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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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assigned based on the efficiency of each team in using the resourcesavailable to them, as measured in the amount of “Bradley Bucks” they spent to complete theproject. Note that it is easy to create money for these projects by downloading the template forMonopoly Money from Hasbro2 and Photoshopping in the faces of professors in yourdepartment. Printing on brightly colored paper works well to discourage counterfeiting.While the rocket project was quite successful and well-liked by the students, it has the limitationof that the best rockets end up all looking the same, as the primary design variables available tothe student are the size of the fins and the amount of weight in the nose cone.To improve upon this, a new project has been designed. The

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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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last decade. Researchers belonging to this group haveacquired substantial and documented experience in the design, manufacturing and flight testingof small unmanned aircraft and successfully demonstrated autonomous GPS-based, closed-loopformation flight using 3 custom-built jet-powered UAVs in 2004. A typical flight control projectat West Virginia University embodies several aspects of engineering education, as well astheoretical and practical topics, which are not covered in a conventional classroom or researchsetting. Specifically, undergraduate and graduate students involved within different researchprojects learn basic hardware and maintenance of small unmanned aerial vehicles, systemsengineering, aircraft design, flight simulation and

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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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, size, number of passengers, and power source.Students’ reflections and feedback demonstrate that this project is very suitable in offeringgraduating seniors unique opportunities to improve their analytical abilities, develop design,organizational, and project management skills, gain experience in working in multi-disciplinaryteams, solve cutting-edge engineering problems, and familiarize themselves with aerospacechallenges. Numerous other skills acquired in this project, such as leadership, managerial andinterpersonal skills, competition, mitigation of team conflicts and communication problems, areexpected to have a positive impact and pave the way for a successful career as practicingengineers.IntroductionSeniors enter their last year having

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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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PRISM, 2004. 14(1).11. M Boylan, The Impact of Undergraduate Research Experiences on Student Intellectual Growth, Affective Development, and Interest in Doing Graduate Work in STEM: A Review of the Empirical Literature, in Cornell Higher Education Research Institute Conference, Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future. 2006: Ithaca, NY.12. Villarejo M Barlow A, Making a difference for minorities: Evaluation of an educational enrichment program. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004. 42(9): p. 861-881.13. B C Clewell, et al., Revitalizing the Nation's Talent Pool in STEM. 2006, Washington, DC: Urban Institute.14. G Price, The causal effects of participation in the American economic association summer

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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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Georgia Tech has developedinto one of the world’s largest university resources for multidisciplinary system design studies.Learners working here range from freshmen to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, researchengineers and faculty. They work on a large number of problems from various government andindustry sponsors, and have organized themselves into an environment where team members atall levels can be integrated into teams. A range of analytical tools and standard operatingprocedures have been developed, that are available for use in courses. Thus we now have thefollowing formal resources as a starting point for the project: Page

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roger Forsgren, NASA Headquarters; Lauren Miller, NASA Headquarters

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allow participants to apply newly learned techniques tospecific design problems and begin to “train their brain” to problem solve in a more innovativemanner.Upon completing this course, participants should be able to: ≠ Describe a short history of creative engineering solutions and effective methods for communicating new ideas; ≠ Explain the creative design process, then develop techniques for creative solutions and cost effectiveness; ≠ Identify appropriate tools for innovation, such as the Pugh or TRIZ methods, and apply them to existing NASA situations and challenges; and, ≠ Describe current industry best practices and relate them to real-world NASA program scenarios.The Innovative Design and Engineering

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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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the early school years and the paper suggests that Boeingand industry partners, because of their interest in the challenges of STEM education, could investmore of their resources to have a significant impact on STEM. Several recommendations aregiven to industry to position themselves for this challenge.IntroductionThe Boeing Company is a company dedicated to developing the best engineers in the world.Their commitment to the engineering education process is evident in the unique program calledThe Boeing Welliver Faculty Fellowship Program. This is a program that has been operated byBoeing every summer since 1995. The Welliver program is a unique program designed to: “… expose a small number of competitively selected professors from U.S

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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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have formeda collaboration to develop a new vision of engineering education called the CDIO Approach(www.cdio.org).3 CDIO is designed to deliver the knowledge and skills needed by industry. Itprovides an education stressing engineering fundamentals, set in the context of the Conceiving,Designing, Implementing, and Operating process. The goals of the CDIO approach are toeducate students who are able to: ≠ Master a deeper working knowledge of the technical fundamentals ≠ Lead in the creation and operation of new products, processes, and systems ≠ Understand the importance and strategic impact of research and technological development on societyThe CDIO approach identifies and implements 12 Standards of Effective Practice

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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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comments received by the students at their Undergraduate Research Opportunities posterpresentation are very revealing. The experienced viewers who came through commended the aptstrategy of using the ideal area distribution as a way to estimate minimum wave drag, and thenarguing that aircraft designers would come very close to this in the eventual design. They alsocommended the students for their success in “proving” that there is indeed a new market forsupersonic airliners, and strongly encouraged them to go forward, since they (the viewersincluding some former pilots of supersonic aircraft) were eager to see the age of supersonicairliners come alive. In sharp contrast, the “judges” who were mostly graduate students inengineering, proved to be

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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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arenecessary. In this manner, the process owner ensures that the process improvements remain inplace.PFMEA in Capstone ProjectsPFMEA is used in AT497 Applied Research Project as one standard method to assess risk ofalternate designs for processes. AT497 is a 3 semester credit hour course with 2 hours of lectureand 3 hours of lab each week, and is taught in the spring semester. In the previous fall semester,the students form teams and prepare project proposals in AT496 Applied Research Proposal, aone semester credit hour course. The project proposals follow an outline shown in Table 1. Executive summary Table of Contents (with a page-numbered outline) – I. Introduction – II