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Aerospace Hot Topic: Unmanned Aerial Systems

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth Gururajan, Saint Louis University

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Aerospace

) sponsored AeroDesign competitions, as well as theAssociation for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) sponsored StudentUnmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS) competitions are ideal outlets for students to complementtheir classroom knowledge with hands-on experimental experience towards an Educational outcome - where students develop a deeper understanding of the interconnections and importance of class material, covered over their undergraduate career, as it pertains to achieving a specific goal – in this case, a stable and robust aircraft that reliably achieves an overall mission.Prior experience, as discussed by Phillips et. al. in [1] has shown that these competitions alsogenerate and foster important secondary channels of learning

Conference Session

Aerospace Hot Topic: Unmanned Aerial Systems

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Subodh Bhandari, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Diversity

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Aerospace

used in conjunction with other unmanned vehicles such asunmanned ground vehicles (UGVs)1 and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). The UAVindustry is the fastest growing sector of the aerospace industries and the use of UAVs has beengrowing significantly for civilian applications.2Also, because of their cheaper costs, UASs can also be used as the entry point for manyadvanced concepts in aerospace and other engineering disciplines. For example, UASs can beused for testing many advanced control concepts such as neural network based adaptivecontrollers.3Many universities and R&D organizations have been conducting research on UASs in manyareas ranging from dynamics and control, obstacle and collision avoidance, multi-vehiclecoordination, and

Conference Session

Aerospace Hot Topic: Unmanned Aerial Systems

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Hudson, Western Michigan University; Kristina Lemmer, Western Michigan University

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Aerospace

founded. We focus specifically on team management and student learning, which arekey areas that may be overlooked by new small satellite team leaders, who are often focused onresearch plans and funding acquisition. We have found that the team’s technical success dependsgreatly on personnel management. In the university environment, where student researchers aretypically volunteers and annual turnover is high, a careful strategy for recruiting, training,supervising, and retaining team members is critical to successfully building a small satellite.WALI’s programmatic challenges fall into three categories: (1) recruiting and retaining qualifiedstudent members, (2) training students in key technical skills, and (3) directing and supervisingstudent

Conference Session

Aerospace Hot Topic: Unmanned Aerial Systems

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Catherine F. Cahill, Alaska Center for UAS Integration, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; John Monahan, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Upward Bound

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Aerospace

effects of subsystem design approaches and system trades impactingUAS overall performance and operational viability. The paper describes learning objectives,construction, activities, and lessons learned, as well as how this course fits into UAF’s academicand research efforts. It also outlines complementary activities offering students UAS-centricaerospace experience and briefly touches upon efforts to push related STEM opportunities downto local high school and middle school students.IntroductionUAS Systems Design is a new multidisciplinary course intended to give students valuableexperience in the field of UAS and aerospace engineering. Students are expected to: 1) conduct asystems analysis of UAS to include the air vehicle platform and sensors

Conference Session

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

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kuldeep S. Rawat, Elizabeth City State University; Ellis Eugene Lawrence, Elizabeth City State University; Orestes Devino Gooden, Elizabeth City State University

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Diversity

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Aerospace

the 21st centuryworkplace that is readily accessible in more urban areas of the state. However, with recentgrowth in the aviation, aerospace, and manufacturing industry in the region, there now exists thepotential to link K-12 STEM education to these industries. The hands-on learning activities,integrate modern educational technology tools to expose students to the potential careeropportunities that exist in aviation/aerospace fields and why background in advanced science andmathematics is crucial to achieve these careers. The initiative will extend laboratory resourcesbeyond the classroom in the form of a travelling demonstration to engage and inspire people todiscover STEM learning and careers [1]. Staffed by ECSU faculty, lab instructor

Conference Session

Innovations in Aero Curriculum and Program Level Administration

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mark D. Maughmer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Aerospace

before and after the in-class homework quizzes wereemployed was inconclusive, the anecdotal evidence seems to indicate that it does benefit studentunderstanding, and there is no question that the grading workload of the instructor is reduced,allowing more time to be spent on instruction where it has a positive impact.IntroductionEngineering students are expected to learn beyond class time by doing readings, homework, andprojects. Homework, in particular, is intended to improve student learning by giving them timeto practice and to learn on their own. A strength of homework is that it is practice distributed insmall doses over extended periods of days or weeks.1 Typically, homework is done to reinforcecourse material, cover additional material

Conference Session

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

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhammad Omar Memon, University of Dayton; Dathan Erdahl Ph.D., University of Dayton Research Institute; Saad Riffat Qureshi, University of Dayton

