What is it about?
The aerospace engineering community continues to evolve, where many aspects of system design beginning digital. The computational activities, data management, hardware and software infrastructure co-design, and organization strategy involved in building a product become increasingly complex over time. This paper presents the results of a survey of folks involved in aerospace product design on how the discipline of digital engineering should evolve to match their needs.
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Why is it important?
With the maturity of Industry 4.0, which emphasized connectivity, and the emerging Industry 5.0, which emphasizes human-machine teaming, digital engineering needs to evolve with the times. The results from this survey provide guidance to those in the digital engineering discipline on the kinds of open questions and gaps that exist now, as identified by digital engineering stakeholders themselves.
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As AI itself and our relationship with it continue to evolve, digital engineering will play a major role in ensuring that evolution. I believe this paper provides a great starting point for continuing to evolve digital engineering to meet the needs of those at the forefront of engineering design and analysis across the multiple dimensions of activities involved.
Abhishek Ram
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
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This page is a summary of: A Report on How to Best Support Implementing Digital Engineering for Computational Design and Analysis – A Survey and Results, January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
DOI: 10.2514/6.2026-1530.
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