The Ray & Bob (R&B) International Transdisciplinary (TD) Research Institute is dedicated to the development and promotion of innovative applications of transdisciplinary (TD) research and education applied to complex problems currently faced by the state, nation, and entire world. R&B is a new research and development infrastructure within the Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning & Advanced Studies (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:
- Transdisciplinary education and research,
- Support social, environmental, economical and ethical sustainable development throughout the world, and
- To promote global information exchange through innovative publishing
Transdisciplinarity
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.
Transdisciplinarity is a method of acquiring new knowledge through rethinking current methods and processes, rearranging our fundamental science and engineering knowledge to create innovative technological products and services to confront society’s complex issues. The practical focus of transdisciplinarity is a collaborative process to improve our understanding of complex issues by using collective intelligence through collective experts and multiple resources for designing and implementing solutions to challenging problems by considering the public good.
R&B Innovation Expo: SCORE International Conference
Starting 2020, traditional ATLAS conferences will be organized by R&B TD Research institute. That is R&B Innovation Expo: SCORE International Virtual Conference which will be held on May 16-20, 2022. The conference aims to identify top student talent from universities around the world and inspire them to become innovators and young entrepreneurs.
Students Collaboration Objective for Research Enhancement (SCORE) through international partnerships, is a virtual student information exchange platform for collaborative online international learning. Through SCORE, students connect with peers in other countries to discuss global complex issues. The platform allows students to form teams to address these global problems. Students will also be exposed to a wide-ranging pool of subject matter experts for which they can call upon as mentors to help them think broadly about solutions to the problems at hand. Encouraging students to utilize global research collaboration will build cultural understanding and communication skills while enhancing new knowledge generation. Thus opening possibilities to their exploration of the widening boundaries of international transdisciplinarity collaboration and universal knowledge sharing to the benefit of all peoples; giving people the ability to provide better solutions to global problems now facing the world.
The ATLAS R&B Institute Innovation Expo (IE) aims to host senior and graduate-level college students from around the world; offering students an opportunity to showcase their projects in the format of a technical conference. The IE expects to create a unique environment by providing students a conference-like platform to showcase their abilities to possible recruiting companies through the technical presentation of their innovative projects. The main goal of the Innovation Expo International Conference is to create a platform for students to showcase their abilities to employers while providing companies access to top upcoming student talent from universities across the world. All the abstracts of the projects will be listed under the expo program and the program will be distributed to attending companies.
Young Innovators Challenge Call is Eligible for Projects:
- That are developed by young innovators (college undergraduate & graduate students)
- That impacts the research development of artificial intelligence and machine learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, genetics, medicine, and biotechnology, and other technologies which cause widespread disruption to labor markets
- That also offer solutions to any of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- That provides impactful innovations addressing societal concerns
- Any other innovative projects that provide transformative insights and tangible outcomes
Submissions are Invited under the Categories of:
- Product Innovation: If the project idea has a tangible outcome
- Service Innovation: If the project innovation is more social impact based on intangible elements
- Rural Innovation: If the project ideas under this category are expected to add new environmental, economic, or social value to rural life
- Best Scientific TD Papers: Technology that will change our lives (papers from academic, non-academic researchers, and experts) on Healthcare and medicine; Space travel; Robots in space; Self-driving cars; Flying cars; Application of solar panel technology; 3D printing; artificial intelligence; Recycling & re-engineering; Global collaboration; Internet of things, and more…
Intellectual Property
All right and title to any Intellectual Property covered in an admission rests with the submitting team.
Prizes
There are three prizes under each category (First Place: $6,000, Second Place: $4,000, and Third Place: $2,000). A total of twelve prizes ($48,000) to be won (winners will be responsible for the tax of their cash award earning). Winners will receive an R&B Institute Innovation Award plaque. The advisor of each winning project also will receive a special ATLAS R&B Innovation Award. The award-winning scientific papers and student project narratives and team profile will be uploaded to the R&B Institute website to be displayed perpetuity giving visibility and exposure to the winners (www.rb-tdinstitute.org).
Publication
Accepted student projects will be published in Open Access ATLAS proceedings. All other TD scientific papers will be reviewed by the Program Technical Committee. Competitively selected papers will be published in the Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science. Also, they will be published as a chapter in a book by ATLAS. Research papers must be original and not published elsewhere. For more information see www.theatlas.org.
Conference Registration Fees
Conference registration will be free and will be open to the public.
Important Deadlines
Submit your projects and scientific articles following the below deadlines through R&B TD Research Institute contactus@rb-tdinstitute.org
September 1, 2021: Abstracts submission of projects and papers
September 15, 2021: Abstract accept or reject notification to authors
December 31, 2021: Draft paper submission
January 28, 2022: Acceptance of the projects and papers
Conference Official Website
http://atlas-conference.org/index.php/en/
2021-2022 SCORE International Virtual Pre-Conference Learning Activities
http://atlas-conference.org/index.php/en/services
Conference Info (pdf file, English)
For More Information
Dr. Atila Ertas
Texas Tech University
Department, of Mechanical Engineering
Lubbock, Texas 79409-1021
Phone: (806) 834-5788; email: atila.ertas@ttu.edu