Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin James Brennan, University of Texas, Austin; Adam Wayne Nokes, The University of Texas at Austin; Wallace T. Fowler P.E., University of Texas, Austin

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Aerospace

Texas Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He is a fellow of both the AIAA and the ASEE. He served as president of ASEE of 2000-2001. Page 23.1303.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Using a Graduate Student Developed Trajectory Generation Program to Facilitate Undergraduate Spacecraft / Mission Capstone Design ProjectsIntroductionA major stumbling block in undergraduate spacecraft/mission design projects is the earlygeneration of plausible baseline trajectories for missions outside of Earth orbit. Many studentteams rely almost totally

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Pablo Afman Afman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

emphasizes research and instruction.Three projects are included in the study, progressing in level of complexity. There was somecommonality in participants between the three. The first is a large open-ended advanced conceptdevelopment exercise in an upper-division course. The second is a Capstone Design course. Thethird is a professional society’s international level vehicle design team competition. The resultsshow where and how students acquired the knowledge, skills, confidence and experience to buildthrough the years and reach a level where they could innovate and perform with excellence at thelevel of the international competition. The case study is aimed to benefit instructors who areinterested in improving the depth of their courses as well as

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

. References                                                                                                                1  Todd, Robert H. et al. "A survey of capstone engineering courses in North America." Journal Of EngineeringEducation-Washington- 84 (1995): 165-174.  2  Dutson, Alan J. et al. "A review of literature on teaching engineering design through project-oriented capstonecourses." Journal Of Engineering Education-Washington- 86 (1997): 17-28.  3  Pimmel, Russ. "Cooperative learning instructional activities in a capstone design course." Journal Of EngineeringEducation-Washington- 90.3 (2001): 413-422

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amy Pritchett, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

the vehicle. There is no explanation of how to integratestakeholder-related requirements and considerations throughout the design process. In addition,the texts do not describe how students can or should consider the purpose of the design asviewed by the stakeholders in the operational context, but instead may cause students toimplicitly see the stakeholder as the source of constraints and costs, limiting the design’s abilityto achieve the maximum technical performance highlighted in the text. Page 23.1219.4Design ProjectAn important aspect of the capstone course is the design project. In contrast to product design orother capstone courses

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Swartwout, Saint Louis University; Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.

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Aerospace

student participation (grades), as well as allowingthe material to be tailored to the needs. Often course-based projects and national competitionsare merged, with capstone design courses geared towards a national competition. The obviousdisadvantage to the course-based project is the effort required by the instructors to properly setup and manage the course.Despite the effort required, we chose the course-based project for our hands-on training. Wewanted to have the motivation afforded by course credit, as well as the natural deadlines of finalexams to set and enforce schedule. We also liked the publicity that comes with a course; studentsoutside of the major with an interest in aerospace projects will find it in the course catalog. Wealso

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Danner Friend, Norwich University; Jacques N Beneat, Norwich University

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Aerospace

year’s work. Since January 2010, a total of 21 undergraduate students have worked onthe CubeSat project under the mentorship of two faculty members (Mechanical and Electrical &Computer Engineering). Among these students, seven started as a summer research fellow, andthen five of those seven students applied the results of their research in their capstone seniordesign project.The second project involves students working on an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. Theoriginal motivation for this project comes from NASA’s interest in Europa, a large moon ofJupiter, which has a large liquid ocean beneath its ice crust. The liquid ocean is believed to havethe necessary conditions to support life. To investigate the ocean, an underwater vehicle

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis K. McLaughlin, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sven Schmitz, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Irene B Mena, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Aerospace

1research projects proven to increase undergraduate students’ skills in collecting and analyzingdata1, but they have also been found to enhance students’ awareness of what it is like to be agraduate student, thus opening further options for their career paths.2 To some extent suchintegration of teaching and research is reasonably common in senior level capstone designprojects. A common aspect of such design projects is the establishment of student teams whowork together with little day to day supervision to meet a project goal, normally set by theoverall course instructor. At Penn State University, Departments of Mechanical and ElectricalEngineering have conducted such a project activity course in which students form teams to workon design projects

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trevor J. Bennett, Texas A&M University; Kristin D. Nichols, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University

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should be theprimary goal of engineering educational institutions. An important and effective part ofengineering education is the design process. Many, if not all, engineering programs require asenior design project in which the students apply their undergraduate coursework to a discipline-specific design challenge. While senior-level design is the capstone of a student’s undergraduateeducation, the authors believe that design education should not be restricted to the final year.Instead it should be integrated throughout the curriculum and follow the development of thestudent. Additionally, effective implementation of design education should be unique to thecurrent technical level of the student. At the freshman level, design education should

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B Kanipe, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University

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Aerospace

holding successively responsible positions, he was selected as chief of the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division in the Engineering Directorate at the Johnson Space Center in January 2001 and served in that position until retirement on December 31, 2010. A month after his arrival at NASA, the last Apollo mission, Apollo 17, was launched. Obviously, that was exciting, but in terms of his career, the commencement of the Space Shuttle Program in November 1972 was to have far more impact. As a result, Kanipe was able to begin his career working on what he says was the most interesting and exciting project he could possibly imagine: the Space Shuttle. Kanipe moved into management in May 1990 when he became the Deputy

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chadia A. Aji, Tuskegee University; M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University

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Aerospace

Paper ID #8228Using a UAV to Teach Undergraduates Math and Aircraft PerformanceDr. Chadia Affane Aji, Tuskegee University Dr. Chadia Affane Aji is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences at Tuskegee University. Dr. Aji’s research interests lie in the areas of numerical analysis, computational applied mathematics, nonlinear partial differential equations, complex analysis, and on improving student learning in undergraduate mathematics courses. Dr. Aji has been a principle investigator or co-principle investigator on numerous interesting and engaging NSF projects. Dr. Aji

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter J. Schubert, IUPUI; Steven Anthony Zusack

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Aerospace

majorsworking together. These kinds of projects would require students to reference informationlearned in specific courses and thus encourage students who have not yet taken these courses todo so. The final question results were, overall, very promising. It was surprising to see a studenthad an overall unpleasant experience. However, since the survey was done anonymously, it isimpossible to ask the student for more follow up. For future projects, the student reactions surveymay have a section for a brief paragraph explaining any suggestions for changes. This sectionwill help eliminate the surprise and confusion of a response like this.VI. SummaryThe Space Scream experiment became the capstone event of Space Day 2012. All of the 350 inattendance watched

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michael Butler, Lockheed Martin

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Aerospace

. The LSBL interventionperiod of the study lasted five class periods each lasting 75 minutes and took place within a threecalendar week period. Both the experimental and control groups participated in the interventionat the same time during the regularly scheduled class time. The study was conducted at thebeginning of the fall semester in order to minimize the number of confounding variables thatcould impact the results. At the beginning of the term, the students did not have any formalaircraft design instruction/experience, other than what they would have brought with themthrough internships, cooperative education experiences, or voluntary underclassmen participationin capstone projects such as the Design, Build and Fly effort. The research

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

Paper ID #8072A Case Study on Advancing Learning in An Upper-Level Engineering CourseDr. Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Dr. Narayanan Komerath is a professor of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Tech- nology, and director of the Experimental Aerodynamics and Concepts Group and the Micro Renewable Energy Systems Laboratory. He has over 300 publications, over 120 of them peer-reviewed. He holds three U.S. patents, and has guided fifteen Ph.D.s, more than 50 M.S.s and more than 160 undergraduate research special problem projects. He is a former chair of the Aerospace Division