The Motorsport Industry Association (MIA) hosted a seminar in The Future of Design series at its headquarters in Warwick (UK) on June 23rd. The attendees included design engineers and academics from organisations including the Cranfield Impact Centre, Safety Devices, SPC Design Ltd, Motorsport Components and OCF.
Prof. Simon Cox of the University of Southampton led his audience through an animated presentation on approaches to design challenges being taken by companies such as BAE and Rolls Royce, including their exploitation of developments in high performance computing, the semantic web and optimisation. Dr. Peter Collins, CEO of dezineforce, demonstrated over-the-web set-up and real-time execution of an analysis and optimisation computation: aerodynamic performance of an airfoil. The lively debate that followed generated questions including: How do we subscribe? We're based in China - can we access the service from there? As the dezineforce customer base grows - will the service response slow? Is the service secure? Peter's answers are included on the FAQs - Service.