Conference Session

History of Aerospace Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin; Mark Maughmer, Penn State University

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Aerospace

combine several measures such as homework, projects,participation, quizzes, and examinations. The effectiveness of these measures is often studiedwith the most emphasis placed on the validity and reliability of the statistical reporting.Determining validity is difficult and since most professors who create these measures are nottesting experts, a practical approach is to use content validity (content represents an adequatesampling of what was taught). The difficulty of the questions is of concern as well, for as Stennerpointed out, “If you don’t know why this question is harder than that one, then you don’t knowwhat you are measuring.”9 By looking at the difficulty of exam questions, you should be able todevelop questions of higher content

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University; Chadia A. Aji, Tuskegee University

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Diversity

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Aerospace

location on the ambiguity spectrum.The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a three-year project to study this importantintellectual development of students in a typical STEM curriculum. Cross-sectional andlongitudinal studies of STEM students as well as non-STEM students at a Historically BlackCollege are being conducted to measure the influence of the current curriculum in context of theconstructs of tolerance of ambiguity, intellectual mental models, and STEM identity.This work-in-progress paper shares some preliminary results of the baseline data that has beencollected during the first year of the NSF-funded project.MethodThe participants of this within-subject and between-group quasi-experimental study are studentsof a Historically

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nithil Kumar Bollock, Saint Louis University; Matthew Patrick O'Brien; Yan Gai, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.; Stephen M. Belt, Saint Louis University

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Aerospace

,situation awareness, anxiety, stress, and emotion in real aircraft and flight simulators [1, 3, 6-16].A few studies have used pilot performances to correlate and understand the psychologicalaspects of pilots [7, 10, 17, 18]. The present project seeks to extend this research by using highfidelity experiments to explore neural functions carried out in a realistic training environmentand focusing on the physiological evolution related to student pilots’ training and educationprocess.METHODOLOGYParticipants and Procedures A total of five participants were recruited from a four-year undergraduate professionalpilot degree program. Each participant completed five sessions. The EEG of Participant D failedto be recorded in one session. Therefore, a

Conference Session

Efficient Authenticity: Modeling, Labs, Real-World Applications in Aerospace

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Melnyk, U.S. Military Academy

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Aerospace

is exploring ways toincrease the use of the fixed and rotary-wing aircraft for independent research projects beyondthe scope of the three aeronautical engineering courses. An independent system that incorporatesinertial and position data with respect to time is available and could be used in conjunction withstudents and faculty from other institutions, if there is data of interest.1 Crawford, Grant, et al. "The United States Military Academy Flight Laboratory Program aHands-On Approach to Engineering Education." American Society of Engineering EducationAnnual Convention. Portland, OR, 2005.2 The United States Military Academy. "Academic Program Curriculum and CourseDescriptions." West Point, NY: Office of the Dean, 2016.3 Airbus

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristoffer Borgen, Purdue University; William Theodore Weldon, Purdue University; Brian Kozak, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Tracy L. Yother, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Aerospace

frames and keeping serial numbers of the parts that are being used on thequadcopter. Similar to current aviation the crashes are documented with the logbooks andvarious reports to help identify the cause of the crash. Future Works Future works for this project include expanding this into a journal article regarding moredetailed sUAS tracking and logbook entry requirements. Modifying the class may be necessaryto achieve a more streamlined approach to the tracking and logbook aspects of sUAS. In additionto just using the educational aspect of tracking by pushing it for an industrial standard to be usedfor the airworthiness certification for airframe and propulsion methods on sUAS. Overall there

Conference Session

Topics Related to Assessments and Outcomes

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Maughmer, Pennsylvania State University; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas-Austin

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Aerospace

students hear about the benefits of being able to Page 12.1359.3sketch and what will be expected of them during this ungraded component of thecourse.At this point, five to six exercises are begun. After the first two exercises, whichdeal with aircraft components, the aircraft that is to be sketched is projected forthe students or given to them via a hard-copy. In all cases, the instructor thendemonstrates in some detail how they go about sketching the figure. The studentsare then asked to practice sketching the figure over the next week or so, oftenafter which time, they are asked to reproduce it in class. These figures are thencollected, critiqued, and returned

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michael Butler, Lockheed Martin

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Aerospace

DeMillo in Abelard to Apple: Fate of American Colleges and Universities refers to asthe multiversity which is “an enterprise that serves many public and private constituents andbalances the desires of many internal and external communities.”13 In this system, the creationof knowledge is highly prized and entities such as the National Science Foundation, NationalInstitutes of Health, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Department ofEnergy fund research in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics. The amount of moneyexpended by these federal government agencies to such research is not insignificant. Today, ofthe approximately $120 billion spent on research and development by the U.S. government, $43billion is directed towards

Conference Session

Solid and Structural Mechanics in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rani W. Sullivan, Mississippi State University

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Aerospace

active learning exercises as Activities 1-5. Activities 1-3 wereimplemented as in-class activities. Due to time limitations, Activities 4 and 5 were integratedinto the lectures. In future course offerings, all activities will be in-class, team (2 or 3 students)exercises.An overview of the research project was given to the class at the beginning of the semester. Asthe course progressed, more in-depth presentations and discussions regarding the relevant topicsfollowed. For example, during the portion of the course in which vibration measurement wascovered, a presentation detailing the experimental method was given. This included discussionof the components of the test fixture, data acquisition system, and measurement sensors such asaccelerometers

Conference Session

Best Practices in Aerospace Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Hannigan, Mississippi State University; Keith Koenig, Mississippi State University; Lorenzo Coley, Mississippi State University; Christopher Hamm, Mississippi State University

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Aerospace

minds about aerospace engineering, though they hadyet to take an actual aerospace course. At the same period in time there was much publicity ofdownturns in the industry, etc., that likely influenced their decisions as much as any otherfactors. The number of our students continuing on into graduate school has been increasing, andwe are retaining more of our best undergraduates. Much of that trend can be immediately tracedto the introduction to students of senior research faculty in lectures to the intro classes, and thesubsequent employment of undergraduates on research projects that interest them. Building onthat interest and continuing into graduate research from undergraduate wage employment is adefinite consequence of the familiarity with

Conference Session

Laboratory Courses and Programming in the Aerospace Curriculum

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kathryn Anne Wingate, University of Colorado at Boulder; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Colorado Boulder; Lyndsay Rose Ruane; Dennis Akos

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Diversity

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Aerospace

discourage them from further pursuing CS [10]. Along these lines, the ethnographic study of anundergraduate programming course conducted by Secules et al. shows the combined impact of several“mundane and seemingly innocuous” aspects of the course, such as the seating arrangement in lecture andthe status hierarchy when an experienced student was paired with an inexperienced student for a group lab[11]. These aspects of the course all combined to create a culture that projected the implicit message thatthe focus of the study--a female student from a vocational high school--could not succeed in engineering.Lastly, studies have shown that students’ performance in CS is influenced by their learning strategies intheir introductory CS course, which are

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelia Greig, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Alex Powaser, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Douglas Howe, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Will Alan McGehee, California Polytechnic State University

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Aerospace

entering and contaminating the vacuum pump system. Figure 9(b) is a close-upview of the emitter tips showing the propellant bead formation prior to the establishment of anelectric field. (a) (b) Figure 9: Electrospray thruster designed for graduate education (a) with magnified emitter tip region showing formation of propellant beads (b).Modularity of design is an important factor in the design. Interchangeable emitter array sections(the rectangular block seen in Figure 9(b)) and extractor plates are included so that multipleresearch projects can be implemented on a single thruster system with minimal modifications.Employing modularity in this manner allows students

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devin Turner, Marquette University; Mark Nagurka, Marquette University

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Aerospace

common, rather than jumping around between other fields/projects.□ It would be more effective if students could really design a mini helicopter. It would help students understand how each element or subsystem works with each other.□ Too often teachers don't provide meaningful applications of how to connect textbook mate- rial to real life. I don't think that is an issue at all in this class. Based on student feedback, the goals of implementing the helicopter theme as a means toincrease interest in the material and encourage students to see the real-world applications of thecourse content appear to have been met. Formative assessment will continue throughout thecourse

Conference Session

Learning in a Socially-Distanced Environment

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Waterloo Tsutsui, Purdue University; Eric J. Williamson, Purdue University; Kenneth Park, Purdue University; Michael David Sangid, Purdue University

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Aerospace

the fatigue experiments are destructive since weneed to apply cyclic loading until the failure of the structure. Also, fatigue experiments may takea long time since, in some cases, we need to apply a very large number of cycles in order tocause a fracture in the specimen. Both of these issues (i.e., cost and time) are not an issue in VLssince a) it is free for students to run as many experiments as they desire and b) theaforementioned “fast-forwarding” button allows students to conduct all experiments within amatter of seconds. Thus, in the case of the fatigue lab, we can easily plot the S-N curve based onthe VL results, whereas doing so based on the hands-on experiments alone is difficult.6. Conclusions and Future WorkIn this project, we

Conference Session

Hands-On Activities and Student Learning in Aerospace Engineering - I - Student Papers

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yilin Feng, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette; Lorraine E. Holtaway, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Sarah Ryann Congdon, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Aerospace

activities designedto allow participants the feeling of working within different system archetypes. Many of thehands on discovery activities (HODAs) in this course, such as Dog Biscuits & See Saws andMoon Balls [11], bring into the forefront some of the numerous benefits of system games. Theactivities demonstrate the operation of system structures in a simplistic format and thereby aid inunderstanding complex systems [11]. HODAs are incalculably beneficial to the participants asthey provide the opportunities to test a number of problem-solving strategies in a short span oftime, whereas large scale projects have reaction times of many months and the solutions requiretime to implement. The participants gain experience processing the feedback from

