Conference Session

Integrative Projects in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Weinstein, Northeastern University; Randy August, Northeastern University; Len Dow, Northeastern University; Jerome Tapper, Northeastern University; Francis Di Bella, Northeastern University

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Aerospace

accomplished by each student committing themselves to not only a timelycompletion of their part of the assignments but also completing a valued contribution tothe project as judged by the team members even before it has been submitted to theInstructor for his/her timely comments and suggestions. In fact, the need for timemanagement to accomplish the capstone project becomes very apparent to the student,more so than what is required of the classroom studies. The main difference is that thestudents must now provide sufficient time to not only complete the solution to a problembut must now reflect on what the problems are. This reflection period is not usuallypresent in a typical classroom assignment where the Instructor has clearly indicated whatend-of

Conference Session

Approaches to Emerging Topics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Craig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

based not only on what one knows but also how one comes to know it and how thatknowledge is tested and accepted and discussed in the context of time. Dorothy Winsornotes in Writing Like an Engineer “one has to use language as others do in order to beaccepted as a group member, and one has to think like a group member in order to uselanguage as the group does. 1 Solomon widens the range of ways in which professionalidentity is established. “Identity is experienced through . . . sharing a common enterprise,values, assumptions, purposes, and rules of engagement and communication.” 2 She goeson to argue that the transition from being a student (which she describes as compliant, notdeeply reflective, intent on the “right answer”) to being

Conference Session

Rethinking Aerospace Curricula and Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samer Tawfik, Georgia Institute of Technology; Serkan Ozbay, Georgia Institute of Technology; Erian Armanios, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

review problems and examples from the textbook) to rectify any deficiency if neededThe “Test Evaluation Concept” will give feedback related to gained knowledge in lectures andweekly problem sessions. It also reflects each student understanding of basic and their progressthroughout the class. Page 11.179.5 4An illustration of the evaluation concept is provided by one problem assigned in a midterm testand shown in Figure 4.A beam with the T cross section is under a concentrated force and a uniformly distributed load asshown in figure, Determine

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

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Aerospace

, and implementregionally programs in renewable energy technology that reflect existing and emerging industryneeds and that incorporate identified industry skills standards and certifications.Performance Outcome--In response to regional industry needs, as well as state and nationalrequirements, curricula at all partner colleges are being adapted to meet those very specific needsin order to make students qualified and competitive for employment for renewable energycareers, with particular focus on the needs for qualified wind and solar technicians.1.A Verify key technical and soft/professional skills derived from both the State DACUMsurvey and focus group data already and match this data with existing national skillscertificationsand

Conference Session

Laboratory Courses and Programming in the Aerospace Curriculum

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kathryn Anne Wingate, University of Colorado at Boulder; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Colorado Boulder; Lyndsay Rose Ruane; Dennis Akos

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Diversity

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Aerospace

questions, three map to the environment. Gendered effects of performance in CS areinfluenced by the social environment, whereas programming experience in high school or undergraduateeducation beyond introductory CS is reflective of the opportunity that students have in their pre-collegeenvironment. We also take students’ grades in the linear algebra course to be reflective of theirenvironment, rather than their ability, because the programming assignment we study involved forming anAx = b matrix from a set of equations. Based on students’ difficulty with this concept in class, wehypothesized that having prior knowledge of linear algebra would be helpful on this programmingassignment. And therefore, students who had the opportunity to take advanced

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University

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Aerospace

, instilling curiosity, connections, and creating value in the students.What results is a mindset and skillset which prepares Baylor students to be competitive in theworkplace. Making our students more aware of what will be faced in industry was a motivationto modify this course project to reflect the company setting when designing a lightweight utilityfighter. The ICE Workshop was a three day, hands-on workshop addressing active and collaboratelearning (ACL) as well as problem/project based learning (PBL) [2]. The workshop, run byLawrence Technological University and sponsored by KEEN, helped faculty understand thefundamental pedagogical techniques of EML, ACL and PBL. Faculty attending the workshop:  Experience firsthand examples of EML

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; David B Kanipe, Texas A&M University

