MECE 348 Contemporary Issues (Aerospace)
Fall 2175
Quiz: Closes @ 11.59 pm on Sunday; Problem Set (general): Dropbox Closes @11.59 on Sunday;
Discussion closes@ 11.59 pm on Sunday
Problem Set (Aerospace) : Dropbox Closes @11.59 on Sunday;
Week
1
2
3
4
Monday
1/17/18
1/30/17
2/6/17
2/13/17
General Content
Course Introduction
Guest Lecturer: none
Download and install MATLAB on your computer
Engineering Economics 1
Guest Lecturer: Bill Humphrey
Engineering Economics 2
Research Resources
Aerospace Content
(link provided by Oldalyn Castillo - who worked on the design)
Friday Meeting
Attendance
Discussion planning
Classification
Contemporary Issues in Aerospace
Discussion1 cont'd
Expectations
Deliverable - your groups formal classification system and how your example fit in the system
Weekly Deliverables
Quiz 1:
Read Chapter 1, 2
Aircraft Design
Areas of Aerospace Engineering
Aircraft Performance
Helicopter Performance
UAV performance
Rocket Performance
Aerospace Vehicle Performance
(Remember first post due by Thu)
Atmosphere, Altitude, Speed
Quiz 2:
Discussion 1:
Read Chapter 2, 3
Aircraft Lift
- Simple calculation of lift for level flight
- How lift is produced
- Airfoils - theoretical and experimental
- Wings - tip vortices, loss of lift, increased drag
- Lift curve slope (2D and 3D)
- induced drag - fudge factor
Aircraft Drag
Level flight: T = D =0.5*rho*V2*S*CD
CD=CD0+CL2/(pi*AR*e)
-Real flow, boundary layer
-skin friction drag, pressure drag, induced drag
-streamlining, pressure drag vs skin friction
separation, pressure recovery, wake
laminar and turbulent flow
Calculations involving level flight aerodynamics - CL, CD, CDi, CDo, angle of attack, friction and pressure drag coefficients
Propulsion systems
-different types
-characterizations
-SimpleCalculations
Aircraft Performance
-Comparison of designs in time
-equations for flight in vertical plane
-Jet engine - steady level flight -
D Vs V, Vmax, , VminD
Discussion 1 - Finish
Discussion 2 - Part 2. Start
Create Financial report for a UAV start up given constraints - see Discussion
Quiz 3:
Problem Set 1:
Read Chapter 4
Discussion 2-Finish
Discussion 1 - invited presentation Gp. 5
Quiz 4:
Discussion 2:
Read Chapter 4
5
2/20/17
2/27/17
Importance of Ethics
Discussion # 3 start
HW set 2 - posted
Discussion # 3 - part 2
Quiz # 5:
Friday - 2/24/17
Refer to "An Aerospace Student Ethics Essay" linked in the discussion.
There are three scenarios in the Essay.
Your group will choose 1 of them and discuss the ethics associated with the scenario in two ways:
1. Does the situation outlined in the scenario violate the ASME code of ethics ? Justify!
(Do this during the class period)
2. Use the ethical decision making tools to be introduced in Mondays lecture (2/27/17) to arrive at your conclusions regarding the ethics involved in the scenario.
Problem Set 2:
6
Ethical Decision Making Tools
Life Cycle Analysis
Break
Technical Writing 1
Technical Writing 2
Engineering and Public Policy
Discussion 3-Complete/Submit
Quiz 6:
Wind Event
-- Project Partner selection
Discussion#4 Followup
Discussion Follow up on 3/10/17
In class on Friday, discuss each article’s relative strong and weak points, keeping in mind its intended audience. Questions you should address include, but are not limited to:
1. Are the key points of the writings clear, concise, and complete?
In what ways could the writing about technical information in each document be more clear and concise?
2. Compare the language/terminology used in each article.
3. Contrast the different ways the authors convey information to the different audiences (e.g. structure, language, figures, etc.).
What works well? What does not work so well?
4. Compare the level of supporting evidence provided.
5. Compare the amount of explanation of the background for the topic provided.
After contrasting and discussing the authors’ approaches to addressing the needs of the audiences, your discussion group should prepare a magazine/news article to explain the information presented in the technical journal article. The magazine’s audience is people who are interested in science and the topic of the journal article, however they have, at most, a BS degree in an unrelated engineering or science field. Think about how the language would change? What additional explanation/supporting material would be needed?
Your submission for this Discussion should include a summary of the comparison of the assigned readings and your short (no more than 2 pages/500 words) magazine article.
Break
Discussion 3:
Read Chapter 6, 7 (text)
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8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
3/6/17
3/13/17
3/20/17
3/27/17
4/3/17
4/10/17
4/17/17
4/24/17
5/1/17
5/8/16
5/15/17
Quiz 7:
Problem Set 3:
Read Chapter 7, 8
Break
Break
Steady level flight of a piston/truboprop
-max level speed, max cruise speed, minimum power speed
- excess power and rate of climb
- Using MATLAB for calculations
- Using symbolic calculations to handle calculus
Rate of Climb
Ceiling
Discussion # 5 - Public Policy
Range Calculation for EMB 120
Endurance Calculation for EMB 120
Presentation Schedule
Discussion this week
A note about Blue Origin
Take off and landing
Quiz 8:
Discussion 4:
Quiz 9:
In class on Friday, each group member should briefly summarize the policy that he or she has identified and researched. The groups should pick one proposed policy to continue further analysis. For the selected proposed policy
Your discussion group should then prepare a summary report that provides a clear description of the policy debate, each key stakeholder and how they will be impacted by the policy as well as how each stakeholder is currently trying to influence the policy, and the role of engineers/scientists in the decision making process.
