Paper ID #49566Exploring Early-Stage Research Experiences Among Underrepresented MinorityStudents in Aerospace EngineeringMengqi Monica Zhan, University of Texas at Arlington MONICA ZHAN Dr. Zhan serves as an Associate Professor for the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research interests include employee communication and corporate communication. Recently, she has developed growing interests in underrepresented minority student and employee experiences. GRACE BRANNON Dr. Brannon serves as an Associate Professor for the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at
ABETCriteria 2 and 3. ABET wording is shown in italicized letters, to which our overview comments arepresented as DFAN Program. Program ObjectivesABET Criterion 2.Each engineering program for which an institution seeks accreditation or re-accreditation must have inplace:(a) Detailed published educational objectives that are consistent with the mission of the institution and thecriteria.DFAN Program - The USAFA mission statement is: Inspire and develop outstanding young men and women to become Air Force officers with knowledge, character and discipline; motivated to lead the world's greatest aerospace force in service to the nation.The institutional educational objectives, called the
Paper ID #36578Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) in Undergraduate Vibration ClassDr. Chau M. Tran, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University Chau Tran is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at NC State University. He is currently the course coordinator for capstone senior design and previously was the course coordinator for Vibration, the director for undergraduate advising and the director for undergraduate laboratory. He teaches senior design and Vibration annually. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from NC State University in 1998
AC 2012-3271: A COLLEGE-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP: THE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY MASTER’S OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERINGDr. James G. Ladesic P.E., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach James Ladesic is the Associate Dean of Industry Relations and Outreach and Professor of Aerospace En- gineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He has been with Embry-Riddle for 38 years, serving in many different capacities as faculty member and engineer. He is the recipient of the 1993 University Research Achievement Award, the 2001 Outstanding Teacher Award, and the 2009 Outstanding Service Award at ERAU. A registered Professional Engineer in Florida and FAA structures designated engineering representative. He is a recognized
Paper ID #37967Learners’ Peer-to-Peer Interactions of Aerospace and Aviation Educationwith Unmanned Aerial Systems Designs Using Data Methods IntegrationVicleese Sloan, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Department of Engineering and Aviation Science, Avia-tion Management Senior Student My background experience in education with The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has been on two recent applications of model-based learning with developing solutions in mitigating coronavirus in avia- tion. I’ve also worked on the 5G Smart City Model for Project Based Learning, also in the Student Model Project Based Learning. AREN/NASA
Paper ID #39576Unconventional Applications of Introductory-Level Aerospace EngineeringConcepts: Evaluating Student Engagement and Performance in aFree-Response Exam FormatBenjamin Casillas, Texas A&M University Ben Casillas is a senior aerospace engineering major at Texas A&M University. As an undergraduate researcher at the NUANCED Laboratory, their work focuses on novel presentations of introductory-level curriculum. Outside the lab, their interests include chemical rocket propulsion, spaceflight human systems integration, digital art, and music composition.Dr. Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University
Paper ID #38093Learning Outside of the Classroom - Applying a Design,Development, and Testing Exercise to Augment the Early-Stage Undergraduate Aerospace and Mechanical EngineeringExperienceFrancisco Bueno Francisco Bueno is an undergraduate student majoring in Aerospace Engineering and a concentration in Mechanical Engineering. He studies at Parks College of Engineering, Aviation, and Technology of Saint Louis University. He has been a part of AirCRAFT laboratory since Spring 2021, where he is team captain for the AUVSI AUS competition. His current vision is to follow a Master's program after finishing his
Paper ID #36851A Model for Student-led Development and Implementation ofa Required Graduate-level Course on History, Ethics, andIdentity in Aerospace EngineeringEmily Palmer Emily H. Palmer is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT). Her current research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying steady state flight control in Drosophila melanogaster. She has been involved in numerous educational outreach programs throughout her undergraduate and graduate career, and holds a leadership position in the GALCIT graduate student council. She earned her M.S
Paper ID #38207Work In Progress: Implementation of a Skills Based Approach toDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Senior Undergraduate AerospaceCapstonesProf. Sara E. Lego, Pennsylvania State University Sara E. Lego joined the Aerospace Engineering Department in 2021 as an Associate Teaching Professor managing the department’s four senior undergraduate course offerings. Prior to joining the department, Mrs. Lego spent 20 years within the aerospace industry at Boeing, Iridium, and the Penn State Applied Research Lab as a systems engineer, orbital analyst, and engineering program manager. Mrs. Lego received a B.S. in Aerospace
Paper ID #38082Work-in-progress: Reflection & Projection: An Explorationof a Scavenger Hunt Assignment in an Introduction toAerospace Engineering CourseKali Morgan Learning ScientistKelly Ann GriendlingJakob Ryan Kinney © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Reflection & Projection: An Exploration of a Scavenger Hunt Assignment in an Introduction to Aerospace Engineering CourseThe first year of college is a significant transition for most first-time-in-college students, as well as fortransfer students in their first year
