Conference Session

Aerospace Division (AERO) Technical Session 4 - Teaching Methodology

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Andrew Roney, University of Denver

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace Division (AERO)

created, RSECS was becoming a National Academy of EngineeringGrand Challenge Scholars Program (NAE GCSP) school and incorporated that theme into newcourse offerings. Simultaneously, the school was also becoming part of the Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN), and we incorporated many elements of KEEN into the sequenceof courses which stress the Entrepreneurial Mindset and the three C’s, Curiosity, Connections,and Creating Value. Through a series of student surveys during the inaugural years of thiscourse, it was clear that the methods and pedagogies used in this thematic course created anenvironment for non-major students to thrive and become curious about aerospace engineeringand space topics. This paper describes several of the