Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
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Daily Overview |
| 8:00am - 6:00pm |
Registration 1 Location: Conference Center |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
STE PS_A0: Workshop 1 Location: Room U I7 Chair: Alexander Stephan Behr, TU Dortmund University Chair: Nils Kaufhold, TU Dortmund University Chair: Marcel Schade, TU Dortmund University |
STE PS_B0: Workshop 2 Location: Room U I6 Due to the latest developments in the Middle East region and the resulting air travel interruptions, we need to cancel the workshop "Introducing Computational Tool in Engineering Curriculum: An Example through Probability and Statistics for Machine Learning using Python" from Kanmani Buddhi. Please applogize the inconvenience. The intended Workshop was an attempt to provide 'hands-on' experience of the concept presented during, 'The Learning Ideas Conference', 2025 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWTKKiTufS8&t=4s). |
STE PS_C0: Workshop 3 Location: Room U I3 Chair: Alexander A Kist, University of Southern Queensland Chair: Catherine Mary Hills, University of Southern Queensland |
STE PS_D0: Scientific Jam Session Location: Room U I2 Chair: Florin Munteanu, Academy of Romanian Scientists AOSR We are used to meeting at conferences where we present results, methods, and applications. Each within our own discipline, each inside our own “box” of expertise. Yet what is happening in today’s world shows us that this is no longer enough. The Need – Technological progress has pushed human performance to unprecedented levels, but it has also opened a gap: algorithms process data but do not create meaning; bioelectronics repairs the body but does not address identity; education delivers information but does not cultivate transformation. The Urgency – We no longer have the luxury of linear thinking. Complexity teaches us that instability is the norm, paradoxes are inevitable, and levels of reality interpenetrate: physical, biological, social, symbolic, spiritual. If we remain within old frameworks, we risk missing the very directions in which the human condition itself is being reconfigured. The Shift – What lies ahead is not merely a technological singularity but something deeper: an ontological singularity. A passage from data to meaning, from control to participation, from knowledge as accumulation to knowledge as transformation. In this context, we invite you to a Scientific Jam Session – a living space of dialogue, where disciplines meet not to defend their boundaries but to explore together unknown horizons. A space where:
You will not find recipes or final answers here. But you will encounter fertile questions, conceptual challenges, and the rare opportunity to take part in a moment where science and spirituality, reason and intuition, technology and culture begin to play together. We invite you to join this collective exercise of imagination and inquiry, to step into a space where the future is not taught, but composed. The Scientific Jam Session will be hosted by: Dr. Eng. Florin Munteanu Center for Complex Studies T.M. of Academy of Romanian Scientists AOSR, C.M of Technical Sciences Academy of Romania ASTR NOTE: The Scientific Jam Session will continue for all three conference days. |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee Break 1 Location: Conference Center |
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| 11:00am - 12:00pm |
STE 2026 Opening Ceremony Location: Aula Room Chair: Michael E. Auer, CTI Global Frankfurt Chair: Doru Ursutiu, CVTC "Transilvania" University of Brasov - Academy of Romanian Scientists This session marks the official opening of STE 2026.Speakers: Dominik May (President IAOE, STE General Chair) Doru Ursutiu (Transilvania University of Brașov, STE 2026 Conference Co-Chair, Titular Member Academy of Romanian Scientists AOSR) Liliana Rogozea (Vice-Rector Transilvania University of Brașov) George Scripcaru (Mayor of Brasov) Mihai Cătălin Văsii (Prefect of Brasov) Doina Banciu (President Academy of Romanian Scientists AOSR) Silviu Zetea (Brand Manager ZETEA Company) Reinhard Langmann (EWA) |
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| 12:00pm - 12:45pm |
Keynote Session 1 Location: Aula Room Chair: Doru Ursutiu, CVTC "Transilvania" University of Brasov - Academy of Romanian Scientists Chair: Horia Alexandru Modran, Transilvania University of Brasov Ioan Dumitrache (Emeritus Professor, University ”Politehnica”, Bucharest, Romania)"The engineering education for intelligent society"The speaker: Ioan Dumitrache is an Emeritus Professor of the University ”Politehnica” of Bucharest. He is professor of Control Engineering and Intelligence Control Systems in this University having a large experience in education of many generations of students. In this capacity he served as a Dean of Faculty and Rector of the University. In 2012 he founded the Coalition for Engineering Education (CREDING) and he organized many debates on the engineering education. Now he is member of the Romanian Academy and the Secretary General of the institution. |
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| 12:45pm - 1:30pm |
Keynote Session 2 Location: Aula Room Chair: Doru Ursutiu, CVTC "Transilvania" University of Brasov - Academy of Romanian Scientists Chair: Horia Alexandru Modran, Transilvania University of Brasov Miriam Reiner (Professor, Technion, Israel and Stanford University, USA)"Learning-Brain-Neurotechnology: Enhancements in Remote and Hybrid Engineering Education"The speaker: Prof. Miriam Reiner started and directed the VR & NeuroCognition lab at the Technion. She studies perceptual and neural correlates of enhanced learning and developed neurotechnologies for optimal learning in Virtual and hybrid environments. She uses neural and physiological sensors, and behavioral measures to model learning. |
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Lunch 1 Location: Conference Center |
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| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
STE PS_A1: Parallel Session A1 Location: Room U I7 Chair: Valerie Varney, TH Cologne Chair: Daniel Cotfas, Transilvania University of Brasov Augmented & Virtual Reality |
STE PS_B1: Special Session INSPIRE 1/2 Location: Room U I6 Chair: Mona Arhire, Transilvania University of Brașov Chair: Cornel Samoila, Transylvania University of Brasov Special Session: Intelligent Systems Promoting Innovation in Research & Education - Consortium for Doctoral Students (INSPIRE) |
STE PS_C1: Parallel Session C1 Location: Room U I3 Chair: Reinhard Langmann, Edunet World Association Chair: Ioana Corina Bogdan, Transilvania University of Brasov Digital Twins & Smart Industry |
STE PS_D1: Parallel Session D1 Location: Room U I2 Chair: Klaus Hengsbach, Edunet World Association e.V Chair: Petru Adrian Cotfas, Universitatea Transilvania Brasov AI in Education & Industry |
STE-R PS1: Remote Session 1 Location: online Chair: Johannes Kubasch, University of Wuppertal |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Coffee Break 2 Location: Conference Center |
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| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
STE PS_A2: Parallel Session A2 Location: Room U I7 Chair: Mesut Alptekin, Universität Paderborn Chair: Daniel Cotfas, Transilvania University of Brasov XR & Remote Engineering |
STE PS_B2: Special Session INSPIRE 2/2 Location: Room U I6 Chair: Mona Arhire, Transilvania University of Brașov Chair: Cornel Samoila, Transylvania University of Brasov Special Session: Intelligent Systems Promoting Innovation in Research & Education - Consortium for Doctoral Students (INSPIRE) |
STE PS_C2: Parallel Session C2 Location: Room U I3 Chair: Johannes Kubasch, University of Wuppertal Chair: Ioana Corina Bogdan, Transilvania University of Brasov Digital Labs in STEM |
STE PS_D2: Parallel Session D2 Location: Room U I2 Chair: Ian Andrew Grout, University of Limerick Chair: Petru Adrian Cotfas, Universitatea Transilvania Brasov AI in Education & Industry |
STE-R PS2: Remote Session 2 Location: online Chair: Karsten Schmidtseifer, University of Wuppertal |
