Collaborative Research: Workshop: The Future of Multidisciplinary Design Optimization - Advancing the Design of Complex Systems, Fort Worth, Texas, September 16, 2010

这笔赠款提供资金，用于组织和开展为期一天的研讨会，以探索多学科设计优化(MDO)的未来及其推进复杂系统设计的能力。研讨会的目标是：(1)确定并记录MDO和相关研究的前景光明的未来方向；(2)阐明MDO在工业上的成功实施，并确定实际实施MDO方法和工具所面临的挑战；(3)探索正在进行的复杂系统设计举措与MDO之间的关系；以及(4)确定亲和力小组，并针对具体的提案征集和研究机会。研讨会将有来自学术界、工业界和政府机构的50人参加，邀请来自广泛的工程和设计社区的参与者，基于指导委员会-S广泛的人脉网络。研讨会的结果将记录在一份报告中，该报告将通过一个网站和一个由美国航空航天研究所维护的电子邮件列表分发。MDO技术委员会。如果成功，研讨会将确定MDO的未来研究方向，以及与相关工程学科和复杂系统设计倡议的新协同效应。虽然许多多学科设计组织的创始人S仍然活跃在社区中，但在过去的十年里，随着新的教职员工和研究人员寻找新的方法来使用和部署多学科设计方法和工具来解决广泛的问题，多学科设计优化的重点已经发生了戏剧性的变化。因此，MDO正处于十字路口，这次研讨会将有助于确保它的未来依然光明。同时，了解其在工业中实施的障碍将使其能够在未来取得进展，并使MDO充分发挥其潜力。如果更广泛的受众参与研究，MDO方法和工具也将产生更广泛的影响。因此，MDO社区(例如，复杂系统、系统工程)以外的研究人员和工程师将被邀请参加研讨会，以帮助确定通过协同努力接触到更广泛受众的战略。研讨会的长期目标是帮助将MDO重新定位为复杂工程系统设计的实用工具，帮助克服目前困扰许多设计和开发计划的成本超支、进度延误和随之而来的问题。

This grant provides funding to organize and conduct a one-day workshop to explore the future of multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) and its ability to advance the design of complex systems. The objectives of the workshop are to: (1) identify and document promising future directions for MDO and related research, (2) articulate successful industrial implementations of MDO and identify the challenges with practical implementation of MDO methods and tools, (3) explore relationships between ongoing complex systems design initiatives and MDO, and (4) define affinity groups and target specific proposal solicitations and research opportunities. The workshop will engage 50 people from academia, industry, and government agencies by inviting participants from a wide range of engineering and design communities based on the Steering Committee?s extensive network of contacts. The results of the workshop will be documented in a report that will be distributed through a website and an email list-serve that is maintained by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics? MDO Technical Committee. If successful, the workshop will identify future research directions in MDO and new synergies with related engineering disciplines and complex systems design initiatives. While many of MDO?s founders are still active and engaged in the community, the focus of MDO has shifted dramatically in the past decade as new faculty and researchers are finding novel ways to use and deploy MDO methods and tools to a wide array of problems. MDO is thus at a cross-roads, and this workshop will help ensure that its future remains bright. Meanwhile, understanding the barriers to its implementation in industry will enable future advancements and allow MDO to realize its full potential. MDO methods and tools will also have much broader impact if a wider audience is engaged in the research. Thus, researchers and engineers outside of the MDO community (e.g., complex systems, systems engineering) will be invited to the workshop to help identify strategies for reaching broader audiences through synergistic efforts. The long-term goal of the workshop is to help reposition MDO as a practical tool for the design of complex engineered systems that can help overcome the cost overruns, schedule delays, and ensuing problems that currently plague many design and development programs.