Engineering design involves making numerous decisions as the design process. These decisions can be broadly categorized into selection decisions and compromise decisions. The outcomes of these decisions heavily depend on the designer's intentions, highlighting the need to systematically and accurately incorporate the designer's intentions. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a design technique that systematically reflects the designer's intentions by hierarchically analyzing and evaluating ambiguous decision problems. Therefore, in this study, effective optimal structure designs that maximally reflect the designer's intentions were confirmed by introducing AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and Neural Network into the foundational decision-making process of engineering design.

• 박창규(Dept. of Automotive Engineering, Gwangju Universityju University) | Chang-Kyu Park Corresponding author