Conference Session

STEM Education Tied to Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Jannette McFalls-Brown, Mississippi State University; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University; Rani W. Sullivan, Mississippi State University; Danielle Grimes, Mississippi State University

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Aerospace

one pre-collegiate engineering experience,such as science and engineering fairs or robotics competitions is correlated with an increase inengineering identity and retention. As expected, we found that these students are more likely toparticipate in engineering organizations, and plan to stay in engineering.Limitations and Future Work One limitation of this study is that it was given at only one university as a pilot. Some ofthe programs that we are investigating are highly selective, serving as few as eight students in ayear. In order to get sample sizes large enough for decisive results about individual programs,this study needs to be performed in aerospace engineering departments at multiple universities.In future studies, additional

Conference Session

Solid and Structural Mechanics in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David C. Fleming, Florida Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Aerospace

andcomputational methods for structural analysis. A summary of the fatigue and related fracturemechanics content included in some popular Mechanics of Materials and Aerospace Structurestextbooks is included in Table A1 in Appendix A. It can be seen in Table A1 that the coverageof fatigue is cursory in typical Mechanics of Materials texts. Most aerospace structures textsinclude some coverage of fatigue topics, but still at an elementary level.A detailed, quantitative analysis of fatigue, requiring significant experience in techniques ofelasticity and study of the subject of fracture mechanics, is beyond the scope of undergraduatestudents and rightly finds a place among graduate studies in Aerospace Engineering. However,the importance of fatigue in