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Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Striz

Developing an Integrated Aerospace Engineering Curriculum Alfred G. Striz School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Oklahoma Norman, OklahomaAbstractWhen the College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma was given additional facultypositions to boost the major areas of Aerospace Engineering (AE), Electrical Engineering (EE),and Computer Science (CS), the three Schools started an ongoing discussion about the bestmultidisciplinary use for such faculty members. On recommendation of then Assistant Dean ofEngineering at OU, Donna Shirley, who was the manager of the NASA Mars

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Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Charles Coleman; Jennifer Craig

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

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Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Cottrell

traditionally been found in CEE departments,academicians with teaching and research interests in transport are also based in business,economics, geography, industrial or systems engineering, political science, public administrationor policy, social studies, urban affairs, urban planning, and interdisciplinary departments. Airtransportation specialists can be found in aerospace or aviation departments, and bridge, highwayand pavement specialists might be found in construction or structures departments. Further, theneed to address the human behavior components of transportation finds specialists in education,psychology, sociology, and even anthropology departments. Beimborn (7) noted that severalschools had formed transportation centers to foster the

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Sterkenburg; Jim Lampe; David Stanley

; Hessler, 2001). 2The findings of several studies, new ABET requirements and feedback from industry advisoryboards support these observations and indicate a broad concern that graduating engineers are notprepared to enter the workforce. Faculty members of Mechanical Engineering (ME) andAviation Technology (AT) share some of these concerns, and have discussed ways to approachthese problems. One method originated from a desire among faculty members to develop meansby which to motivate students in a ME senior design course. The AT department was chosen tosimulate a manufacturing division, and the projects were to reflect current aerospace design andmanufacturing processes. Collaborative work between the two groups would be important inorder to

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Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Oktay Baysal; Mehti Koklu; Ahmed Noor

Design Optimization Module for Hierarchical Research and Learning Environment Oktay Baysal, Mehti Koklu, Ahmed K. Noor Aerospace Engineering Department Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529-0236 E-mail: obaysal@odu.eduAbstractThe present paper describes a learning module on design optimization courses within ahierarchical research and learning network (HRLN). In this environment a knowledgeorganization can be created as a hierarchical learning network to link diverse inter- and trans-disciplinary teams from a consortium of universities, industry, government agencies and theproviders of

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

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Keith Koenig; Viva Austin; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

Session Number 1426 Design and Implementation of a Computer Data Acquisition and Control System for a Portable Wind Tunnel as a Benchmark Task in a Senior Aerospace Engineering Laboratory Class Thomas Hannigan, Keith Koenig, Bryan Gassaway, Viva Austin Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State UniversityAbstractUpper division aerospace engineering undergraduates have an introduction to theprogramming environment LabVIEW, data acquisition, control systems, transducerselection and calibration, and peripheral programming in their initial laboratory class. Inthe subsequent semester

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Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Viva Austin; Keith Koenig; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

Session Number 3159 Revision and Translation of Existing Programs as a Tool for Teaching Computer Data Acquisition and Control Systems Design and Implementation Thomas Hannigan, Keith Koenig, Bryan Gassaway, Viva Austin Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State UniversityAbstractKeeping data acquisition and control systems (DACS) used in a graduate and under-graduate laboratory current in a rapidly evolving technological environment is anexpensive and time-consuming task. Computer architecture and software have evolvedmore rapidly than the curriculum repeats, and the interfaces commonly used for

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Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Syed Ali; Marcia Rossi; M. Javed Khan

2004-1501 Using a Low Cost Flight Simulation Environment for Interdisciplinary Education M. Javed Khan, Marcia Rossi, Syed F. Ali Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL 36088AbstractA multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary education is increasingly being emphasizedfor engineering undergraduates. However, often the focus is on interactionbetween engineering disciplines. This paper discusses the experience atTuskegee University in providing inter-disciplinary research experiences forundergraduate students in both Aerospace Engineering and Psychology throughthe utilization of a low cost flight simulation environment. The environment, whichis pc-based, runs an off-the shelf software and is

