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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Crawley, MIT; Robert Niewoehner, United States Naval Academy; Jean Koster, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Aerospace

AC 2010-987: CDIO IN AEROSPACE ENGINEERING: THE NORTH AMERICAAEROSPACE PROJECT PROGRESS REPORTEdward Crawley, MITRobert Niewoehner, United States Naval AcademyJean Koster, University of Colorado, Boulder Page 15.267.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 CDIO in Aerospace Engineering Education: North American Aerospace Project Progress Report This paper provides an interim progress report for the North American Aerospace Project, an effort of the North American CDIO consortium. The project seeks to promote and facilitate the adoption of the CDIO (Conceive Design Implement Operate) model for engineering

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ramesh K. Agarwal

Sustainable (Green) Aviation and Aerospace Education Ramesh K. Agarwal Washington University in St. LouisASEE Midwest Section Meeting, Lawrence, KS 23 September 2010Sustaining the Future Gro Harlem Brundtland Sustainable Development: “Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” The Brundtland Report: Our Common Future, 1987, World Commission on Environment and Development Sustainability• “The effort to frame social and economic policy so as to preserve earth’s bounty – its resources, inhabitants, and environments – for the benefit of both present and future generations

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kerri Phillips, West Virginia University; Giampiero Campa, The MathWorks, Inc.; Srikanth Gururajan, West Virginia University; Marcello Napolitano, West Virginia University

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AC 2010-1744: ENHANCING AEROSPACE ENGINEERING EDUCATIONTHROUGH FLIGHT TESTING RESEARCHKerri Phillips, West Virginia University Kerri Phillips is a doctoral student in aerospace engineering at West Virginia University. She obtained bachelor’s degrees in aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering from WVU in December 2007 and was named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar and to the USA Today All-Academic Team. She has participated in internships with both NASA and Boeing and her research interests include flight controls, flight testing, and aircraft system identification.Giampiero Campa, The MathWorks, Inc. Dr Campa received both is M.S. degree in Control Engineering (1996) and his and Ph.D

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Daniel Kirk, Florida Institute of Technology; Tein-min Tan, Drexel University; Sridhar Santhanam, Villanova University

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AC 2010-862: DEVELOPING THE AEROSPACE WORKFORCE: A BOEINGEXPERIENCEKenneth 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.Daniel Kirk, Florida Institute of Technology Dr. Daniel Kirk is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the Florida Institute of

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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David Lanning; Wahyu Lestari; Shirley Waterhouse

313 A Laboratory-Based Course in Aerospace Engineering Failure David Lanning, Wahyu Lestari, and Shirley Waterhouse Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityAbstractThis paper reports on a unique laboratory-based course in aerospace engineering failure createdfor undergraduate engineering students. The three-credit hour course is intended as an upper-level technical elective for students in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department atEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the Prescott, Arizona campus. The lecture is heldtwice a week and the two hour and forty minute laboratory is

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University; Zdzislaw Kremens, Central Connecticut State University

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AC 2010-1420: GO FOR AEROSPACE! HIGH SCHOOL RECRUITMENTPROGRAM: PRELIMINARY OUTCOMES, LESSONS LEARNED AND FUTUREDIRECTIONSMichele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University Dr. Dischino is an assistant professor in the Technology and Engineering Education Department, teaching courses for pre- and in-service K-12 technology educators. Dr. Dischino received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006 and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Manhattan College in 1992. Before pursuing her doctorate, she gained several years of industry experience. Her doctoral research was conducted in the McKay Orthopaedic Research Lab at UPenn, where she explored strategies to

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Johnson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Aerospace

AC 2010-1698: USING PROCESS FMEA IN AN AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY CAPSTONE COURSEMary Johnson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Mary E. Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Aviation Technology and the Industrial Technology departments at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. She has earned her BS, MS, and PhD in Industrial Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. She teaches capstone courses in the Aeronautical Engineering Technology program, in addition to graduate courses in Aviation Technology and Industrial Technology. Mary has extensive experience in the aerospace industry, both prior to coming to academia and while in academia

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University; Zbigniew Prusak, Central Connecticut State University

