aerospace structural design course. Page 26.1234.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Practical Engineering Experience in Aircraft Structural DesignAbstractEngineering analysis and design topics in a senior-level aerospace structural design course aresupplemented with simple in-class demonstrations, hands-on experience in sheet-metalfabrication, and a comprehensive engineering project involving design, analysis, optimization,manufacturing, and testing of stiffened panels. Besides providing students with opportunities togain a deeper understanding of the concepts discussed
problems is her main area of interest. She graduated from MIT in 2011 and has been first employee of an ed-tech startup. Her other interests include bouldering and gymnastics. Page 26.1130.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Mapping Outcomes in an Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering ProgramOverviewStudent learning outcomes have long been established as an important component in the processof developing subject content, communicating expectations to students, and designing effectiveassessments.2 This project focused on mapping the
discusses a major group project using model rockets in atwo-hour per week laboratory that is a part of a two-credit course in exploration of engineeringand technology at the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.Introduction:A model rocket is a combined miniature version of real launch and space vehicles. Once amodel rocket leaves the launcher, it is a free body in air. Model rockets have been used asprojects before. Boyer et al. [1] report a similar project for sophomore aerospace engineeringstudents. Figure 1 shows a cross section of a ready to launch model rocket with a B6-4 solidengine. Page 26.1643.2Figure 1. Single stage model rocket with
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
-Steerable Phased Array for Wireless Power Transmission Using a Magnetron Directional Amplifier, 1999 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, 1999. 3. Hat- field, M. C., Characterization and Optimization of the Magnetron Directional Amplifier, Doctoral Thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1999 4. Hatfield, M. C., W. C. Brown, and J. G. Hawkins, Design of an Electronically-Steerable Phased Array for Wireless Power Transmission Using a Magnetron Directional Amplifier, IEEE Proceedings on MTTTS, 1998 5. Hawkins, J. G., S. Houston, M. C. Hatfield, and W. C. Brown, The SABER Microwave-Powered Helicopter Project and Related WPT Research at the Uni- versity of Alaska Fairbanks, Space Technology and Applications
. Degree in Electrical Engineering on 2011 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Since 2012 he is working in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore. His main research interests include image processing, autonomous system, optical SoC/NoC architecture, and on-chip optoelectronic device design.Mr. Abbas H Diab, Research Assistant UMES Abbas Diab is currently an undergraduate at University of Maryland Eastern Shore pursuing a degree in Engineering with a mechanical engineering specialization. During his senior undergraduate year, Mr. Diab along with a group of undergraduates, worked on several academic and research projects. He de- signed and built several ground, air
Paper ID #14185An Integrated Curriculum Design for Teaching Flying Qualities Flight Test-ingDr. M. Christopher Cotting, United States Air Force Test Pilot School Dr. Chris Cotting is the Master Instructor of Flying Qualities at the United States Air Force Test Pilot School. During his professional career he has also worked for the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and the Lockheed Martin Skunkworks. He has worked on numerous experimental aircraft projects in- cluding the X-43A and X-43C, X-35, and X-33. He has a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from Mississippi State University, and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from
exciting project he could possibly imagine: the Space Shuttle. Over his career, David held successively influential management positions including Deputy Branch Chief of the Aerodynamics Branch in the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division, Chief of the GN&C Analysis and Design Branch, Deputy Chief of the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division, and for the final 10 years of his career, Chief of the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division in the Engineering Directorate at the Johnson Space Center. Dave retired from NASA at the end of 2010 after more than 38 years of service in the US Space Program. His career spanned numerous projects and programs, including both crewed and robotic spacecraft. After retiring
and enriching experiences, aerospaceengineering students at Penn State University have been provided the opportunity to fly radio-controlled airplanes in a special projects class. This class is unique in that students are generallyenrolled in it from their first-year through graduation and normally take it every semester duringtheir undergraduate programs. This paper describes the benefit of flying radio-controlled aircrafton improving the understanding of certain aerospace engineering concepts. In order to get abetter insight into the impact of this activity, students responded to a survey to gauge how theyperceived the use of the airplanes and to see how their thinking about aerodynamics changed.With an emphasis on hands-on and applied
, one consisting of Purdue undergraduate students in Aeronautics and Astronautics at the vertical launch facility of New Mexico Spaceport America. The blue hats celebrate this launch as the first FAA licensed commercial sub-orbital rocket launch from New Mexico Spaceport America, October 6, 2012.are driven by the professor’s research interests. Thus, the author and the author’s institutionhave created a long-running undergraduate project (design-build-test, hands-on, experiential,etc.) class to maximize the benefits that our students can obtain from participating in real-worldoff-campus aerospace projects and competitions. The latest addition to the opportunities in thisclass is student-built experiments for commercial sub-orbital rocket
Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology.6. NTSB. (2013). Boeing 787 Battery Investigative Hearing. Washington DC. Retrieved from http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/2013/B787_hearing/agenda.html7. Gertler, J. (2014). F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ) Program (Tech. Rep.). Washington DC: RAND Project Air Force.8. ABET. (2013). 2014-2015 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. Baltimore, MD. Retrieved from http://www.abet.org/9. Woods, D. R., Felder, R. M., Rugarcia, A., & Stice, J. E. (2000). The Future of Engineering Education III. Developing Critical Skills. Chem. Eng. Ed., 34(2), 108–117.10. Paretti, M. C. (2008). Teaching Communication in Capstone Design : The Role of the Instructor in Situated Learning. Journal
aerodynamics as an applied example.Figure 1. Strategy and toolkit for Backwards Design of courses.The course content emphasizes understanding of pilot controls of the hardware of a rotor,mathematical modeling of theoretical performance models, and design of a rotor to meet adefined mission. The assessment strategies are based on the types of learning in this course,where project-based learning and design thinking employ higher levels of thinking and thereforeneed the matched assessment strategy of a rubric. Pedagogy is primarily based on Perkins’Making Learning Whole, where certain elements for the student are emphasized: distributed,deliberate practice; intrinsic motivation and choice; working on the hard parts with feedback andassessment
Attitudessurvey.Research ProblemThis paper examines the following research questions: 1. What are the professional persistence characteristics of present day aerospace engineering students? 2. How does the aerospace engineering education experience influence student perception of aerospace engineering?MethodsData Set The dataset used for this investigation contained the results of the 2009 administration ofthe web-based Survey of Aerospace Student Attitudes9, a cross-institution study administered bythe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to the population of aerospace engineeringstudents in aerospace, aeronautical, or astronautical engineering programs across the UnitedStates. Principle investigator for the project