Title Participants Abstract "An Emerging Paradigm in Tissue Engineering: From Chemical Engineering to Developmental Engineering for Bioartificial Tissue Formation through a Series of Unit Operations that Simulate the In Vivo Successive Developmental Stages" "Frank Luyten" "The field of Tissue Engineering is in a critical stage, with the need to replace the trial-and-error methods (which, so far, are the most-often used) with rational methodologies. The opinions of several research groups expressed in the literature, as well as recent research efforts, seem to converge on a change of direction toward in vitro recapitulation of the in vivo process of tissue formation (biomimetic processes), replacing the three-dimensional (3D) cell growth and differentiation paradigm that is currently practiced. However, what the fundamental principles for the ex vivo creation of a biological implant are and how these could be translated to process design criteria for biomimetic processes is still unclear. Chemical Engineering has already offered to Tissue Engineering various tools, such as biomaterials and bioreactors, but its contribution to the development of a scientific basis for Tissue Engineering for the design of biomimetic process now has become critical. The intellectual core of chemical engineering in process design, based on the synthesis of processes from the assembly of unit operations, can provide a methodological framework suitable for the development of a rational biomimetic methodology in Tissue Engineering, with the unit operations recapitulating the successive stages of in vivo tissue development. In this article, we describe (i) why and how biomimetic processes should be designed to synchronize the evolution of variables that describe the biological transformations during the tissue development, (ii) how information from developmental biology can be used for the design of biomimetic processes, and (iii) from where the scientific and technical feasibility of designing such processes arises. © 2011 American Chemical Society." "Service oriented enterprise engineering: applying viable system approach (vSa) in enterprise engineering for sourcing decision making" "Laleh Rafati, Geert Poels" "Componentization and service orientation are two key firm's behavioral orientations to transform the traditional (rigid) enterprise model into a flexible (dynamic) one in order to support making successful sourcing decisions like sharing services, in-outsourcing, centralization-decentralization and globalization. According to these enablers, a subjective and dynamic view is needed to study the dynamic nature of enterprises and to interpret the complex emerging phenomena of componentization and service orientation such as dynamic configuration of resources (dynamic capabilities), internal and external interaction between components, service exchange and value creation. In this paper, our solution is applying viable system approach (vSa) in Enterprise Engineering; 1) as an interpretive approach to qualify the concepts of the complex emerging phenomena of componentization and service orientation; 2) as a governance approach to investigate the implications of the complex emerging phenomena for sourcing decision making like sharing, in-outsourcing, centralization-decentralization and globalization." "Developmental Engineering: A new paradigm for the design and manufacturing of cell based products Part II. From genes to networks: tissue engineering from the viewpoint of systems biology and network science" "Frank Luyten" "The field of tissue engineering is moving toward a new concept of ""in vitro biomimetics of in vivo tissue development"". In part I of this series 1, we proposed a theoretical framework integrating the concepts of developmental biology with those of process design to provide the rules for the design of biomimetic processes. We named this methodology ""developmental engineering"" to emphasize that it is not the tissue but the process of in vitro tissue development that has to be engineered. To formulate the process design rules in a rigorous way that will allow a computational design we should refer to mathematical methods to model the biological process taking place in vitro. Tissue functions cannot be attributed to individual molecules but rather to complex interactions between the numerous components of a cell and interactions between cells in a tissue that form a network. For tissue engineering to advance to the level of a technologically-driven discipline amenable to well-established principles of process engineering, a scientifically rigorous formulation is needed of the general design rules so that the behavior of networks of genes, proteins, or cells that govern the unfolding of developmental processes could be related to the design parameters. Now that sufficient experimental data exist to construct plausible mathematical models of many biological control circuits, explicit hypotheses can be evaluated using computational approaches to facilitate process design. Recent progress in systems biology has shown that the empirical concepts of developmental biology that we used in part I to extract the rules of biomimetic process design can be expressed in rigorous mathematical terms. This allows the accurate characterization of manufacturing processes in tissue engineering as well as the properties of the artificial tissues themselves. In addition, network science has recently shown that the behavior of biological networks strongly depends on their topology and has developed the necessary concepts and methods to describe it, allowing therefore a deeper understanding of the behavior of networks during biomimetic processes. These advances thus open the door to a transition for tissue engineering from a substantially empirical endeavor to a technology-based discipline comparable to other branches of engineering." "Preface : Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Engineering, volume 2, Numerical modelling in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, NME 2021" "Magd Abdel Wahab" "Engineering Education through a Looking Glass and in Perspective : Towards a New Language, Conference paper, and oral presentation, International Conference on Engineering Education in Sustainable Development-EESD10, September 19–22, 2010, organised by Ch" "Patrick Rombauts" "Engineering Education through a Looking Glass and in Perspective, Towards a New Language Engineering Education is becoming more and more competence based within a project oriented and problem based learning context. A holistic approach is becoming herewith clearly visible as a central pinpoint in the curriculum of the engineering sciences. New education and learning tools are being implemented intensively and courses are being reoriented towards more self-employed didactics (a.o. simulations). An education innovation project has been finished : Flexible and competence based learning in a laptop room, Subproject ""Criteria optimising the learning conditions in flexible ICT environments"" where the disciplines Visual Ergonomics, Lighting, Building functions, Safety, Health and Teaching methodology and e-Learning meet [1]. Sustainable School Buildings is today our principal theme with in particular Rational Use of Energy and Visual Performance and Comfort. Also, in Teacher Education, maximising the active role of technology in basic courses as mathematics, physics and chemistry should be the main objective. By means of the introduction of ""Technology on the School"" projects, the pure science ""Mathematics"" can be expanded over a wide range by letting the pupils participate in research laboratory ""outside"" the school and where they can elaborate laboratory sessions of ""Technology"". By constantly starting the application from within the proper living world of the students and pupils themselves, attention and motivation are very much enhanced. A University Development Cooperation project ""Enlighting Colombia : Education and Research in Light and Lighting"" at the UNAL-Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Bogotá (Jesús Maria Quintero and Fernando Herrera) and the Universidad de Ibagué is illustrating the goal of sustainable development by activating local stakeholders as universities and industries. By way of this Specialisation in Lighting at Postgraduate level other secondary elements as the quality of life in the concerned global society are amazingly realised (at first sight components not directly related to these). ""Language"" too is obviously playing an extremely pertinent role in every component of educational set-up [2]. Our statement is to bring up this spirit to life through permanently putting the language and communication concepts as the basis for every layer. Besides, common English Masters Engineering by the ULB (French speaking Brussels university) and the VUB (Dutch speaking Brussels university) are covering each precisely the half of the complete English cake, and are making it a perfect match." "Short Paper Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Agile Methods for Information Systems Engineering (Agil-ISE 2022) co-located with the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2022). Leuven, Belgium, J" "Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Engineering : volume 1 : Numerical modelling in Civil Engineering, NME 2021" "Presents the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Civil Engineering (NME 2021) Written by experts from the field present contemporary advancements in theory Provides an overview of theoretical and analytical methods" "Engineering as Art and the Art of Engineering" "Lara Schrijver" "Engineering students' perspectives on the use of group work peer assessment in two undergraduate Industrial Engineering modules." "Johan Joubert" "Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Engineering, Volume 1 : Numerical modelling in civil engineering"