This paper discusses pre-design and integration considerations involved when implementing distributed propulsion for future aircraft concepts. In this context, distributed propulsion is achieved by utilization of multiple or a single (large) fan. The distributed integration of the propulsion system leads to strong coupling between airframe aerodynamics and motive power performance, which is add...

In this paper I argue that Bakhtin’s dialogic theory of identity (Bakhtin, 1981, 1984, 1986), Barth’s anthropological theory of identity (Barth, 1969, 1981; Triandafyllidou, 2002) and Socioconstructionist theory of identity (Giddens, 1991; Burr, 1995; Shotter and Gergen’s edited series on text and identity) provide a remarkably coherent and complementary theoretical foundations for an explorato...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Utah participated in a collaborative, remote, rapid design and manufacturing experiment. Several domain experts at widely distributed geographical locations worked on a challenging multi-disciplinary design problem producing a rugged, compact and light-weight housing for a Video SeeThrough Head-Mounted Display ...

The consensus is that both ecological and social factors are essential dimensions of conservation research and practice. However, much of the literature on multiple disciplinary collaboration focuses on the difficulties of undertaking it. This review of the challenges of conducting multiple disciplinary collaboration offers a framework for thinking about the diversity and complexity of this end...