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Kennesaw State University; Christopher Douglas Roper; J. Andrew Pirrello Jr., Kennesaw State University ; Alain J. Santos

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Diversity

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Aerospace

graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree and Aerospace Engineer- ing and Mathematics minors from Kennesaw State University in December of 2017. As a student at Kennesaw State, Andrew volunteered as a member of the Kennesaw State Aerial Robotics Competition Team where he founded the SAE AeroDesign Team and served as SAE Team Captain, and Team Pilot. Under Andrew’s leadership, the SAE AeroDesign Team designed, built, tested, and flew several large- scale radio-controlled airplanes capable of carrying a substantial payload. Additionally, Andrew served as Structures Designer and Pilot for the Sting One Owl Mascot Project where he designed, built, and flew a five-foot by five-foot hexa-copter drone designed to emulate

Conference Session

STEM Education Tied to Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Jannette McFalls-Brown, Mississippi State University; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University; Rani W. Sullivan, Mississippi State University; Danielle Grimes, Mississippi State University

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Aerospace

engineering classes. 2. Did your elementary, middle, or high school have a gifted studies program? Did you participate in gifted studies? 3. Did you have any engineering experience before attending college? Where did you get this engineering experience? 4. Did you take any Project Lead the Way classes? 5. Have you participated in any advanced curriculum? Describe your experience. 6. Does either of your parents work in engineering or science related field? Explain. 7. Is there any reason that you might want to leave aerospace or engineering now or at some time in the future? Explain. 8. Are you an engineer? 9. Are you involved with any on-campus groups? If yes, then which ones? 10. What are your

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wm. Michael Butler, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Aerospace

Attitudessurvey.Research ProblemThis paper examines the following research questions: 1. What are the professional persistence characteristics of present day aerospace engineering students? 2. How does the aerospace engineering education experience influence student perception of aerospace engineering?MethodsData Set The dataset used for this investigation contained the results of the 2009 administration ofthe web-based Survey of Aerospace Student Attitudes9, a cross-institution study administered bythe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to the population of aerospace engineeringstudents in aerospace, aeronautical, or astronautical engineering programs across the UnitedStates. Principle investigator for the project

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene L. Harding, Purdue University

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Aerospace

antenna). Many of the students struggledwith the MATLAB code, and no one achieved good correlation between the theoretical andsimulated values. It was an interesting exercise in probability calculation and simulation, but thescenario and simulation need to be scrutinized more thoroughly if used again.An alternative was also developed to perform jamming. The author had a crude, short-rangeGPS jammer that he had built for a different project several years before, and three of thestudents had GPS units in their cars; units that could be removed and run on their own batteries’power. An intramural flag football/soccer field was chosen as a test site, and experiments runthere. Unfortunately, two of the students discovered that their GPS units

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Praveen Shankar, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University; Valana L. Wells, Arizona State University; Wen-Ting Chung, Arizona State University

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Aerospace

received a doctoral degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1998. She served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama from 1998 to 2002, when she moved to Arizona State University. In 2008 she was promoted by ASU to Associate Professor. Dr. Husman has been a guest editor of Educational Psychology Review, has served on editorial board for top educational research journals, and currently sits on the editorial board of Learning and Instruction. In 2006 she was awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant award and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. She has conducted and advised on educational research projects and grants

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Drexel University; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Alexandru Catalin Belu, Case Western Reserve University

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Aerospace

, numerical modeling, electromagnetic compatibility and engineering education. During his career, Dr. Belu published several papers in referred journals and in conference proceedings in his areas of the research interests. He has also been PI or co-PI for various research projects United States and abroad in power systems analysis and protection, load and energy demand forecasting and analysis, renewable energy analysis, assessment and design, turbulence and wave propagation, radar and remote sensing, instrumentation, atmosphere physics, electromagnetic compatibility, and engineering education.Dr. Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University Dr. CiobanescuHusanu is Assistant Professor in Engineering Technology at Drexel

Conference Session

Personnel Development & Retention

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Corin L. Bowen, University of Michigan; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Colorado Boulder; Kenneth G. Powell, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Aerospace

Paper ID #32809Critical Analyses of Representation and Success Rates of MarginalizedUndergraduate Students in Aerospace EngineeringDr. Corin L. Bowen, University of Michigan Corin (Corey) Bowen is a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Engineering, Computer Science and Technology at California State University - Los Angeles, where she is working on the NSF-funded Eco- STEM project. Her engineering education research focuses on structural oppression in engineering sys- tems, organizing for equitable change, and developing an agenda of Engineering for the Common Good. She conferred her Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from

Conference Session

History of Aerospace Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Eberhardt, Boeing Company; Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

Conference Session

Rethinking Aerospace Curricula and Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Hannigan, Mississippi State University; Carrie Olsen, Mississippi State University; David Bridges, Mississippi State University; Keith Koenig, Mississippi State University

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Aerospace