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Mission of the MDO Technical Committee: The AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee (MDO TC) works to provide an AIAA forum for those active in development, application, and teaching of a formal design methodology based on the integration of disciplinary analyses and sensitivity analyses, optimization, and artificial intelligence, applicable at all stages of the multidisciplinary design of aerospace systems. What is MDO? Some popular definitions for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO): "A methodology for the design of complex engineering systems and subsystems that coherently exploits the synergism of mutually interacting phenomena." "Optimal design of complex engineering systems which requires analysis that accounts for interactions amongst the disciplines (or parts of the system) and which seeks to synergistically exploit these interactions." "How to decide what to change, and to what extent to change it, when everything influences everything else." For a more detailed description, refer to the Current State of the Art (1998) On Multidisciplinary Design Optimization white paper (listed under "Links").