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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University; Zdzislaw Kremens, Central Connecticut State University

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aerospace anddefense industries supply chain. However, recent statistics from the Connecticut Department ofLabor in aerospace, computer and electrical engineering18 suggest a gap between the projectedavailability of engineering jobs and the number of qualified graduates to fill them.In a 2008 interview, the Commissioner of Higher Education in Connecticut drew attention to thisgap, noting that while an estimated 754 jobs engineering jobs would become available in thestate that year, only 614 qualified graduates would be produced to fill them,19 a conditionworsened by the known outflow of engineering graduates from the state.20 According to regionalgraduate retention data,20 only 27% of graduates intend to stay in the area, while 45% plan toleave

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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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that there will be a significantshortfall in technically competent engineers and other technical specialists necessary to keep thissector healthy, and preserve the nation’s aeronautics core competencies. From a national policy perspective, this need has been clearly recognized. The NationalAeronautics R&D Policy instructs that “executive departments and agencies with responsibilityfor aeronautics-related activities should continue to invest in educational development of thefuture aeronautics workforce…” The NASA Strategy Plan of 2006 references the need forNASA’s own Strategic Management of Human Capital, and in the section on StrategicCommunications: Education Initiatives reinforces NASA’s responsibility to “strengthen NASAand the

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Johnson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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the plan to improve safety, shown by a reduced RPN. Specific recommendations arerecorded on the form along with the responsible person and planned date of completion. Duringthe improvement of the process, the team records the actual actions taken and recalculates theRPN. Process owner buy-in is critical to lasting process improvements. The process owner is the Page 15.1334.5person who is responsible for the process after the team has completed the improvements. Theteam works with the process owner to implement the process changes. The process owner mustensure that personnel are trained in the new methods and understand why the improvements

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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GreatMoonbuggy Race Program as a Capstone design project, and to show how to use such acomprehensive design experience as an assessment tool addressing most ABET Criterion 3 a-kprogram learning outcomes, and its impact on students long terms career objectives. The projectis designed to imitate real-world workplace environment; students are divided into four differentindependent groups, namely, frame, transmission, steering, and suspension, all of which report toa project manager who oversees the execution plan and coordinates between the teams, andmanages day-to-day operational aspects of the project and scope. The Moonbuggy vehicle mustsatisfy not only functionality and strength, but also a set of geometrical and physical constraintssuch as weight

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Daniel Kirk, Florida Institute of Technology; Tein-min Tan, Drexel University; Sridhar Santhanam, Villanova University

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near and long term professional plans? If yes, how does he/she know them? If no, why do you think he/she does not know? • Is your career progressing along path you envisioned? • Are you career aspirations aligned with Boeing's strategic goals and vision? Page 15.388.5 • How is success now measured differently at Boeing than when you were in college? Are you aware of how success is measured and how much does it mean to you? • What could have been more effective during your K-12 years to prepare you for college? • What could have been more effective during your college years to prepare you for Boeing? • At

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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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the1970s were 40 years ago. The Cold War was in full swing. The West and the Soviet Unioneffectively neutralized each other’s plans for large global advances in travel andcommunications. There were no viable business destinations in central and southern Africa, andmost nations banned travel and commercial links with Apartheid-ridden South Africa andRhodesia. The People’s Republic of China was not a leading trade/business destination, and theirown citizens (except for government/Party officials) were not known or allowed to travel, or tohave the means to travel much outside. Plans for the Concorde would have included landing atBombay (Mumbai) as one of two viable business destinations in India (the other being Delhiwhich is deep inland), but

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Moshe Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Aerospace

guidelines that have been stressed in the teachers’ course as wellas in the new formal requirements for preparing projects in schools:1. The main objective of the projects is to foster students’ learning competences, such as inquiry, problem-solving and troubleshooting, rather than learning more theory or handling technical issues. Consequently, schools are allowed to reduce the size or complexity level of the systems the students design in comparison to the past.2. Students should document all their work on the project, for example, inquiry into the problem, the system’s conceptual design, initial planning sketches, construction stages, troubleshooting and improvement.3. Students are encouraged to use the e-portfolio method

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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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isimportant that all NASA employees are not only aware of, but also well informed about theaccomplishments of their Agency, and have an understanding of future plans. This course isbeing designed for NASA engineers and technicians who are anxious to gain an overallunderstanding of NASA’s engineering in the service of exploration through a core knowledge ofhuman spaceflight and robotic missions—past, present, and future.The NASA Missions course will present detailed synopses of key NASA missions, focusing onwhat has been accomplished, current undertakings, and potential future endeavors from anengineering and personal passion stance. Learners will recognize how the driving forces behindAgency-wide successes are more than science and analytics, and how

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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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endeavors involve teams scattered across continents, workingtoward a common purpose. Corporations are recognizing that synergized, distributed expertisecan bring both needed engineering and cultural knowledge to a project”2. These objectives areachieved using a variety of active learning methods, including lecture, demonstration, problemsolving, collaborative work, formal team work, and peer learning. The assessment plan providedfor formative assessment via oral and written reports and tests; and summative assessment withthe completion of software system for the final grade. Surveys and focus groups were conductedto obtain feedback from the students on their perception of the learning experience.Course DescriptionIntroduction to Software

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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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exchangedamaged balsa wood for a new sheet; however, this is not an option in the second design in orderto reinforce the planning and specificity required for completion of the detailed design phase.Robustness is emphasized to focus students on construction techniques and considerations so thatthey are more experienced and familiar with what works and what doesn’t better preparing themfor their second design attempt. Page 15.677.3Glider Flight Test and Competition The first design attempt ends with a competition that measures the performance of eachstudent’s glider by measuring its maximum straight line distance perpendicular to a launch pointfrom

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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

aerospace students2. GIT AE alumni3. NASA and industry new employees getting oriented4. Engineers refreshing pre-requisites for Distance Learning graduate school5. GIT AE graduate students taking courses across technical disciplines6. Graduate students preparing for PhD Qualifying Examination7. NASA and industry experienced engineers working on new proposals/ projects8. Cross-disciplinary project teamsEXTROVERT GatewayAs planned, the first two years of the project are devoted to intense resource development, whilethe final year will be devoted to user and peer assessment, refinement and publication. A basicstructure to facilitate content addition and user experience has been designed and implemented.The EXTROVERT gateway serves as the portal to the

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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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stable testbed in flight. The produced drawings were utilized in the design of theaircraft molds and overall construction of the aircraft. Figure 1 shows the CAD design of the YF-22 aircraft that was translated into the construction, shown in Figure 2. Figure 1: CAD Design of the WVU YF-22 Aircraft12 Page 15.507.5 Figure 2: Student Working on WVU YF-22 Construction12The molds shown in Figure 2 were used to lay-up carbon fiber and fiberglass shells to constitutethe aircraft body. The students worked to ensure that the aircraft body was strong enough tosupport the weight of the planned avionics