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Aerospace

ThreeAbstractThree years ago, Texas A&M University held a summer camp to improve outreach to highschools and encourage interest in aerospace engineering. A critical evaluation three years laterevaluates the successes and revisions by the department. In an effort to improve the studentexperience, each subsequent camp reflects on lessons learned from previous camps, and thelatest camp is no different.In early years, additions included having practicing engineers participate in camp and integratingdifferent design tracks using a systems approach. In the most recent version of the camp, thestructure was modified significantly to accommodate additional students and provide anadditional field of interest. In addition to the previous aircraft and rocket tracks

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

engineering, computer science, human factors,psychology, and aviation technology. In this paper, the inclusion of sustainability in the firstplace design packages from 2007 to 2017 is examined.This paper explores the topics of previous winning design packages, the departments of thefaculty advisors, and the inclusion of sustainability. Insights from students and faculty ofwinning teams are highlighted. Statistics are used to analyze trends. The trends in the winningteam proposals may reflect the level of importance of sustainability in industry and may supportthe need for explicitly including sustainability in courses in engineering and technology. Thelevel and type of sustainability analyses may inform future competition teams and may be usedby

Conference Session

Laboratory Courses and Programming in the Aerospace Curriculum

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Tracy L. Yother, Purdue University - Purdue Polytechnic Lafayette

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Diversity

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Aerospace

1 Ask someone (question 1 options k and l combined compared to question 4 option j) 8SummaryThe incorporation of lifelong learning into a hands-on, technology focused, standards driven,engine systems laboratory course was explored in this study. The current assignment of atechnical video was used as the structure to assess lifelong learning in the participants. Thestudent activity was to prepare a reflective assessment of their video assignment and drawconnections to a real-life industry problem that they may face in their first few years in theircareers. The results of the assessment show that students are able to identify resources used in aclass assignment and are able to project which resources

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Design – General Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Biezad, California Polytechnic State University; Joon Kim, Lockheed Aircraft Co

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Aerospace

by much of their academic experience in the classroom. The link betweentheory and practice may be spoken, but it is seldom experienced, for many of our students. Itis well known that all education9 is deficient that does not present a proper balance betweenexperience and reflection, and this type of imbalance is especially unfortunate when it occursin technical fields. As shrinking budgets put increasing pressure on undergraduate laboratory education, and as agreater percentage of students enter the curriculum without practical experience in mechanicsor a familiarity with tools and tooling, there is a strong need to expose aerospace engineeringstudents to these realities of the aviation workplace, a workplace that traditionally has

Conference Session

Laboratory Courses and Programming in the Aerospace Curriculum

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Waterloo Tsutsui, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Ruben D. Lopez-Parra, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Genisson Silva Coutinho, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia; Alberto W. Mello, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Michael David Sangid, Purdue University; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Aerospace

actual labs and give a good visual of what to expect on the actual lab day.”Instructor Reflection about the VL ImplementationThe AAE 20401 instructor shared his experience during the VL implementation. The instructorspecifically talked about the challenging issues that he faced during the implementation. “When we first received the Virtual Lab software (Spring 2018), we received the prototype version of the software. Thus, it needed some work before implementing it in the student learning environment. In Spring 2018, we had graduate student lab TAs run the prototype VL program so that we can get a proper feedback. Then, during Summer 2018, I hired one graduate student to go through all the functionality of VLs

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Aerospace

/modules listed above.Conclusion: Summary of Program Progress to Date The project’s purpose is the deployment of the CDIO pedagogy to other North Americaninstitutions. The project’s eight specific tasks, products and progress are summarized below.1. A refined and stakeholder-validated description of the knowledge and skills desired in graduating students by the US aerospace industry. This task is complete with a report in work. In a related effort, the international CDIO consortium is currently weighing a draft of the 2.0 version of the CDIO syllabus. Proposed changes reflect both 8 years of experience working with the syllabus, and shifts in industry’s emphases. Action on proposed changes is expected in 2010.2. The documentation