For the final section of the summary, you should clearly state what your discussion group’s view is regarding how the policy should be resolved. Be sure to justify your viewpoint and provide specific evidence.
Problem Set 4:
Read Chapter 11
Discussion 5:
Read Chapter 11
Making Excellent Presentations
No Class Meeting -Lecture will be available online
Friday Discussion #6 Continued
In class on Friday, each group member should briefly summarize and share with the other group members the Pro’s and Con’s they identified in each of the presentation videos. As a group you should discuss:
You will be developing a presentation for your final project. Your discussion group should brainstorm how they will incorporate approaches and concepts discussed this week to create excellent Final Project Presentations.
Your discussion group should prepare a brief summary report that provides a bulleted list addressing each of the bulleted questions above. Your group should upload the summary report to the Discussion #6 Dropbox by Sunday at 11:59pm.
With intentional and focused discussions the group should be able to complete this assignment by the end of class on Friday.
This discussion is intended to help you start developing your career path plan. Clearly, such plans change with time but, as General (later President) Eisenhower said, “I have found plans to be useless but planning to be indispensable.” Hopefully, you will learn something about your groupmates and also get some fresh ideas or considerations from your groupmates that you hadn’t thought of during your first iteration of a career plan.
Note: This will be a one-week discussion similar to Discussion #6.
After reading the assignment from The Engineer’s Career Guide, complete the first three sections of the Career Planning Workbook (Visualization of Your Ideal Job, Visualization of Your Worst Job, and Identify Your 3, 5 & 10 Year Career Goals) to the best of your ability as you envision your career from your current perspective. You can find the Career Planning Template to use if you would like.
Post your completed worksheets to the discussion board (one thread per group member) by noon on Thursday (11/10). Please review all other discussion group member’s posts by Friday’s class.
Review presentation uploads before Fridays class and provide useful feedback to the other group.
Friday Discussion Prompt
During Friday’s discussion session you should provide specific feedback on the presentation you watched and work with the other group to develop an improved opening to their technical presentation.
Besides giving feedback in person, you need to also reply to the Discussion video post with a list of your specific suggestions, which will count towards your Discussion grade. As you review the video, consider referring to the Tips for Effective Presentation Design and Delivery from week 11 Common Content as a guide.
This weekend you will submit a draft of your Technology Feasibility Report for your peers to review and provide quality and constructive feedback to another group. You and your partner should make a single post to this Thread attaching your Draft Technology Feasibility Report and upload your Draft Technology Feasibility Report to the Dropbox no later than midnight on Sunday, April 30th.
Over the next week, you should read your peers’ report and provide feedback. The goal is to provide comments that will help improve your peers’ Technology Feasibility Report. As you review your peers’ report, put on the hat of the VP’s who have to make a decision about how best to proceed with the emerging technology. You should address the questions and suggestions found in the Checklist for Reviewing Feasibility Reports and FeasibilityPeerReview. You should also use this review checklist yourself when you begin revising your own report.
You should post your specific feedback by replying to the original Draft Report post no later than noon on Thursday, May 4th.
Quiz 11:
Problem Set 5:
Discussion 6:
Career Path
Intellectual Property
Licensure, Professional Societies
Student Presentations
Finals Exam Schedule
Student Presentation:
2.45 pm - 4.45 pm
GLE 3129
Design:
UAV - use as a startup for delivery of high profit items - organic culinary herbs and specialty mushrooms
Advantage of fixed wing aircraft
Unused airfields
Home built aircraft
Experimental Aircraft Association
Autonomous systems
Flight control systems
Refurbishing a kit aircraft for autonomous opertaions
Relaxed FAA certification
Friday's Class is at 8.00 am in Golisano 70-2400
(attendance)
Special Lecture by Dana Purifoy - director of flight operations NASA Neil Armstrong Flight Research center
The last two weeks focus on your report and presentation. Please avoid playing catch up as you will be engaged in peer evaluation.
High Speed Flight (see notes)
Quiz 12:
Discussion 7:
Quiz 13:
Problem Set 6:
Presentation Schedule
Just a Reminder
Over the next week, you should read your peers’ report and provide feedback. The goal is to provide comments that will help improve your peers’ Technology Feasibility Report. As you review your peers’ report, put on the hat of the VP’s who have to make a decision about how best to proceed with the emerging technology. You should address the questions and suggestions found in the Checklist for Reviewing Feasibility Reports and FeasibilityPeerReview. You should also use this review checklist yourself when you begin revising your own report.
You should post your specific feedback by replying to the original Draft Report post no later than noon on Thursday, May 4th.
Today's Content:
FAA certification
MIL Certification
No Class
Quiz 14:
Discussion 7:
No Class
Problem Set 7: