Paper ID #13354A Study of Aerospace Engineering Student Professional PersistenceDr. Wm. Michael Butler, Virginia Tech Wm. Michael Butler is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is a 24 year aerospace industry design professional with B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech and a PhD. in Engineering Education also from Virginia Tech. His engineering education research is focused on the use of design tools and live simulation in engineering design education as a means to better prepare students for industry. He is a Senior Member of AIAA and a
Paper ID #12657Mapping Outcomes in an Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering ProgramMr. Joseph Seering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joseph Seering is an Educational Researcher in the Aeronautics and Astronautics department at MIT. He graduated from Harvard University in 2013 with an AB in Social Studies. His primary research interest is interaction between users and virtual platforms, primarily but not exclusively in educational environments.Prof. Karen Willcox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Karen Willcox is Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics in the Aerospace Computational Design Lab- oratory at
Paper ID #12760Systems Engineering Entrepreneurship Modules Across Aerospace Engineer-ing CurriculumDr. Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng. Dr. Sanjay Jayaram is an associate professor in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department of Saint Louis University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Central Florida in 2004. He teaches control systems/mechatronics, space systems engineering and astronautics related courses as well as engineering sciences courses. He has published several peer reviewed journal and conference papers in these areas. His research areas
Developed from a Research-Informed FrameworkI. IntroductionThis document describes an introductory helicopter aerodynamics and design engineering coursefor undergraduates in aeronautical or aerospace engineering. The three major sections of thisdocument are Content, Assessment, and Pedagogy. These sections have been developedaccording to Engineering Education research principles and findings, such that the three sectionsare aligned with one another. Each section presents at least one tool to guide coursedevelopment. The course’s foundation is to provide authentic practice for meaningful learning.The primary purposes of this paper are to present a unified strategy and a toolkit for developingengineering courses in Figure 1 and to use helicopter
Paper ID #12239Managing and Exchanging Knowledge Underlying Aerospace EngineeringDesign DecisionsElizabeth Scott Fleming, Georgia Institute of Technology Elizabeth ”Scottie-Beth” Fleming is an Aerospace Engineering PhD candidate and NSF GRFP Fellow in the Cognitive Engineering Center (CEC) at Georgia Tech. She graduated from Georgia Tech with a B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering. Her research within the CEC examines interdisciplinary teams within the engineering design process, training approaches for pilots, and human interaction with technology.Dr. Amy Pritchett, Georgia Institute of Technology Amy R. Pritchett is the
, Fundamentals of Space Flight Systems, Astronomy, and Sr. Capstone Sequence. He enjoys mentoring undergraduate students in aerospace, sensors, and energy-related research projects. Some of the research areas include spacecraft nano-satellite technologies, satellite payload instrumenta- tion, High Altitude research Platform (HARP) experiments, wave particle interactions in space, space- flight X-ray imagers, construction and renewable energy engineering and architecture, and philosophy of science. Dr. Voss has worked as PI on many NASA, Air Force, Navy, NSF, and DOE research grants and has published over 120 scientific papers. hnvoss@taylor.edu, Phone 765 998 4843 or 765 618 3813Prof. Jeff F Dailey Mr. Jeff Dailey
received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and an M.S.E. in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton. He has been on the faculty in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Penn State since 1984. His research activities are analytical, experimental, and computational, and generally in the areas of aerodynamics, primarily aircraft and wind turbines, and aircraft design, flight mechanics, and stability and control. He has worked on aircraft designs with a number of companies, and has played a key role in the development of winglets for sailplanes and low-speed aircraft. He is actively involved in the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Integration (ACUASI)1; UAF College of Engineering and Mines (CEM)2; UAF Scenarios Network for Alaska & Arctic Planning3AbstractThere is need for strong partnership between pre-college Science, Technology, Engineering andMathematics (STEM) programs and higher education that offers improved opportunities for developingour next generation STEM-related workforce. Our country is challenged by a lack of aerospace,electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering students, as well as high school and middle schoolSTEM programs that often struggle to capture and connect students with opportunities in these fields.The health of our pre-college and higher education programs is linked, and neither can excel long
discusses a major group project using model rockets in atwo-hour per week laboratory that is a part of a two-credit course in exploration of engineeringand technology at the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.Introduction:A model rocket is a combined miniature version of real launch and space vehicles. Once amodel rocket leaves the launcher, it is a free body in air. Model rockets have been used asprojects before. Boyer et al. [1] report a similar project for sophomore aerospace engineeringstudents. Figure 1 shows a cross section of a ready to launch model rocket with a B6-4 solidengine. Page 26.1643.2Figure 1. Single stage model rocket with
