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Special Session: Next Generation Problem-Solving

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Tamara Moore, University of Minnesota; John Christ; Eric Hamilton, Pepperdine University; Barbara Olds, Colorado School of Mines; Heidi Diefes-Dux

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-1756: SPECIAL SESSION: NEXT GENERATION PROBLEM-SOLVING:RESULTS TO DATE - MODELS AND MODELING USING MEASLarry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh Larry J. Shuman is Senior Associate Dean for Academics and Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on improving the engineering educational experience with an emphasis on assessment of design and problem solving, and the study of the ethical behavior of engineers and engineering managers. A former senior editor of the Journal of Engineering Education, Dr. Shuman is the founding editor of Advances in Engineering Education. He has published widely in the engineering education literature, and is co-author

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Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

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Educational Research and Methods

transcribed by the student later). Typical journal entries take thirty minuteseach. Content analysis for journal entries and reports is facilitated through the use of softwaretools, from simple (Text Tag Cloud Generator, Wordle) to sophisticated (Metafy). Table 1. Frequency of in-country journaling by student participants in international service programs within Michigan Tech’s D80 Center In-country duration Reporting frequency 2 weeks daily 2 months weekly 2 years quarterlyWhile the journals can provide

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Innovative Pedagogies for Teaching Introductory Materials

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Michael Prince, Bucknell University; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University

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Materials

skillsfor becoming autonomous, life long learners. The emphasis here is shifting the pedagogicalparadigm from recall based teaching and learning to teaching and learning for development of aconceptual framework through reshaping classroom environment. The general research questionaddressed here is, "What types of pedagogy can more effectively graduate engineers who cansucceed and lead in the modern day engineering environment?" The panel will introduce fiveresearch based innovate pedagogies. The breakout session will have group tables which willmodel various approaches and the reflect upon them to discover what barriers and opportunitiesare present for each of the various approaches.Inductive Teaching MethodsEngineering and science are

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Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Lynne Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University; Nina Truch, California Polytechnic State University

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Educational Research and Methods

communication skills within thecontext of their first-year engineering projects.The general goals for the course sequence are to 1) provide students with the skills, relationships,and motivation to succeed within the department, and 2) increase student satisfaction andretention. These goals are further expanded into the course objectives listed on the syllabus asfollows: Page 15.1079.3 1. Provide students with confidence in applying a working design process; 2. Provide students with confidence in the use of design tools including needs assessment, computer modeling, and fabrication tools; 3. Provide students with confidence in

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Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Eric Pappas, James Madison University

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Educational Research and Methods

the project. Morespecifically, by the end of the semester students were expected to: 1) Identify, describe and discuss the needs of the customer which are to inform the conceptual designs 2) Understand, research, and establish design specifications to meet the needs of the customer 3) Generate multiple conceptual designs using sketching, CAD, and Solidworks skills 4) Explore and evaluate the multiple conceptual designs using a number of methods (performance testing, decision-making strategies, sustainability principles) 5) Work effectively in a team setting 6) Develop a framework in selecting the conceptual design that is to be presented to the customer 7) Address and analyze the conceptual designs for basic

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Timothy Anderson, University of Florida; Sheryl Awtonomow, Brevard Community College; Yogi Goswami, University of South Florida

several patent in the field. Page 15.682.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Implementing Engineering and Technical Education to Support Florida’s 21st Century Energy SectorAbstract As the intensity of attention on optimizing energy generation and use as well as bringingrenewable energy technologies into all aspects of mainstream life increases, the need forengineering and implementing technical professionals to support the 21st Century energy age isalso apparent. In 2008, Florida’s legislature directed the Florida Energy Systems Consortium(FESC), and the State’s University and State College systems

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Research in Graphics Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aaron Clark, North Carolina State University; Jeremy Ernst, North Carolina State University; Brian Downs, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

