What does DOE apply to?
The problems DOE addresses are nearly universal. If have a process that involves factors that can be controlled and you would like to change this process so that it produces more (or less) of something, then DOE can probably be applied. If a discipline has an engineering branch, development and trouble-shooting engineers can almost certainly benefit from the application of DOE. Perhaps the best way is to look at a problem to which DOE does not apply and show why it doesn’t apply. When the Levy-Shoemaker comet crashed into Jupiter, it answered a lot of questions. Astronomers could carefully observe and record the results of each impact, but they had no control over the size of the pieces, the angle of impact, over anything in fact. In addition, the impact of the first piece made changed the Jovian atmosphere enough so that the second impact was an entirely different kind of event. Astronomers have no control over the events that they study. An astronomer could use DOE with simulators, o
