TE2026｜NCKU
Workshops
Workshop :
Preparing for Scholarly Journal Publications in Transdisciplinary Engineering
Publishing high-quality research is essential for advancing Transdisciplinary Engineering (TE),where knowledge must be communicated across technical, social, and contextual domains. However, many scholars encounter challenges when preparing manuscripts that meet the expectations of international journals.
This workshop is designed to help researchers develop the knowledge and skills needed to publish impactful work in TE-related journals. Organized and led by Editors-in-Chief and senior editorial board members from Advanced Engineering Informatics (ADVEI), World Patent Information (WPI) and Journal of Engineering Design, the session will provide first-hand editorial perspectives on preparing, submitting, and revising manuscripts.
Key topics include aligning manuscripts with journal aims and scopes, understanding ethical standards for authorship and peer review, and managing the review and revision process. The workshop will also explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (GenAI) are changing scholarly publishing, both as tools for authors and as emerging aids for editorial workflows.
Through an interactive panel format, participants will engage directly with journal editors to ask questions, discuss challenges, and learn about special issue opportunities related to TE2026. The session supports the TE2026 goal of strengthening transdisciplinary collaboration and responsible knowledge sharing across global research communities.
Moderator
Dr. Amy Trappey (National Tsing Hua University), Editor-in-Chief, World Patent Information
Dr. Edward Huang (Auburn University), Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Engineering Informatics
Panelists
A. Elsevier
Ms. Carrie Christensen (Elsevier), Senior Publishing Executive
B. Advanced Engineering Informatics
Dr. Chun-Hsien Chen (Nanyang Technological University), Former Editor-in-Chief and Guest Editor, Advanced Engineering Informatics
Dr. Ming-Chuan Chiu (National Tsing Hua University), Associate Editor, Advanced Engineering Informatics
Dr. Ching-Hung Lee (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Associate Editor, Advanced Engineering Informatics
C. World Patent Information
Dr. Ai-Che (Ada) Chang (Shih Hsin University)
Dr. Hsin-Ying (Cindy) Wu (Open University of Kaohsiung)
D. Journal of Engineering Design
Dr. Jianxin (Roger) Jiao (Georgia Institute of Technology), Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Engineering Design
Moderator
Dr. Amy Trappey (National Tsing Hua University), Editor-in-Chief, World Patent Information
Dr. Edward Huang (Auburn University), Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Engineering Informatics
Panelists
A. Elsevier
Ms. Carrie Christensen (Elsevier), Senior Publishing Executive
B. Advanced Engineering Informatics
Dr. Chun-Hsien Chen (Nanyang Technological University), Former Editor-in-Chief and Guest Editor, Advanced Engineering Informatics
Dr. Ming-Chuan Chiu (National Tsing Hua University), Associate Editor, Advanced Engineering Informatics
Dr. Ching-Hung Lee (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Associate Editor, Advanced Engineering Informatics
C. World Patent Information
Dr. Ai-Che (Ada) Chang (Shih Hsin University)
Dr. Hsin-Ying (Cindy) Wu (Open University of Kaohsiung)
D. Journal of Engineering Design
Dr. Jianxin (Roger) Jiao (Georgia Institute of Technology), Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Engineering Design
Moderator
Dr. Amy Trappey (National Tsing Hua University), Editor-in-Chief, World Patent Information
Dr. Edward Huang (Auburn University), Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Engineering Informatics
Panelists
A. Elsevier
Ms. Carrie Christensen (Elsevier), Senior Publishing Executive
B. Advanced Engineering Informatics
Dr. Chun-Hsien Chen (Nanyang Technological University), Former Editor-in-Chief and Guest Editor, Advanced Engineering Informatics
Dr. Ming-Chuan Chiu (National Tsing Hua University), Associate Editor, Advanced Engineering Informatics
Dr. Ching-Hung Lee (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Associate Editor, Advanced Engineering Informatics
C. World Patent Information
Dr. Ai-Che (Ada) Chang (Shih Hsin University)
Dr. Hsin-Ying (Cindy) Wu (Open University of Kaohsiung)
D. Journal of Engineering Design
Dr. Jianxin (Roger) Jiao (Georgia Institute of Technology), Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Engineering Design
Workshop :
A Collaborative Team Working Workshop toward Net-Zero Emissions from International Maritime Transport
This interactive workshop, organized by researchers from the University of Tokyo, explores the complex challenges of decarbonizing international shipping. It combines a strategic simulation with an experimental study on how decision support systems influence teamwork and consensus-building in the face of global sustainability goals.