(s) as possible. Some of the questions addressed in this study included:What role might distance education play in the future of technical/engineering graphicseducation? Will professional development soon be required to ensure instructors obtain trainingrelated to changes in the field of technical/engineering graphics education? The five maincategories researched in this study were: course offerings, student populations, professionaldevelopment, technical/engineering graphics education, and future research plans5. Somecategories looked at the present status of technical/engineering graphics education, to see whatparts of the previous generation of topics were still taught and to what magnitude. Some surveyquestions offered graphic

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Capstone Design Projects

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Stephen Bitar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Robert Labonté, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

course had three main components: a one hourlecture held four times per week, a supervised three hour laboratory session held once per week,and unsupervised open laboratory access. Unlike a typical Electrical Engineering course, thelectures originally contained rather little technical content, instead focusing on explaining theprocess of engineering design. The supervised laboratory was a hybrid of technical and non-technical issues, while the unsupervised laboratory is primarily technical and consisted largely ofstudents working on their projects. It was simply expected that students would rely on thebackground they received in their earlier core courses to develop the circuits needed to completetheir project. The centerpiece of this

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Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Ross, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Liberal Education

*TC Comp/FIG: writing; project management; research; oral presentations*Figure 2. The FIG (Freshman Interest Group) Technical Communication course contributes to all thebenefits listed for general program enrichment previously enumerated in Figure 1. (Dorm life, however, isessentially an out-of-class factor!)Community: A large element of first year program work has been to help establish both thesocial and the professional sense of community. For this course, the “technical theme” has beenused to build a community within the larger community of students who are starting to think likeengineers as

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Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shaobo Huang, Utah State University; Ning Fang, Utah State University

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Mechanics

, and vibrations of a particle and of a rigid body 1-3.Prediction of student academic performance has long been regarded as an important researchtopic in many academic disciplines because it benefits both teaching and learning 4, 5. Instructorscan use the predicted results to identify the number of students who will perform well, averagely,or poorly in a class, so instructors can be proactive. For instance, if the predicted results showthat some students in the class would be “academically at risk,” instructors may consider takingcertain proactive measures to help those students achieve better in the course. Representativeexamples of proactive measures include adding recitation sessions, adding more office hours,using computer simulations and

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Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce Harding, Purdue University; Paul McPherson, Purdue University

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New Engineering Educators

Page 15.1364.3government funding commitments enjoyed by other countries are examples. Currently within the United States, there are very few avenues to standardization education.These include either on-job training sessions, typically to specific standards, general courses heldby major standards development organizations (SDOs), or by enrollment in specific graduatecourses at one of only four universities (The Catholic University of America, University ofColorado at Boulder, Purdue University, and the University of Pittsburgh) (1). At this writing theseuniversities are the only US institutions that offer courses dedicated to advanced knowledge /understanding of the standardization processes (American National Standards Institute, 2009

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Student Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ricky Castles, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech

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Educational Research and Methods

time. Over 1400 data sets have beencollected and analyzed. Within this paper the components of the analysis software are discussedalong with some results from data analysis.A Brief Introduction to Concept Maps Concept maps are a way of graphically representing the underlying components of a Page 15.1349.2particular field or subfield or, more generally, knowledge [1]. The concepts are enclosed incircles or boxes and lines or arrows linking the boxes indicate the relationship that existsPage 15.1349.3learners. Through the formation of each learner’s concept map, one can see the links andunderlying structure the learner has formed and

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Experiential Learning in BME

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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DeRome Dunn, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Robin Liles, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Clinton Lee, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Shawn Watlington, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Devdas Pai, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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Biomedical

in the area of Biomaterials.RETs also participated in professional development sessions centered on classroom instructionand designed to help them translate their new scientific knowledge into a one-weekinquiry-based teaching module. Modules were aligned with the state's K-12 Science Curriculumintroducing K-12 students to the basic concepts of bioengineering. Additional module goalsincluded increasing K-12 student 1) knowledge of math and science; 2) awareness of andappreciation for the field of engineering; 3) ability to link this knowledge to real-lifeexperiences; and 4) capacity for scientific engagement in the classroom. RETs were able toimplement a portion of the module with high school students at the end of the summer.Entrance and

