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2019 Fall Mid Atlantic States Conference

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Dimitrios Stroumbakis P.E., City University of New York, City College

requirement for industry hiring and future success.Unfortunately, many courses are commonly taught in a purely academic setting, bereft of anyauthentic industry design experience, including capstone and PBL courses. Preparing studentsto become industry-ready is highly valued and demanded by hiring companies. Students with aworking knowledge of project management skills are particularly attractive to employersseeking a STEM based workforce, especially in high technology product design andmanufacturing [1]In this paper, we present a model of implementing industry-accepted critical path (CPM)project management (PM) techniques to enhance student authentic industrial skills in anundergraduate Honors R&D program. These methods were applied to a

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2019 Fall Mid Atlantic States Conference

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Saul Henderson, University of the District of Columbia; Sasan Haghani, University of the District of Columbia; Esther T. Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Devdas Shetty, University of the District of Columbia; Christopher Riso, University of the District of Columbia ; Rudy Antonio Villegas

was inherited from previous years’ Senior Capstone project (Fall 2017 –Spring 2018) using insightful knowledge on how the previous team developed their wing actuationmechanism as well as their electronic topology within the projectile. A complete overhaul isrequired with the only similarity between the projects is that the projectile is gun launched. Aredesign of the nosecone, air-frame, wing-actuation mechanism, and tail-fin; along with theelectrical components such as: telemetry sensors, micro-controllers, linear actuators, camera, andcommunications have to be re-defined to conform with the new 50mm projectile architecture alongwith new size and space constraints. We have determined to implement the use of GANTT charts, morphological

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2019 Fall Mid Atlantic States Conference

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Benjamin Michael Wallen P.E., United States Military Academy; Wyatt Ethan Espell, USMA; Ashtyn McCall Hanna, United States Military Academy ; Andrew Joseph Ng, United States Military Academy; Michael A. Butkus P.E., United States Military Academy; Erick Martinez, United States Military Academy; Patrick Thomas Swanton, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, United States Military Academy; Jeremy Stephen Walker, U.S. Army Research, Development & Eng. Ctr.

learning(former ABET SO i which now relates to ABET SO 7). Additionally, the research provides a capstone-type experiential learning opportunity forstudents which incorporates a three-week summer internship leveraging relationships withexternal partners and stakeholders through outreach that benefits the Army, Department ofDefense, and the Nation. The internship has enabled students to conduct water research withArmy subject matter experts in hydrodynamic modeling, membrane fouling experiments, andreverse osmosis membrane surface modification while working toward field solutions foridentified capability gaps. Taking this knowledge back to the student’s own lab and extendingthe research into their senior research project is enhancing the