Conference Session

Learning in a Socially-Distanced Environment

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Waterloo Tsutsui, Purdue University; Eric J. Williamson, Purdue University; Kenneth Park, Purdue University; Michael David Sangid, Purdue University

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Aerospace

themselves with thehands-on lab in aerospace structural mechanics. Subsequently, we learned that Virtual Labs alsoallowed students to collect virtual data that prompted students to further reflect during the dataanalysis process in addition to the data obtained during the hands-on labs. Thus, the courseprovided students with both virtual and hands-on experiences to enhance their understanding ofthe subject matter. At the same time, the course promoted the learning of data analysis,modeling, equipment usage, error analysis, teamwork, and communication by engaging thestudents in both the virtual and hands-on labs. In Spring 2020, we experienced an extraordinaryevent: the school closures and remote learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. During

Conference Session

Teaching Methodology & Assessment 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mary E. Johnson, Purdue University at West Lafayette ; Yilin Feng, California State University, Los Angeles

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Diversity

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Aerospace

the HODA and practice the systems tools they learn from CST course byexplaining their experience and observations. The original debriefing has four steps [10]: “tellthe story; graph the variables; make the system visible; and identify the lessons” (pp.7-9). Anadditional step, which is to explore the connection between the HODA and the aviation industry,is included in the CST course by the instructor. In the CST course, the debriefing includes in-class debriefing and an after-class full report.In-class debriefingThe in-class debriefing led by the team leaders is conducted immediately after the HODA. Theleaders guide students to discuss their observations and reflections on the system structureexisting in the HODA using a series of steps.Step 1

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

experiences of asubset of engineers from previous recent research [1], shown in Table 1, whose perspectives arethe most comprehensive understanding of uncertainty in design. They have been empowered tomake decisions in their respective companies, and are all employed in the aerospace industry,either in the US or abroad. The data on their experiences were previously collected usingqualitative naturalistic inquiry through semi-structured interviews. The participants were askedabout their experience of decision-making in design, their experience of uncertainty in design,and any reflections they had on learning about uncertainty. All of the participants in the study didso of their own volition, and their interview transcripts were de-identified to

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Drexel University; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Alexandru Catalin Belu, Case Western Reserve University

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Aerospace

manually; other than some well known examples, mostapplications of theory are omitted. One reason that those examples are well known is that theyadmit analytic solutions. However, they typically represent simplified solutions that generallyfail to fully reflect reality. In most real-world situations, the analytic solutions simply do notexist, and one cannot proceed without the assistance of a computer. Although some textbookhave sections discussing numerical methods, many of them contain just the theory of numericalmethods, and one is required to posses programming skill for practice; this part has generallybeen neglected. Under a conventional curriculum, a student’s ability to calculate and to extract

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Quantitative Interview Discussion TopicsData was obtained from 37 conversations/interviews; 16 new engineers (less than 5 years ofexperience) and 21 supervisors, mentors, or program managers. These results representperceptions of those interviewed and do not necessarily reflect the position of the parentorganization. Again, not a large sample size however, interesting observations can be made thatmirror industry wide trends. There are two ways to examine the data: 1. Assessment of absolute scores. In this case scores given by new engineers and supervisors were close to each other, say within 1 point. If both scores were high, we have excellent agreement that the skill being measured is being utilized. If both scores were low

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Aerospace

aerospace engineering.The following examples illustrate some of the active and cooperative learning techniques [15]. 1. Affective Response - provides an emotional or evaluative response to material. Students look at works of art and note the reaction/response they have to the image/artwork. They reflect on what they see and what has been discussed regarding the components of a work of art the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design. They consider other information such as how colors have symbolic meaning as well as have psychological effects on individuals. In arts, students consider the work of art in the context of the time it was made vs. how it may be perceived today. Discussions in class consider

Conference Session

Preparing a Modern Aerospace Workforce

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

, but I dowonder how many good analyses of Martian flight got trashed as “losers” in the process.Engineering professors should reflect on the wisdom of outsourcing student evaluation to theleast thoughtful / most managerially-mobile in industry. Another comment that left a deepimpression on me years ago came from a senior NASA manager, about the AIAA Student PaperCompetition that he had just judged: “Did you see the winner’s presentation? Wow! He lookedJUST LIKE Tom Cruise!” However, the fact remains that national competitions have a veryimportant place in concept development curricula, as long as they are not taken too seriously.A resource for cross-disciplinary thinking and daring innovation in the past decade was theNASA Institute of