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Post, Bradley University; Shankar Seetharaman, Bradley University; Sree Abimannan, Bradley University

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Aerospace

m yc = 2 (1 2 p + 2 px x2) for p < x < c (1) (1 p)Here x is the axis along the length of the airfoil running from the leading edge to the trailingedge, and y is the height above (or below) the x-axis. To generate the profile of the airfoil thethickness above and below the mean camber line must also be known. By definition, thethickness above and below the mean camber line at each point x is the same. The equation forthe local thickness, y, as a function of the x location is tt y= 0.2 ( 0.2969 x 0.1260x 0.3516x 2 + 0.2843x 3 0.1015x 4 ) (2)The locations for the upper and

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Moshe Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Aerospace

Israel and other countries emphasize the educationaladvantages of the project method in fostering meaningful learning and raisingstudents’ motivation [1] [2] [3]. On the other hand, teachers having a strongengineering background frequently center on teaching specific subject matter, whilethe development of higher intellectual skills is often perceived as a side-effect or‘natural outcome’ of learning scientific-related subjects. As a result, students mightprepare very sophisticated projects from a technical viewpoint but progress only littlein terms of becoming independent learners and creative designers. In order tomaximize the educational potential of technology education in developing students’learning competences, we propose a model for

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martin Morris, Bradley University; Scott Post, Bradley University

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Aerospace

15.594.2History of Wind TunnelsThe history of wind tunnels is discussed in references3,11-13. The first wind tunnel was built byFrancis Wenham in 1871. The 19th century wind tunnels were generally straight of uniformcross-section connected to a fan. The Wright Brothers were really the first to show the value ofthe wind tunnel in aerodynamic design with their 1902 wind tunnel. They were able to deduceempirically that long aspect ratio wings were more efficient than short stubby ones, a fact whichPrandtl later proved analytically. The Wright Brothers’ wind tunnel was largely made of wood,with a glass window on the top to look down through and see the force balance, from which thelift and drag force could be read. The wind tunnel was powered by a fan driven

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian German, Georgia Tech

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Aerospace

. Vehicle performance is a three semester hour course taught during the third yearof the aerospace curriculum. During the course, students are exposed to fundamentalperformance analysis methods for fixed wing aircraft, rotorcraft, and space vehicles. The courseprecedes the capstone vehicle design sequence and the majority of the students’ technical writingexercises required in the curriculum.The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, shown in Figure 1, was chosen as the topic of the initial casestudy because it is a well-known and recognizable aircraft with compelling performance that hasfrequently been the subject of popular books, television programs, and museum displays.Performance data for the airplane to form the basis of the case assignment are also

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University; Zbigniew Prusak, Central Connecticut State University

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Aerospace

meeting the program educational objectives.Project also covers all steps of design process (from idea generation to design, fabrication, andcompetition), and provides practical application of engineering principles to real-world designchallenges, students gain a valuable experience in: 1. problem identification and solving, 2. conceptual and detailed design, 3. procurement and fabrication, 4. resource and project management, 5. product testing, 6. developing oral and writing skills: report writing; presenting findings and vehicle design to peers, professors, and judges 7. outreach activitiesProject Activities DescriptionThe fall 2009 Moonbuggy frame team examined the frame designed by the last year’s team.Upon inspection of

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Crawley, MIT; Robert Niewoehner, United States Naval Academy; Jean Koster, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Aerospace

Syllabus 1 Technical Knowledge And Reasoning 1.1 Knowledge Of Underlying Science 1.2 Core Engineering Fundamental Knowledge 1.3 Advanced Engineering Fundamental Knowledge 2 Personal and Professional Skills and Attributes 2.1 Engineering Reasoning and Problem Solving 2.2 Experimentation and Knowledge Discovery 2.3 System Thinking 2.4 Personal Skills and Attitudes 2.5 Professional Skills and Attitudes 3 Interpersonal Skills 3.1 Teamwork 3.2 Communications 3.3 Communications In Foreign Languages 4 Conceiving, Designing, Implementing, and

