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UAV and other Team Projects in Aerospace Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Subodh Bhandari, Cal Poly Pomona

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Aerospace

Paper ID #14782Preparing Aerospace Engineering Students for Career in UAV TechnologiesDr. Subodh Bhandari, Cal Poly Pomona Dr. Bhandari is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. He received his PhD from University of Kansas in 2007. His expertise is in the area of Aircraft Dynamics and Con- trol and Unmanned Systems. He has been actively involved in training a future generation of engineers in the area of unmanned vehicles system. His current research emphasis is on increased autonomy of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), UAV-unmanned ground vehicle collaboration, robust and intelligent

Conference Session

STEM Education Tied to Aerospace Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hansel Burley, Texas Tech University; Terrance Denard Youngblood, Texas Tech University; Ibrahim H. Yeter, Texas Tech University; Casey Michael Williams, Texas Tech University

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Diversity

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Aerospace

would attend college. o Participants were very positive about their chances of excelling in a STEM career. o When it came to speaking positively about the rocket program experience, 45% of the total scored the experience a 100, on a 100-point scale. • In a comparison of program means across all administrations of similar questionnaires, the responses yielded similar high results. High positive ratings in the fall may be an indication that students have high expectations for the program at the start of the year. This may mask actual learning effects. • From the open-ended questions, it appears that participants love the notion of learning from failure. • Additionally, in

Conference Session

STEM Education Tied to Aerospace Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hansel Burley, Texas Tech University; Casey Michael Williams, Texas Tech University; Terrance Denard Youngblood, Texas Tech University; Ibrahim H. Yeter, Texas Tech University

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Diversity

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Aerospace

Clearly, the education that young people receivedand their perception of said education are important in a young person’s readiness and choice ofa career.5, 6 When comparing U.S. STEM education to one country—Finland—one thing becameclear from an American Society for Engineering Report (ASEE), “it's all about teachers (Wu2011).25 In this country that is outpacing much of the world in STEM education, teachers use alearn by doing approach to education, with learning from mistakes and trying again being animportant part of the curriculum (according to Wu).11, 25 In one critique of American education,schools focus too much on memorizing and not enough on problem solving (Svitak, 2014).12 Theeffect is destroying interest in STEM early. The

Conference Session

Space Side of Aerospace

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas W. Arrington, Texas A&M University; Nicolas Federico Hurst, Texas A&M 2015 Capstone Design Spacecraft; David B. Kanipe, Texas A&M University; Joanna M. Schiefelbein , Texas A&M University; David Charles Hyland, Texas A&M University

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Engineering department with my bachelor’s of science and will be continuing his education with a master’s of science in finance.Mr. David B. Kanipe, Texas A&M University After receiving a BS in Aerospace Engineering in May 1970, followed by a MS in Aerospace Engineering in August 1971 from Texas A&M University, Mr. Kanipe accepted a position with NASA at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston and began his professional career in November 1972. 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, David was able to begin

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UAV and other Team Projects in Aerospace Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Calvin Russell Walker, Mississippi State University

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Aerospace

electronics into theirair vehicle, writing test plans to evaluate system components, and conducting ground and flighttests for the system.1 Background In January 2003, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle System International (AUVSI)established the student unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) competition “aimed at stimulating andfostering interest in this innovative technology and encouraging careers in the field, thecompetition challenges the students to design, fabricate, and demonstrate a system capable ofcompleting a specific and independent aerial operation.”1 The Seafarer Chapter of AUVSI hoststhe annual competition during June at Webster Naval Outlying Field (Webster Field) in St. Inigoes,MD. Webster Field is an auxiliary field of Naval

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UAV and other Team Projects in Aerospace Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; John Monahan, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Upward Bound; Samuel Vanderwaal; Carl H France; Logan Walker Graves, UAF

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MS students. Supported by ACUASI and UAF educational programs, theUB program helps low-income, prospective first-generation college students in rural Alaskan schoolsby promoting interest in STEM career fields. The project is named “Modern Blanket Toss” after theNative tradition of the blanket toss, which enabled people to be lofted into the air and expand theirrange of observation beyond the immediate surroundings. The program addresses an identified need forSTEM initiatives in rural Alaska through the use of an innovative structure and a novel learning toolthat is replicable and scalable to other high schools.The MBT program is currently in year 2 of a 3-year effort, serving over 50 students from 6 differentvillages. UAS designed by the

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UAV and other Team Projects in Aerospace Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter J. Schubert, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Diversity

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Aerospace

post-project follow-up on perceptions and career choices.This approach may find interest among professors with limited funds who seek to develop solidpreliminary data to make grant applications more competitive.I. IntroductionAerospace research can be expensive and may require specialized facilities. Faculty just gettingstarted in settings without extensive hardware may need to bootstrap their research activities bydeveloping preliminary research. Presented herein is a team project, based on aerospace studygroups on space solar power and space colonization in the 1970s and 1980s, to address complexspace systems. The team of undergraduate students worked pro bono during the summer breakfrom college. Results were published in a paper at a major

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STEM Education Tied to Aerospace Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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”, and “real job” weregrouped into the same category: Practical. Table 2, below illustrates the keyword groups.Table 2 Code Categories Found from Why ASE NarrativesGroup CodeProblem Solving Problem, challenge, solutionArbitrary Alphabetical, random choicePractical Money, get a job, real jobBackground research Career quizInteresting Cool, unique, fast, not boringSchool High school courses, high school, middle schoolTransfer Previous major, business oriented, non aero goals, bakeryCuriosity Natural talent, intelligenceEngineering Class RoboticsMath/Science Math, physicsFascination Airplane love

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Aerospace Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Aerospace

engineering disciplines, butnot very many recently that are specific to aerospace. How can engineering educationresearchers leverage research tools from other disciplines to conduct research in an aerospacecontext? Engineering education researchers apply research to link professional practice toclassroom practice in order to keep the classroom up-to-date or even anticipate the knowledgeand skills that engineers will need to be successful in their careers. Engineering educationresearchers also investigate how students learn, from preschool years all the way through lifelonglearning as adults. Because the uniqueness of the learner and context of learning influence eachother, researchers must pay attention to the learner, the content, and the

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Space Side of Aerospace

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wiaam Elkhatib, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Steven Anthony Zusack, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Peter J. Schubert, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Brock Schaffer; Emiliya V. Akmayeva, Students for the Development and Exploration of Space; Patrick John Proctor, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Guy Nicholas Wiss, SEDS

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learning13. It is consequentlyimportant to give students the opportunity to study outside of the typical classroom setting whiletackling real-world problems. It becomes the student’s responsibility to conduct research,develop a plan of action, and collaborate within a team. This approach helps discover naturaltalent, applies and expands on classroom knowledge, and may help launch a career in aerospaceor engineering based on that discovery.MethodsStudents were initially surveyed solely to gauge project interest based on academic major andpersonal preference. The group was initially comprised of 16 students willing to devote three tofive hours of work per week, with four students dropping out during the first half of the projectdue to personal