Sadraey, M., & Bertozzi, N. (2015, June), Systems Engineering Approach in Aircraft Design Education: Techniques and Challenges  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24790

\bibitem{asee_peer_24790}
  Sadraey, M., \& Bertozzi, N. (2015, June), \emph{Systems Engineering Approach in Aircraft Design Education: Techniques and Challenges}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.24790

Mohammad Sadraey and Nicholas Bertozzi.  "Systems Engineering Approach in Aircraft Design Education: Techniques and Challenges".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/24790 Internet.  13 Sep, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_24790}
  Mohammad Sadraey and Nicholas Bertozzi.
  "Systems Engineering Approach in Aircraft Design Education: Techniques and Challenges".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/24790 Internet.  13 Sep, 2024

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AB  -            Systems Engineering Approach in Aircraft Design Education;                           Techniques and ChallengesAn aircraft is a system composed of a set of interrelated components working together toward somecommon aerial objective or purpose. Primary objectives include safe flight achieved at a low cost.Aircraft are extremely complex products comprised of many subsystems, components and parts. Aircraftsystems, due to the high cost and the risks associated with their development are a major user of systemsengineering methodologies.Aircraft design is primarily an analytical process; and essentially contains its own body of knowledge thatis independent of the science-based analysis tools. The world of aircraft design involves many challengesand uncertainties. The design process is divided into three major phases: 1. Conceptual design phase, 2.Preliminary design phase, and 3. Detail design phase. These are artificial categories that, along with testand evaluation, make up the four basic phase of system design. After each round of design, a test andevaluation is conducted to compare the characteristics of the designed system with the designrequirements.The traditional engineering education is structured to emphasize on mathematics, physical, sciences, andengineering sciences. This paper presents the systems engineering approach in aircraft design education.The approach opens a new horizon to aerospace engineering students and excites them to embrace thenew challenges. Throughout this approach, various techniques for generating creative design alternativesare introduced. The nature of aircraft design project; complexity, multidisciplinary, and variousconstraints; suggests that the systems engineering approach to be the best candidate.The implementation of systems engineering in aircraft design education progressed through a couple ofyears. The course materials and course design was evolved over a number of years. The implementationof systems engineering requires a flawless interface between team members working toward a commonsystem thinking to correctly execute systems engineering process.The course basically has a fairly standard format; it mainly consists of three one-hour weekly lectures.The topics and the lectures are organized such that they follow the systems engineering approach. Inpractice; after one week of introduction; one week is spent on conceptual design; two weeks onpreliminary design; and about 12 weeks on details design. In the details design section; the design ofmajor aircraft components such as wing, tail (horizontal and vertical); fuselage, propulsion system; andlanding gear are covered.During the course of a semester, various design requirements are introduced. There are specific designrequirements which are required by the customer, and must be addressed by the design team. However,there are other design requirements which customer is not necessarily aware of and may not verballydesire them. In this section a list of design-related requirements are briefly reviewed as follows:Performance requirements; Stability requirements; Handling requirements; Operational requirements;Affordability requirements; Reliability requirements; Maintainability requirements; Producibilityrequirements; Evaluatability requirements; Usability requirements; Safety (airworthiness for aircraft)requirements; Crashworthiness requirements; Supportability and serviceability requirements;Sustainability requirements; Disposability requirements; Marketability requirements; Environmentalrequirements; Detectability requirements; Standards requirements; and Legal requirements.The implementation of systems engineering requires a flawless interface between team members workingtoward a common system thinking to correctly execute the design process. The focus of this paper wouldbe very much on techniques and challenges on curricular structures, course design, implementation;assessment and evaluation.                                                    1
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PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Systems Engineering Approach in Aircraft Design Education: Techniques and Challenges
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