Conference Session

Laboratory Courses and Programming in the Aerospace Curriculum

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kathryn Anne Wingate, University of Colorado at Boulder; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Colorado Boulder; Lyndsay Rose Ruane; Dennis Akos

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Diversity

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questions, three map to the environment. Gendered effects of performance in CS areinfluenced by the social environment, whereas programming experience in high school or undergraduateeducation beyond introductory CS is reflective of the opportunity that students have in their pre-collegeenvironment. We also take students’ grades in the linear algebra course to be reflective of theirenvironment, rather than their ability, because the programming assignment we study involved forming anAx = b matrix from a set of equations. Based on students’ difficulty with this concept in class, wehypothesized that having prior knowledge of linear algebra would be helpful on this programmingassignment. And therefore, students who had the opportunity to take advanced

Conference Session

Laboratory Courses and Programming in the Aerospace Curriculum

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Tracy L. Yother, Purdue University - Purdue Polytechnic Lafayette

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1 Ask someone (question 1 options k and l combined compared to question 4 option j) 8SummaryThe incorporation of lifelong learning into a hands-on, technology focused, standards driven,engine systems laboratory course was explored in this study. The current assignment of atechnical video was used as the structure to assess lifelong learning in the participants. Thestudent activity was to prepare a reflective assessment of their video assignment and drawconnections to a real-life industry problem that they may face in their first few years in theircareers. The results of the assessment show that students are able to identify resources used in aclass assignment and are able to project which resources

Conference Session

Laboratory Courses and Programming in the Aerospace Curriculum

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Waterloo Tsutsui, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Ruben D. Lopez-Parra, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Genisson Silva Coutinho, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia; Alberto W. Mello, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Michael David Sangid, Purdue University; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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actual labs and give a good visual of what to expect on the actual lab day.”Instructor Reflection about the VL ImplementationThe AAE 20401 instructor shared his experience during the VL implementation. The instructorspecifically talked about the challenging issues that he faced during the implementation. “When we first received the Virtual Lab software (Spring 2018), we received the prototype version of the software. Thus, it needed some work before implementing it in the student learning environment. In Spring 2018, we had graduate student lab TAs run the prototype VL program so that we can get a proper feedback. Then, during Summer 2018, I hired one graduate student to go through all the functionality of VLs

Conference Session

Aerospace Student Projects, Engineering Design and Research

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kuldeep S Rawat, Elizabeth City State University; Chandra Bhushan Asthana P.E., Elizabeth City State University

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statistically significant effect ontheir self-efficacy, matched-pairs t-tests were performed on the six items. The results, shown inTable 4, revealed statistically significant increases in self-efficacy after the hands-on experiencefor each item. Not surprisingly, the students were very confident in their general knowledgeabout the drone assembly/building process but somewhat less confident in detail knowledgeregarding specific components. Given that all of the students reported being more interested inSTEM-related areas as a result of this camp and 64% were interested in participating in a similarcamp, this lack of confidence reflects a desire to learn more about drones to gain that confidence.Students responded on a three-point Likert Scale to each