Conference Session

Space Systems Design

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Knudtson, Saint Louis University; Nicholas Freed, Saint Louis University; David Zidar, Saint Louis University; Michael Dunning, Saint Louis University; Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University

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Aerospace

thematerials, the group was developing the mindset and skills necessary to write a technicalconference paper. This will be of great benefit to the students in their professionalcareers. The third conference entered was the American Society for EngineeringEducation (ASEE). The value of this conference was in helping the group to understandthe scope and place of their design project. Reflecting on the project’s educational valuehelped cement the importance of the work being undertaken. The only official competition entered was the Idea to Product (I2P) competitionfor seeking out innovative products with marketing potential. This competition proved tobe of tremendous importance to the group. By presenting the capstone project as abusiness

Conference Session

Innovations in Aero Curriculum and Program Level Administration

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Valasek, Texas A&M University; Debra A Fowler, Texas A&M University; Nate Poling, Texas A&M University

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Aerospace

engineering education from Texas A&M University. Her research areas of focus are faculty perspectives and growth through curriculum design and redesign, interdisciplinary teaching and learning, reflective eportfolios and professional development of graduate students related to teaching.Dr. Nate Poling, Texas A&M University As an educator and faculty developer, Nate is interested in leveraging the power of popular culture and multimedia to help facilitate effective learning. In a teaching career that has ranged from the K12 to the Ph.D. levels, he has always stressed the importance of using relevant material in motivating and engag- ing students in the learning process. At the Center for Teaching Excellence at Texas A

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn S. Keshmiri, University of Kansas; Aaron Blevins, University of Kansas; A Ram Kim, University of Kansas

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Aerospace

industry, and besuccessful in research and continue to push the frontiers of knowledge. Developing problem-solving is one of the fundamental educational goals for STEM students. Reference [6] shows thatonly teaching mathematical methods will not develop problem solving skills. Students mustshape their own thought processes and they must be deliberate and reflective about the principlesand strategies they select for problem-solving [7]. The best way to develop problem solvingskills is to challenge students with real-world problems where students learn to solve problemsthrough applying analytical methods, establishing criterion, applying new approaches, using bothformal and compiled knowledge, and verifying and validating the effectiveness of

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Seering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Karen Willcox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Luwen Huang, MIT

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Aerospace

other; here, we focus onlearning outcomes, since they are better suited for our goals of supporting curricular design.6Learning outcomes defined in this project take many of the properties defined in Harden et al.1999 while also drawing substantially from the CDIO framework.3,4,7 In particular, theseoutcomes match all seven criteria of the framework in Harden et al.: they reflect the mission ofthe department, they are clear and unambiguous, they are specific, generalizable andmanageable, and they are designed in such a way that their interrelationships are clear. However,these outcomes are designed to match a level of specificity beyond what is described in Harden;per the CDIO framework, the space of competencies in engineering and design can

Conference Session

Space Side of Aerospace

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin B. Probe, Texas A&M Aerospace Engineering; Vinicius Guimaraes Goecks, Texas A&M University; John E. Hurtado, Texas A&M University

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Aerospace

suspendvarious targets and emulate the response of the target to impacts. 6 Together these systems allowfor the simulation of space rendezvous and proximity operations in a ground based laboratorysetting.2.2 VICON SystemVICON Motion Capture is a system of cameras and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that wasinitially developed as a motion capture system for the entertainment industry. It useretro-reflective beacons mounted in a specific pattern to identify bodies and computes 6-DoFposition and attitude with approximately 1 centimeter accuracy. The LASR lab has six VICONcameras mounted on the ceiling and thus creates a 3D workspace for robotic operations. Thismotion capture system can be used both to provide position information for robots control and

Conference Session

Aerospace Student Projects, Engineering Design and Research

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Wilhelm A. Friess, University of Maine

