Conference Session

Hands-on Activities and Student Learning in Aerospace Engineering - II - Student Papers

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Dawson Lewandoski

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Aerospace

environment more closelyresembling the workplace. (5) Students are looking for a professional social environment thatnurtures both their professional interests and personal relationships.While many, if not all, of the above motivating factors may be readily accomplished through moretraditional academics and instructor-led design courses, the availability of these are not alwayssufficient to meet the need of the student population. Schools without an existing aerospace degreegranting program may not be able to offer formal aerospace design course opportunities due to alack of faculty and resources. Funding additional faculty, even as adjunct, can easily prove cost-prohibitive unless sponsored by a long term grant or industry partner. Even in cases

Conference Session

Innovations in Curriculum, Projects, and Pedagogy in Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan; Jessica E S Swenson, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Aerospace

to analyzing the Nomad, an airplane in the atrium of ouraerospace building [14]. And second, to encourage self-assessment of their models, we gavestudents an entire class meeting to discuss their models in a small group of four.In W19 OEMP 1, students were given a model of the airplane’s landing gear that considered themain landing gear as two-force members. Students were asked to model the airplane as a set offorces and moments, calculate the internal force on the main landing gear, and then select asuitable material and diameter for the main landing gear. In doing this modeling, we instructedstudents to size the landing gear for actual operations, which required them to model the forcesand moments on the airplane in the operational

Conference Session

Innovations in Curriculum, Projects, and Pedagogy in Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Denise Thorsen, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

settings. While the tension apparently affected some students negatively,most members still had an overall positive experience.EE693, UAS Systems Design.Fall 2016. The following are student responses from a recent (fall 2016) offering of this course.The makeup of this course consisted of graduate and undergraduate students from electrical,mechanical, computer engineering/science, and geomatics from 2 geographically separatedcampus locations, communicating on a daily basis via videolink and electronic media. Note thatthese students, almost universally, had a positive experience with the course.1. Comments on course difficulty: • Most of the HWs were easy to do. But some questions were really hard to answer as they were conceptual questions