Conference Session

Innovations in Curriculum, Projects, and Pedagogy in Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Denise Thorsen, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

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Aerospace

Projects as a Traditional Means to Teach Interdisciplinary Engineering.Aerospace engineering projects have long been used as a means of teaching interdisciplinary/systems engineering. Aerospace projects are, by their very nature, interdisciplinary, includingelements of astronautical and/or aeronautical engineering, mechanical engineering, electricalengineering, computer engineering, computer science, and often other disciplines (eg, physics,management). Universities with aerospace programs or offering elements of aerospace engineeringuse design projects in several capacities, including senior capstone undergraduate courses,graduate courses and individual projects, and student-led design teams. One well known exampleof this the American Institute

Conference Session

Innovations in Curriculum, Projects, and Pedagogy in Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth Gururajan, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.; Claire L. A. Dancz, Clemson University

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Aerospace

tests. It is important to note that our intent is not to redesign this course to replace capstone projects;those projects are much more comprehensive and involve other topics including, but not limitedto aircraft structures and propulsion. The current course framework is listed, along with proposedCDIO inspired changes, in Table 1, and the syllabus (current and proposed CDIO based revision)is in Appendices A and B respectively. Table 1: Current Course Framework and Proposed CDIO Based Additions Existing course outline and topics Current Proposed CDIO inspired additions assignments/projects (project based) 1. Derivation of the

Conference Session

Innovations in Curriculum, Projects, and Pedagogy in Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan; Jessica E S Swenson, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Aerospace

junior years is dominated by coretechnical subjects such mechanics of materials, aerodynamics, propulsion, and controls. Ideally,these engineering science courses give students the theoretical background that they can apply inengineering design courses, on student project teams, and as a practicing engineer. However, itcan be easy to teach engineering science courses with little connection to the practice ofengineering. One way to make the connection between engineering science content andengineering practice is to frame this technical content as mathematical models that describenatural phenomena under certain simplifying assumptions. With this framing, the purpose ofengineering science courses shifts from memorizing formulas and applying them

Conference Session

Hands-On Activities and Student Learning in Aerospace Engineering - I - Student Papers

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hannah Rose Stroud, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Darren John Hartl, Texas A&M University; Isaac Emmanuel Sabat, Texas A&M University; Kelly K. Dray, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Aerospace

, Texas A&M University Isaac Sabat’s program of research broadly focuses on understanding and improving the working lives of stigmatized employees. He is particularly interested in examining strategies in which these employees can engage, such as disclosing or acknowledging their identities, to effectively remediate the workplace obstacles that they face. He has conducted various interrelated projects that examine how the effectiveness of expressing one’s identity is impacted by the extent to which stigmas are previously known, visible, or discovered by others over time. This is a novel area, given that disclosures have previously been conceptualized as a dichotomous, all-or-nothing phenomenon. This work has been

Conference Session

Hands-on Activities and Student Learning in Aerospace Engineering - II - Student Papers

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Dawson Lewandoski

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Diversity

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Aerospace

results in recent DBF efforts,and the positive organizational impacts resulting from participation. It also highlights lessonslearned and future efforts to be tackled, including insights from the perspective of students leadingthe team.Motivation.The desire for educational programs within the field of aerospace engineering continues to bepopular, both due to the increasing availability of technology and stable job opportunities withinthe aerospace engineering career field. According to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of LaborStatistics (April 2018), “Employment of aerospace engineers is projected to grow 6 percent from2016 to 2026, about as fast as the average for all occupations.” Rationale for this growth isattributed to several factors

Conference Session

Hands-on Activities and Student Learning in Aerospace Engineering - II - Student Papers

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tracy L. Yother, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Cooper G. Burleson, Purdue University; James M. Thom, Purdue University; Brian Kozak, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Aerospace

traditional engineering courses as part of their planof study, including thermodynamics and fluid mechanics [25]. Purdue University offered itsgraduates the opportunity to take the FAA Airframe and Powerplant Certification exam at theend of its four-year degree plan. Purdue was one of two schools to be both Part 147 certified aswell as ABET-ETAC accredited, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and technology is the other,and as such, offered its graduates courses covering advanced composite structure assembly andrepair as well as requiring a two-semester capstone project as part of its graduation criteria [25],[26].The final and most known group were the classical aeronautical engineers. The category wasincluded here for completeness of discussion, despite

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University; Chadia A. Aji, Tuskegee University

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Diversity

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Aerospace

location on the ambiguity spectrum.The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a three-year project to study this importantintellectual development of students in a typical STEM curriculum. Cross-sectional andlongitudinal studies of STEM students as well as non-STEM students at a Historically BlackCollege are being conducted to measure the influence of the current curriculum in context of theconstructs of tolerance of ambiguity, intellectual mental models, and STEM identity.This work-in-progress paper shares some preliminary results of the baseline data that has beencollected during the first year of the NSF-funded project.MethodThe participants of this within-subject and between-group quasi-experimental study are studentsof a Historically