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Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ligia Carvallo; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; Raluca Rosca

Session 3120 Developing Innovative Multimedia Instructional Modules for Control Flow Theory Raluca I. Rosca, David Mikolaitis, Norman Fitz-Coy, Ligia Carvallo Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Florida/ School of Art and Art History, University of FloridaAbstractIn this paper the development of prototype instructional modules for teaching Control FlowTheory is discussed. The modules are intended for use by practicing engineers as a self-paced,asynchronous, personalized learning material, either on-line or off-line. First, the motivation

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Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Dimitris Lagoudas

traveled in three minutes. More details about the introduction of smart materials into the first-year curriculum can be found in [19]. ‚" The project prepared modules on SMA and piezoelectric materials into a sophomore introduction to materials course, ENGR 213 Principals of Materials Engineering. ‚" A project on synthetic jet actuators (SJA) was introduced into a junior aerospace engineering laboratory course, AERO 302 Aerospace Engineering Laboratory I. ‚" The project introduced material on analyzing SMA components into a structural analysis course, AERO 306 - Structural Analysis II. Specifically, students studied how finite element analysis can be performed on structures that contain SMA

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TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ever Barbero; Larry Banta

Outcome Portfolios as an Assessment Tool for ABET EC-2000 Ever J. Barbero, Larry E. Banta, Jacky C. Prucz and Charles F. Stanley Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6106AbstractA novel implementation of outcome portfolios is presented. Outcome portfolios is an assessmenttool used by the authors to accomplish triangulation in the ABET EC-2000 assessment process.Systematic and effective use of outcome portfolios has provided us with a convenient, reliable,and powerful tool for assessing the level of achievement of our graduates on all the programoutcomes for the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering

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Computer-Based Measurements

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Viva Austin; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

Session Number 3159 Modernizing a Legacy Wind Tunnel: Hanging Onto and Letting Go of the Past Thomas Hannigan, Keith Koenig, Bryan Gassaway, Viva Austin Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State UniversityAbstractA medium-scale, closed-circuit subsonic wind tunnel facility used for undergraduateaerospace engineering laboratory experimentation and research represents a substantialinvestment in resources. The control systems and data acquisition systems must evolve sothat the age of the facility does not prejudice researchers serious about their academicendeavors. The evolution of such a system is

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko

design experience. For this purpose, all seniors mustcomplete a two-course design sequence (BME 455, 469). In keeping with the model usedby other undergraduate programs (mechanical and aerospace engineering) in the parentDepartment of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, the first (fallsemester) course is a two-hour course while the following spring course is a four-hourcourse for a total of six semester hours of senior design. With the consistent formatstudents enrolled in any of the three departmental majors can petition to utilize any of thethree design course sequences in their curriculum depending on their technical interests.As is true with any curriculum, the major challenge is to design and administer eachindividual course

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BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

Attitude, Journal of Engineering Education, 91(1), 3-17(2002) 2. Felder, R. M., Silverman, L. K., “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education,” Engineering Education, 78(7), 674-681 (1988) 3. Gagne’, R. M., Briggs, L. J., Wager, W. W., Principles of Instructional Design, fourth edition, Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 1992 4. Wasserman, J., Bennett, R., Boulet, T., Iannelli, J., Jendrucko, R., Lumsdaine, A., “The use of Asynchronous Web Modules for Review and Just-in-time Learning of Mechanics JACK WASSERMAN Jack Wasserman is a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering where he has taught in the biomedical option. He is the winner of 7 teaching awards

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Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Scott

electronics instruction.A number of commercial resources are available that allow one to build and test various circuitsinvolving electronic components. In the best scenario, we would like each student to have ageneral electronics "kit" such as those available from the local electronics store to work with ontheir own. In practice, we are constrained to one or more electronics workstations in a laboratorysetting with one or more dozen students and often one instructor or teaching assistant. In such anenvironment, some significant difficulties arise.In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia, for many years weprovided workstations using standard commercial circuit prototyping or "protoboards" forconstruction of various