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roger Forsgren, NASA Headquarters; Lauren Miller, NASA Headquarters

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Aerospace

NASA’s overall vision and its fundamental basis, and Agency initiatives supporting them (Why? Such knowledge is, after all, the primary purpose behind the all work NASA engineers do). II. Sharing NASA’s vast reservoir of engineering experience, wisdom, and lessons learned (Why? It is imperative to impart this real-world engineering wisdom from seasoned experts to the next generation of NASA engineers). III. Innovatively designing hardware for manufacturability, assembly, and servicing (Why? Engineers should “think outside the box” to develop inventive, creative solutions, while mindfully not increasing program risk and cost).(1) A Better Understanding of What

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marilyn Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

., Smith, M.J., “Integrated Knowledge Resources for Cross-Disciplinary Learning”.Session D-7, Proceedings of ICEE 2001, the International Conference on Engineering Education,Trondheim, Norway, August 2001. International Network on Engineering Education & Research, 2001. ISBN: 1-588-74-091-9. http://www.ineer.org/Events/ICEE2001/Proceedings/papers/108.pdf8 Komerath, N.M., Knowledge Management Techniques in Experimental Projects. Session 1426,Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 20019 Komerath, N.M., Smith, M.J., “Lessons from a Resource for Learning Across Disciplines”. Chap. 13. In Aung, W.,Hoffman, M., King, R., Ng, W.J., Sanchez Ruiz, L.M., Editors, “INNOVATIONS 2003: World Innovations inEngineering Education

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University; Zdzislaw Kremens, Central Connecticut State University

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 helps GFA student prepare her rocket Each was divided into two sessions so for the launch competition.that the first workshop took place overthe first two visits and the second occurred during the latter half of the semester (see Figure 3).All workshops began with a brief lecture introducing students to the relevant theory and itsapplications.1) Rocket Design and Building Workshops I and II (February, March, 2009) Teams of two students calculated the performance (thrust, altitude and flight time) and main geometrical parameters of a rocket using NASA’s Rocket Modeler software. They next used these parameters to design and build water bottle rockets from 2-liter soda bottles. The final event of the workshop was a launch competition

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Daniel Kirk, Florida Institute of Technology; Tein-min Tan, Drexel University; Sridhar Santhanam, Villanova University

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Aerospace

. and international universities to key elements and the business realities of industry by enabling them to "look over the shoulder" of working professionals at several levels of the technical, business, and management career paths. They will leave the program with an understanding of Boeing's business including its research needs, with an improved understanding of the practical application of technical and business skills and with a network of contacts within Boeing and among their faculty peers that can form the basis of long-term relationships”1In all, 149 faculty from around the globe have participated in this program since its inception.The objectives of the Welliver Program are1: 1. To

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

AC 2010-2270: UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES OF SUPERSONIC TRANSPORTDEVELOPMENTNarayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology Page 15.1295.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES OF SUPERSONIC TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT 1. AbstractThe technical and business case for hydrogen-powered supersonic airliners is re-examined as anexercise in multidisciplinary concept innovation by undergraduates at different levels. Aprogression of exercises is used. A conceptual design exercise in a freshman introduction coursewas expanded to modify a conventional hydrocarbon fuelled airliner concept to one

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Johnson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Aerospace

method, and discusses PFMEA inclusion in senior aeronautical engineering technologycourses.IntroductionThe Aeronautical Engineering Technology program at Purdue University is an ABET TACaccredited program. Undergraduate students take courses in aircraft sciences and systems,manufacturing processes, and general education topics prior to the senior year. The senior yearhas multiple capstone courses. This paper discusses the use of Process Failure Modes and EffectsAnalysis (PFMEA) in two capstone courses where students gain experience in proposing andconducting performance improvement projects.The performance improvement projects proposed and implemented by the students must alsoconsider the impact on safety. PFMEA is one tool used in the aerospace

