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Design Courses 2, Aerospace Assets

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Richard Melnyk, United States Military Academy

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of the benefits UAS offer, while simultaneously mitigatingthe physical, social, and cybersecurity risks outlined above. The purpose of this next section isto provide an example of one such program as a proposed model. The proposed model from theUnited States Military Academy is by no means unique. For example, Rainier [18] outlines aUAS program in place at North Carolina State University. The program differentiates betweenhobby use, routine research, and more experimental use and places procedures in place for allthree. The previously discussed article by Ogan also emphasizes the need for an educationprogram at institutions that plan to employ UAS focused on topics such as safety, flight skills,and judgment. [11]The program at the Academy

Conference Session

Teaching Methodology & Assessment 2

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George Frederick Halow, University of Michigan; Maia E. Herrington, University of Michigan; Melanie Spare, Siemens Digital Industries Software; Shannon O'Donnell, Siemens Digital Industries Software; Gilbert Morris, Retired (formerly Siemens)

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directed project teams to ensure product excellence and programhealth. How effectively students applied these tools and processes was then assessed by panels ofindustry and faculty judges at three team design review events throughout the course.To ascertain the effectiveness of the teachings and enable continuous improvement to thecurriculum, we examined student survey responses, quantitative scoring and comments by judgesduring team design reviews, and student teams’ performance in their respective competitions. Inaddition, we incorporated feedback from experts in the aerospace field in response to courseteachings and outcomes.Finally, this paper outlines future plans for scaling the curriculum to a full hands-on, lab-basedexperiential learning

Conference Session

Learning in a Socially-Distanced Environment

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Wm. Michael Butler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis

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function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives [6]Programs necessarily define points within the curriculum where these outcomes are included incoursework. In some cases, these are included in coursework in ways where there may not be anatural fit in a typical lecture or lecture/laboratory course, or that appear to be contrived.Teamwork may consist of students put into groups based on proximity, with minimal instructionin how to effectively operate as a team; while this is indeed working within a group, it isarguably not effective teamwork [7]-[9]. Effective communication often consists of in-classpresentations

Conference Session

Teaching Methodology & Assessment 1

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Zachary Nolan Sunberg, University of Colorado Boulder; Kathryn Anne Wingate, University of Colorado Boulder; Lara Buri, University of Colorado, Boulder

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choose between the project they wanted and their friends. Students who were not involved in the deliberation in the days leading up to the project selection were often left to fend for themselves, and so one project had a group of “outliers,” people who hadn’t planned ahead and didn’t know which group to join. Many members in this group did not consider this project their top choice and the team ended up having a lot of issues later in the class with team dynamics and quality of work. Implementing an algorithm for team/project selection prevents the need for students to team up in full teams of twelve before the selection day, and therefore may lower the chances of having an “outlier” team. The

Conference Session

Teaching Methodology & Assessment 2

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Mary E. Johnson, Purdue University at West Lafayette ; Yilin Feng, California State University, Los Angeles

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system, as well as the role of delays in complex systems.PreparationStudents are assigned to teams to lead a HODA during the semester. Each student team has atleast two weeks to prepare to lead the game in class. The instructor provides each team theguideline materials from The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to stretch and build learningand systems thinking capabilities [10] by Sweeney and Meadows. The materials explain theobjectives of the HODA, how to run the HODA, and how to lead the debriefing session after theHODA. Students are asked to play the game and are encouraged to possibly revise the rules oradd some suitable content based on their understanding of the HODA and from their own lifeexperiences.Table 1. Course weekly plan and

Conference Session

Teaching Methodology & Assessment 1

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Amelia Greig, University of Texas at El Paso

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widelyacknowledged that graduating engineers require a lot more skills that simply doing workedexamples about a single component of an entire engineering system, such as leadership,teamwork, and communication skills [17,18].Well-planned and well-conceived assessments can provide the opportunity to expand anddevelop these required soft skills at the same time as maintaining the ability to assess courseeffectiveness against ABET student learning outcomes and provide a ranking system of studentsfor future employers. Writing Across the Curriculum [19] is one example of this, where writingand communication exercises are incorporated into all aspects of the curriculum including thetechnical subjects that are often assessed only through worked problems. The

Conference Session

Design Courses 1, Teaching Tools

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Fernando Sesma, Texas A&M University; Eghosasere Alao, Texas A&M University; Hannah Stroud, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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easy for the player. Theoverarching analog is the idea that managing a map of space traffic is similar to managing a map of cartraffic on earth. Each car and spacecraft has the probability for a random event to occur, meant to simulatethe spontaneity of road and space travel. Moreover, players must plan the timing of each movement theymake with careful precision. The movements of each car and spacecraft are closely coupled with eachother. All of the aforementioned serve as an introduction to dynamics and controls, an important elementof aerospace engineering, which addresses problems relating to modeling, simulation, and control ofaerospace systems. Analogs are made even more apparent by the use of pop-ups, most of which serve asdirect

Conference Session

Learning in a Socially-Distanced Environment

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Lucia Rut Capdevila, San Jose State University

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screen toshow their code and the instructor was able to remote control the student’s computer todemonstrate concepts. The planned course activities remained the same with the exception of themodifications and interventions implemented in response to challenges that arose.The first challenge surfaced with Exam 1. The first exam of the term was to be an in-person examto be taken during lab. However, after the online transition, the exam was modified to a take-homeexam. The exam would be introduced during the first lab Zoom meeting, students would be ableto ask questions, and finish the exam outside of lab. However, the first online lab, was onlyattended by 20% of the students, that is, 80% of students did not attend lab to ask questions aboutthe