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. Associate Professor, Distinguished Scientist of Russian Republic of Tatarstan. He has an extensive experience in the area, working with Aerospace companies such as Russian Aerospace Agency - ROSAVIAKOSMOS, and French Space Agency - ONERA. In 2001-2007 Dr. Naoumov worked with Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering Department at University of Tennessee (UTK) and supervised the UTK engineering students in the design and construction of Lunar Rovers in the framework of NASA Great Moon Buggy Race Project with the competition at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. His teams were among top three twice (Silver Medal in 2003 and Bronze Medal in 2006) of all university teams

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University; Oranuj Janrathitikarn, Pennnsylvania State University; Lyle Long, Pennsylvania State University

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Graduate Assistant Seminar for Engineering Teaching Assistants.Oranuj Janrathitikarn, Pennnsylvania State University Oranuj Janrathitikarn is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Pennsylvania State University. She has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, and a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Penn State. Her master’s thesis focused on the implementation of the Soar architecture on the six-legged robot. Her research interests are intelligent systems, cognitive architecture, unmanned ground vehicles, robotics, and software engineeringLyle Long, Pennsylvania State University

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Post, Bradley University; Shankar Seetharaman, Bradley University; Sree Abimannan, Bradley University

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Team Performance and Report Quality in a Sophomore Design-BuildProject. 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit. AIAA 2004-419.15. Young, P., de Weck, O., and Coleman, C., Design and Implementation of an Aeronautical Design-Build-FlyCourse. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition16. Bellocchio, A., Crawford, B., and Byers, L., Applying Physics to an Undergraduate UAS Design. October 22 –25, 2008, Saratoga Springs, NY. 38th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference17. Kuhlman, J., and Palmer, G. AC 2008-1297: A “Balloon Satellites” Project Course. ASEE 2008.18. George, L., and Brown, R. AC 2007-2988: Engineering 100: An Introduction to Engineering Systems at the USAir

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Moshe Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Aerospace

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martin Morris, Bradley University; Scott Post, Bradley University

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Aerospace

included as part of a new wind tunnel built from scratch.Complete details of the design including engineering drawings are included in the paper. Thedesign is also low cost compared to commercial wind tunnel balances and gives sufficientaccuracy for educational and some research purposes. A counterweight is used to mechanicallyzero the force readout. The new load balance has been tested and found accurate. It has sufficientprecision to perform a sting drag measurement as well. A quick-connect mechanism is used formounting and removing models.IntroductionWind tunnels are a useful tool not only for aerospace engineers, but also for mechanical and civilengineers. From an educational point of view, in addition to measuring the aerodynamic forceson

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Rowland, Dept. of Civil & Mechanical Engineerint at United States Military Academy; Andrew Bellocchio, United States Military Academy

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Fly team.Andrew Bellocchio, United States Military Academy MAJ Andrew Bellocchio earned is Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy as well as his Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech. He is an Army Aviator who has served in numerous command and staff positions during his Army career and was the course director for Aircraft Performance and Stability from 2007 to 2008. He is currently serving the United States Army overseas. Page 15.677.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Implementing a Progressive Approach to

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roger Forsgren, NASA Headquarters; Lauren Miller, NASA Headquarters

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Aerospace

executive by trade, Lauren Miller is one of those unusual people capable of left and right brain thinking, enabling her to offer both the logic and creativity vital to effective engineering project deliverables. After 16 years of experience with two commercial aerospace organizations, Ms. Miller founded her own company, Millaworks LLC, in 2009 and has since supported various high-tech clients, including the NASA Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership. For NASA APPEL, she manages development, execution, and promotion of its Agency-wide engineering Page 15.1298.1

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian German, Georgia Tech

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Aerospace

AC 2010-2161: A CASE STUDY APPROACH TO TEACHING AIRCRAFTPERFORMANCE: REVERSE ENGINEERING THE SR-71 BLACKBIRDBrian German, Georgia Tech Brian German is an assistant professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are in the areas of systems integration and optimization, aircraft conceptual design, and engineering education. Page 15.10.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Case Study Approach to Teaching Aircraft Performance: Reverse Engineering the SR-71 BlackbirdAbstractThis paper

