The reason that most aerospace structural design engineers are "underutilized" today is a direct result of the aerospace industries' efforts over the preceding two decades to increase specialization within the structural engineering fields. This prevailing attitude that exists by most companies can however lead to awkward, inefficient, and inadequate structural designs. 

These designs are often a result of unsatisfactory steps taken during the initial structural analysis effort of the preliminary design concept. To efficiently design an aircraft structure, the structural design engineer must verify his designs by making preliminary and investigative stress analysis computations. 

To design a structure in synergy with preexisting designs, without the principles of analysis to assist the engineer in arriving at sound conclusions, can severely restrict one's creativity of new and innovative design approaches, and thereby lead to faulty or inadequate structural designs.