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Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Aerospace

Freshmen Research Project: Design, Development and Testing of Variable Pitch Propeller Thrust Measurement Apparatus – A Case StudyAbstractWhen students first start their engineering education, they often do not know what to expect interms of the curriculum. Students are often discouraged by the rigor of freshmen theoreticalcourses. One of the ways to motivate them and keep them interested in engineering is to havethem work on hands on projects. In this project, freshmen students designed, developed, andtested a variable pitch propeller apparatus. The apparatus was intended to become a part of theaerospace engineering laboratory that future students would use to conduct experiments. Thechallenges of working

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mehdi Shadaram, University of Texas, San Antonio; Thomas B. Morrow, University of Texas, San Antonio; C. Mauli Agrawal, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Aerospace

published more than 100 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has been either PI or Co-PI for numerous grants and contracts, totaling more than $10 million in the past 15 years. NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Na- tional Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Instruments, and Lucent Technologies have funded his research projects. He is the recipient of the excellence in engineering research award at the College of Engineering at UTSA in 2010, the best teacher award in the College of Engineering at UTEP in 1994, and the NASA monetary award for contribution to the space exploration. He has been

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University; Mark D. Maughmer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Robert H. Bishop P.E., Marquette University; Wallace T. Fowler P.E., University of Texas, Austin

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Aerospace

the Joe. J. King Professorship and was a Distinguished Teaching Professor.Previously, Dr. Bishop was a practicing engineer on the technical staff at the MIT Charles StarkDraper Laboratory.Dr. Bishop is a specialist in the area of guidance, navigation and control. His research sponsorshave included the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,NASA Johnson Space Center, Oerlikon-Contraves of Switzerland, NEC Corporation of Japan,National Instruments, Air Force Research Laboratory, Emergent Space Technologies, LockheedMartin, and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. He is currently working with NASA ontechniques for achieving planetary precision landing to support human and robotic missions. Dr.Bishop also initiated

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Aerospace

. The courses in the space flight technicalarea were a three semester-credit-hour attitude dynamics course, a one semester-credit-hourtrajectory/attitude modeling laboratory, and the three semester-credit-hour spacecraft-missiondesign course.The timing of the introduction of the spacecraft-mission design course was fortunate. In 1985,NASA, working through the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), created a pilotprogram for what was later known as the NASA/USRA Advanced Design Program (ADP). Sixschools were asked to be part of the pilot program, and UT Austin was one of the six.The ADP expanded and by the time the program ended in 1995, there were teams from 40universities across the United States in the program. The ADP provided teams

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University; Bruce Edward Heath, Tuskegee University

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Aerospace

where the DBF approach has been used to enhance learning ofengineering concepts6, 7, 8, 9.Flight Test Engineering (FTE) as an important element of the design & development cycle of anaerial platform certainly is well known. In view of this aspect, teaching of FTE is incorporated inaerospace engineering curricula at some engineering schools across the US for example10, 11, 12.FTE facilities are also utilized as flying laboratories for explaining concepts in aircraftperformance, stability & control. Page 25.1460.2Engineering students need to be exposed to important aspects such as teamwork, time and spacemanagement, planning engineering

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Spacecraft Design Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Aerospace

, technical challenges that crop up in I&T can extend the phase well beyond 5years.In Fall 2011, we offered the first course: Integration & Test of Space Systems with an enrollmentof nine undergraduates. In this paper, we will provide an overview of the objectives, syllabus andassessment of this course in spacecraft integration & test. We will place this course in the contextof aerospace engineering at our university and our other systems-engineering courses andintroduce the hands-on work done through the Research Laboratory and the COPPER satellite.We will assess the results of the first course and provide lessons learned and future work.Our first offering had mixed results; in addition to the typical mid-course corrections that

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edwin Alexander Peraza Hernandez, Texas A&M University; Kaushik Das, Texas A&M University, College Station; Dimitris C. Lagoudas P.E., Texas A&M University

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Aerospace

experience, which took place during the summer of 2011.The first author, who was the undergraduate student, was supported by a summer research grant.One of the goals of this grant was to prepare students for graduate study and research. Thestudent participated in an inclusive learning community of graduate students, postdoctoralassociates, university faculty, and undergraduate researchers from the host university and fromother universities. Student activities included preparation of research plans, weekly presentationsto multidisciplinary research groups, preparation of progress reports and research papers, andresearch poster presentation. The student learned to operate state of the art laboratory equipment,such as scanning electron microscopes

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Spacecraft Design Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Aerospace

often aconsequence of our reaction to failures1. Hazard analysis which relies on engineering practiceand judgment to identify, classify, and manage risk has continued to have an important role inforeseeing and preventing critical system failure2, 3 . Failure’s role in engineering; including itsvalue in design, design revisions and failure as a source of engineering judgment has beenstudied4, 5. The continued failure of important complex systems has led to assess the question asto how the systems fail despite everything thought to be necessary in the way of process beingdone6.Several engineering curriculums do offer courses based on either laboratories or case studies tounderstand the importance of failures in design as a teaching aid7, 8, 9, 10

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lulu Sun, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Matthew Kindy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Caroline Liron, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Christopher D. Grant, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Shirley Anne Waterhouse, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Aerospace

significantchanges was switching from programming in C to programming in MATLAB in the fall of 2009,since MATLAB has become the major language used in various engineering disciplines forproblem solving [1, 4, 5]. Following this, the course changed its meeting time from three times aweek to four times a week. It now uses a 2+2 format: two days of lecture per week, with eachlecture day followed by laboratory time to facilitate material understanding by hands-on practice. Page 25.705.2Approximately 120 students will attend one-hour lecture in an auditorium. The following day,students attend a small lab session, usually 26 students, to allow more contact with

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Aerospace

them the autonomy to choosetheir own project formulations and strategies, which in turn increases their motivation. Some ofthe past students projects include designing and building of wind tunnel models, 3-D aerospacemodels, variable pitch thrust measurement apparatus, flight simulation frame, water tunnel etc.All of these products become part of the aerospace laboratory to be used by future students.Project based learning at the individual course level is familiar in engineering education. It isused almost universally in capstone design and laboratory courses. There has been growingfrequency of project based learning approach in first year engineering courses and courses thatengage students in consulting projects [5, 7]. Because of its