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Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Maughmer

Educating the Aerospace Engineer of 2016 Narayanan Komerath, Mark D. Maughmer Georgia Institute of Technology / The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThe U.S. aerospace industry is changing rapidly, from vertically integrated development andmanufacturing to “large system integration” as their main business. Driven by globalcompetition, the new capabilities also enable the realization of some grand dreams of humanity.This paper lays out two scenarios and argues that leadership will reach or exceed the optimisticscenario. This scenario is used to gauge implications for engineering education. The needs fordepth and breadth must be balanced. Skills in developing business cases

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Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

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Clair Nixon

Key Business Competencies for New Aerospace Engineers Clair J. Nixon Associate Dean Mays Business School Texas A&M UniversityIntroduction Curricula in most engineering schools fail to provide adequate training anddevelopment of future engineers in regards to basic business principles. The newlyminted engineers generally have excellent technical skills, but lack an understanding ofthe key business principles that drive the aerospace industry. After nearly 200 interviewsof aerospace engineers in the workforce, four key business competencies emerged as themost important skills for new

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bernd Chudoba; Alfred Striz

Vitalizing the Conceptual Aerospace Design Offering Bernd Chudoba and Alfred G. Striz School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Oklahoma Norman, OklahomaAbstractTraditional aerospace capstone design courses often suffer from a lack of student skills in dealingwith open-ended problems. Key to solving this shortcoming is finding the right balance whenteaching students the three primary elements of design proficiency: (a) engineering sciences, (b)Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) methods, and (c) the actual design process. Clearly, thefundamental science/engineering knowledge is covered

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Crossley; Melanie Thom; James Thom

Session 1602 Identifying Specific, Measurable “Skills” Perceived as Requisite for Graduating Aerospace Engineers Kimble-Thom, M.A., Thom, J.M., Crossley, W.A. Purdue UniversityIntroductionIn the last 15 years engineering educators and industry practitioners have attempted to identifywhat skills a graduating engineer needs to acquire during his/her undergraduate education inorder to be successful at design activities. The efforts to identify these design skills are hamperedby both the lack of precision in the terms used to describe design skills and by the

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Waugaman; Brian Self

A New Biomedical Engineering Course Based on Aerospace Applications Brian P. Self and William A. Waugaman United States Air Force Academy, ColoradoAbstractEngineering students at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) have an extremely fullcourse load. Because of this, creating a new course that can fulfill an elective option and berelevant to their future Air Force careers is quite challenging. In order to accomplish this, amechanics professor and electrical engineering professor teamed to create a new Introduction toBiomedical Engineering course, open to all senior level engineering students. The first block ofthe course

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joon Kim; Daniel Biezad

Constructing General Aviation Aircraft in the Aerospace Lab Courses Daniel J. Biezad, Joon Kim Aerospace Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoAbstractThe Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, is inthe midst of a dynamic experiment to revitalize its “hands on” approach to undergraduateengineering education by introducing aircraft manufacturing and fabrication “kits” into itslaboratory curriculum. The challenges and opportunities are many, and the most importantare discussed in this paper. They include the enormous difficulty of establishing a recurringlab syllabus for such an

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Catherine Mavriplis

An Innovative Approach to the Introduction to Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Course: Pressure Catherine Mavriplis Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington UniversityAbstractAn innovative Introduction to Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering course isdescribed. The course material focuses on the concept of pressure to relate concepts andsubject matters in the intended field. Self- and group-guided inquiry is used in and out ofclass. Group activities are also prescribed. The course makes use of three non-fictionpopular accounts of engineering feats, relating to 1) a high-pressure environment in thedeep sea, 2) a low-pressure

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russell Cummings; John McMasters

Technology and You: Working with the Aerospace Industry to Enhance Engineering Education Russell M. Cummings* United States Air Force Academy, USAF Academy, CO, 80840 John H. McMasters The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA, 98124 Abstract While many engineers in the aerospace engineering profession know that interacting with students is a good idea, few of them know how to do it. Certainly some engineers are asked on occasion to give lectures at

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gillian Saunders-Smits

Session 3460 The Secret of their Success: What factors determine the career success of an aerospace engineer trained in the Netherlands? Gillian N. Saunders-Smits Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsIntroductionAlthough engineers are educated with a vision that they can become successful, very littleresearch is done into how engineers become successful. What is it exactly that makes oneengineer more successful than another? And what consequence does

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Helbling; Patric McElwain; Angela Beck; Ron Madler; David Lanning

INTEGRATING COMMUNICATIONS INTO TEAM-TAUGHT SENIOR DESIGN COURSES Jim Helbling, David Lanning, and Ron Madler, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Angela Beck and Patric McElwain, Department of Humanities/Communications Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, ArizonaAbstractEffective communication is universally recognized as one of the most important traits of anoutstanding graduate. The Aerospace Engineering Department at Embry-Riddle AeronauticalUniversity is team-teaching several courses with the Humanities and

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Keith Koenig; Emmanuel Okoro; Viva Austin; Thomas Hannigan

