Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terry Allen Michmerhuizen, College of Aviation, Western Michigan University

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Aerospace

trainingaviation maintenance technicians in accordance with Federal Aviation Regulation Part 147 areadded to the traditional academic requirements, a total of 1900 (student clock) hours must beintegrated and the challenge becomes even greater. Training aviation maintenance students is anextremely complex process, and programs should include transportable “soft skills” such as thefour “C’s” presented in this paper.Historical PerspectiveAn ideal formula for establishing an aviation maintenance curriculum would be to develop itbased upon what the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) require, and what industry needs.Although the FARs provide general subject matter topics, and specify a level of proficiencywhich the student must possess upon completion, they

Conference Session

Teaching Methodology & Assessment 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amelia Greig, University of Texas at El Paso

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Aerospace

widelyacknowledged that graduating engineers require a lot more skills that simply doing workedexamples about a single component of an entire engineering system, such as leadership,teamwork, and communication skills [17,18].Well-planned and well-conceived assessments can provide the opportunity to expand anddevelop these required soft skills at the same time as maintaining the ability to assess courseeffectiveness against ABET student learning outcomes and provide a ranking system of studentsfor future employers. Writing Across the Curriculum [19] is one example of this, where writingand communication exercises are incorporated into all aspects of the curriculum including thetechnical subjects that are often assessed only through worked problems. The

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

”14. The Panel also expresses that the laboratory is a “place to learn newand developing subject matter as well as insight into understanding of the validation andlimitations of assumptions, prediction of the performance of complex systems, testing andcompliance with specifications, and an exploration for new fundamental information”14. TheAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) published the ABET EngineeringCriteria in 1996 as “a mandate to educators to design curricula that could produce engineers withadequate skills to enter the job market”9. This report includes a set of 11 outcomes that graduatesof baccalaureate engineering programs should obtain. These were divided into what wasconsidered “hard” and “soft” skills

Conference Session

Solid and Structural Mechanics in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gozdem Kilaz, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Ronald Sterkenburg, Purdue University - West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Aerospace

to creating a stimulatingenvironment but also to enable the roles of the student and the mentor to become more fluid.Traditional teaching settings as classrooms create a rigid separation between the teacher and thestudent which may in turn diminish the sense of learning responsibility a student should possess.Once implemented effectively, hybrid courses offer students interactive environments where theymay engage with each other and their mentors during evaluating and analyzing the courseprincipals. This is a great advantage over traditional settings where students may get accustomedto being spoon fed (Caulfield, 2011). The student centered, experiential learning style empowersparticipants with significant soft skills such as initiative and

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tian Tian, University of Central Florida; Ronald F. DeMara P.E., University of Central Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

potential benefits of CBA include user-authenticated,consistent, and fair testing, while facilitating auto-grading and statistical analysis of assessmentresults. Ideally, CBA could increase the frequency and value of formative feedback withinEngineering courses, relative to conventional paper-based exams which are prevalent. However,since multiple-choice question formats are inherently restrictive, an open challenge facing CBAis how to fully assess skills within Engineering disciplines. Specific assessment needs includefree-form design approaches, abstract concepts, analytical formulas, plots/graphs, problem-solving skills, and soft skills. These require innovations for realization within the quiz deliverycapabilities of today’s Learning Management

Conference Session

Preparing a Modern Aerospace Workforce

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Bibel, University of North Dakota

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

authors are motivated by a belief they have found abetter way to explain the science. Few bother to ferret out and develop interesting reallife adventures and applications. One source of information is the NationalTransportation Safety Board (NTSB) crash reports. It can be challenging to reduce thesecomplex aerospace systems to fundamental concepts for educational use.This material presented here was developed for a new disaster course for engineeringstudents and a disaster based science course for non-technical students. The material isalso suitable to supplement more traditional engineering courses such as: strength ofmaterials, material science, finite element analysis, and machine design. Many ABET socalled "soft skills" can also be

Conference Session

STEM Education Tied to Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hansel Burley, Texas Tech University; Terrance Denard Youngblood, Texas Tech University; Ibrahim H. Yeter, Texas Tech University; Casey Michael Williams, Texas Tech University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

rockets in an inquiry-, discovery-,and problem-based classroom. This rocket program aims at increasing high school student interest in STEM by havingstudents use their own efforts to make rockets fly. The basic rockets must be designed to carry aone pound payload a mile high. The top level rockets built by students are flown from WhiteSands Missile Range, and they travel over 100,000 feet, reaching transonic speeds. Students getnine months of hands-on engagement that includes learning from direct and scholarly research,theory development, design brief creation, and post mission analyses. The curriculum alsoemphasizes soft-skills, like teamwork, communication, and leadership. Teachers work as rovingfacilitators whose goal is to help

