12th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference 14th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization (MAO) Conference Diversity, Design, and Details—Facing the Challenge of Synthesis and Integration

摘要

In today's technologically advanced society, we rely on the seamless integration of technology, complex systems, and products to enhance and enrich our daily lives. Development of these innovative and practical systems and products is the result of multidisciplinary synthesis—the combination of different theories, ideas, and entities brought together to produce novel technology. Synthesis in design is a sophisticated and demanding challenge. People from diverse backgrounds, with vastly differing skill sets, must communicate with and learn from each other. Integration of tools and methods often developed in one field becomes useful to another. Finally, all of these skills, ideas, and theories must be brought together to produce useful and functional products.