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University; Oranuj Janrathitikarn, Pennnsylvania State University; Lyle Long, Pennsylvania State University

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Aerospace

(6.7%) (43.3%) (46.7%)software engineering.27. Because of the team 0 1 5 15 8 4.03 .778project, I feel better (3.3 %) (16.7%) (50.0%) (26.7%)prepared for a job insoftware engineering Page 15.535.13Appendix B: Focus Group ProtocolFocus Group QuestionsAERSP 440, Introduction to Software Engineering for Aerospace EngineersAERSP 440 Course Focus Groups Spring 2009The purpose of the focus group session is to solicit student perceptions and experiences in theAERSP 440 course during this past spring semester. The data collected will have no identifyinginformation. Your feedback and

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kerri Phillips, West Virginia University; Giampiero Campa, The MathWorks, Inc.; Srikanth Gururajan, West Virginia University; Marcello Napolitano, West Virginia University

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Aerospace

. degree in Robotics and Automation (2000), from the University of Pisa, Italy. He has also worked at the Industrial Control Centre, Strathclyde University, UK, (1995) and at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA (1999). From 2000 to 2008 he served as faculty in the Flight Control Group at the Department of Aerospace Engineering , West Virginia University. His research at WVU involved system identification, sensor fusion, fault tolerant systems, machine vision, and adaptive and nonlinear control, especially applied to UAVs. He joined the Mathworks in 2009, where he currently works as a Technical Evangelist for the west coast area.Srikanth

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Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College; Glenn Ellis, Smith College; Diana Fiumefreddo, Smith College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-1579: DRAFTING A BLUEPRINT FOR EDUCATING TOMORROW'SENGINEERS TODAYBeth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community CollegeGlenn Ellis, Smith CollegeDiana Fiumefreddo, Smith College Page 15.430.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Drafting a Blueprint for Educating Tomorrow’s Engineers TodayIntroductionWith the establishment of a STEM middle school and other initiatives, the Springfield,Massachusetts Public School System (SPS) has made a commitment to excellence inTechnology/Engineering instruction for all of its 5700 students. To support this commitment, apartnership between the Springfield Middle Schools, Springfield Technical Community

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Frontiers in Engineering Management

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Czuchry, East Tennessee State University; Michael Parker, Bristol Tennessee Essential Services; Robert Bridges, B&W Y-12 Technical Services, LLC

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Engineering Management

deployingsustainability considerations across a wide spectrum of organizations.Starting on the left hand side of Figure 2 we begin with the organization’s strategic plan, Step 1.Based upon the TNCPE experience cited above, most strategic plans are evolutionary rather thanrevolutionary. Hence action plans in Step 2 tend to be for achieving continuous rather thatdiscontinuous improvement. So we proceed across the top portion of the framework first. Theorganization’s response to the action plans can be described by the baseline, Supplier, Input,Process, Output, Customer transfer functions shown in Step 3. Generally, these actions are moremanagerial in nature because they represent incremental changes to the current baseline.Exceptions occur when significant capital

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Technical Papers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dana Denick, Drexel University; Jay Bhatt, Drexel University; Bradley Layton, Drexel University (Eng.)

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Engineering Libraries

ethics of information, including skills and practices to maintain their own intellectual property generated during the design process • Revise and expand on present library instruction methodologies to address shortcomings identified in the assessment mapping to standardsMethodologyDuring the spring term of 2009, all first-year Drexel engineering students were required toprepare for their library instruction session by completing a series of online tutorials. Thesetutorials were embedded into the lecture section through a central website. The tutorialsintroduced the various formats of engineering literature that students were expected to usethroughout their research including scholarly journal articles, encyclopedias