TE2027 invites proposals for interactive and engaging workshops to be held on the pre-conference day, July 5, 2027, or during conference days.

Workshops can be either half-day sessions and are expected to explore emerging topics, hands-on methods, community engagement, or transdisciplinary collaboration.

We encourage proposals that provide opportunities for in-depth learning, networking, and collaborative knowledge creation, across fields such as engineering, design, data science, social sciences, and policy.

Please fill out the Workshop template and send your proposal to [email] with the subject “TE2027 Workshop Proposal”.

Deadlines:

Submission: 01 March 2027 | Notification: 15 March 2027

Workshop Template

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

New Product/Service Design and Intelligent Technology

• Engineering, product, service and systems design
• Human factors, human agency, human-centred design and customer experience
• Personalised products and services; product and production platforms
• Collaborative and transdisciplinary design
• Participatory and community-led design, co-creation and democratisation of design
• Concurrent engineering, product-service systems, and lean and agile design
• Generative and agentic AI for engineering design and innovation

Team Working

• Methods for transdisciplinary teamwork and collaborative problem-solving
• Stakeholder engagement and collaboration across disciplinary boundaries
• Managing cultural and disciplinary differences and diversity
• Managing interdisciplinary teams and evaluating transdisciplinary team performance
• Collaborative design environments and knowledge Exchange
• Human-AI collaboration, hybrid intelligence and human-robot collaboration

Smart Operations for Value Chain Management

• Smart factories, smart manufacturing and industrial transformation
• Digital manufacturing, additive manufacturing and collaborative manufacturing
• Supply chain management, sustainable supply chains and collaborative value networks
• Resource and energy efficiency in production and operations
• Product-service systems and ecosystems
• Digital twins, Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems in operations
• Logistics and resilient value chains

Digital Engineering

• Systems engineering, digital engineering and model-based engineering
• Collaborative modelling, simulation and multi-physics models
• Digital twins, cyber-physical systems, and autonomous and intelligent systems
• Model verification, validation and curation
• Data and knowledge engineering for integrated decision support
• Interoperability and collaborative digital ecosystems
• Rapid prototyping and continuous delivery
• XR and immersive technologies in engineering

Transdisciplinary Approaches to Engineering and Management

• Decision support tools and methods
• Artificial intelligence, generative AI and agentic AI in engineering and decision-making
• Trustworthy, explainable and responsible AI
• Value engineering; cost modelling, analysis and engineering
• Risk management and decision-making under uncertainty
• Knowledge management and knowledge engineering
• Innovation management and digital transformation
• Business management, business processes, business models and cross-sector Innovation
• Technology transfer and collaboration between academia, industry, government and society

Pedagogy in Transdisciplinary Engineering

• Learning strategies and instructional design for engineering
• Problem-based and project-based learning
• Digital and open learning for engineering
• Engineering education and transdisciplinary competency development and assessment
• Professional education, certification and lifelong learning
• Future of work and skills development
• University-business and cross-domain cooperation

Global Issues in Transdisciplinary Engineering

• Sustainable design and manufacturing
• Circular economy and lifecycle sustainability assessment
• Resilient systems, climate resilience, climate adaptation and disaster management
• Responsible innovation and transdisciplinary approaches to sustainability
• Ethics, inclusion, inclusive engineering, gender and diversity
• Social innovation, public engagement and societal impact
• Equality, urban-rural gaps and Global North-South perspectives
• Engineering policy and practice in the public sector
• Engineering in global crises

Theoretical Contributions

• Theoretical foundations and frameworks of transdisciplinary engineering
• Engineering thinking and practice
• Systems thinking and complex socio-technical systems
• Transdisciplinary research methods and knowledge integration
• Evaluation of transdisciplinary processes, outcomes and impact

Cross-cutting Applications and Case Studies

Contributions across these topics may address application domains including:

• Smart manufacturing and industrial transformation
• Smart cities, mobility and logistics
• Healthcare, wellbeing and assistive technologies
• Energy systems and sustainable infrastructure
• Aerospace and maritime systems
• XR and immersive technologies
• Living labs, industrial demonstrators and transdisciplinary case studies
• Technology transfer and collaboration between academia, industry, government and society