineering
- Digital and Open Learning for Engineering
- Competency Development and Assessment
- Professional Education and Certification
- University Business Cooperation
Critical Issues in Transdisciplinary Engineering
- Gender and Diversity in Engineering Teams
- Global North vs South
- Engineering Policy and Practice in the Public Sector
- Engineering in Global Crises
Theoretical Contributions
- Engineering Thinking and Practice
- Systems Thinking
- Complex Sociotechnical Systems