Collaborative open source aircraft design framework for education - Agile academy initiatives and results

Abstract

AGILE Project is a 3 ^rd generation Aircraft Design Optimization project involving heterogeneous teams of expert across Industry, Academy and Research organization. The establishment of effective collaborative design methodologies is currently acknowledged as the key enabler for future product development processes. At the same time, the need to introduce collaborative design techniques within educational activities is also well recognized by the Academic, Research and Industrial communities. AGILE project supported by European Commission's H2020 Programme, is setting the “AGILE Paradigm”, a conceptual framework which contains all the elements to implement a multidisciplinary collaborative design network and several open source elements to implement and use in academic collaborations. The AGILE Academy initiative is conceived to infuse into the Academic organizations and educational environments the “AGILE Paradigm”, and make available all the technologies developed within the AGILE Project, which support the implementation of such a Paradigm. This paper focus is on the inception, approach and results of the AGILE Academy participants from several universities around the world.