In historical perspective, both the nature of and arrangements for the generation of engineering knowledge have evolved over the past 150 years. We examine the historical development of the search for ‘useful knowledge’ in agriculture, aeronautics and chemical engineering during the first...

Inverse techniques for dynamic simulation models which allow determination of the time history of “inputs” needed to achieve a specified time history for a selected set of “outputs” have been receiving some attention in recent years within aerospace engineering and in other application...