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

students visualize thedynamics and the scope of subject matter that help make the course accessible to theundergraduate student. Matlabœ is used extensively in the course to make the computations lessof an obstacle and to enable visualization.I. IntroductionFew schools teach spacecraft attitude dynamics and control (sometimes called spacecraft attitudedetermination and control) at the undergraduate level, while many teach it at the graduate level.Even fewer require it as part of the aerospace engineering curriculum. It is taught at theundergraduate level at Virginia Tech1, University of Southern California2, Purdue University3,and the United States Air Force Academy4. At Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, thecourse is taught as a required

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nadezda Berezkina; Ilya Leipunsky; Guido Lopez

techniques (PT)for nondestructive testing (NDT) of metals, ceramics, and composites, and the details of anexperimental approach that can be easily adopted in educational laboratories to enhanceengineering curricula. The proposed procedure is referred to as Gas Adsorption IndicatorMethod (GAIM). This is a relatively unknown NDT technique in the United States, but it hasbeen used for several years in the former Soviet Union, and more recently in the RussianFederation, in the Aerospace, and Power Generation industries. The educational benefits derivedfrom the inclusion of GAIM approaches in NDT Laboratory instruction are discussed. Theunderlying phenomena of the GAIM technique are explained, and graphical documentation,procedures and experimental

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hunt; Eduardo Ortega; David Miller; Alfred Striz

Rocketry: System Development Experience and Student Outreach Timothy S. Hunt, David P. Miller, Eduardo Ortega, and Alfred G. Striz School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Oklahoma Norman, OklahomaAbstractRocketry can provide students with exciting and stimulating opportunities to advance theirsystems engineering and design/manufacturing/programming skills. During the last 2 years, an11 ft tall minimum-diameter aluminum rocket has been developed and instrumented in theSchool of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, sponsored byOSIDA, the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Devenport; Terry Wildman; Glenda Scales

groups groups groups Aerospace and Ocean 2 11 2 10 3 19 Engineering Biological Systems 1 10 1 13 Engineering Chemical 1 5 1 5 Engineering Civil and Environmental 1 7 1 11 Engineering Computer 2 1 6 Science Electrical and Computer 2 12 2

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TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jianping Yue

exploration and technology advancement. NASA’s overallprogram is composed of six strategic enterprises: Aerospace Technology, Biological and PhysicalResearch, Earth Science, Education, Space Science, and Space Flight. NASA’s mission is to“understand and protect our home planet, to explore the universe and search for life, to inspirethe next generation of explorers … as only NASA can.” Education is always an important andintegral part of NASA. NASA has developed many education programs not only for recruitingtalents for its workforce, but also for inspiring the next generation. NASA’s education programsrange from grades K-12 to college undergraduate and graduate students, especially thosemajoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Johnson

Networks 3 x x xENGR302I International Devs in Renewable Energy 3 x x x xENGR340 Guitar Electronics 3 xENGR370I Astronautics and Space 3 x x xENGR375I Total Quality and Continuous improvement 3 x xENGR391 Engineering and Civilization 3 xMAE 101 Introduction to Aerospace Engineering 1 xMAE172 Engineering Design Graphics 3 x x

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Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hengzhong Wen; Kurt Gramoll

Session 2222 Tinker Air Force Base Technical Online Training System Development Hengzhong Wen and Kurt Gramoll School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering The University of OklahomaAbstractIncreased Internet connection speeds and new web development tools have greatly improved thepossibilities for interactive online training. This paper discusses an online learning system(www.tinker.ou.edu) that has been developed and implemented for Tinker Air Force Base to helpinstruct base personnel in both environmental

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Leon Chuck

ofthe service-learning activity has been in the engineering disciplines. 1, 4 This is very unfortunatesince many of the problems that exist in the world require engineering intervention. During the fall semester of 2002, the Introduction to Materials Laboratory Class from theMechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Dayton was involvedwith a service learning project through ETHOS (Engineers in Technical HumanitarianOpportunities of Service-Learning). This project supported the work of the service organization,Aprovecho. The overall technical objective of the project was to improve the efficiency of awood burning cook stove or “eco-stoves” by proper selection of the insulative brick materialsused to make the