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marilyn Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

AC 2010-2255: EXTROVERT: SYSTEM FOR LEARNING ACROSS DISCIPLINESNarayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology Professor, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering.Marilyn Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology Associate Professor, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering. Page 15.572.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 EXTROVERT: SYSTEM FOR LEARNING ACROSS DISCIPLINES ABSTRACTThe EXTROVERT project builds resources to enable engineers to solve problems cutting acrossdisciplines. The approach is to enable learners to gain confidence with the process of

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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reducing risk enough to trigger inspired thinking among designleaders. Perhaps, this thinking will blossom at least by the time today’s undergraduates rise todecision-making positions in industry. The paper is laid out as follows. The first part defines theissues. The second lays out an approach to address the issues. The third explores the synergywith the aerospace undergraduate curriculum and pedagogy, and the final part reports ontechnical and pedagogical results from this exploration at our institution.2.1 The ProblemThe Concorde1 and the Tupolev 1442 are famous as 1960s pioneers of an age of supersonicintercontinental travel that promised much, but ultimately did not get beyond the niche marketstage. The Tu-144 suffered a fatal crash at the

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ELD Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Larry Thompson, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Libraries

AC 2010-536: SEEKING AND FINDING THE AEROSPACE LITERATURE FROM1996 - 2010: AND, THE WINNER IS . . . GOOGLELarry Thompson, Virginia Tech Page 15.1056.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Seeking and Finding the Aerospace Literature From 1996 – 2010: And, The Winner Is . . . . . . . . . . . GoogleAbstractThe Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR) has been a standard resource inlibraries since its inception in 1963. Beginning in 1996 the title was only available online andrecently NASA has limited online access to the most recent two years. This paper compares theindexing in STAR with other standard resources such as the NASA

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Lanning, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Wahyu Lestari, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Shirley Waterhouse, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

AC 2010-2211: A UNIQUE UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORY-BASED COURSEIN ENGINEERING FAILUREDavid Lanning, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityWahyu Lestari, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Dr. Wahyu Lestari is an Associate Professor in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Prescott, ArizonaShirley Waterhouse, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Dr. Shirley Waterhouse is the Senior Director for Academic Excellence and Innovation, Office of the Chief Academic Officer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Page 15.109.1© American

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Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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Graduate Studies

─ AbstractThis is the third of four invited panel papers prepared specifically for the National Collaborative TaskForce Engineer-Leaders Project. The Project concerns the deliberate advancement of professionalgraduate engineering education relevant to the needs of creative engineering practice in industry toenhance U.S. technological innovation and competitiveness. The strength of the innovation and leadershipcapacity of America’s professional engineering base in our civilian, aerospace, and defense industries is acritical asset in our global economic recovery. As with other learned professions, there are progressiveskill-sets and actions that must be learned or developed at the advanced levels of the practice ofengineering. This series of papers

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Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University

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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

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

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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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

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Mentoring First Year Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rosemary Patterson, Virginia Tech; Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Kaitlyn Hines, Virginia Tech; Tyler Aarons, Virginia Tech; Jean-Louis Bile, Virginia Tech; Jared Chelko, Virginia Tech; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

Polytechnic Institute and State University, where she also completed her B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering. Her doctoral research focuses on the social aspects of graduate education in engineering departments with internationally diverse populations. In 2008 she was awarded a College of Engineering Graduate Teaching Fellowship, and is currently teaching undergraduate courses for the Department of Engineering Education and the Aerospace Engineering Department.Kaitlyn Hines, Virginia Tech KAITLYN N. HINES is an undergraduate student in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She will receive her B.S. in Industrial and Systems

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Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Santarelli, Cal State Fresno

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

was conducted using a group of similar organizations outsideof the region. The questionnaire was then administered using email invitations to participate viaSurvey Monkey and by direct mail where specific appropriate email addresses could not beobtained. This phase was used to target specific organizations for the second phase whereselected senior personnel were interviewed. Three critical cases were defined for the selection ofinterview subjects. Critical Case A was defined as aerospace, professional, and other industrial organizations.Critical Case B were federal and state district directors of elected officials, Critical Case C wasthe Building Industry. Interview questions for this second phase were developed focused by theresults of