Conference Session

Hands-on Activities and Student Learning in Aerospace Engineering - II - Student Papers

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tracy L. Yother, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Cooper G. Burleson, Purdue University; James M. Thom, Purdue University; Brian Kozak, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Aerospace

found at NASA. The four criticalskills included hard skills, such as the development of large human spaceflight systems andsystems and integration engineering. While program management included hard skills, much ofwhat made a good program manager is the mastery of soft skills.Doule and Peters [14], in their examination of skills needed in the European space industry,found a combination of hard and soft skills were needed. They found in the hard skill categorythe focus was in two areas technical and non-technical disciplines. In the technical discipline,they found the need for explicit knowledge and rational processes. In the non-technicaldiscipline, they found the need for business management, policy, and law. Analytical/conceptualthinking

Conference Session

STEM Education Tied to Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hansel Burley, Texas Tech University; Casey Michael Williams, Texas Tech University; Terrance Denard Youngblood, Texas Tech University; Ibrahim H. Yeter, Texas Tech University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

character. Other failures mentioned 9were related to breakdowns in how the teams worked; however, for the most part the teamsprovided the self-correcting power to overcome technical problems, like miscalculating fuelratios, or soft skills problems, like not communicating well to teammates. Finally, ifcollaboration is the engine, the teachers’ ability to manage teamwork and motivate studentsthrough failures was the lubricant. Generally, students were very positive about their teachers.One student said this about his teacher as a guide: “Encouragement from my instructor to figurethings out myself has been very beneficial to my learning experience.” Another

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Gorrell, Brigham Young University; C. Greg Jensen, Brigham Young University; Brett Stone, Brigham Young University; Edward Red, Brigham Young University; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Fabian Zender, The Boeing Company; Michael Wright; David E. French, The Boeing Company; Shigeo Hayashibara, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Carl Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology; John P. Sullivan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Aerospace

learn important soft skills (suchas teamwork) in addition to hard skills (technical knowledge) desired by Boeing.The AerosPACE curriculum views learning as a social-technical process whereby knowledge isco-constructed within a social network, mentored by peers, industry workplace experts, anduniversity faculty through both face-to-face forums and a cyber-infrastructure. AerosPACEcourses are intended to be rigorous in accordance with the existing high university standards.The AerosPACE framework has four foundational elements: stakeholder engagement,incorporating learning sciences, advanced manufacturing, and collaborative social networks withlearning analytics. These four elements work in unison to provide a holistic approach to closethe

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

employees to develop asense of personal satisfaction for a job well done without receiving any recognition or praise.New Employees are generally pleased with their career path but to be fully satisfied, their jobmust be challenging. Programs such as Learning Together, REACH, ONE, and Mentorships areavailable for the new employees; however, people are often unaware of these opportunities.New employees perceive the following skills are important in their jobs: • Technical Skills – Strong Technical Skills – Analysis Skills • Soft Skills – Creative Mindset – Strong Work Ethic – Clear Communication Skills – Critical Thinking – Team work – PatienceCareer DevelopmentManagers have a desire

Conference Session

Design Courses 1, Teaching Tools

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shantanu Gupta, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Caroline K. Marete, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

in solving ‘real’ worldchallenges, a task that can equip students with technical and soft skills that are necessary in theindustry. Experiential learning experiences such as capstone projects is one way for students togain hands on industry experience as they prepare to enter the industry [3]. Other ways studentscan gain hands on experience is through internships and cooperative programs. Throughcollaborative projects between schools and industry, students learn to: • apply theoretical knowledge to solve practical problems, • communicate effectively with their industry consultants and fellow student team members, • understand financial impacts of problem solutions, • work in teams, • to understand industry demands such

Conference Session

Innovations in Curriculum, Projects, and Pedagogy in Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Denise Thorsen, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

. But Fair and enjoyable. The difficulty depended on the rest of the classmates and how engaged they were.3. Comments on academic preparedness • While there were certain areas in the course that I knew little about the benefit of working on a multidisciplinary team meant that there were certain areas where I was better equipped to do the work and somewhere another student was better equipped. Overall though I felt prepared for this class. • Academically I was very prepared. I think this course hit hard on soft skills that are not easily obtained or perfected through courses at a university. What helped people to be prepared to take the course was life experience of working at a real job or a lot of