Paper ID #38084STUDENT PAPER: What We Learned, When We LearnedIt, and How We Learned It: Takeaways from an Institution’sAerospace Engineering Capstone ExperienceClaire Schuessler Claire Schuessler is a Master of Science in Engineering student with an Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering concentration at Saint Louis University's Parks College of Engineering, Aviation, and Technology. She also has a BS in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Engineering Mathematics from SLU, and she is a member of SWE and AIAA. She will be beginning her career as a Systems Engineer for Raytheon Intelligence & Space.Samantha
AC 2007-2619: INTRODUCING SIXTH THROUGH TWELFTH GRADETEACHERS TO POWER AND PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTS AS PART OFNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE WORKSHOPSMessiha Saad, North Carolina A&T State University Messiha Saad is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. He received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. He taught mechanical engineering core courses for more than twelve years; he also teaches internal combustion engines, design of thermal systems, and related courses in the thermal science areas. He is a member of ASEE, SAE, and ASME.William Craft, North Carolina A&T State University William J. Craft is a NIA liaison
Paper ID #31672Developing diverse workforce for Oklahoma Aerospace Industry -Collaboration Between a Two year and a Four year InstitutionsProf. Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma Zahed Siddique is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering of University of Oklahoma. His research interest include product family design, advanced material and engineering education. He is interested in motivation of engineering students, peer-to-peer learning, flat learning environments, technology assisted engineering education and experiential learning. He is the coordinator of the
Paper ID #16666Predictive Data Analytic Approaches for Characterizing Design Behaviors inDesign-Build-Fly Aerospace and Aeronautical Capstone Design CoursesDr. Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University - West Lafayette Dr. Krishna Madhavan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity. He is Co-PI and Education Director of the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology (nanoHUB.org which serves over 330,000 global researchers and learners annually). Dr. Madhavan was the Chair of the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Education Program 2006. In January 2008, he was awarded the US National
Paper ID #11856Enhanced Teaching Techniques Applied to an Upper Division Composite Ma-terials Engineering Course with an Emphasis on Aerospace ApplicationsProf. William Joseph Stuart P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Professor Joe Stuart PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION B.Sc., Metallurgical/Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada at Reno (1969) M.Sc., Physical Sci- ence, University of Southampton, UK (1972) APPOINTMENTS 2006 to Present Program Director Manufacturing Engineering Technology, OIT 2011 to Present Associate Professor, MMET Department, Oregon Institute of Technology 2004 to 2011
Paper ID #11163Looking back: A Student Review and History of AerosPACE – a Multi-University, Multi-Disciplinary, Distributed, Industry-University Capstone ProjectMrs. Larissa Cannon, Brigham Young University Larissa Cannon participated in AerosPACE for her Senior Capstone project. She has since graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University and is currently working in the aerospace industry. Her undergraduate experience included three internships at Pratt & Whitney and one internship at ATK. She is the co-author of two published papers and has four years experience of
Paper ID #15726First-year Project Experience in Aerospace: Apogee Determination of ModelRockets with Explicit Consideration of Drag Effect ¨Dr. Huseyin Sarper, Old Dominion University H¨useyin Sarper, Ph.D., P.E. is a senior lecturer in the Engineering Fundamentals Division at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He was a professor of engineering and director of the graduate programs at Colorado State University – Pueblo in Pueblo, Col. until 2014. He was also an associate director of Colorado’s NASA Space Grant Consortium between 2007 and 2013. His degrees, all in industrial engineering, are from the
AC 2012-3642: INTRODUCING AEROSPACE ENGINEERING TO MID-DLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: TECHNIQUES THAT HELP THEMLEARN WHILE HAVING FUNDr. Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University Adeel Khalid, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Systems Engineering, Southern Polytechnic State University; Office: 678-915-7241; Fax: 678-915-5527; Web: http://www.spsu.edu/akhalid. Page 25.838.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Introducing Aerospace Engineering to Middle and High School Students – Techniques that help them Learn while having FunAbstractAerospace
and development of the NMSU-UACH dual aerospace engineering bachelor’s degree program and of the NMSU-UACH engineering joint Ph.D. program. Olague’s participation has been instrumental to these collaborations. Currently, Olague is a College Instructor at NMSU and an Assistant Professor at UACH.Dr. Ian H Leslie, New Mexico State University Dr. Leslie is currently the interim department head of the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Depart- ment. He has been with New Mexico State University since 1984.Dr. Thomas D. Burton, New Mexico State University Thomas Burton is currently Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering at Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research. He served as Department Head of
Session 3460 The Secret of their Success: What factors determine the career success of an aerospace engineer trained in the Netherlands? Gillian N. Saunders-Smits Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsIntroductionAlthough engineers are educated with a vision that they can become successful, very littleresearch is done into how engineers become successful. What is it exactly that makes oneengineer more successful than another? And what consequence does