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Build Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Terry Teays, Johns Hopkins University; Mary Bowden, University of Maryland at College Park; Guangming Chen, Morgan State University; Richard Henry, Johns Hopkins University

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Minorities in Engineering

ST-5 proposal writing team in summer 1999 and also worked with ST-5 project team during ST-5 implementation period: conceptual development, preliminary design, critical design and manufacturing, until the successful launch of the ST-5 micro-sat trio. He received his Ph.D. in IE from Wayne State University, a M.S. in systems engineering and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.Mary Bowden, University of Maryland at College Park Mary L. Bowden is a Visiting Assistant Professor and Keystone Instructor in the Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Maryland in College Park(UMCP), where she specializes in teaching undergraduates Statics, Mechanics of

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Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Ross, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Liberal Education

–based, and lively intellectual themes in a freshman writingclass, supported and nurtured by innovative and empowering programs such as the UW-MadisonFIGs program, benefit both students and instructors. Instructors and administrators shouldactively develop such opportunities, particularly making use of the flexibility and “high impact”educational power provided by “freshman comp” within first year engineering programs.References1. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2006. Initiative for science, engineering, and technology. http://www.amacad.org/projects/ionitSciTech.aspx (aerospace in the classroom)2. ASEE/University of Notre Dame. 2006. A dialogue on engineering education: the role of the first tear. (DVD summary disk) (first

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Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jayathi Raghavan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Hong Liu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Mathematics

techniques ofmathematics and computer science to solve the problems arising in natural and social sciences aswell as various business and engineering fields. In recent years, the accessibility to highperformance computers and affordability of low cost clusters of microcomputers have resulted inthe surge of interest in development of new degree programs in the area of computationalsciences at universities across the country2-7. So to be part of the trend, the mathematicsdepartment at the our university had proposed13 a new degree program in ComputationalMathematics four years ago and got it finally approved in 2009. Our university is a highlyselective private masters granting technical institution that has a few well-established programsin aerospace

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Including Engineering Economy in All Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leland Blank, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Economy

Professor, Aerospace EngineeringDr. John White University of Arkansas: Distinguished Professor, Industrial Engineering Chancellor EmeritusDr. Hector Carrasco Colorado State University-Pueblo: Dean, College of Education, Engineering, and Professional Studies Professor, EngineeringDr. Heather Natchmann University of Arkansas: Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering Director, Mack-Blackwell Rural Transportation CenterDr. Lee Blank Texas A&M University: Professor Emeritus, Industrial and Systems Engineering Visiting Professor, Texas

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IE Applications and Systems

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jane Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Abhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Industrial Engineering

technology (IT), aerospace, and defense. On job posting sites (e.g., monster.com), the phrase “systems engineering” almost always describes a job in the INCOSE model, usually in the aerospace or defense industries.2. Electrical engineering: Within the electrical engineering field, emphasis is attached Page 15.1369.3 to the use of systems theory in applications, e.g., spacecraft manufacture and management. As such, systems engineering within electrical engineering tends to emphasize control techniques which are often software-intensive. It appears that one of the first uses of systems engineering was in Bell Labs.18 Managing complexity is an

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Kenneth W. Santarelli

uniqueattributes of the high desert which make attracting and retaining new graduates difficult1.The Greater Antelope Valley is a triangular region extending from Ridgecrest, CA at thenorthern apex to Gorman, CA near the western apex, and the communities of Lake Los Angelesand Pearblossom, CA near the eastern apex2. The region defined as the Greater Antelope Valleyis often referred to as Aerospace Valley. The Aerospace Valley reference is due to the fact thatthe Greater Antelope Valley is the home of Edwards Air Force Base which also hosts NASADryden Flight Research Center, the Mojave Space Port, the China Lake Naval Air WeaponsStation, and Air Force Plant 42 at Palmdale Airport. These facilities have hosted the manufactureand flight test of such notable