Politics is a set of activities associated with the governance of a country or an area. It involves making decisions that apply to group of members. I would have realized that technology is an accessible field at a younger age. I really got interested in technology when I took a role on President Obama’s Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform transition team in 2008 to make recommendations.

Within many fields, such as medicine, biosciences, and cognitive science, there is a growing awareness of the need for transdisciplinary approaches. Likewise, engineering education and research needs to be supplemented by a fundamentally new way of addressing the multidimensional, complex problems that society faces today. Because of the nature of modern engineering systems, traditional disciplinary approaches have proven insufficient; as such, researchers and educators are operating beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries to explore complementary approaches. Products have become integrated engineering systems, and design and production requirements regularly traverse disciplinary boundaries. This requires input from multiple disciplines within engineering, as well as other disciplines outside of science and engineering, such as business, social sciences, medicine, etc. As the pace of development of new technical systems has continued to accelerate, the need has shifted from interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary design teams to trans-organizational and trans-national work. 

During the last decade, the number of complex problems facing engineers has exploded, and the technical knowledge and understanding in science and engineering required to attack these problems is rapidly evolving. A few examples are the groundbreaking advancements in semiconductor and software technologies, the biosciences, and nanotechnology. The last two decades of designing large-scale engineering systems taught us that neither disciplinary, nor multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary approaches provide an environment that promotes the collaboration and synthesis necessary to extend beyond existing disciplinary boundaries.

A sound transdisciplinary science of engineering systems needs, of course, to incorporate knowledge from many different areas. The core of knowledge centered on design and process will be augmented, based on discipline-specific knowledge depending on the problem at hand. The core of design and process knowledge will also be necessarily broad, incorporating concepts and methods from separate disciplines. 

Transdisciplinary education and research take collaboration across disciplinary boundaries a step further than do multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary programs. In following the transdisciplinary concept, researchers representing diverse disciplines work jointly to develop and use a shared conceptual framework that draws upon discipline specific concepts, theories, and methods, while addressing common problems through a new synthesis of a common ontology, theories, models, and methodology.

Transdisciplinary Digital Library: Dedicated to Honor Professor John Warfield

Politics is a set of activities associated with the governance of a country or an area. It involves making decisions that apply to group of members. I would have realized that technology is an accessible field at a younger age. I really got interested in technology when I took a role on President Obama’s Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform transition team in 2008 to make recommendations.

"bridging natural science, social science, humanities and engineering."

"...Today, complexity is a word that is much in fashion. We have learned very well that many of the systems that we are trying to deal with in our contemporary science and engineering are very complex indeed. They are so complex that it is not obvious that the powerful tricks and procedures that served us for four centuries or more in the development of modern science and engineering will enable us to understand and deal with them. We are learning that we need a science of complex systems, and we are beginning to construct it..." Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon Keynote Speech, 2000 IDPT Conference

A few words about the ATLAS

Founded in 2000, the ATLAS is a non-profit organization providing services to students around the world. The ATLAS provides the following critical services:

1. Transdisciplinary education and research,
2. Support social, environmental, economical and ethical sustainable development throughout the world, and
3. To promote global information exchange through innovative publishing

Social ecological systems currently face complex challenges such as, the degradation of ecosystems, over exploitation of natural resources, climate change, wealth inequalities, and human conflicts. These interconnected challenges are threatening the sustainable development of society and cannot be adequately tackled from the content of specific individual disciplines. This complexity and diversity in the world requires insight, knowledge, skills, and approaches from many field that cross the boundaries of disciplines and institutions, cultures and realities of society. Transdisciplinarity is a growing field of education and research that holds great potential to make an important contribution to a sustainable development.

Goal

The goal of ATLAS is to develop new transdisciplinary research frameworks and strategies with a strong focus on joint efforts by researchers from diverse disciplines to contribute to the co-design of a global sustainable future.

Objectives

To take leadership in developing the fundamentals of the transdiscipline; To provide leadership in the development of new models of learning and innovative teaching environments to complement transdisciplinary curricula; To foster global perspectives on education, research and training activities; To provide a forum for improving the links between science, technology, and the arts by fostering research and educational collaborations among the nations; Enlighten the World with Hope for Green Engineering and Science; To Inspire Global Peace and; To promote global information exchange through innovative publishing.

Professor Anlas is the chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Vice President for Industrial Relations at the Bogazici University. He is the founder ( 2003 ) and previous director ( 2003-2004 ) of Automotive Engineering Program at this university. He has served as the associate provost in charge of international programs of the university between 2001-2004. He obtained his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Turkey in 1985; his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech University in 1988, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, from University of Delaware in 1992. His current research interests are in the area of fracture mechanics of FGMs and Shape Memory Alloys. He is also working on automotive engineering projects in collaboration with Turkish Automotive Industry.

His current research interests are in the area of fracture mechanics of FGMs and Shape Memory Alloys. He is also working on automotive engineering projects in collaboration with Turkish Automotive Industry.

Politics is a set of activities associated with the governance of a country or an area. It involves making decisions that apply to group of members. I would have realized that technology is an accessible field at a younger age. I really got interested in technology when I took a role on President Obama’s Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform transition team in 2008 to make recommendations.