Conference Session

Capstone and International Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby G. Crawford, U.S. Military Academy; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Elizabeth Bristow P.E., U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

flight training course. Theywanted the students to understand the physical principles and design characteristics of the aircraft that theywill someday fly.The desire for an engineering course that contained both fixed wing and rotary wing content and thatwould be accessible to the non-engineering majors required a unique course design with a custom text.Preparations for developing the syllabus and writing the text (gathering references and resources) werecompleted prior to departure from the U.S. Actual work on the text could not be started until the teamarrived at NMAA and made an initial assessment of the knowledge and skills possessed by the prospectivestudents and obtained detailed input from one of the primary constituents of the course