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

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Paper ID #26422UAS Aerospace Projects as a Catalyst for Interdisciplinary EngineeringDr. Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Michael C. Hatfield is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Associate Director for Science & Education, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration. He earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from Ohio Northern University; an M.S. in electrical engineering from California State University Fresno, and a Ph.D. in Electrical/Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Alaska

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

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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junior years is dominated by coretechnical subjects such mechanics of materials, aerodynamics, propulsion, and controls. Ideally,these engineering science courses give students the theoretical background that they can apply inengineering design courses, on student project teams, and as a practicing engineer. However, itcan be easy to teach engineering science courses with little connection to the practice ofengineering. One way to make the connection between engineering science content andengineering practice is to frame this technical content as mathematical models that describenatural phenomena under certain simplifying assumptions. With this framing, the purpose ofengineering science courses shifts from memorizing formulas and applying them

Conference Session

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

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Srikanth Gururajan, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.; Claire L. A. Dancz, Clemson University

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Education at Clemson University. Dr. Dancz’s research interests include creativity in engineering, technology-rich learning environments, STEM faculty development, team formation with conation, and sustainable civil engineering. She earned her Ph.D. in Sustainable Engineering from Arizona State University. She serves as external evaluator on engineering and science education research projects, corresponding member of the Formal Engineering Education Subcommittee to the Committee on Sustainability at the American Society for Civil Engi- neering, teaches an interdisciplinary Creative Inquiry course on Conation and Creativity in Engineer- ing, and is the director for NAE Grand Challenge Scholars Program at Clemson.Dr

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

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chadia A. Aji, Tuskegee University; M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University

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, project-based learning are effective approaches. The‘chalk and talk’ transmittal method in the classroom is being replaced by the constructivistapproach that has some of its basis in the ‘zone of proximal development’ construct [17]. In thisapproach, students are given the opportunity to construct their own knowledge through e.g.cooperative learning opportunities. Team-based learning which promotes cooperative learningimproves student achievement by increasing student reasoning, problem-solving and criticalthinking skills, encouraging more scientific thinking, and developing a deeper understanding ofcourse content [18]-[24]. A team learning environment that promotes interdependence of the teammembers has been shown to positively impact student

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Hands-On Activities and Student Learning in Aerospace Engineering - I - Student Papers

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Nelson, Iowa State University; Benjamin Ahn, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Christine Nicole Nelson

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Paper ID #26821Make to Innovate: Blending of Project-based Learning and Flipped Class-room Pedagogies to Provide Real-world Engineering Experiences to Engi-neering StudentsMr. Matthew Nelson, Iowa State University My background and interests are in RF and embedded systems as it relates to the aerospace engineering field. However, recently I have been doing research and have an interest in engineering education and how we can improve our education to our students. I have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Com- puter Engineering both from Iowa State University. I am now working towards my PhD in Engineering

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

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Cook; Maxim G. Strehle; Jonathan William Schaefer , Saint Louis Rocket Propulsion Lab; T. Alex Ambro, Saint Louis University; William Hiser; Andrew Riddle; Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University

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and development of high-power rocketry systems providing the students with experientiallearning opportunities to develop critical skills and knowledge in designing, building, and testingrocket subsystems. Current projects include a modular solid propellant research engine, anintegrated flight tested solid propellant engine, design and analysis of rocket recovery systems,as well as several others. The student-led rocketry lab currently has nearly 50 students, andfaculty advisers not only from the undergraduate engineering programs, but also from four otherschools at the university. The lab has established partnerships with expert mentors from localRocketry Association and with the university’s chemistry department to permit the safe mixingof

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Hands-On Activities and Student Learning in Aerospace Engineering - I - Student Papers

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hannah Rose Stroud, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Darren John Hartl, Texas A&M University; Isaac Emmanuel Sabat, Texas A&M University; Kelly K. Dray, Texas A&M University

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, Texas A&M University Isaac Sabat’s program of research broadly focuses on understanding and improving the working lives of stigmatized employees. He is particularly interested in examining strategies in which these employees can engage, such as disclosing or acknowledging their identities, to effectively remediate the workplace obstacles that they face. He has conducted various interrelated projects that examine how the effectiveness of expressing one’s identity is impacted by the extent to which stigmas are previously known, visible, or discovered by others over time. This is a novel area, given that disclosures have previously been conceptualized as a dichotomous, all-or-nothing phenomenon. This work has been

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Hands-On Activities and Student Learning in Aerospace Engineering - I - Student Papers

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hannah Stroud; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University

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School LevelAbstractFor Institution, STEM education at a high school level and enrollment of a diverse population ofstudents have long been priorities. The aerospace engineering department at Institution hasimplemented programs to address those priorities within the discipline itself. Camp SOAR, aweek-long summer STEM camp for high school students interested in aerospace engineering,seeks to introduce aerospace concepts in an accessible way while providing hands-on buildingand learning experience to students. High school students are instructed in key engineeringconcepts and aerospace engineering fundamentals, which they then apply to a major project thatthey test in a competition at the end of the week. In addition, a new diversity initiative

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

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yue Gu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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, definitive standard for airport sustainability, the team selectedtheir own metrics. The sustainability resources listed in the paper may be helpful to students andfaculty interested in competing in future competitions or wanting to include sustainabilitymetrics in other design projects. Faculty may use the sustainability sources listed in the paper,along with sustainability metrics and team motivations, during course design in engineering andtechnology programs.IntroductionAirport Sustainability is a business strategy with both short-term and long-term benefits. Moreand more airports are trying to integrate sustainability into their long-range planning and day-to-day operations. Although the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) does not require