Using Teamwork and Communication Skills to Monitor and Strengthen the Effectiveness of Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering Design Projects Charles P. Coleman, PhD Boeing Assistant Professor Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jennifer L. Craig, M.S., M.A. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics/Program in Writing and the Humanities Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstract:Earlier work in a 2nd year undergraduate engineering design course suggests that there isa strong correlation
AC 2012-4452: DEVELOPING A SUCCESSFUL FRAMEWORK FOR ON-LINE DELIVERY OF NON-CREDIT ENGINEERING SHORT COURSESTO GLOBAL AEROSPACE PROFESSIONALSDr. Soma Chakrabarti, University of Kansas Soma Chakrabarti is the Director of Center for Engineering and Interdisciplinary Professional Education at the University of Kansas Continuing Education. In this capacity, she is responsible for providing lead- ership and direction for future growth of Aerospace Short Course program, online engineering technology short courses, interdisciplinary bioengineering short courses, and engineering conferences. Prior to her present appointment, she served as the Director of Aerospace Short Course program within the same unit; developed both
Paper ID #41978A Comparative Study of the Impact of Virtual Reality on Student Learningand Satisfaction in Aerospace EducationMollie Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mollie Johnson is a graduate researcher in the Engineering Systems Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She recently graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a BS in aerospace engineering and is furthering her education as a masters’ student in the AeroAstro department at MIT.Dr. Rea Lavi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rea Lavi earned his doctoral degree in science & engineering education from the
Paper ID #42192WIP: Using a Human-Centered Engineering Design Framework to DevelopLearning Progressions in an Aerospace Engineering ProgramMs. Taylor Tucker Parks, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Taylor Parks is a research fellow in engineering education at the Siebel Center for Design. She earned her bachelor’s in engineering mechanics and master’s in curriculum & instruction from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on promoting teamwork in complex engineering problem solving through collaborative task design. She currently co-leads the integration of human-centered design
Evaluating LLM Performance for Generation of Concept Assessment Questions and Individualized Student Feedback in Aerospace Engineering Sophomore Lab Chloe J. Long and Bobby HodgkinsonAbstractIn this work, we present the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate conceptassessment questions, evaluate student conceptual understanding from short answers, and providestudent-specific feedback for a sophomore aerospace science lab with approximately 40 students.We discuss the performance of the LLM in generating concept assessment questions andproviding student-specific feedback. Our results indicate the method is effective as a discussiontool for generating True/False
Paper ID #38034Challenges and Opportunities for Virtual Reality in HigherEducationChadia A. Aji (Dr.) Chadia Aji is professor in the Department of Mathematics at Tuskegee University. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Mathematics from Auburn University and a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University. Her research interests lie in the areas of numerical analysis, computational applied mathematics, complex analysis, and on improving students’ learning in STEM disciplines.M. Javed Khan (Department Head) Mohammad Javed Khan is professor and head of the Aerospace Science Engineering department at
capability of a liquid fuel rocket. To date, only a few hybrid rocket designshave been developed to a production level configuration. This type of rocket motor technology remainslargely in the experimental domain. [1]The Concept Hybrid Rocket Demonstrator (CHRD) is a small scale, modular, low-cost hybrid rocketdesign, for use in hybrid rocket research as well as educational applications in senior capstonecurriculum for an undergraduate Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or Engineering Technologyprogram. Basic research activities include investigations of rocket fuel types and fuel grain portconfigurations, ignition systems, oxidizer delivery systems, rocket nozzle materials and aerodynamics,instrumentation schemes, and analytic modeling of rocket
encouragedme to be where I am now.This is to all of you.References 1. “Medium 6V 2W Solar panel - 2.0 Watt.” Adafruit. https://www.adafruit.com/product/200#description (accessed July 10, 2021). 2. “USB / DC / Solar Lithium Ion/Polymer charger - v2.” Adafruit. https://www.adafruit.com/product/390#description (accessed July 10, 2021). 3. W. Knaupp and E. Mundschau, “Solar electric energy supply at high altitude,” Aerospace Science and Technology, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 245-254, April 2004, doi: 10.1016/j.ast.2003.12.001. 4. “Introduction to Solar Radiation.” Newport Corporation. http://www.newport.com/Introduction-to-Solar-Radiation/411919/1033
Paper ID #38076Data Acquisition for Collegiate Hybrid and Solid Rocketry -An Undergraduate Research ExperienceSanjay Jayaram (Associate Professor)Hunter Michael PritzlaffAndrew Stack Andrew Stack is a junior at Saint Louis University studying mechical engineering. He is involved in FSAE and is looking forward to starting a career in the aerospace industy. Currently an intern at Boeing in St. Louis as a tooling engineering working on a variety of military aircrafts. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com
Session 522 The Three Principles of Powered Flight: An Active Learning Approach Olivier L. de Weck1, Peter W. Young2 and Danielle Adams3 Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139AbstractA holistic education in aerospace engineering ought to encompass not only aircraft design, butshould adequately treat other flight concepts. There are three known fundamental principles ofpowered flight. Balloons of any kind use the