Projects related to aerospace and airframe design and manufacture are of particular interest.
Current work is in the area of new processes such as forming of advanced composites, textiles, automated fiber placement, and assembly. Cost Estimating Automatic cost estimation is necessary to evaluate alternative designs, processes and materials. A particular challenge is to estimate costs for new processes with an evolving data base. Other interesting problems are related to process plan development, and linking to CAD and system simulators. This work involves software development and knowledge of manufacturing processes.