Multidisciplinary Design Optimization: Public Forum

We are pleased to invite you to Engineering Design Optimization: Theory and Practice – Online Short Course, beginning on 9 March 2026.

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• From 9 March – 8 April 2026 (5 Weeks, 10 Classes, 20 Total Hours)
• Every Monday and Wednesday at 1–3 p.m. Eastern Time (all sessions will be recorded and available for replay; course notes will be available for download)
• This new essential course taught by experts from the AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) Technical Committee introduces optimization, particularly for engineering applications.
• All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course

We are pleased to invite you to the 3rd AIAA Workshop on Multifidelity Methods for Design and Uncertainty Quantification, to be held on June 7, 2026, in San Diego, CA, USA, in conjunction with the AIAA Aviation Forum 2026.

Registration is open now!

Workshop Objectives

See the agenda for talk/tutorial titles and abstracts, as well as speaker bios.

• Dissemination of recent methods developments to the MDO practitioner community.
• Discussion of challenges and opportunities to identify new collaborations and new research directions.

Sponsored by the AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee (MDO TC)

Organizing Committee

• Prof. Douglas Allaire (Associate Professor, Texas A&M University)
• Prof. Elizabeth Qian (Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech)
• Dr. Michael Henson (Fellow, Lockheed Martin)
• Prof. Laura Mainini (Professor, Imperial College London)