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David B. Lanning

Analysis of Aerospace Engineering Students Who Repeat Degree Requirements David B. Lanning Jr. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, ArizonaAbstractThis work investigates enrollment statistics, cumulative grade-point averages (GPA), and overallsuccess of a cohort of undergraduate aerospace engineering (AE) students who repeated requiredcourses during their academic studies at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Students retakecourses that they do not pass, or sometimes retake courses to improve upon their prior grade toraise their cumulative GPA. It has been informally observed that a number of students manageto persist in the degree program

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Kate Disney; Erik Dunmire; Michelle Millea; Larry Owens; Jo-Ann Panzardi P.E.; Liz Rozell

process that preparation for the major is thepriority of any transfer curriculum and the 60-unit cap on lower division units could not be met ifboth major preparation and lower division general education (GE) were to be completed prior totransfer. Therefore, in the spirit of SB1440, two model curricula and the associated coursedescriptors (C-IDs) were developed – one for Electrical/Computer Engineering (EE/CompE) andone for Mechanical, Civil, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering (ME/CE) to maximize theoverlap of course requirements in those disciplines, respectively. Additional model curricula,such as Chemical or Biomedical Engineering, may be developed in the future.The two model curricula that were developed take two different routes. Both

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Paul M. Jones; J. Richard Phillips

have brought in sponsored projects through their consulting. Andconsulting has improved faculty skills in managing projects, and interacting withstudents, as well as bringing real-world experience to campus.The Strategic Corporate Alliance Initiative at CSULAThe Strategic Corporate Alliance is a partnership between CSULA and strategiccorporate partners. CSULA was awarded the prestigious Excellence in EngineeringEducation Collaboration Award by the Corporate Member Council of the AmericanSociety of Engineering Educators at the February 2012 ASEE/CIEC Annual Conference.The Aerospace Corporation, The Boeing Company and Northrop Grumman Corporationwere recognized as members of the ASEE Corporate Members Council as foundingsponsors/partners of the

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Jim Helbling; Angela Beck

Ethics in Engineering: Preparing Our Students to Meet Societal Obligations Jim Helbling, Angela Beck Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, PrescottAbstractThis paper discusses a work in progress, reporting on how societal ethics are incorporated into asenior-level capstone course, AE 421: Aircraft Detail Design, taught at Embry-RiddleAeronautical University (ERAU), Prescott campus. Specifically, this paper focuses on how thecourse instructors prepare these aerospace engineering students to perform as professionalengineers as per ABET criteria 3f and 3h. By helping these students to become increasinglyaware of their impact on society and by

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Eniko T. Enikov; Jesus Acosta Iriqui

From Step-Response to State-Space Controller-Observer Design in Twenty Minutes: A Hands-On Workshop on the Use of Matlab/Simulink to Control a Low-Cost Aerodynamic Pendulum Eniko T. Enikov, Jesus Acosta Iriqui Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department University of ArizonaAbstractThis workshop will present broad range of control systems design topics illustrated through theuse of a low-cost aeropendulum. The project is based on a USB-powered kit operated by MatlabSimulink environment in real-time. Participants will follow the activities offered to senior-levelundergraduate students from mechanical and aerospace engineering

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Jeffrey Ashworth; Samer Shaghoury

students in any aircraft project. The described approach could easily besuccessfully applied to projects in any engineering discipline.IntroductionMany airplane design capstone courses in aeronautical and aerospace engineering programs inuniversities around the globe have adopted a purely theoretical approach to teaching design.This approach is characterized by assigning senior design students the task of re-designing a partof an existing airplane. Often this re-design requires utilizing a computer code or routine thestudents may or may not have written. The students may not be completely familiar with theboundary conditions or restrictive assumptions of the given routine. While this approach maymirror the tasking assigned a beginning engineer in