2000 Society for Design and Process Science Printed in the United States of America Transactions of the SDPS DECEMBER 2000, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 1-11 TRANSDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH MODEL A. Ertas M. M. Tanik* T. T. Maxwell Texas Tech University Mecahnical Engineering Department Lubbock, Texas *University of Alabama at Birmingham Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Birmingham, Alabama Since the medievel times the critical leading role of science has been a) to challenge the entrenched conceptions of human reason and b) to introduce new methods of investigation for deeper understanding of nature of things. Once again, a scientists, critical thinkers, and engineers wa are indtroducing new notions in the transdisciplinary arena from which new generation of intellectual and physical analysis and synthesis tools and techniques will be produced.These tools and techniques will take the form in which science, engineering, and management notions would be fused into a unified transdisciplinary entities. These development in integrated design and process science would in turn, once again, transform the human scene beyond recognition. 1. Introduction “lf you want a description of scientific method in three syllables, I propose: Guess and Test. ” George Polya, Guessing and Scientific Method, in Mathematical Discovery, Wiley, 1981. “Scientists have discovered many, peculiar things, and many beautiful things. But perhaps the most beautiful and the most peculiar thing that they have discovered is the pattern of science itself.” Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory, Pantheon Books, 1992.