Guidance & templates

Guidance for presentations and posters

We are now at the stage of the conference where delegates will be preparing presentations. Below is information for Oral Presentations and for Posters.

Oral Presentations

Speakers presenting oral presentations will have a 20 min slot present their work and take questions. As a guide you should plan to speak for 15 mins, allowing 5 mins for questions and discussion. Some slots may have extra spare time in them, especially if you are in a 1 hour session, so you may plan to have extra slides that you present during the discussion but are not part of the main presentation, to take advantage of any spare time. There is no TE2024 template for presentations. You will have the option of either using your own computer to present or loading the presentation on to a laptop provided, normally via a USB memory stick. 

Before the start of each session, session chairs together with TE2024 volunteers will help ensure your presentation is either set up on the provided laptop or will help you check to ensure the IT technology allows you to present smoothly.

Posters

Those presenting posters at the conference need to use the TE2024 template - this is a standard A0 template which is branded for TE2024. Download the template below. There is also guidance there on how best to present your work. We will print your poster for you and mount it on the stands provided at UCL Marshgate. You are free to take the poster away with you otherwise we will recycle it after the conference. 

In addition to preparing your poster, you should prepare at short 2 minute pitch about your research. This short pitch will be given at the start of the conference during the opening plenary. This allows all the delegates to know about your poster and come and find you during the main poster session on Weds afternoon. Further, during the conference we will give you the option of recording a 5 min video alongside your poster which we will post onto the TE2024 website to allow a wider community of researchers to engage with your work. 

Click here to download the TE2024 Poster template

Guidance for submissions

For all submissions, to ensure you are not rejected for simple reasons, please ensure your paper is focused on transdisciplinary engineering. Typically this means that your paper should have a number of features that indicate it is clearly suitable for TE2024:

• The words (and/or their variants) 'transdisciplinary' and 'engineering' is visible in the title, abstract and keywords of the submission

• The description of your project is clearly a piece of analysis or research of some sort, that involves or is about engineers or engineering in a central way

• The paper is clearly not a standard engineering analysis/research, as it might be that:

  • It involves practitioners in some way - businesses, policy or community actors in the project

  • It involves non-engineering experts from other academic disciplines, especially but not exclusively, social scientists

  • It has a section reflecting on how your work affects the normal or standard ways in which engineering is done, and how it might change or challenge that - or indeed how it needs to change if it is to take account of your findings.

• We expect most papers to be written by those working as engineers - either academically or in industry - but ideally these papers will also have co-authors across academia and industry and beyond engineering, including the social sciences. 

• We encourage social scientists with an interest in engineering practice and the governance of engineering to submit - the sort of papers that would or could go to journals like Engineering Studies or interdisciplinary topical journals like Design Studies or Energy Research and Social Science. 

• We encourage engineers working in non-typical settings such as charities or government to submit a paper or consider attending to be part of the community

Length and format

The full paper must be no longer than 10 pages in length. This includes everything from the title through to the references. Due to the style of the template (see right column for the template) this means that the text you draft for the paper will be around 5000 words depending on the number of charts or figures. You should therefore aim to focus on what would would be about 50% the equivalent coverage for a journal paper here, and have fewer figures and references. Further, with potentially more focus on the engineering element than you might otherwise write for the full journal article, this will make it more appropriate for TE2024, and easier to redraft into a full paper either for a TE-related special issue or for another journal of your choice.

Full paper submission guidance

As you prepare your full paper for submission to TE2024 you need to be aware that the submissoin will be reviewed by 2 independent referees in a fully blind process. This means you should submit you manuscript without author name or affiliations on them. On the right a Dummy paper template provides you with the right format for most papers. Please use this to submit your papers.

For more details and example of what counts as a good submission for TE2024 we encourage you to read and reflect on the TE definition paper hosted at the ISTE Website or take a look at some key papers from previous conferences that seek to explore and define TE in some way. These papers give some deeper definition, and at the end a good example paper.

• Concepts of transdisciplinary engineering: a transdisciplinary landscape - Lattanzio et al, 2021

• Transdisciplinary systems engineering: implications, challenges and research agenda - Wognum et al, 2019

• Integration across knowledge boundaries during new product introduction - Wlazlak et al, 2021