Industry Lessons Learned And Application To Engineering Education

Significant change is taking place in the way aerospace products are designed and developed. These changes involve not just technology but represent some fundamental ‘Gre-engineering” of design and development processes. In addition, much of this “re-engineering” is representative of actions that are being implemented throughout all of U.S. industry. McDonnell Douglas Aerospace (MDA) has found that this new way of doing business has significant implications in the educational requirements for our techmcal workforce. These changes should be understood by universities and new working relationships must be developed, among industry, universities and governments.