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Aerospace

to ABET [1] are required to incorporate appropriate engineeringstandards and multiple constraints, and be based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earliercourses. The courses typically consist of a design-build-test sequence [2], where students arerequired to follow through the entire design process in addition to building and verifying theintended performance of the project.Mechanical engineering capstone projects reflect the broad nature of the profession, and as suchcan originate from many different fields. The overlap of Aerospace Engineering and mechanicalEngineering in particular generates a variety of capstone projects that typically are of highinterest to the students. However, a requirement for senior design courses is that the

Conference Session

Aerospace Student Projects, Engineering Design and Research

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kuldeep S Rawat, Elizabeth City State University; Chandra Bhushan Asthana P.E., Elizabeth City State University

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Diversity

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Aerospace

statistically significant effect ontheir self-efficacy, matched-pairs t-tests were performed on the six items. The results, shown inTable 4, revealed statistically significant increases in self-efficacy after the hands-on experiencefor each item. Not surprisingly, the students were very confident in their general knowledgeabout the drone assembly/building process but somewhat less confident in detail knowledgeregarding specific components. Given that all of the students reported being more interested inSTEM-related areas as a result of this camp and 64% were interested in participating in a similarcamp, this lack of confidence reflects a desire to learn more about drones to gain that confidence.Students responded on a three-point Likert Scale to each

Conference Session

Aircraft Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Kanipe, Texas A&M University

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Aerospace

today’s world, the Capstone Design experience must, asaccurately as possible, reflect the environment the students will encounter when they report forwork. Through the application of systems engineering processes to guide the utilization of thetechnical skills they spent the first three years of their undergraduate life learning, the studentswill gain a much better appreciation for the design process and its interdependencies, as well asthe strengths, and limitations, of teamwork. In addition, this approach allows the students withtrue leadership capability to rise to the surface. In many cases, these students may have noteven realized they had leadership potential.IntroductionWhile most Capstone Design courses necessarily follow standard

Conference Session

Personnel Development & Retention

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yun Dong, Iowa State University; Subhanwit Roy, Iowa State University; Lorenzo D. Baber, Loyola University, Chicago ; Benjamin Ahn, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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Aerospace

' proactivity in socialization (e.g., [20], [23]), theresearch in the context of engineering organizations was largely untouched. Morespecifically, there is rare research about newly hired engineers' proactivity in the aerospace &defense (A&D) industry. A&D organizations employ engineering graduates from multipleengineering majors and offer a wide variety of positions [20]. In particular, A&Dorganizations recruit electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, computer-related engineers,along with recruiting graduates with explicit aerospace engineering degrees. Therefore,organizations in the A&D industry reflect the features that many organizations may haveacross different engineering disciplines. Hence, to address the above-mentioned gaps

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hadi Ali, Purdue University; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Aerospace

the instructor making them aware of the iterations that took place during their design process. Reviewing case studies of strategic design thinking “can help students realize the power and utility of iterative design.”1 Reflection in various contexts can be very helpful as well32. 4. Risk-taking and iteration: Offering students with lessons about learning from failures, approaching and accepting them, can be very effective in allowing students to appreciate iteration and take more risks while designing. “Instruction and scaffolding for systematic design” was selected as an appropriate teachingstrategy to illustrate the role of iteration in spacecraft design with respect to cost and schedulingissues. In particular

Conference Session

Teaching Methodology & Assessment 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Connor Ott, University of Colorado Boulder; Kathryn Anne Wingate, University of Colorado Boulder; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Colorado Boulder

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Aerospace

, the University changed the end-of-semesterevaluation questions and they did not include questions on instructor effectiveness or coursedifficulty. We include this discussion of student evaluations to note a limitation of the study,which is that we compare two fundamentally different courses. Though the survey questions donot ask students about personal interest, intellectual challenge, or the instructors, differences inthese areas exist and contribute to students' overall perception of a class and may influence howthey perceive the goal structures we have asked them to reflect on.In addition to the goal structures a classroom presents to students, students themselves mayidentify more closely with some motivations than others. The box-and