Conference Session

Spacecraft Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Swartwout, Saint Louis University; Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

courses. He has published several peer reviewed journal and conference papers in these areas. His research areas are space systems, robust fault tolerant control, nonlinear control, adaptive control, small spacecraft design, high performance spacecraft components, mechatronics, real-time health monitoring, and diagnostic methodology. Page 25.1170.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Spacecraft Integration & Test: An undergraduate course in systems engineering practiceAbstract- The teaching of good systems engineering practice to

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

. This will inspire students and help them comprehend and respond todiverse and fast changing knowledge and technologies in Aerospace domain. This initiative is in-line with the development of a new Aerospace engineering program at Southern PolytechnicState University. The research skills obtained by undergraduate students in their early educationcareers are an important learning experience. Special emphasis is put on design, practice,integration, and application of the scientific and technical knowledge learned from the classroomthrough various activities. The topic chosen for research is rather simple yet important tounderstand. It has real world applications. It provides analytical and experimental knowledge andskills to the students involved

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wallace T. Fowler P.E., University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

a practicing systemsengineer, Lisa Guerra, to UT Austin to assess the possibility of introducing SystemsEngineering(SE) into both graduate and undergraduate engineering curricula. The NASAengineer developed learning modules for a three semester-credit-hour introduction to systemsengineering course. A significant number of the modules were included in the fall 2007capstone spacecraft-mission design course. The results were less than optimal. The addition ofthe SE modules to the design requirements overloaded the students. The resulting designs werebetter structured from a SE point of view, but most were technically less mature than before.The decision was made to offer the three semester-credit-hour SE course as an elective in spring2008 and