Paper ID #14227Practical Engineering Experience in Aircraft Structural DesignDr. Masoud Rais-Rohani, Mississippi State University Masoud Rais-Rohani is the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and Professor of Aerospace Engineering in the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University. Masoud earned his PhD degree in aerospace engineering from Virginia Tech in 1991. He has taught courses mainly in the areas of aerospace structures, mechanics, and design optimization. He has made extensive use of experiential learning and computer applications in his courses, particularly the senior-level
. He is viewed as a leader in pursuing new fluids dynamics research opportunities that are becoming available shortly in the commercial sub-orbital rocket industry. He is one of three researchers selected for early flights with Blue Origin with an NSF-funded payload, and he is also launching payloads with Armadillo Aerospace, Masten Space Systems, XCOR, and Exos. Professor Collicott began activities in innovative teaching in capillary fluid physics, in STEM K-12 outreach, and in placing the positive news of university engineering education and capillary fluids re- search in the national media in 1996. In 1996 he created, and still teaches, AAE418, Zero-Gravity Flight Experiments, at Purdue. The research activities
Paper ID #14196Revisit of Lessons Learned: Evolution of the Aerospace Engineering SummerCamp in Year ThreeDr. Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University Dr. Kristi J. Shryock is an Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Senior Director of Retention in the Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. She re- ceived her BS, MS, and PhD from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M. Kristi works to improve the undergraduate engineering experience through evaluating preparation in mathematics and physics, incor- porating non-traditional teaching methods into the classroom
Paper ID #14185An Integrated Curriculum Design for Teaching Flying Qualities Flight Test-ingDr. M. Christopher Cotting, United States Air Force Test Pilot School Dr. Chris Cotting is the Master Instructor of Flying Qualities at the United States Air Force Test Pilot School. During his professional career he has also worked for the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and the Lockheed Martin Skunkworks. He has worked on numerous experimental aircraft projects in- cluding the X-43A and X-43C, X-35, and X-33. He has a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from Mississippi State University, and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from
Paper ID #13273Enhancing Systems Engineering Content in Aerospace Courses: CapstoneDesign and Senior Technical ElectivesProf. John Valasek, Texas A&M University John Valasek is Director, Center for Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Systems (CANVASS), Director, Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, and member of the Honors Faculty at Texas A&M University. He teaches courses in Aircraft Design, Atmospheric Flight Mechanics, Modern Control of Aerospace Systems, Vehicle Management Systems, and Cockpit Systems & Displays. John created the senior/graduate level course AERO 445
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
Mechanical Engineering (ONU 1997).Dr. Tailian Chen, Gonzaga University Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor at Gonzaga UniversityProf. Jianfeng Ma, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Saint Louis University Dr. Jianfeng Ma is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Saint Louis University. Dr. Ma attended KEEN Foundation-funded iFaculty program including the problem-based learning (PBL) work- shop which was aimed at promoting the scholarship and teaching of the entrepreneurial mindset in the engineering school and across SLU (Spring 2012 and Summer 2012). In June 2012, Dr. Ma also attended the Shaping Entrepreneurial Engineers (SEE) Summer Workshop aiming to better prepare faculty to equip their students to be
Paper ID #12075Interconnected Software Modules to Aid the Learning of Fuel Cell CoursesMr. Amjad Aman, University of Central Florida Amjad Aman is a PhD student at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Uni- versity of Central Florida. His research interests include fuel cells, fuel cell materials, perovskites and numerical modeling.Prof. Yunjun Xu, University of Central Florida Dr. Yunjun Xu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida. His research interests are robotics, controls, and aerospace system.Dr. Haiyan Bai
student in the School of Engineering at The Univer- sity of Oklahoma. Her passion for engineering education stems from her basic curiosity to develop more effective engineering curriculum to help students to meet their professional demands. This motivated her to take part in engineering education research.Mr. Dan Thomas Carlton, University of Oklahoma, College of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Dan Carlton is pursuing his Bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, where he is expected to graduate in 2016. He is a Midshipman in the Naval ROTC unit at the University of Oklahoma, and is involved in undergraduate fellowship program sponsored by NASA and the Oklahoma Geospatial and Space Grant
. Page 26.409.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Corporate Partnerships for International Experiences: A Case Study Model of the Boeing Engineering Leadership Program Partnerships between universities and industry are becoming increasingly critical to consider when developing study abroad experiences for engineering students. Using a case study approach, this paper examines one short-term summer program for students of aerospace engineering, the Boeing Engineering Leadership Program, which took place in Beijing, China in July 2014. The paper examines components needed for a successful partnership to support teaching and learning activities
