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- Aerospace Workspace: Current and Future 1
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- 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Debbie Mullins, Texas Space Grant Consortium; Wallace Fowler, University of Texas, Austin
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variety of program-relatedareas – not just the overall “best.” Based upon the anecdotal comments provided by students,faculty, mentors and reviewers, as well as the successful outcomes observed since TDC’sinception; the Program’s methods serve to engage students in a well-rounded real-worldengineering experience that successfully motivates and whets individual appetites for additionalspace-related research, design and careers. As one student aptly put it, “Participation in this program has continued to improve my impression of both NASA and the TSGC. I have worked on other NASA related projects before, but this project is in a very different field than my previous experience. I have enjoyed learning about the additional
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- Aerospace Workspace: Current and Future 2
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- 2009 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; Zdzislaw Kremens, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University
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participating in the 2003 Program forInternational Student Assessment (PISA) examination, which is designed to assess students’ability to apply scientific and mathematical concepts to real-world problems.6 Furthermore, theretention rate for engineering students is one of the lowest among all college majors. About one-third of all U.S. students intending to pursue engineering switch majors before graduating.5 Inpart, this is due to a demanding and rigorous curriculum, but the fact that some engineeringstudents realize quite late that the program is not the best fit for them also has a negative impact.Demographic Disparities in Math and Science AchievementAccording to the National Science Board’s Science and Engineering Indicators 20084, there
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- History of Aerospace Education
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- 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Scott Eberhardt, Boeing Company; Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology
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California Institute of Technology (GALCIT). (Note: in 1961 GALCIT was renamedthe Graduate Aeronautical Laboratory, keeping the acronym intact.) Stanford’s drivingforce in aeronautics research was Dr. William Durand. Durand managed to get Stanfordto build a wind tunnel suitable for testing propellers. As a result, some of the mostsignificant work for the NACA was being performed at Stanford. Stanford asked for$330,000 and received $195,000 which was funded simultaneously with Caltech so theschools would not compete for students if one received funds before the other. The University of Michigan was selected because of its advanced program inaeronautics. Aeronautics was its own department in 1916 and they were the first toaward degrees in
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- History of Aerospace Education
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- 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Scott Eberhardt, Boeing Company; Lee Jonathan, Boeing Company; Adam Bruckner, University of Washington
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- Aerospace
operator of the airplaneMontieth went on to point out that “it is the airplane designer for whom the course inAeronautical Engineering must be prepared. First of all, he must know enough of the work ofthe research man to be able to summarize this work and convert the results to terms which can beused directly in practical airplane design. He must know enough of the shop methods tounderstand how his designs are to be built. He should, if possible, get as much time in the air ashe can, either as a pilot or as an intelligent passenger. The lack of any of these bits of experienceis something of a handicap.” 21The Wind Tunnel Years The years from the mid-1930s until 1960 can best be characterized as the Kirsten WindTunnel years. Although the