Design Integration Decision Making: What Should be Taught?

The paper demonstrates the importance of design and design-integration teaching at the university level. Specific topics which should be taught to equip aerospace engineering students with essential design integration skills are presented. The motivation behind this paper is threefold:

1. 1)
   the large amount of costly design mistakes made during the last two decades
2. 2)
   the strong trend in the aerospace industry toward ‘TOTAL ENGINEERING’
3. 3)
   the poor quality and quantity of design education in universities