Description:
Grand Challenges in Defense Engineering examines past, present, and future engineering challenges to develop new conceptual insight, research priorities, system integration, and timely methods to meet emerging national defense engineering needs. The course examines challenges in Energy, Logistics and Information, and Rapid Offense and Defensive Systems and subsets of each designed to develop understanding depth and transfer analytic and planning skills needed to meet future defense needs. The selected three topics begin with a past engineering challenge to gain perspective on how prior needs were met in their time, a present challenge under current focus, and a possible future challenge and solutions that will require combining prior best practices with the accelerated development needed in the changing world.