Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D. Blake Stringer, Kent State University; Dakota William Bunner; Robert William Winkler

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

Stealth Bomber. This was a major shift from the 5-year average of high-profile programs such as the Saturn V rocket, the intercontinental ballisticmissile, and the Manhattan Project (atom bomb). Furthermore, several recent high-profiledevelopment programs have been cancelled at extremely high cost, such as the Comanchehelicopter ($5.9B), VH-71 Presidential helicopter ($3.3B), and the U.S. Army’s Future CombatSystems ($20B). An understanding of risk and decision-making should play a significant roleduring capstone design so that students develop a solid understanding of their consequences.Risk can be expressed as a function of uncertainty and knowledge and how they interact. Asseen qualitatively in Figure 1, knowledge and risk have an inverse

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Rais-Rohani P.E., University of Maine; David S. Rubenstein, University of Maine; Wilhelm A. Friess, University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

, aircraft design, and aerospacestructures. The expansion of aerospace engineering education activities included thedevelopment of multiple undergraduate- and graduate-level courses, promotion of aerospacerelated capstone projects, establishment of student chapters of Students for the Exploration andDevelopment of Space (SEDS) and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),and creation of an AIAA design-build-fly competition team.This initiative has so far resulted in the establishment of an undergraduate-level AerospaceEngineering Concentration and the Aerospace Graduate Certificate Program. Efforts to expandthe initiative are ongoing, particularly at the graduate level. Aerospace related research activitiesin the college of

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

Exposition, Montreal, Canada, Junew16-19, 2002.[7] K. Ali AlBahi, “Development of a Design Phase Checklist for Outcome Based Active/Cooperative Learning Courses,” 2006-1883, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Chicago, IL, June 18-21, 2006.[8] D. McStravick, and M. O’Malley, “Improving Interdisciplinary Capstone Design Projects with Cooperative Learning in the Medi-Fridge Project,” AC2007 – 1674, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Honolulu, HI, June 24-27, 2007.[9] P. Golter, B. Van Wie, G. Brown, D. Thiessen, and B. Abdul, Shifting Gears: Moving Away from the Controlled Experimental Model While Improving Rigor in Engineering Education research,” AC2010-2415, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Louisville, KY, June 20

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn S. Keshmiri, University of Kansas; Aaron Blevins, University of Kansas; A Ram Kim, University of Kansas

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

were selected to be submitted to the American Institute of Aeronautics andAstronautics conferences. Six papers were accepted for the Professional Sections and three moreare currently under internal review for future submission. In addition to the publication records,student evaluations, KUAE Industrial Advisory Board exit poll reports, and post-graduation surveyresults consistently show the effectiveness of project oriented collaborative learning. 1. IntroductionSome undergraduate STEM education disciplines provide hands-on design, manufacturing, andstructures laboratories. These courses mainly cover undergraduate capstone courses with designand build components that support the design portion of the

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Yue Gu, Purdue University; Lorraine E. Holtaway, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

issues, these specifications are conducive for use in design or capstone coursesbecause they mimic the real world of preparing proposals. In the guidelines, the teams areencouraged to document their interactions with aviation experts from professional organizationsand the evaluation criteria have scores for those interactions.In the 2017 winning packages available online, two teams did their projects as part of anundergraduate capstone design experience and two teams did their projects as one part of agraduate aviation sustainability course [13]. In the Resources tab at the ACRP website [13],there are video tutorials, links to documents and reports, list of expert advisors for the teams tocontact, tips from past winners and evaluators, and a