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Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch

medial instrumentation (Becton Dickinson) are critical to the U.S. economy. To be successful these industries have embraced a global supply chain and a rate oftechnology change that presents enormous challenges to the regional workforce. Between 1990and 2000, although aerospace manufacturing employment in Connecticut dropped by 45%,productivity increased and wages for the average aerospace manufacturing worker went up 63%to $68,737. As the manufacturing workforce ages there will be a need to replace these highlyskilled & highly paid workers as well as for continuous upgrading in worker capabilities. The National Association of Manufacturers notes, in their recent report “KeepingAmerica Competitive: How a Talent Shortage Threatens

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

, Computer Science, Electrical andComputer Engineering, Engineering Systems, Marine and Environmental Systems, andMechanical and Aerospace Engineering. All of the departments except Engineering Systems,which currently only offers graduate programs, require their students to participate in SeniorDesign as part of their program core curricula. Each department managed their own seniordesign courses, and there was no formal or systematic interaction between the departments inthis regard.The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department senior design course sequencecomprised two consecutive courses taken during the senior year, in which students formed teamsand took on engineering projects designed to exercise their technical, practical and

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Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ajay Agrawal; Zahed Siddique

Session 2425 FROM GOALS TO PRODUCTS IN A SENIOR DESIGN PRACTICUM COURSE Ajay K. Agrawal and Zahed Siddique School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019AbstractSenior Design Capstone is a required component of many undergraduate engineering programs.The program offers numerous challenges for both faculty and students because of the widevariety of projects in a given year as well as from year to year. This paper discusses key phasesfor successful implementation of a Senior Design Capstone Program to achieve

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Miller; Charles Winton

bearing on grade (there is an expected minimal performance level). Classfollow up sessions examine solutions using different AI robotics paradigms. Shortly after mid-term, the specification for the term project is released, which is cast in the form of a game takenfrom KIPR’s Collegiate Botball Challenge. At the end of the term each team must demonstrateperformance by playing the game with no opponent (this establishes a relative ranking of teams),then participate in a double-elimination tournament as a test of survivability. A team’s entrymay consist of more than one robot. All labs require submission of a lab report in a prescribedformat, to include a verification of testing outcomes by one of the opposing teams.5 Aerospace Engineering Robotics

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Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ziegler

as part of an outreach program coordinated by the Boy Scouts of America ExplorersProgram, the British Aerospace Systems Corporation (BAE Systems), and the State University ofNew York. This particular program provided multidisciplinary experiences over a very broadspectrum of technologies including electrical, automotive, civil, construction, architecture,mechanical, industrial, and computer disciplines.Students began by building a large model roller coaster, which provided experiences inarchitectural, civil, construction, mechanical, and other related engineering technologies and Page 9.201.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society

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State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Brandt; David Hansen; Steven Kuennen; Pamela Neal; Cary Fisher

around solving that problemwhile exploring elements of each engineering discipline. We further decided this would not bejust a “paper design,” but that students would design, build, and test their design.The team chose an aerospace plane – a combination rocket and glider - as the integrating artifactfor Engineering 100. This was an ideal design problem for this course, because to solve thedesign problem students had to understand aeronautics, astronautics, structures and materials,electronics, and civil engineering issues like siting and infrastructure. In order to keep the cost ofdesigning, building and flying such a vehicle manageable, we limited the size. The semesterproject involves creating and operating a sub-scale concept demonstrator and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chean-Chin Ngo; Kurt Gramoll

Session 1793 A Web-based Electronic Book (eBook) for Fluid Mechanics C. C. Ngo and K. Gramoll School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering The University of OklahomaAbstractThe use of electronic media has been widely recognized as an effective and efficient tool indelivering course materials. Through electronic media, interactive and visual appealing mediasuch as texts, animations, graphics, simulations and sounds can be incorporated in theillustrations of engineering theories and concepts. The motivation of developing such media isto promote