Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

core aerospace engineering classes. Aerospace engineering, althoughattracts some of the brightest minds, is still a demanding and hard discipline to study. Most of thestudents who enter the discipline do it because they are interested and get fascinated by flyingobjects. Yet, at some of the major universities across the country, the dropout rate in theundergraduate aerospace engineering classes is higher than other disciplines [19]. Besides thediscipline being hard to understand and study, another reason that high dropout rate can beattributed to is the lack of student centered active learning techniques used in the aerospaceengineering classes. In this paper, the author investigates some of the techniques andmethodologies used in other

Conference Session

Aircraft Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Kanipe, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

AC 2012-5044: INJECTING THE REAL WORLD INTO THE CAPSTONEDESIGN EXPERIENCEMr. David B. Kanipe, Texas A&M University A native Texan, David Kanipe attended Texas A&M University beginning in Sept. 1966, where he re- ceived a bachelor’s of science degree in aerospace engineering in May 1970, followed by an M.S. in aerospace engineering in Aug. 1971. He accepted a position with NASA at the Manned Spacecraft Cen- ter in Houston in Nov. 1972. He served as the Chief of the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division in the Engineering Directorate at the Johnson Space Center until retirement in Dec. 2010. A month after his arrival at NASA, the last Apollo mission, Apollo 17, was launched. Obviously, that was exciting