Conference Session

Best Practices and Structuring for Aerospace Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiasheng Zhang, Northwestern Polytechnical University

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Aerospace

working in this industry.More and more of them have been working directly for foreign OEMs such as GE, P&H,Boeing, Airbus, and Goodrich , etc. as technological representatives in China. This means ourparadigm has prepare the learners very well for their career path.The language training program, the internship management mechanism, theindustry-university all around cooperation in the students’ training process are definitely keyelements to the successful training program Page 11.195.7

Conference Session

Rethinking Aerospace Curricula and Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Hannigan, Mississippi State University; Carrie Olsen, Mississippi State University; David Bridges, Mississippi State University; Keith Koenig, Mississippi State University

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Aerospace

to pursue a college degree that will prepare them to work in the spaceindustry. Meanwhile, a very mature space industry already exists to support a myriad of space-related industries. Informal surveys of entering freshmen indicate that nearly half of them wouldlike to work in space-related jobs during their aerospace engineering careers. The depth andbreadth of a well established and diverse aerospace engineering program, and the emphasis ofthis program primarily on aeronautical education, research, and technology development isdocumented. The contrast of the needs of employers in support of space-related industries, fromindustry and alumni perspectives is described. The discussions that established a definitive needfor a dual track system

Conference Session

Learning to Design Aerospace Systems

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Liu, University of Michigan; Christopher Deline, University of Michigan; Rafael Ramos, University of Michigan; Steven Sandoval, University of Michigan; Ashley Smetana, University of Michigan; Brian Gilchrist, University of Michigan; Peter Washabaugh, University of Michigan; Nilton Renno, University of Michigan

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Aerospace

workforce development. Theseorganizations include student satellite groups at other universities, NASA centers, the Air ForceResearch Laboratory, and especially industry sponsors such as Lockheed Martin. Studentsinteract with industry professionals via teleconferences, technical email exchanges, and formaldesign reviews. These exchanges enable students to experience the real world and to buildprofessional contacts that enhance their career prospects. In addition, S3FL maintains a strongrelationship with SPRL, whose professional engineers are valuable mentors who participate asreviewers in design reviews, offer training sessions, and provide guidance with test setups,hardware design, and software coding.S3FL also has intramural relationships with

Conference Session

Integrative Projects in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Weinstein, Northeastern University; Randy August, Northeastern University; Len Dow, Northeastern University; Jerome Tapper, Northeastern University; Francis Di Bella, Northeastern University

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Aerospace

engineering technology students in the Engineering TechnologyProgram. Thus the senior computer, electrical and mechanical engineering students endtheir academic careers by teaming to conduct an engineering analysis, design, prototypefabrication, test and reporting of a “product” or engineered system. On occasion, severalof the groups will also team with business (senior) students who are responsible forproducing a Business Plan resulting from their objective examination of the businessviability of the Capstone “project/product”.Ultimately the results of these capstone projects provide evidence to the students of theirmastery of their individual disciplines as well as their ability to work in dynamic groupscomposed of seemingly diverse engineering