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Aerospace Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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M. Christopher Cotting, United States Air Force Test Pilot School

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flying and laboratory events. Ideally practical events such as flying or laboratories occurclose to when an academic topic is introduced. Aircraft availability can often drive schedules tocompress or expand, causing a less than ideal connection between teaching in the classroom andin flight. Usually students are flying an event that they learned in the classroom a few weeks prior.This means that students are learning new material in the classroom while trying to focus on anupcoming flight that covers material from two weeks ago.While care is taken to keep practical and academic events linked as closely as possible, delays arecommon. Some of this delay is due to aircraft maintenance issues, or instructor availability. Forexample, each student

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Aerospace Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hüseyin Sarper, Old Dominion University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University

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Paper ID #13360Use of Single Stage Model Rockets to Teach Some Engineering Principles andPractices to First Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Students ¨Dr. Huseyin Sarper, Old Dominion University H¨useyin Sarper, Ph.D., P.E. is a lecturer in Engineering Fundamentals Division at the Old Dominion Uni- versity in Norfolk, Virginia. He was a professor of engineering and director of the graduate programs at Colorado State University – Pueblo in Pueblo, CO until 2013. He was also an associate director of Colorado’s NASA Space Grant Consortium between 2007 and 2013. His degrees, all in industrial en- gineering, are

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Aerospace Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mark D. Maughmer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Benjamin T. Pipenberg, The Pennsylvania State University; Nicholas Jared Grasser, The Pennsylvania State University; Stephen Van Wert, The Pennsylvania State University

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Paper ID #12399The Role of Radio-Controlled Model Airplanes in the Education of AerospaceEngineersDr. Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Kathy Jackson is a Senior Research Associate at Pennsylvania State University’s Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence. In this position, she promotes Penn State’s commitment to enriching teaching and learning. Dr. Jackson works in all aspects of education including faculty development, instructional design, engineering education, learner support, and evaluation.Dr. Mark D. Maughmer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Maughmer

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Aerospace Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven H. Collicott, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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. 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

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Aerospace Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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review for difficult concepts; he highlighted cognitiveload theory and related it to problem-based learning [9]. In this work, he highlights thatmeasurement variation, which uses probability and statistics, is the difficult concept targeted in Page 26.840.9his research. He argued the effectiveness of scaffolding with worksheets in a laboratory settingover lectures and textbooks in problem-based learning in order to teach difficult engineeringconcepts.Other researchers, in proving the usefulness of simulations for teaching, highlighted typicalproblems that students encounter. In broad categories, students have difficulty with generatinghypotheses

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Aerospace Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Masoud Rais-Rohani, Mississippi State University

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extends the prior workon the subject15. In particular, it relies on the experience of the author in teaching the senior-levelAerospace Structural Design course in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at MississippiState University for nearly two decades.The field of aerospace structures, as a subset of the broader area of structural mechanics, dealswith topics—such as deformation, stress, instability, and failure—that are influenced by thephysical and engineering properties of materials as well as the geometric attributes and boundaryconditions of the structural system. The thin-walled nature of flight structures is a noteworthyfeature that, combined with low-density materials, is critical in reducing the weight of aircraftand spacecraft. For

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Aerospace Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hank D Voss, Taylor University; Jeff F Dailey; William A Bauson, Taylor University; Bill Chapman, Taylor University

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Paper ID #13398Nano-satellites and HARP for Student Learning and ResearchDr. Hank D Voss, Taylor University Dr. Hank D. Voss, Taylor University Dr. Hank D. Voss received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois in 1977. He then worked for Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratories prior to coming to Taylor University in 1994. He is currently a Professor of Engineering and Physics at Taylor University. Some of the courses that he regularly has taught include Principles of Engineering, Intro to Electronics, Statics, Advanced Electronics, Jr. Engineering Projects, FE Review, Control Systems

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Aerospace Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Keith W Cunningham; Samuel Vanderwaal; Eyal Saiet, University of Alaska Fairbanks

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Professor, Electrical/Computer Engineering, UAF Earth & Planetary Remote Sensing, UAF Geophys- ical Institute Associate Director for Science & Education, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration 2009-2012: Director, Air Force Research Laboratory Air Vehicles Directorate 2006-2009: Deputy Director, Air Force Office of Scientific Research 1999-2003: Deputy Head, USAF Academy De- partment of Astronautics 1992-1996: Assistant Professor, USAFA Department of Astronautics 3. PUB- LICATIONS 1. Cunningham, K., M. C. Hatfield, and R. Philemonoff, Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Alaskan Civil Research, 2014 Arctic Technology Conference, 2014 2. Hatfield, M. C., and J. G. Hawkins, Design of an Electronically