Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

AC 2010-858: NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN: A REPORT ON THE EXPERIENCESIN BOEING’S WELLIVER FACULTY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMKenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University Dr. Van Treuren is a professor on the faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Baylor University. He teaches the capstone Mechanical Engineering Laboratory course as well as courses in heat transfer, aerospace engineering, gas turbines, fluid mechanics, and wind power. His research interests include energy education and gas turbine heat transfer. He can be contacted at Kenneth_Van_Treuren@baylor.edu. Page 15.912.1© American Society for

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Shelley, United States Air Force; Kenneth Santarelli, Cal State Fresno

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

scalable2 local engineeringeducation program. This is a purposefully driven case study that has a specific agenda andoutcome in mind. The Antelope Valley of California is also known as Aerospace Valley. The AV is home toEdwards AFB, where space shuttles still occasionally land. The space shuttles, the Air Force B1and B2 aircraft were assembled at Air Force Plant 42. And, the Mojave Space Port is where BurtRutan’s Scaled Composites won the X-prize. The AV also supports divisions or subsidiaries ofmany of the major aerospace prime contractors, as well as NASA Dryden Flight ResearchCenter, China Lake Naval Weapons Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s PropulsionSciences Division. Because of the unique, remote, desert environment, companies