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Aerospace Division Technical Session
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Shawn S. Keshmiri, University of Kansas; Aaron Blevins, University of Kansas; A Ram Kim, University of Kansas
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Aerospace
-practice model was developed when a team research component was included into theundergraduate aerospace engineering courses of Flight Dynamics and Control I and II. By takingadvantage of the unmanned aerial system fleet owned by the Department of AerospaceEngineering at the University of Kansas (KUAE), students were tasked with developing a physics-based model for one of eighteen different unmanned aircraft platforms, comparing the dynamicmodels to actual flight test data for the platform, and writing papers and presenting them to a panelof KUAE Faculty. As a result, forty-eight independent research projects were conceived, designed,built, and tested by teams of juniors in the aerospace engineering department. Since 2011, eightresearch projects
Conference Session
Aerospace Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University
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Aerospace
, aLightweight Fighter Design Project, a Glider Design Project, homework, two exams and acomprehensive final exam. The desire was to update the course with new approaches to teachingintroductory aeronautics. The framework for change came as a result of a Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN) Innovating Curriculum with Entrepreneurial (ICE) MindsetWorkshop. Since 2007 Baylor University has been involved with the KEEN. KEEN is “a nationalpartnership of universities with the shared mission to graduate engineers with an entrepreneurialmindset so they can create personal, economic, and societal value through a lifetime ofmeaningful work” [1]. This is accomplished by incorporating entrepreneurially minded learning(EML) into the classroom
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
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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
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Dominic M. Halsmer P.E., Oral Roberts University; John A. Voth, Oral Roberts University; Connor A. McCain, Oral Roberts University; Jordan David Reutter, Oral Roberts University; Nathaniel Shay Frailey; Matthew Samuelson; David Ahrens, Oral Roberts University
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student at Oral Roberts University.Mr. Jordan David Reutter, Oral Roberts University Jordan is Mechanical Engineering Student at Oral Roberts University Graduating in May 2018. He’s been involved with many projects such as The Hyperloop Competition and is currently interning with The Boeing Company. He was primarily involved with the design and manufacturing of Team Soar’s flight simulator serving as a design engineer.Nathaniel Shay FraileyMatthew SamuelsonMr. David Ahrens, Oral Roberts University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Development of a Virtual Reality Flight Simulator to Assist in the Design of Original Aircraft (Work in Progress)ABSTRACTThe
Conference Session
Aerospace Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sidaard Gunasekaran, University of Dayton
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Aerospace
was heavily incorporated in each aspect of the class which made amonumental difference in the students’ understanding of the subject. The scaffolding of the classstructure and the open-ended homework assignments helped students to acquire multiple technicalskillsets in experimental and computational aerodynamics. Some of the skillsets include designingairfoil using Joukowski transformation, performing inviscid flow simulation using panel methods onthe airfoil, 3D printing the airfoil and testing it in the wind tunnel, numerically determining vorticityand circulation of wingtip vortex, leading edge vortex, etc. Through the passion project componentof the class, students were able to perform experiments on plethora of applications of
Conference Session
Aerospace Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kuldeep S Rawat, Elizabeth City State University; Ellis Eugene Lawrence, Elizabeth City State University; Robin Renee Mangham, Elizabeth City State University; Orestes Devino Gooden, Elizabeth City State University
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Diversity
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Aerospace
pursuing postsecondaryeducation, and prepare for high-demand careers [11]. Several factors are associated withstudents’ continued participation in STEM disciplines, and ultimately, their pursuit of STEMcareers. An important factor is student interest in STEM. Research indicates that hands-on,inquiry-based activities delivered in informal environments are key factors in helping to developcritical thinking skills and play a significant role in increasing students’ interest and engagementin STEM and the likelihood that they will consider science-related occupations [12].The engineering-focused STEM Academy project is a partnership between an institution ofhigher learning, school districts, state agencies, private foundations, and other STEM
Conference Session
Aerospace Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Marty Mathews Jr., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Antonette T. Cummings P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville
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Aerospace
engineering student’s education in managing uncertainty in designdecisions. Our proposition is that while engineering education has advocated designmethodologies that indirectly address uncertainty and teamwork, such as the human-centereddesign approach [12, 13] and project-based service learning [14, 15], we may find a more directapproach to design, uncertainty, and teamwork outside of the engineering discipline.Research Methodology and Description of DataWe employ constructivism as the theoretical framework to explore our research question.Typically in constructivism, we consider the foundational questions “How have the people in thissetting constructed reality? What are their reported perception, ‘truths’, explanations, beliefs, andworld-view
