Conference Session

Aerospace Hot Topic: Unmanned Aerial Systems

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Catherine F. Cahill, Alaska Center for UAS Integration, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; John Monahan, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Upward Bound

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Aerospace

, ground station, andsupporting infrastructure; 2) comprehend the complex interaction and interdependencies of UASsubsystems; 3) understand mission operational planning considerations such as flight planningand data requirements planning; and 4) demonstrate the ability to clearly and conciselycommunicate a UAS mission analysis in both written and oral form. In addition, due to studentfeedback from its inaugural offering, this second offering of the course included the design,construction, and flight of an actual UAS in support of a selected remote sensing mission.While this 1-semester course was originally intended as a graduate class, its overwhelmingpopularity has resulted in it also being offered to seniors at UAF and now via video link to

Conference Session

Aerospace Hot Topic: Unmanned Aerial Systems

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth Gururajan, Saint Louis University

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Aerospace

over a longer period of time and plan to incorporate the findings insubsequent papers and presentations.In recent years, the use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) has seen an explosive growth andhas shown promise for even more, thanks to the drop in cost of the airframe and associatedavionics. Furthermore, the release of Part 107 UAS rules in 2016 and the easing of restrictions oncommercial UAS operations by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have resulted in anew landscape for novel and yet to be conceived UAS applications and operations in theNational Airspace System (NAS) and it will only grow more diverse in the future.As it stands today, while major aerospace corporations are still a significant part of this UASlandscape, small

Conference Session

Aerospace Hot Topic: Unmanned Aerial Systems

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Subodh Bhandari, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Diversity

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Aerospace

theUAS research projects. At least four students are pursuing or are planning to pursue their studiesfor PhD degrees in the area of unmanned aerial systems and related areas. About 60% of thestudents who have already graduated are pursuing or planning to pursue their studies for aMaster’s degree.B. Presentation at Student and Professional ConferencesThe students involved in the summer research program are highly encouraged to present theirwork at student and professional conferences. The community college students are required topresent their research at the end of summer research program during the Research Symposiumorganized at Cal Poly Pomona.The students have been presenting at the annual Southern California Conference forUndergraduate

Conference Session

Innovations in Aero Curriculum and Program Level Administration

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wallace T. Fowler P.E., University of Texas, Austin

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Aerospace

ABET briefings not to rely solely on surveys, exit interview data, tracking ofgraduates, etc. Many of our students go on to graduate schools, go to work for aerospacecompanies and rise to positions of great responsibility, work for government labs, industry, etc.,become MDs, lawyers, work in non-aerospace high tech companies, etc. None of this couldhappen without life-long learning. Professional success in today’s world provides strongevidence of the attainment of this SO, but there is nothing in current student work that provides agood way to measure this. Even a writing assignment that asks students to predict their futureeducational plans is merely another type of “survey”. We found no way to realistically measurethis student outcome

Conference Session

Aerospace Hot Topic: Unmanned Aerial Systems

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Hudson, Western Michigan University; Kristina Lemmer, Western Michigan University

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Aerospace

founded. We focus specifically on team management and student learning, which arekey areas that may be overlooked by new small satellite team leaders, who are often focused onresearch plans and funding acquisition. We have found that the team’s technical success dependsgreatly on personnel management. In the university environment, where student researchers aretypically volunteers and annual turnover is high, a careful strategy for recruiting, training,supervising, and retaining team members is critical to successfully building a small satellite.WALI’s programmatic challenges fall into three categories: (1) recruiting and retaining qualifiedstudent members, (2) training students in key technical skills, and (3) directing and supervisingstudent

Conference Session

Efficient Authenticity: Modeling, Labs, Real-World Applications in Aerospace

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Melnyk, U.S. Military Academy

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Aerospace

The laboratory exercise is executed over a period of two days with up to three backupdates planned for weather problems. The pilots and aircraft belong to a detachment that providesadministrative and VIP support to the Academy. Prior to the actual conduct of the lab exercisethe instructor for the course meets with the lab pilots to review administrative and logisticalrequirements and review the lab procedures. The Instructor is also a qualified helicopter pilotbut does not operate the aircraft during the course of the lab exercise in order to provide betteroversight of the students as they gather data and participate in the lab experience. The aircraft used for the labs is a UH-72A Lakota, which is a military version of theAirbus EC

Conference Session

Efficient Authenticity: Modeling, Labs, Real-World Applications in Aerospace

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhammad Omar Memon, University of Dayton; Dathan Erdahl Ph.D., University of Dayton Research Institute; Saad Riffat Qureshi, University of Dayton

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Diversity

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Aerospace

were also working to complete their capstone designprojects, and many of them were traveling for interviews. However, the advantage of catchingthem at this position in the departmental study plan is that the students were also more aware ofthe potential benefit of the course on their career, and the concept of adding this course project totheir resume was very attractive. In spite of catching the students at the end of their collegeexperience, the classroom demographics were favorable. When making decisions on the applicability of any set of techniques or approaches toteaching a course, several factors must be balanced. The position of the course within thedepartmental curriculum could affect the course load and the ability of the

Conference Session

Efficient Authenticity: Modeling, Labs, Real-World Applications in Aerospace

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary E. Johnson, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Xun Zhao, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Aerospace

as combine two or more datasets, add or remove variable(s), transformnumerical data to categorical (or vice versa), create new variable and assign value, andconditionally-screen output data. An in-class test will be graded.Research Project and PresentationThe group project will be assigned to students during the fourth module of the curriculum. Eachproject team includes three students, and they will be either assigned a topic or propose theirinterested analytical research project. The objective of the project is to develop and answer anaviation-related question by using aviation databases and statistical software package(s). Theteam will develop a research question, a methodology, data collection plan, and analysis plan.Ideally, the project