Background Societal challenges that call for a new type of engineer suggest the need for the
implementation of interdisciplinary engineering education (IEE). The aim of IEE is to train …

Transdisciplinarity originated in a critique of the standard configuration of knowledge in
disciplines in the curriculum, including moral and ethical concerns. Pronouncements about it …

Modeling is essential to characterize and explore complex societal and environmental
issues in systematic and collaborative ways. Socio-environmental systems (SES) modeling …

It may be that you are a seasoned ethnographer with experience in the social sciences and
humanities, assured of your rich contextual accounts of research participants' social …

Highlights•A new framework for integrated, transdisciplinary global change research for
sustainability is introduced.•From a practical perspective three different dimensions of …

" How does graduate admissions work? Who does the system work for, and who falls
through its cracks? More people than ever seek graduate degrees, but little has been written …

Typologies classify phenomena based on similarities and differences, whether sorting
artistic genres, medical symptoms, animal and plant species, or forms of knowledge. Over …

The idea of discipline opens up a nexus of meaning. Disciplines discipline disciples. 1 A
commitment to a discipline is a way of ensuring that certain disciplinary methods and …

Ken Hyland provides an authoritative discussion of key aspects of writing for academic
publication. What are the issues surrounding particular academic genres? What are the …

Taxonomies classify entities according to similarities and differences, whether they are
animal species, artistic genres, or medical symptoms. Since the late nineteenth century …