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Diversity

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Aerospace

derivatives that allow linearization ofsolutions near specific operating conditions. As part of aircraft performance analysis, thestudents consider various operations in the flight envelope to characterize the behavior of anaircraft model they created to mimic an existing aircraft. All of these topics are pulled togetherto create a simulation of the vehicle in the final project, based on original code. Learning through practice was implemented in the FVP course by two methods;integration of Merlin Flight Simulator early in the course and partially flipping instructor roles inthe classroom. Figure 1 shows the flow of the FVP course starting with the hands-on experienceto the Flight Simulator followed by the theoretical knowledge given in the

Conference Session

Innovations in Aero Curriculum and Program Level Administration

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devayan Debashis Bir, Iowa State University; Benjamin Ahn, Iowa State University

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Aerospace

students [1]. Furthermore, according to a study [7] that surveyed 45 randomly selectedU.S. based institutions, online learning offers new avenues and challenges to educationalinstruction. The study urged further research not only in providing online educationalopportunities but also in achieving the highest educational quality through this medium.Although online classes have shown promise in other fields of education, limited studies haveexplored their effects in engineering education. A study [9] conducted in 2005 made a strongargument for the use of online courses for engineering education. It predicted that if onlineeducation was to become widespread, the trend of seeing online tools to teach blended classeswould become popular. It also

Conference Session

Innovations in Aero Curriculum and Program Level Administration

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sidaard Gunasekaran, University of Dayton

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Aerospace

the perceptions of their employers. The surge ofthe modern pedagogical practices in academia such as student-centered learning, active learning,co-teaching, problem/project based learning, entrepreneurial mindset learning, flipped classroom,etc., have helped current millennials to maneuver within the workforce but the gap between theacademic preparation and employers’ expectations still remains at large [1]. This may be becausethe majority of the graduate engineering curriculum trains students to perform straight forwardanalysis with complex equations and does not provide enough emphasis on other skills that areneeded and expected from graduate students in the workforce. Being a part of KEEN (KernEntrepreneurial Engineering Network), most of

Conference Session

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

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary E. Johnson, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Xun Zhao, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Aerospace

Aviation Organization (ICAO), there is a wealth of data that has the potentialto engage students in active learning and to inspire students to participate in research or evenseek advanced degrees. The use of aviation databases can be expanded in undergraduate levelcourses, or incorporated into statistical applications in class. The goal of this paper is toencourage instructors to use aviation data in their courses by doing two things: 1) familiarizeinstructors with a selection of FAA databases and 2) propose a set of exercises that may beincorporated into existing courses, or become part of the exercises in a standalone data analysiscourse. This paper presents a preliminary course design that focuses on incorporating projectbased, analysis

Conference Session

Innovations in Aero Curriculum and Program Level Administration

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Valasek, Texas A&M University; Debra A Fowler, Texas A&M University; Nate Poling, Texas A&M University

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Aerospace

are completely addressed bythe videos used by the lower level courses.Lindstrom reports on a pilot study of using a free online mathematics learning tool, KhanAcademy (KA), to strengthen the relevant mathematics skills of pre-service science teachers intheir introductory physics course at a large teacher education institution in Norway [1]. In thiswork the videos are being created, and in reverse curriculum order because the author has manyyears of experience with the junior level courses, but not as much experience with the sophomorelevel prerequisite courses. Starting with the terminal concepts videos will also ensure thatessential nuances needed in the earlier videos will be included. This aspect is also being used inthe present work for

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

at the institution decidedearly on that instructions for these courses be supplemented with as much practical application aspossible. The form of that hands-on application has certainly changed over the decades, butsince 1970 a hallmark of the program is the use of aircraft for in-flight laboratory exercises.These lab exercises included fixed-wing laboratories in a T-41 (Cessna 172) and eventuallyCessna 182 aircraft as well as the rotary-wing labs in a UH-1 and now UH-72 (AirbusEurocopter EC145) helicopter. The fixed-wing flight lab program and early rotary-winglaboratories were discussed in a previous article. 1 The purpose of this article is to focus moreclosely on the rotary-wing lab program and outline updates since the aircraft used for

Conference Session

Innovations in Aero Curriculum and Program Level Administration

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wallace T. Fowler P.E., University of Texas, Austin

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Aerospace

Improvement (Ref 2) “The program must regularly use appropriate, documented processes forassessing and evaluating the extent to which the student outcomes are being attained.The results of these evaluations must be systematically utilized as input for thecontinuous improvement of the program. Other available information may also beused to assist in the continuous improvement of the program.”Definitions ABET Cycle – This is a six year cycle based on the general review ABET accreditation process. In the context of this paper, the ABET general review occurs in the fall semester of year 1 of the general review cycle. ASE Program Criteria – the Aerospace Engineering Program Criteria published by ABET. These criteria refer to the particular