AIAA Design Integration Subcommittee (DISC)
Near term activities and milestones for the subcommittee were discussed and actions assigned. The submittal date for the AA Year End article is 1 September. Publication date is December.
The DISC will continue to pursue publication of Design Engineering oriented articles in the AA.
Sponsorship and chairing of panel sessions, primarily at the SDM conference, will continue.
The long range plan for the LRP subcommittee (Russ Reck), is attached.
Mike Johnson graciously volunteered to solicit, coordinate, write-up, and submit the committee's input. Late May is Mike's deadline to get the various inputs from the committee. Jon agreed to give Mike the necessary AIAA (Elain Camhi) contact information ASAP.
Tim Hintz (in abstentia) volunteered to corral authors, get date(s), and coordinate with AA publications. A couple of potential articles discussed were:
| "Design Integration Using a Parametric Approach" (Julian Blosiu) |
| "Integrated Helicopter Design Tools" (Jon) |
Most of the planning and discussion assumed that a single, multi-article edition of AA focusing on the Design Engineer or the Engineering Process would be our goal. (In the follow-up general session, AA's new approach of publishing a series of single articles was reiterated.)
Panel session for '99 SDM:
DISC will request the sponsorship of a DE panel session at next year's SDM. Mike Johnson volunteered to chair this session. We discussed what an appropriate topic should be. Some suggestions are:
| "Capturing the Knowledge of a Design Engineer" |
| "What is the Product of the Design Engineer" |