Increasing Undergraduate Laboratory Experiences T. Hannigan, K. Koenig, V. Austin, E. Okoro Mississippi State UniversityAbstractUse of higher level programming environments have made it increasingly easy to formulatetheoretical solutions, but at the cost of distancing the students from understanding the physicalphenomena. In an attempt to allay this, our undergraduate laboratory experiences have beenincreasing as our aerospace engineering curriculum undergoes modernization. Two laboratoryclasses of the upper division of the MSU curriculum have been moved ahead one semester in thecurrent curriculum, and may be moved even further ahead. Although these courses are

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Francisco Aguiniga; Hector Estrada

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Conrad Newberry

engineering certification program matrix. Course descriptionsare provided, as are representative instructional objectives which support them. Programassessment is discussed in terms of program objectives and accreditation. IntroductionThe missile segment of the aerospace industry is quite small compared to the airplane and spacesegments. In 2003 missile segment sales were 13,489 million dollars compared to the totalaerospace industry sales of 148,928 million dollars; the missile segment was about nine percentof the total. In terms of 2003 employment, the missile and space segment employed some70,000 people, whereas the total aerospace industry employed some 583,000 people; the missilesegment employed less

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patric McElwain; James Helbling; Angela Beck

COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENGINEERING STYLE MANUAL Jim Helbling, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Angela Beck, Department of Humanities/Communications, Patric McElwain, Department of Humanities/Communications Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, ArizonaAbstractThis paper recounts the development, testing, and publication of a style manual at Embry-RiddleAeronautical University/Prescott Campus. This manual was jointly developed by faculty at theCollege of Engineering and the Department of Humanities/Communications in response tofaculty concerns that, despite a

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Lagace; Earll Murman

. Addressing all these factors in aircraft design goesbeyond the traditional boundaries of aerospace engineering and requires the engagement ofmanagement and social sciences faculty.A comprehensive curriculum for aircraft system design addressing all the above topics isappropriate for master-level degree programs in aerospace engineering and related fields such assystems engineering. Clearly the scope of this is well beyond a single subject. It needs toencompass a number of core and elective subjects together with application through thesis orpracticum studies. In this paper, the authors summarize curriculum that has evolved over thepast 15 years in MIT’s School of Engineering, in many cases in cooperation with colleaguesfrom MIT’s Sloan School of

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jean-Michel Dhainaut

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Niewoehner

Niewoehner, USN, is a Permanent Military Professor serving as Director of Aeronautics within theNaval Academy's Aerospace Engineering Department. He came to the Naval Academy after serving 17 years asboth a fleet fighter pilot and experimental test pilot, including 3 years as the Navy's Chief Test Pilot for thedevelopment of the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet. He is an Associate Fellow in the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. Page 10.723.10 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition This material is declared a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright

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Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Brij Agrawal

course is on spacecraft design tools. The students becomefamiliar with the spacecraft design tools that are used in the final design course. The toolsinclude STK, IDEAS, NASTRAN, and MATLAB/Simulink. They also become familiar withsystem software such as Aerospace Corporation Corporation Conceptual Design Center tools andspacecraft cost estimation. The second course is on spacecraft system engineering where theyreview the design aspects of all subsystems, systems engineering, and do an individual designproject. In the final capstone course, they do a team spacecraft design project. The spacecraftperformance requirements are given by a sponsor. The students have mentors in each subsystemfrom industry, Aerospace Corporation and government

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Daniel Schrage

Teaching Graduate Rotorcraft Design Based on Twenty Years of Experience Dr. Daniel P. Schrage Professor and Director Center of Excellence in Rotorcraft Technology School of Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0150IntroductionRotorcraft is a general term for rotary-wing aircraft and includes all aircraft that include anyrotary-wing device for generating lift or propulsion for a portion of the aircraft’s flight envelope.Therefore, rotorcraft includes helicopters

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jan De Vries; Gillian Saunders-Smits

Session 3102 Learning by doing: An innovative laboratory exercise to enhance the understanding of thin-walled Mechanics of Materials Gillian N. Saunders-Smits, Jan de Vries Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsIntroductionMechanics is widely considered to be the core of any type of construction engineering course inthe world, be it a mechanical, aerospace or naval architecture engineering course. Yet at the sametime it also considered by many students as one of the most difficult subjects in the course

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Melnyk; Grant Crawford; David Stringer; Steven Braddom

; Mechanical Engineering (C&ME) accomplishes several things. First,they provide high quality, hands-on, one-on-one instruction to students in actual aircraft. Thelaboratories also demonstrate important aerodynamic concepts and the operation of aeronauticalsystems while validating the theory presented in the classroom. Most importantly, the labs excitestudents about engineering and inspire in them the desire to continue learning both in and out ofthe classroom. The USMA Flight Laboratory Program provides a model for a hands-onintroduction to Aerospace Engineering. This paper details the experiments conducted in thethree fixed-wing Flight Laboratories and the one rotary-wing Flight Laboratory currentlyconducted as a part of the USMA Aeronautical

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mike Gruntman; Joseph Kunc; Dan Erwin