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Aerospace Engineering Education

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chadia A. Aji, Tuskegee University; M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University

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© American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 2019 ASEE 126th National ConferenceMethodThe active learning environment was implemented using desktop flight simulation (Fig. 1) and alarge screen flight simulator that had three out-of-window views (Fig. 2). The desktop set upincluded a joystick with an integrated throttle. The large screen out-of-window views weregenerated by three ultra-short-throw LCD projectors set up in a rear projection mode. The LCDprojectors were driven by three dedicated PCs which were slaved to a fourth PC that served as themaster. The Wideview [24] shareware was used to slave the out-of-the-window computers to themaster computer through the FSUIPC [25] shareware. The master PC also powered

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

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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results in recent DBF efforts,and the positive organizational impacts resulting from participation. It also highlights lessonslearned and future efforts to be tackled, including insights from the perspective of students leadingthe team.Motivation.The desire for educational programs within the field of aerospace engineering continues to bepopular, both due to the increasing availability of technology and stable job opportunities withinthe aerospace engineering career field. According to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of LaborStatistics (April 2018), “Employment of aerospace engineers is projected to grow 6 percent from2016 to 2026, about as fast as the average for all occupations.” Rationale for this growth isattributed to several factors

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

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tracy L. Yother, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Cooper G. Burleson, Purdue University; James M. Thom, Purdue University; Brian Kozak, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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technician activities, but also who has training and education in topicsrelated to engineering activities, project/program management, systems integration, andmanufacturing processes. The Technologist or Engineering Technologist typically has a four-year college degree.Engineering technology is defined as “part of the technology logical field which requires theapplication of scientific and engineering knowledge and methods combined with technical skillsto support engineering activities,” [1].Logistics support, or engineering design support, is defined as the processes of IntegratedLogistics Support (ILS), also known as the “-illities”: manufacturability, maintainability, andsupportability. These processes include, but are not limited to failure rate

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Aerospace Engineering Education

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University; Chadia A. Aji, Tuskegee University

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location on the ambiguity spectrum.The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a three-year project to study this importantintellectual development of students in a typical STEM curriculum. Cross-sectional andlongitudinal studies of STEM students as well as non-STEM students at a Historically BlackCollege are being conducted to measure the influence of the current curriculum in context of theconstructs of tolerance of ambiguity, intellectual mental models, and STEM identity.This work-in-progress paper shares some preliminary results of the baseline data that has beencollected during the first year of the NSF-funded project.MethodThe participants of this within-subject and between-group quasi-experimental study are studentsof a Historically

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Aerospace Engineering Education

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nithil Kumar Bollock, Saint Louis University; Matthew Patrick O'Brien; Yan Gai, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.; Stephen M. Belt, Saint Louis University

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,situation awareness, anxiety, stress, and emotion in real aircraft and flight simulators [1, 3, 6-16].A few studies have used pilot performances to correlate and understand the psychologicalaspects of pilots [7, 10, 17, 18]. The present project seeks to extend this research by using highfidelity experiments to explore neural functions carried out in a realistic training environmentand focusing on the physiological evolution related to student pilots’ training and educationprocess.METHODOLOGYParticipants and Procedures A total of five participants were recruited from a four-year undergraduate professionalpilot degree program. Each participant completed five sessions. The EEG of Participant D failedto be recorded in one session. Therefore, a

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Aerospace Engineering Education

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristoffer Borgen, Purdue University; William Theodore Weldon, Purdue University; Brian Kozak, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Tracy L. Yother, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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frames and keeping serial numbers of the parts that are being used on thequadcopter. Similar to current aviation the crashes are documented with the logbooks andvarious reports to help identify the cause of the crash. Future Works Future works for this project include expanding this into a journal article regarding moredetailed sUAS tracking and logbook entry requirements. Modifying the class may be necessaryto achieve a more streamlined approach to the tracking and logbook aspects of sUAS. In additionto just using the educational aspect of tracking by pushing it for an industrial standard to be usedfor the airworthiness certification for airframe and propulsion methods on sUAS. Overall there

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Aerospace Engineering Education

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelia Greig, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Alex Powaser, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Douglas Howe, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Will Alan McGehee, California Polytechnic State University

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entering and contaminating the vacuum pump system. Figure 9(b) is a close-upview of the emitter tips showing the propellant bead formation prior to the establishment of anelectric field. (a) (b) Figure 9: Electrospray thruster designed for graduate education (a) with magnified emitter tip region showing formation of propellant beads (b).Modularity of design is an important factor in the design. Interchangeable emitter array sections(the rectangular block seen in Figure 9(b)) and extractor plates are included so that multipleresearch projects can be implemented on a single thruster system with minimal modifications.Employing modularity in this manner allows students

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Hands-On Activities and Student Learning in Aerospace Engineering - I - Student Papers

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yilin Feng, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette; Lorraine E. Holtaway, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Sarah Ryann Congdon, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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activities designedto allow participants the feeling of working within different system archetypes. Many of thehands on discovery activities (HODAs) in this course, such as Dog Biscuits & See Saws andMoon Balls [11], bring into the forefront some of the numerous benefits of system games. Theactivities demonstrate the operation of system structures in a simplistic format and thereby aid inunderstanding complex systems [11]. HODAs are incalculably beneficial to the participants asthey provide the opportunities to test a number of problem-solving strategies in a short span oftime, whereas large scale projects have reaction times of many months and the solutions requiretime to implement. The participants gain experience processing the feedback from