Conference Session

Spacecraft Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Swartwout, Saint Louis University; Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

, technical challenges that crop up in I&T can extend the phase well beyond 5years.In Fall 2011, we offered the first course: Integration & Test of Space Systems with an enrollmentof nine undergraduates. In this paper, we will provide an overview of the objectives, syllabus andassessment of this course in spacecraft integration & test. We will place this course in the contextof aerospace engineering at our university and our other systems-engineering courses andintroduce the hands-on work done through the Research Laboratory and the COPPER satellite.We will assess the results of the first course and provide lessons learned and future work.Our first offering had mixed results; in addition to the typical mid-course corrections that

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

gone immediately to file complaints.Asked to provide a written complaint, only one agreed to sign it, the rest presumably deterred bythe Honor Code should the facts be examined. The complaint claimed that the “courseorganization was changed after Drop Day”. The cited basis was the instructor’s comment that theformal lecture phase of the course was over as of Nov. 16 as per the syllabus, with the rest of thetime to be devoted to iterative application of the knowledge, preparation and conduct of acomprehensive test, discussion of the test, a further lecture to address issues seen in the test, anddiscussions of the final stages of the assignment. It is not known if the complainers attended anyof these; they certainly did not go and correct the

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

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

are completely addressed bythe videos used by the lower level courses.Lindstrom reports on a pilot study of using a free online mathematics learning tool, KhanAcademy (KA), to strengthen the relevant mathematics skills of pre-service science teachers intheir introductory physics course at a large teacher education institution in Norway [1]. In thiswork the videos are being created, and in reverse curriculum order because the author has manyyears of experience with the junior level courses, but not as much experience with the sophomorelevel prerequisite courses. Starting with the terminal concepts videos will also ensure thatessential nuances needed in the earlier videos will be included. This aspect is also being used inthe present work for

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amy Pritchett, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

studies of aircraft design,” in AIAA Aircraft Systems & Technology Meeting, Seattle, WA, 1977.18. A. Pritchett, “AE 4803/8803 Humans and Autonomy Syllabus,” Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering, January 2011.19. L. Young and M. Yeh. (2001) 16.400/2.181j/16.453j Human Factors Engineering. MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. [Online]. Available: http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/16/16.400/www/- syllabus.pdf20. D. Peet and K. Mulder, “Integrading SD into engineering courses at the Delft University of Technology,” International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 278–288, 2004.21. L. A. Guerra, W. Fowler, and M. Brennan, “Systems engineering and spacecraft

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

know….”. This 10 minute exercise asked students to understand the mission ofa lightweight fighter and then take their previous lists and see which might be applicable for thisspecific application. The idea behind the three exercises was to go from the “big picture” down tothe specific application. The information collected by the teams loosely formed the material inthe course syllabus (which was handed out the second lesson). Homework for this first class wasto write up their answers to these three exercises with no more than three pages. For homework,student teams were encouraged to use outside references, something that was not allowed duringthe first class. Student teams were also asked to select a team name, logo, and mission statementto

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sidaard Gunasekaran, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

resources through their own efforts. The modified syllabus contains a list of recommended Page 9 of 44textbooks but the students were required to do independent studies from online resources. The alternateintention of not having a required textbook is to break free from the tradition of asking students to solveback of the chapter homework problems. Students were given open-ended problems which related theconcepts they learned in class to the outside world. And the students appreciated the nature of theHomework problems that were given in the course. “I really liked the way the homework maps exactly to what we are doing in class because it makesyou learn the material we are learning in class the

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maxwell Stuart Reid, Auckland University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

summative assessment scheme, in which some of the work could be subject tointerpretation of the ethical theory when applied to case studies, rather than assessment ofempirical facts and procedures which may be constrained to a teacher‟s implicit development,interpretation and assessment of the syllabus content.The assessment procedure was redesigned in 2008 for classes of 150 plus, comprising aformative assessment and feedback through essays, a formative feedback by the in-class case-studies and summative assessment by examining the major case studies and theirunderstanding of the course material in a final examination.IntroductionTo receive accreditation of undergraduate engineering degrees the Institute of ProfessionalEngineers of New Zealand

Conference Session

Innovations in Aero Curriculum and Program Level Administration

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sidaard Gunasekaran, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

as problem solving, communication skills,interpersonal skills, and leadership.” It is pretty straightforward to see that academia has a longway to go in truly preparing the students for their career and any type of workforce.II. Elements of the EFF Standard Incorporated into the New Teaching Model All of the elements shown in Figure 1 are equally important. However, in a graduate class,it might not be plausible to incorporate all of these elements mentioned in Figure 1 withoutcompromising the technical rigor that is usually associated with the graduate course. Theexpectations behind the technical rigor of a graduate class might be the reason why students-centered learning has not, for the most part, reached graduate schools yet. And