Special Issue on: Agile Approaches for Transdisciplinary Engineering

Transdisciplinary engineering (TE) is an emerging field that extends and evolves the
initial basic concepts known as concurrent engineering (CE). While CE concentrates on
enterprise collaboration, from integrating people and processes to very specific complete
multi/inter/transdisciplinary solutions, TE combines natural sciences, applied sciences,
social sciences and humanities to achieve a higher level of comprehension and awareness
of the context in which industrial products, processes, systems or services will be
implemented and are experienced by users (Borsato et al., 2016).