Conference Session

Preparing a Modern Aerospace Workforce

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Bibel, University of North Dakota

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

authors are motivated by a belief they have found abetter way to explain the science. Few bother to ferret out and develop interesting reallife adventures and applications. One source of information is the NationalTransportation Safety Board (NTSB) crash reports. It can be challenging to reduce thesecomplex aerospace systems to fundamental concepts for educational use.This material presented here was developed for a new disaster course for engineeringstudents and a disaster based science course for non-technical students. The material isalso suitable to supplement more traditional engineering courses such as: strength ofmaterials, material science, finite element analysis, and machine design. Many ABET socalled "soft skills" can also be