Conference Session
Aerospace Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Tian Tian, University of Central Florida; Ronald F. DeMara P.E., University of Central Florida
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Diversity
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Aerospace
Paper ID #21117High-Fidelity Digitized Assessment of Heat Transfer Fundamentals using aTiered Delivery StrategyDr. Tian Tian, University of Central Florida Tian Tian is an Associate Lecturer of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida, which she joined in 2013. She has been frequently teaching undergraduate lecture and laboratory components of Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics. Her educational research interests focus on project-based learning, online learning, and the digitization of STEM assessments. She received the Teaching Incentive Award, Excellence in Undergraduate
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
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Aerospace
operational concerns in their sustainability planning.In the United States of America (US), the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP), aprogram of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Sciences,Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), sponsors an airport design competition for university-level students each year funded by the Federal Aviation Administration. Students at U.S.colleges and universities compete by submitting design proposals to solve challenges facingairports, either as part of a course or as an independent project with faculty sponsors. In thispaper, the first place design packages from 2007 to 2017 are examined for the inclusion ofsustainability, and the departments of the faculty advisors. The data show
Conference Session
Aerospace Division Technical Session
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Chadia A. Aji, Tuskegee University; M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University
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Diversity
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Aerospace
throughthe Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers program (Grant # 1614249).The objective of the research was to measure the impact of the learning environment that was partof a week-long intervention on the attitudes of camp participants towards STEM and theirimprovements in content knowledge.MethodParticipantsThe project used flight simulation software to provide PD to the middle and high school math andscience teachers (N = 15, Males = 3, Females = 12)and hands-on active learning opportunities toFigure 1a: Large Screen Flight Simulator Setup Figure 1b: Landing Approach7-8 grades students (N = 26) from two rural counties of Alabama. Attitudinal survey data ispresented for the 15 teachers who attended the week-long
Conference Session
Aerospace Division Technical Session
Collection
2018 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
the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).KeywordsSTEM, computational thinking, drones, programming, middle schoolIntroductionActive learning has a positive impact on students’ cognitive engagement and thus on learning1-3.Active learning can be in many forms such project-based learning, collaborative learning, andcooperative learning. However, an important element to consider is that the active-learningstrategy must support cognitive engagement to foster deeper learning. Authentic learningenvironments have been shown to particularly effective for cognitive engagement of learners. Thetwo important attributes of an authentic learning environment are real world relevance andcompeting solutions to the problems being solved4. More recently, the
Conference Session
Aerospace Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sharanabasaweshwara Asundi, Tuskegee University
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Diversity
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Aerospace
introduce PNMSat/CubeSat [13], [14], [15]mission design in a systems engineering framework and foster leadership development amongparticipants. The objectives of the course catered towards – (i) Introducing Systems Engineeringfor PNMSats, (ii) Engage students in the design of a PNMSat with a novel payload and (iii)Foster leadership and team development through learning stages. The course agenda consisted of3 phases and the following outcomes were sought for assessing the success of the course.1. Demonstrate a basic understanding of PNMSats and their purpose.2. Demonstrate an understanding of systems engineering and its need for the design and development of PNMSats.3. Envision a project life cycle of a PNMSat mission and plan to be successful.4
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
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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 1
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Adeel Khalid, Kennesaw State University; Christopher Douglas Roper; J. Andrew Pirrello Jr., Kennesaw State University ; Alain J. Santos
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Diversity
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Aerospace
graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree and Aerospace Engineer- ing and Mathematics minors from Kennesaw State University in December of 2017. As a student at Kennesaw State, Andrew volunteered as a member of the Kennesaw State Aerial Robotics Competition Team where he founded the SAE AeroDesign Team and served as SAE Team Captain, and Team Pilot. Under Andrew’s leadership, the SAE AeroDesign Team designed, built, tested, and flew several large- scale radio-controlled airplanes capable of carrying a substantial payload. Additionally, Andrew served as Structures Designer and Pilot for the Sting One Owl Mascot Project where he designed, built, and flew a five-foot by five-foot hexa-copter drone designed to emulate