MDO Lab

Many engineering systems involve multiple disciplines and require the coupled analysis of those systems to evaluate their overall performance. In addition, we must consider interdisciplinary trade-offs to design such systems. Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) aims to assist the design of coupled engineering systems through the use of numerical methods for the analysis and design optimization. Prof. Martins founded the MDO Laboratory research group in 2002. The vision of our research group is that MDO will enable a relatively small team of engineers to explore possible designs quickly and early in the design process using powerful numerical tools. Research in the MDO Lab embraces both the theory and applications perspectives.