Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lance W. Traub, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

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Aerospace

to AE 314/315; the introductory experimentalaerodynamics laboratory course offered at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University – Prescott Page 22.484.2campus. It is envisaged that the course design presented may be suitable for project orientatedexperimental courses with flexible learning outcomes. II. Course description The course consists of two 1 hour lecture periods per week and a 2½ hour laboratory. Formallecture based instruction typically constituted one of the lecture periods per week. At the time ofwriting, this course has been offered twice. Typical enrollment is approximately 10 to 14students. To provide students with sufficient

Conference Session

Aerospace First-Year Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Olsen, University of Michigan; Peter D. Washabaugh, University of Michigan

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Aerospace

have been experimental offerings of a first-year engineering coursethat incorporated a very extensive design-build-test-compete (DBTC) pedagogy. This course wasspecifically positioned to exercise core-engineering competencies, communication skills, andcreativity. The course is intense in that it involves two Aerospace Engineering team projects,integrated technical communications and technical content, teamwork, and individual scientificand fabrication laboratories. The projects involve design, build, test, and compete cycles withballoons and then with radio-controlled blimps. The students entering this DBTC course andother first-year courses were studied with respect to typical admissions criteria including highschool grades and test scores

Conference Session

Aerospace Curriculum and Collaborations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leigh S McCue, Virginia Tech; Joseph A. Schetz, Virginia Tech

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Aerospace

ENGR 3 AOE 4214 OCEAN WAVE MECHANICS 3 ME 3134 FUND OF THERMODYN 3 AOE 4244 MARINE ENGINEERING 3 ELECTIVE** 3 STAT 4705 STATISTICS FOR ENGR. 3 18 18 SENIOR YEAR FALL SPRING AOE 3044 BOUND LAYER & HEAT TR 3 AOE 4066 SHIP DESIGN (WI) 3 AOE 4065 SHIP DESIGN (WI) 3 TECHNICAL ELECTIVES++ 3 AOE 4254 OE LABORATORY 1

Conference Session

Aerospace First-Year Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alok K. Verma, Old Dominion University

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Aerospace

AC 2011-876: IMPACT OF PROJECT BASED LEARNING IN INTRO-DUCTION TO ENGINEERING/ TECHNOLOGY CLASSAlok K. Verma, Old Dominion University Dr. Alok K. Verma is Ray Ferrari Professor and, Director of the Lean Institute at Old Dominion Univer- sity. He also serves as the Director of the Automated Manufacturing Laboratory. Dr. Verma received his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, MS in Engineering Mechanics and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from ODU. Prof. Verma is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Virginia, a certi- fied manufacturing engineer and has certifications in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. He has orga- nized several international conferences as General Chair, including ICAM-2006

Conference Session

Aerospace Curriculum and Collaborations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valana L. Wells, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University; Praveen Shankar, Arizona State University; Wen-Ting Chung, Arizona State University

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Aerospace

stimulate students’ interest in learning course material since they would viewthe content as more useful to them in their future careers. Prior studies have concluded thatconventional teaching methods in university engineering courses undermine students’ motivationto persist in pursuing an engineering career2-4.The first course in aerodynamics is taught during the first semester of the junior year and isscheduled for three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory each week. Students have takena first course in thermofluids as a prerequisite. The course is required for all students in theaeronautics concentration of the aerospace engineering major. Most of the students in theastronautics concentration also take the course along with a few

Conference Session

Aerospace Curriculum and Collaborations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation, and Technology; Michael Swartwout, Saint Louis University

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Aerospace

). The competition is also sponsored by the NavalResearch Laboratory (NRL) and the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration (NASA). The CanSat competition is a space-related program forcollege, university and high school students. The objective of the CanSatcompetition is to complete space exploration missions by designing a specificsystem for a small sounding rocket payload according to a set of yearlyobjectives, such as landing in a designated area, performing remote sensingobservations during flight, and incorporating lander and/or rover payloads. Thecompetition spans the complete mission life-cycle (mission definition to flightoperations) in nine months. Roughly 20 schools per year begin the competition,and around a dozen complete the

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Praveen Shankar, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University; Valana L. Wells, Arizona State University; Wen-Ting Chung, Arizona State University

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Aerospace

flight simulator for education and research”, AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit, 2002, Monterey, CA9. Rogalski, T., Tomczyk, A., Kopecki, G., “Flight simulator as a tool for flight control system synthesis and handling qualities research”, Solid State Phenomena, 2009, 147, 231-23610. Tomczyk, A., “The flying laboratory for aeronautics students’ education”, Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, 2010, 82(5), pp 320-33011. Frasca International, Inc., “Frasca CRJ: Regional jet flight training device”, www.frasca.com/pdf/CRJbrochure.pdf12. Hoak, D. E., et al., "The USAF Stability and Control DATCOM," Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hadi Ali, Purdue University; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Aerospace

of configuration management and configurationcontrol as practiced in spacecraft systems management. Configuration management is a processthat makes people involved in changing a design of a spacecraft aware of what this change isgoing to affect and what its consequences are. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory over time learnedby experience the typical profile of engineering changes and, consequently, how better to predictcost and schedule17

Conference Session

Aerospace First-Year Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Kaushik Das, Texas A&M University, College Station; Stephen Oehler, Texas A&M University; Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; Dimitris C. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University

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Aerospace

courses can be beneficial in promoting understanding of engineeringprocesses of design and modeling and the roles of science and mathematics in engineering.These initial courses allow for students to gradually become accustomed to science andmathematics concepts in a task-oriented environment.2 In this way, projects motivate and guidethe course content rather than simply supplement the subject matter. Courses in which first-yearengineering students connect practical and technical applications with the standard curriculashow good indications of having a significant impact on student retention rates.3 Similarly,conversion of introductory engineering lecture courses into laboratory classes has had a positiveeffect in further generating student

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Drexel University; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Alexandru Catalin Belu, Case Western Reserve University

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Aerospace

semestersof calculus, and during their high-school studies they must have already studied particlekinematics and dynamics. Simulation software and computer algebra systems allow students toexperiment with phenomena which are too complex to calculate or too expensive to bereproduced in a laboratory, or are simply not accessible to the senses. A computer algebra systemis essentially the ability to manipulate concepts, using computer expressions, which aresymbolic, algebraic and not limited to numerical evaluation. A computer algebra systems canperform many of the mathematical techniques which are part and parcel of a traditional physicscourse. The successful use of computer algebra systems does not imply that the mathematicalskills are no longer at a