This interactive workshop, organized by researchers from the University of Tokyo, explores the complex challenges of decarbonizing international shipping. It combines a strategic simulation with an experimental study on how decision support systems influence teamwork and consensus-building in the face of global sustainability goals.
This proposal outlines a collaborative workshop designed for TE2026 focused on the decarbonization of international maritime transport. Organized by researchers from the University of Tokyo, the session serves two primary objectives: educating participants about the challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the maritime sector, and collecting experimental data to analyze how a decision support system influences teamwork, negotiation, and consensus building. These goals align with Transdisciplinary Engineering topics such as Global Issues, Theoretical Contributions, and Team Working, specifically addressing sustainability, complex sociotechnical systems, and collaborative design environments. A central feature of the workshop design is the built-in dilemma between cooperation and competition. Participants role-play as shipping companies that must contribute to the shared global objective of achieving “Maritime Net-Zero 2050” while simultaneously striving to outperform competitors in terms of corporate profitability. To reproduce this game-theoretic tension, the simulation incorporates a payoff constraint: even if a company maximizes its own profit, its final evaluation is substantially reduced if the group as a whole fails to meet the Net-Zero target, effectively lowering its reward to the level of an average performer in successful scenarios. Through this mechanism, the exercise exposes the conflict between individual economic rationality and global optimization inherent in Green Transformation. The workshop consists of a 20-minute introductory lecture, a 50-minute simulation-based exercise involving vessel ordering, fuel transition strategies, and regulatory negotiations, and a final 20-minute debrief. The session is open to 15–30 participants, and organizers will provide the necessary computing hardware. Expected outcomes include public release of the simulation toolkit and publication of a research paper based on the collected data.
Target Participant: Any kind of participant is welcome.
Participants Tasks:
Participants will role-play as shipping companies facing a critical dilemma: competing for corporate profitability while cooperating to achieve the collective "Maritime Net-Zero 2050" target. Using a provided simulation toolkit, teams must navigate vessel ordering, fuel transition strategies, and regulatory negotiations where individual gains are tied to the group's environmental success.
Duration: 90 minutes (20-min lecture, 50-min simulation exercise, and 20-min debrief).
Organizers: Kazuho Nonomura, Heng Zhong, Kazuo Hiekata, and Takuya Nakashima at The University of Tokyo.
This proposal outlines a collaborative workshop designed for TE2026 focused on the decarbonization of international maritime transport. Organized by researchers from the University of Tokyo, the session serves two primary objectives: educating participants about the challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the maritime sector, and collecting experimental data to analyze how a decision support system influences teamwork, negotiation, and consensus building. These goals align with Transdisciplinary Engineering topics such as Global Issues, Theoretical Contributions, and Team Working, specifically addressing sustainability, complex sociotechnical systems, and collaborative design environments. A central feature of the workshop design is the built-in dilemma between cooperation and competition. Participants role-play as shipping companies that must contribute to the shared global objective of achieving “Maritime Net-Zero 2050” while simultaneously striving to outperform competitors in terms of corporate profitability. To reproduce this game-theoretic tension, the simulation incorporates a payoff constraint: even if a company maximizes its own profit, its final evaluation is substantially reduced if the group as a whole fails to meet the Net-Zero target, effectively lowering its reward to the level of an average performer in successful scenarios. Through this mechanism, the exercise exposes the conflict between individual economic rationality and global optimization inherent in Green Transformation. The workshop consists of a 20-minute introductory lecture, a 50-minute simulation-based exercise involving vessel ordering, fuel transition strategies, and regulatory negotiations, and a final 20-minute debrief. The session is open to 15–30 participants, and organizers will provide the necessary computing hardware. Expected outcomes include public release of the simulation toolkit and publication of a research paper based on the collected data.
