Scientific activity can be analysed according to two points of view:
its objectives, i.e., overall targeted results, which can belong to various thematic areas;
its levels of investigation, i.e., levels at which activity is carried out with respect to interests and achieved results.
Under the first perspective, the following specific objectives emerge:
development under an academic discipline of aerospace design in its various thematic areas;
development of methodological and cultural bases for the academic teaching of aerospace design, endeepening various thematic areas and in particular the domain of structures.
From the point of view of levels of investigation, the following considerations hold:
identification of epistemologicical, logical, methodological, conceptual, phenomenological and application levels of activity,
identification of trends towards embedding activity into a deeper investigation of its relevance to overall scientific advances, with potential contributions to philosophy of science.