Responsible: Ju Feng Deadline: late August but depends on how and what is parallelized in T1.4.

• Critically evaluate how and when the load constraints should be calculated within the optimization. It is possible the current implementation can be speed-up. [WE]

• TBD, Assignee #7

• Investigate different optimization strategies and possible optimizers that have an OpenMDAO interface. [WE]

• Scipy optimizers are implemented but not verified

• Test and benchmark selected optimizers and optimization strategies (convergence rates, robustness, normalizing of input parameters, etc). [WE]

• Benchmark optimizers #8

• Optionally consider optimization strategies that start from an expert defined initial guess and returns an answer within a user defined time period. [WE, GW]

• Decide if this is a priority or not. #10