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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Roy Myose

Junior-level Jet Engine Design Project Incorporating Aircraft Performance, Cost, and Environmental Issues Roy Myose Department of Aerospace Engineering, Wichita State UniversityAbstract Capstone design classes in aerospace engineering oftentimes employ a multi-disciplinary team-based approach to design projects. In discipline-specific non-capstone classes, the typical emphasisis to cover the necessary conceptual material, and the design project in such a class tends to consideroptimization issues related to the discipline-specific topic. This paper discusses the author’s attemptto incorporate aircraft performance, cost, and environmental issues in the

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William A. Kline; Thomas Mason

productdevelopment center with generous grant funding from the Lilly Endowment.There were dual purposes for the grant and the subsequent activities it funded – demonstrateeffective experiential education and change the Indiana economy. From Rose-Hulman’sperspective, the project enabled a dramatic increase in the use of real new product developmentprojects to prepare the best new engineering and science professionals. While a number ofindustrial relationships supported capstone projects each year and there had been some success atgetting students involved in a few products that made it to the marketplace, Rose-HulmanVentures provided dozens of employment opportunities for students to work directly on newproducts. The original idea was to offer technical

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Walter O. Craig

(Entergy) and a HR representative from theRaytheon company. Members serving on the Industry Advisory Committee have direct input intothe EET curriculum for technology students. Their input is valuable and helped to developcourses that our students needed in the manufacturing environment. One new course developedwith industry input was our new Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) course.5 Anotherrecommendation made by the IAC was to have students become familiar with fundamentals ofthe design process, working on design projects before the senior capstone design course. Designprojects need to be integrated into the curriculum early on. Projects should be small in scope andincrease in design complexity starting from the basic (DC/AC) courses to the

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Abu S.M. Masud; Don E. Malzahn

deficiencies areremedied by revision of the curriculum or course contents, development/reorganization oflaboratory or other facilities, and reallocation of financial resources. The tools used forassessment and their efficacy in assessing the outcomes are discussed in the next section.The main instrument by which the program can ensure the achievement of desiredoutcomes is the curriculum. Appropriate faculty, facilities, and financial resources arethe accessories required to ensure effective impartation of knowledge, skills, andexperience as intended in the curriculum. Inclusion of industry-based projects and planttours in courses and industry-based capstone projects in the curriculum are the means bywhich the ‘Metropolitan Advantage’ of WSU is used to

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Behnam Bahr; Kurt Soschinske; George Gray

attend and participate in a MechanicalEngineering seminar series that will expose them to topics such as Ethics, Safety, EnvironmentalIssues, Global Collaboration, Energy Conservation, Entrepreneurial Aspects of Engineering,Engineering Professionalism, Sustainability, Manufacturability, Project Management, and othertopics of professional interest and use. Furthermore, students will have opportunities to work asa team on faculty’s research project or a creative project of their own. These hand-onopportunities will give Mechanical Engineering students a more insightful appreciation formanufacturing capabilities and limitations, and permit them to coordinate more effectively withengineering technologists to create more competitive products in the

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel

3Jonassen [2] proposed a classification of problems on a continuum between ill-structured andwell-structured problems. For well-structured problems, the parameters of problems are specifiedin the problem statement; they possess knowable, correct solutions that are determined bypreferred solution paths; and they apply a limited number of regular rules and principles that areorganized in a predictive and prescriptive arrangement [2]. The kind of problems most oftenencountered in engineering education programs (except for capstone and assorted designexperiences) is the story (word) problem, which is well structured. When learning to solve storyproblems in engineering, students learn to translate relationships about unknowns into equations,solve the