Conference Session

Design Courses 1, Teaching Tools

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Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shantanu Gupta, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Caroline K. Marete, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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, Runway Safety/Runway Incursions/ Runway Excursions, AirportEnvironmental Interactions, and Airport Management and Planning [1]. Student teams are free toeither address specific challenge areas as defined in the Technical Design Challenges section ofthe ACRP design competition guidelines, or propose design solutions based on other topics thatfit the four broad challenge areas [1].The evaluation criteria for the design competition are available on the ACRP website [7]. Thecriteria are used by the competition judges to evaluate design proposals, and could assist studentteams to evaluate and improve their proposals before final submission. Each of the designproposals submitted are evaluated, and evaluators may choose to provide a score in half

Conference Session

Design Courses 2, Aerospace Assets

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Cristhian David Coronel, Nihon Gakko University; Mayra Luján Mosqueda, Nihon Gakko University; Blas Fernando Vega BV, Agencia Espacial del Paraguay; Diego Herbin Stalder, Universidad Nacional de Asunción; Jorge H. Kurita, Universidad Nacional de Asunción

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appointedto lead the research department of the School of Engineering. From 2017 he is appointed to be the head ofthe Mechanical Engineering Department at Universidad Nacional de Asuncion. He is currently workingas the director of the Planning Directorate of the Paraguayan Space Agency. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Building 1U CubeSat as a Tool to Promote Project-Based Learning in Paraguay, a case studyIntroductionIn Paraguay, various higher education institutions such as universities do not have properlyequipped engineering laboratories because it requires a significant investment [1]. Also, theselaboratories may require extensive infrastructure

Conference Session

Personnel Development & Retention

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Yun Dong, Iowa State University; Subhanwit Roy, Iowa State University; Lorenzo D. Baber, Loyola University, Chicago ; Benjamin Ahn, Iowa State University

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careers socialization, Korte et al. [23] foundthat new employees expect a formal development plan for adjusting to their new workingposition, guidance from their manager, and opportunities of undertaking work-related tasks.Harris et al. [21] revealed that, in the context of learning and adjusting to existingorganizational practices, new employees proactively formulate a sense or reliableunderstanding of the organizational practices by adjusting or improving the practices. Theyalso check their understanding and assumptions of the practices by asking for feedback orobserving their managers' and coworkers' reactions. These studies revealed similarities inproactive behaviors in STEM with those found in a general context, such as FeedbackSeeking and

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Design Courses 2, Aerospace Assets

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Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University; Krishnaswamy Ravindra P.E., Saint Louis University; Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University

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, draw free body diagrams, utilize computers, utilize test data, readand understand drawings, structural idealization, plan and track analysis tasks, able to make goodassumptions, drawing approval, repair design and analysis. It is very clear from the industry advisory boards and in general, based on the inputs fromindustry the attributes are still desired by the industry. Along with the skills described above, theprogress made in numerical simulations and analysis has made a tremendous impact on howstudents learn and validate the theoeretical analysis, backed up by experiments. The numericaltools have provided an additional validation tool and has gradually build confidence in students tobetter understand design principles and predict results

Conference Session

Teaching Methodology & Assessment 2

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Tracy L. Yother, Purdue University at West Lafayette ; Mary E. Johnson, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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process for developing a FMEA. Theprocess begins with gathering experiential data and requirements. If the design is new then thenext step is to postulate failure modes. If there is existing data, then that data is accessed.Regardless of which data is used, the next step is to complete a failure latency analysis, or a faulttree. Finally, the FMEA is documented and reported.The process for developing a FMEA in ARP5580 begins with identifying when the FMEA is tobe developed and what type of FMEA is to be completed. During system design there aremultiple types of FMEA to be completed at different points of the development schedule. Duringthe conceptual design the effort is focused on planning. Moving into the preliminary stage afunctional analysis

Conference Session

Design Courses 1, Teaching Tools

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Dominic M. Halsmer P.E., Oral Roberts University; Simeon Spiess, Oral Roberts University; Geoffrey N.A. Willis, Oral Roberts University; Michael R. VanDusen

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linkages inorder to firmly establish appropriate factors of safety for all mechanical elements. Thedevelopment of a more realistic control yoke to receive pilot inputs is also being researched andconsidered. In addition, the computer interfaces for proper signal communications requiresadditional work. The primary focus of this final phase is the development and execution of a testand validation plan to ensure that the system is providing a reasonably accurate simulation of theactual flight experience. This will require subsystem testing as well as integrated systems testingto faithfully reproduce vehicular dynamics for a variety of aircraft types.INTRODUCTIONA decade ago, virtual reality was a relatively unexplored technology that was expensive

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Personnel Development & Retention

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Thomas A. Ward, Cedarville University; Corinna Megan Ward, Capital Group

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offer only minordegrees without offering an equivalent higher degree? There are several possible reasons for this.First, offering a minor degree is a conservative first step into plans to eventually offer a major inone of these fields. Secondly, graduates with minor degrees are more attractive to aerospaceemployers, compared to those who do not have any aerospace related qualifications (even if theyhave an engineering bachelor’s degree in another field). This becomes more important if there isa large number of aerospace industry or government employers in proximity to the academicorganization. This will be examined more closely in the next section.2.5 Geographical DistinctionsThe locations of all the academic organizations offering an aero

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Design Courses 2, Aerospace Assets

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Tobias Rossmann, Lafayette College

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Design Optimization, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Advanced FluidDynamics with Applications). Even with these limitations, more than ten students from each class 2(typical enrollment per class year is ~60) declare an interest in aerospace with course choices,research opportunities, summer internships, and future career planning. Due to this student interest in aerospace, a new course aimed at second-and third-year studentswas created at the 200-level with few pre-requisites (only first semester physics with or withoutcalculus) in order to attract undergraduates from a breadth of STEM disciplines. The courseoutcomes (Table 1) were devised such that students would be exposed to a rich overview