Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Anthony Zusack, Purdue University: Engineering and Technology; Raveena Patil, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Sean Lachenman, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Chanel Antoinette Johnson, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Peter J. Schubert, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Nathan McDaniel

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

accompaniedby a detailed budget and launch plans to begin taking effect in 2025. Having no experienceworking with one another prior to this project, the group was required to quickly develop aproductive team ethos to address such a large challenge. The aim of this study is to assess theoutcomes and reactions during a project from a diverse group of students attempting to completean unusual capstone design. Accompanying this are pre-, intra-, and post-project surveys toassess effectiveness of the group on key project issues. The primary research questions to answerare: does the perception of the group regarding effectiveness positively correlate with thefeelings of ownership of the project and feelings that the individual students’ passions are

Conference Session

Space Side of Aerospace

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas W. Arrington, Texas A&M University; Nicolas Federico Hurst, Texas A&M 2015 Capstone Design Spacecraft; David B. Kanipe, Texas A&M University; Joanna M. Schiefelbein , Texas A&M University; David Charles Hyland, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

Paper ID #16714Concept of a Human-Attended Lunar OutpostMr. Thomas W. Arrington, Texas A&M University Thomas Arrington worked as the student Project Manager for the Human Attended Lunar Outpost senior design project for the the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station. He has interned with Boeing Research and Technology three times, and was an active member of the Texas A&M University Sounding Rocketry Team.Mr. Nicolas Federico Hurst, Texas A&M 2015 Capstone Design Spacecraft Nico Hurst is a student of Texas A&M University. He recently graduated from the Aerospace

Conference Session

UAV and other Team Projects in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter J. Schubert, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) to terrestrial receiving antennae. This system is called Space Solar Power (SSP).Complex systems require multi-disciplinary teams working cooperatively to integrate theirfindings into a comprehensive whole. Engineering capstone projects are a good model however,they tend to include students within a single department and may lack the academic diversityneeded in a holistic study. Ultra-ambitious efforts like SSP are likely to require internationalparticipation, so an objective of the SSP-WPT team was to include representatives from severalnations as well.Attracting students to a summer internship generally requires pay. To offer college creditsgenerally requires tuition. Asking students to work pro bono is asking a

Conference Session

UAV and other Team Projects in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Calvin Russell Walker, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

fabrication of the Berkut UAV for Geneva Aerospace, and engine fairings for the U.S. Army. He was the test conductor during the UltraLight Sensor Platform project, which was a research initiative to develop an ultralight sensor platform by creating an optionally-piloted aircraft system. As test conductor he wrote the flight test plans, flight test cards, and supervised the flight test team during test missions. He advises the Student UAS Team. He teaches the capstone aircraft design course, aircraft flight dynamics, and aircraft advanced performance. He has since left Raspet and transitioned to the aerospace engineering department. He is also developing the unmanned aircraft system engineering curriculum

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Scott Fleming, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amy Pritchett, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

avionics, are segmented into separate design tasks. Technical componentdesign teams must iteratively integrate critical information from adjacent technical systems into theirdecision-making process.31 Thus, communication of knowledge about the design of an aerospace vehicleneeds to occur through time as the design evolves.Aerospace engineering capstone design courses are typically one to two semester courses that askstudents to design an aerospace vehicle using a given set of requirements while interacting on a team.While there is some variability in the requirements of a design task, most capstone design projects coverthe conceptual design phase of the aerospace engineering design process.33 Fixed wing design courseprojects generally ask students

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

by the individual, nor is it imposed from the outside, ‘it is constituted as an internal relation between them. There is only one world, but it is a world we experience, a world in which we live, a world that is ours’. The seminal research that developed phenomenography as a research methodology, forexample, investigated students’ understanding of velocity in a physics class[9]. Velocity was theconcept or “the thing”, but the researchers were actually interested in how students understoodvelocity, which is “the thing as it appeared”. It was the students’ understanding that was thephenomenon of research interest. In aerospace engineering, Subject Matter Experts are important assets to projects, andSMEs have deep