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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University; Oranuj Janrathitikarn, Pennnsylvania State University; Lyle Long, Pennsylvania State University

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Aerospace

efforts to form an integrated software engineering team. The number of students in the classnecessitated the use of software development teams, which shared the same set of hardwaresystems. Having two teams also allowed the use of an end of semester competition. Theinstructor, Professor Lyle N. Long, took special training in software engineering to prepare toteach the courses; he is now a Certified Software Development Professional.The objectives of the course are to provide hands-on experience in software engineering, and tosimulate the real working environment of a large company using team work with an emphasis oncommunication and collaboration skills. “Collaboration is a process that crosses time andcultures. Increasingly, engineering

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University; Zbigniew Prusak, Central Connecticut State University

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Aerospace

Pedagogical Issues. In: AIAA, editor. Aerospace Science Meeting and Exhibit. Volume 47. Orlando: AIAA; 2009. p 1-8.6. Prusak Z. Challenges to Future Engineering Professionals - How to Prepare Students to Face Them. 1998; Seattle, WA. American Society for Engineering Eduation.7. Lema L, Baumann P, Prusak Z. In-common Methodology for Objective- and Outcome-based Programs Assessment. 2005; Portland, OR. American Society for Engineering Education.8. Prusak Z. Application of QFD in Engineering Education: Assurance of Learning Outcomes Fulfillment. 2007; Williamsburg, VA. QFD Institute.9. Al-Masoud N, Baumann P. Development and Implementation of an Integrated Outcom-based Assessment Plan for a New Engineering

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Crawley, MIT; Robert Niewoehner, United States Naval Academy; Jean Koster, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Aerospace

. Theinnovation in this project is developing approaches to teaching Flight Test Engineering inuniversities without experienced test pilots. We have enabled this by producing syllabi,procedural guidance, instrumentation requirements, budget and faculty competencies (andqualifications), and implementation issues. The project summary is found in Appendix G. Three upper-class projects are being readied for publication and will be available in early2010. The project teams will then move to documenting 3 additional projects by the summer of2011.Developing integrated learning experiences CDIO standard 3 speaks to the development of an integrated curriculum, and standard 7addresses integrated learning experiences. The project plan for the Aerospace Project

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

usinghydrogen fuel, quantifying the economic opportunities in the Carbon Market. Sophomores inresearch Special Problems were tasked with extending the freshman experience to supersonicairliners, as part of a team including senior students. These students explored radical concepts forsuch airliners. An upper level aerodynamics course was used to develop technical figures ofmerit for supersonic hydrogen airliners from basic aerodynamics knowledge. The processidentified numerous gaps in the comprehension of the students from their courses. Theintegration challenge of this project enabled iterative refinement of their understanding. Theconcepts and analysis approaches taught at each level are seen to have become useful only whensubjected to integrated use

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roger Forsgren, NASA Headquarters; Lauren Miller, NASA Headquarters

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Aerospace

contributes to NASA's mission by promoting individual and team excellence inprogram/project management and engineering through the application of integrated learningstrategies, methods, models, and tools in a practical manner.Recognizing the necessity of offering blended educational opportunities that address a full rangeof learning styles and modes, NASA APPEL supports individual practitioners, as well as projectand program teams, at every level of development. It does so through four primary businesslines: curriculum; knowledge sharing; performance enhancement; and research and advancedconcepts. Curriculum lies at the heart of NASA APPEL’s approach to building the Agency’sprogram/project and engineering capabilities. Its courses are designed using

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kerri Phillips, West Virginia University; Giampiero Campa, The MathWorks, Inc.; Srikanth Gururajan, West Virginia University; Marcello Napolitano, West Virginia University

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Aerospace

testing, as well as system identification andcontrol design. Although aerospace engineering students are introduced to the fundamentals offlight dynamics in their coursework, the experience of project-based research enhances theirunderstanding of the discipline as well as improves other critical engineering skills for futureapplication in the professional world. This paper describes the work of several undergraduate andgraduate students in the above-mentioned areas, with particular emphasis on the flight-testingand system identification phases.IntroductionAerospace engineering education at a college or university typically encompasses the study ofaircraft, rockets, missiles, and spacecraft. An aerospace engineering curriculum consists of

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian German, Georgia Tech

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Aerospace

throughout theireducation, whereas a case approach could form a holistic teaching and learning approach thatcould be integrated throughout the curriculum. Second, these design activities are oftenformulated for students to execute one design from start to finish during an academic term.Cases, on the other hand, can deal with a more limited scope of a larger problem and still provideeffective real-world context and experiential learning opportunities.The inclusion of inspiring historical case studies in aerospace engineering alongside otherapproaches is anticipated to broaden the spectrum of student learning styles engaged. Thisspectrum of styles has been described by Felder,6, 7, 8, 9 and interspersing teaching methodstailored to each style in a

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Rowland, Dept. of Civil & Mechanical Engineerint at United States Military Academy; Andrew Bellocchio, United States Military Academy

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Aerospace

Tangible Aircraft DesignAbstract Implementation of an undergraduate aircraft design curriculum in a short aeronauticalengineering course sequence can be challenging. Ideally, students need to be taught fundamentalaircraft design material in a way that can easily be transitioned to a hands-on design project. Theproject should be both interesting and fun but also try to cover the entire design process from aconceptual standpoint to the preliminary design phase and finally expose them to the detailedmanufacturing of a prototype for testing. As is often the case, time and resources are limited andmuch of the hands-on engineering education experience so valuable to a student is hard toachieve. While many

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marilyn Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

Georgia Tech has developedinto one of the world’s largest university resources for multidisciplinary system design studies.Learners working here range from freshmen to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, researchengineers and faculty. They work on a large number of problems from various government andindustry sponsors, and have organized themselves into an environment where team members atall levels can be integrated into teams. A range of analytical tools and standard operatingprocedures have been developed, that are available for use in courses. Thus we now have thefollowing formal resources as a starting point for the project: Page