Target Participant: Any kind of participant is welcome.
Participants Tasks:
Participants will role-play as shipping companies facing a critical dilemma: competing for corporate profitability while cooperating to achieve the collective "Maritime Net-Zero 2050" target. Using a provided simulation toolkit, teams must navigate vessel ordering, fuel transition strategies, and regulatory negotiations where individual gains are tied to the group's environmental success.
Duration: 90 minutes (20-min lecture, 50-min simulation exercise, and 20-min debrief).
Organizers: Kazuho Nonomura, Heng Zhong, Kazuo Hiekata, and Takuya Nakashima at The University of Tokyo.
Workshop :
Designing the Unmade: Experiencing New Ways of Knowing
What happens when we move beyond problem-solving—and begin to sense, respond, and co-create?
This workshop invites participants into a live exploration of emergent knowing across engineering, design, and complex systems practice. Participants encounter patterns of perception, conformity, and coherence that shape collective behavior across human, natural, and technological systems.
Through precisely structured shared experiences, new forms of coherence emerge through interaction itself:
Attention shifts before concepts form
Individual reasoning reveals its limits within collective systems
Outcomes arise through relational response rather than directive control
Agency appears as participation within systems, not mastery over them
Format: Experiential + interactive
Participants: Limited to 20 participants
Duration: 3 hours
Designed by Triki together being—a self-funded studio designing awareness labs and relational inquiry systems for collective intelligence, perception, and human agency.
What happens when we move beyond problem-solving—and begin to sense, respond, and co-create?
This workshop invites participants into a live exploration of emergent knowing across engineering, design, and complex systems practice. Participants encounter patterns of perception, conformity, and coherence that shape collective behavior across human, natural, and technological systems.
Through precisely structured shared experiences, new forms of coherence emerge through interaction itself:
Attention shifts before concepts form
Individual reasoning reveals its limits within collective systems
Outcomes arise through relational response rather than directive control
Agency appears as participation within systems, not mastery over them
Format: Experiential + interactive
Participants: Limited to 20 participants
Duration: 3 hours
Designed by Triki together being—a self-funded studio designing awareness labs and relational inquiry systems for collective intelligence, perception, and human agency.
What happens when we move beyond problem-solving—and begin to sense, respond, and co-create?
This workshop invites participants into a live exploration of emergent knowing across engineering, design, and complex systems practice. Participants encounter patterns of perception, conformity, and coherence that shape collective behavior across human, natural, and technological systems.
Through precisely structured shared experiences, new forms of coherence emerge through interaction itself:
Attention shifts before concepts form
Individual reasoning reveals its limits within collective systems
Outcomes arise through relational response rather than directive control
Agency appears as participation within systems, not mastery over them
Format: Experiential + interactive
Participants: Limited to 20 participants
Duration: 3 hours
Designed by Triki together being—a self-funded studio designing awareness labs and relational inquiry systems for collective intelligence, perception, and human agency.
What happens when we move beyond problem-solving—and begin to sense, respond, and co-create?
This workshop invites participants into a live exploration of emergent knowing across engineering, design, and complex systems practice. Participants encounter patterns of perception, conformity, and coherence that shape collective behavior across human, natural, and technological systems.
Through precisely structured shared experiences, new forms of coherence emerge through interaction itself:
Attention shifts before concepts form
Individual reasoning reveals its limits within collective systems
Outcomes arise through relational response rather than directive control
Agency appears as participation within systems, not mastery over them
Format: Experiential + interactive
Participants: Limited to 20 participants
Duration: 3 hours
Designed by Triki together being—a self-funded studio designing awareness labs and relational inquiry systems for collective intelligence, perception, and human agency.