Paper ID #13485Engaging Students in Multidisciplinary Projects in Unmanned Vehicles Tech-nologies for Enhanced Learning ExperienceDr. Subodh Bhandari, Cal Poly Pomona Dr. Bhandari is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. His ex- pertise is in the area of Aircraft Dynamics and Control and Unmanned Systems. His current research emphasis is on the coordination and control of multiple unmanned vehicles, UAV-UGV collaboration, tracking of mobile targets using UAVs, development of robust adaptive controller for UAVs using neural networks, and collision and obstacle avoidance system for UAV’s
Fabian Zender is an Engineering Performance Coach at The Boeing Company where he participates in research in the Technical and Professional Learning Solutions group. He obtained his undergraduate and graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. In his research Fabian focuses on learning as a sociotechnical system, utilizing data analytics and learning science and combining them with traditional engineering approaches to advance personalized learning and optimize organizational performance.Dr. Charles J. Camarda, NASA Dr. Charles Camarda Biography (Long) Dr. Camarda graduated from Archbishop Molloy High School, Jamaica, New York, in 1970. He
skills. She has presented on writing-to-learn topics at the ASEE Southeastern Section Conference and led writing workshops for faculty who are interested in adding writing assign- ments to their courses.Dr. Rani Warsi Sullivan, Mississippi State University Dr. Rani Warsi Sullivan is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State Univer- sity. Dr. Sullivan has teaching and research interests in the area of solid mechanics, aircraft materials and structures, and engineering education. Current research includes fiber optic strain sensing for development of an in-flight structural health monitoring system, characterization of the time-dependent deformation of polymer nanocomposites, and strength and
with teachingpractices that prepare a student for lifelong learning whether in a laboratory or on the assemblyline floor.The purpose of the examples and proposed solutions that follow in this paper is to draw attentionto changes in our engineering pedagogy that have occurred over the last few years and toencourage a re-focus that may positively affect our undergraduate engineering education. Thispaper describes some changes in aerospace engineering that have both positive contributions andnegative consequences. There are also similar examples and solutions in every other engineeringdisciplines. Students learn and retain much better when the basics are understood beforeadvanced concepts are introduced, and when practical applications reinforce
Paper ID #12237What is Lifelong Learning to First-Year Engineering Students? Creating aBaseline for Future DevelopmentDr. Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University Krista Kecskemety is a Senior Lecturer in the Engineering Education Innovation Center at The Ohio State University. Krista received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University in 2006 and received her M.S. from Ohio State in 2007. In 2012, Krista completed her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Ohio State. Her engineering education research interests include investigating first-year engineering student experiences, faculty experiences, and
? Trajectories are measured atmatriculation, four years later, and six-year graduation for matriculants to the disciplines as wellas all students in the major, including first-time-in-college (FTIC) and transfer students. Theimpact of first-year engineering (FYE) programs is also considered. We focus on the mostpopular disciplines of engineering: Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, and Industrial. Inaddition, we have considered Aerospace Engineering given its similarity in curriculum toMechanical and Computer Engineering given its similar curriculum to Electrical. We have begunto work on comparisons of the five most popular engineering disciplines.Project goalsThis project focuses on examining the research question “How do the trajectories of
Paper ID #12734Academic Outcomes of Cooperative Education ParticipationNichole Ramirez, Purdue University Nichole Ramirez is a graduate student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received her B.S. in aerospace engineering from The University of Alabama and her M.S. in aviation and aerospace management from Purdue University. She is a former recipient of the Purdue Doctoral Fellowship. In addition to cooperative education research, she is also interested in studying student choice and migration engineering and technology.Dr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joyce B. Main
. He has also functioned as an engineering technology faculty for three years at Zane State College in Zanesville, Ohio, where he developed and taught courses that included CAD, solid modeling, statics, strength of materials, machine design, and statistical process control. He is currently active in curriculum development and education research focused on design.Mr. Jacob T Allenstein, Ohio State University Jacob T Allenstein is a graduate student in Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University in the process of a Ph.D. Jacob received his B. Sci in Aerospace Engineering in June of 2011 and a Master of Science (Aerospace Engineering) in December 2013. Currently, he is a graduate teaching associate (GTA) for the
Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received her B.S. in aerospace engineering from The University of Alabama and her M.S. in aviation and aerospace management from Purdue University. She is a former recipient of the Purdue Doctoral Fellowship. In addition to cooperative education research, she is also interested in studying student choice and migration engineering and technology.Ms. Trina L Fletcher, Purdue University, West Lafayette Trina Fletcher is an Engineering Education doctoral student at Purdue University. Her research focus includes process excellence and total quality management (TQM) methodologies as a way to improve engineering related activities within industry and education. She is also