Associate Administrator for Education described the current situation as anational crisis.2 The report of the Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry,chaired by former congressman Robert S. Walker, urged in November 2002 to “reverse immedi-ately the decline in the scientifically and technologically trained U.S. aerospace workforce andpromote its future growth.”3 In another chilling observation, an editorial in AIAA’s AerospaceAmerica noted that “80% [of aerospace workers] said that they would not recommend aerospacecareers for their own children.” In addition, enrollment in nation’s engineering schools steadilydeclines, while many undergraduate and graduate students are foreign nationals, which makesthem largely ineligible for

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DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Zafer Gurdal; Jan Hol; Gillian Saunders-Smits

Session 1725 Innovative Teaching of Aircraft Structural Analysis and Design Courses - Mathematica in an Engineering Education Environment Gillian N. Saunders-Smits, Zafer Gürdal, Jan Hol, Aerospace Structures Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsINTRODUCTION This paper reports on a new course on aircraft structural analysis and design in the secondyear of the BSc curriculum at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University

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Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Melton; Michael Micci; Deborah Levin; Charles Croskey; David Spencer; Sven Bilen

development. LionSat is a multi-disciplinary space systems project involving several departments ofThe Pennsylvania State University, including the electrical, aerospace, and mechanicalengineering departments. The project also includes students from the College of Science and the Page 10.1166.1College of Education. The Communications and Space Sciences Laboratory (CSSL), located oncampus, is serving as the coordination center for the project. The research conducted by the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society from

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Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Keith Koenig; Emmanuel Okoro; Viva Austin; Thomas Hannigan

Shelving the Hardware: Developing Virtual Laboratory Experiments T. Hannigan, K. Koenig, V. Austin, E. Okoro Mississippi State UniversityAbstractTime is at a premium in a crowded aerospace engineering curriculum, and offerings oflaboratory classes in lock step have become a stumbling block to students who deviate from thetraditional paths. Students who participate in cooperative education programs, internships, andthose who transfer into the upper division from other disciplines and colleges have often sufferedgraduation delays from limited course offerings. These delays often arose from prerequisites forand sequencing of laboratory courses. However, a survey of activities

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Afshin Ghajar; Ronald Delahoussaye

Development and Implementation of Interactive/Visual Software for Simple Aircraft Gas Turbine Design Afshin J. Ghajar, Ronald D. Delahoussaye, Vandan V. Nayak School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078 ghajar@ceat.okstate.eduAbstract This paper describes a versatile, user-friendly, and easy to understand software suite thathas been developed for analysis and design of a simple turbojet engine. The software has beenclass room tested for several semesters and it was very well received by the students.Introduction The school of Mechanical and Aerospace

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Laura Jones; Karen Berger; Tamara Knott

one activity offered in 2003.SWE was approached for this undertaking mainly because for the past eight years it has run awell-established outreach program entitled “Girl Scout Exploring Engineering Day.” FLLExploring Engineering Day was modeled after this event.The first FLL Exploring Engineering Day was held the day before the 2004 Virginia State FLLtournament. FLL participants were able to participate in hands-on engineering activitiesfocusing on Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, and OceanEngineering. In addition, as in previous years, Dr. Reinholtz’ presentation on robotics andengineering and tours of the WARELab were offered. Descriptions of the activities and detailsof the organization and planning of the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey LaCombe; James Detweiler; Daniel Loranz; Eric Wang

Starting a Student Satellite Program Eric Wang, Jeffrey LaCombe, James Detweiler, and Daniel Loranz University of Nevada, Reno/Truckee Meadows Community CollegeAbstractThe Nevada Space Grant Consortium’s student satellite program, NevadaSat, is an ongoingmulti-faceted program providing students with high-impact exposure to the aerospace fields.The program includes multidisciplinary student activities in scientific ballooning, rocketry, andEarth-orbiting satellites, known as BalloonSat, CanSat, and CubeSat, respectively. All of theseprograms are active and critical towards achieving the goal of producing a student satellite to belaunched into Earth orbit in the next 3-5 years. Producing

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Schultz; Arnold Johnson

Practicing Real World Design, Teamwork, and Communications through Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering Projects Richard R. Schultz and Arnold F. Johnson University of North Dakota Department of Electrical EngineeringAbstractStudents enrolled in the B.S.E.E. with an Aerospace Focus program at the University of NorthDakota (UND) receive a traditional electrical engineering degree, along with aviationcoursework and a private pilot’s license. Cross-campus collaborations with UND’s world-renowned aerospace program provide the students with many experiential learning opportunitiesthat satisfy EAC/ABET EC2000 design, multidisciplinary

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Gally; Steve Chadwick; Randy Shaffer; Milton Cone; Jim Helbling

experience.IntroductionThe purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the development of an Introduction toEngineering course at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) in Prescott, Arizona. Thiscourse was created as a part of a ‘common core’ freshmen program, and was intended to providestudents with a multi-disciplinary experience branching the aerospace engineering, electricalengineering, computer engineering, and computer science fields of study. As such, the coursewas team-taught by faculty drawn from each of the various disciplines. Each instructor wastasked with developing lecture and laboratory content which would allow students to developcross-discipline engineering design skills.This paper begins by describing the course goals and objectives as