Course Weekly Syllabus

Aerospace Content

Recent aerospace news

Some aerospace designs

Drone Swarm

(link provided by Oldalyn Castillo - who worked on the design)

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)

Jane's All the World Aircraft

Design Parameters

Atmosphere, Altitude, Speed

Quiz 2:

Discussion 1:

Read Chapter 2, 3

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

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:

Discussion 3-Complete/Submit

Quiz 6:

• Final Project, identify a partner and self-register. Decide on an emerging technology to explore together. Feel free to use the discussion board (Final Project Collaboration) to find a partner with similar interests.

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)

Quiz 7:

Problem Set 3:

Read Chapter 7, 8

Break

Remarks on the project Memo

Discussion 4 - wrap up

Space X Trajectory

NASA 100 Yrs

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

• Brainstorm all key stakeholders (e.g. companies, local or state governments, particular industries, environment, rate payers, residents of a community, etc.) that might be impacted by the policy. Try to be as extensive as possible.
• Discuss possible ways the stakeholders might be impacted by the policy. Try to be as specific as possible. Assign stakeholders to each of your discussion group members to further investigate impact on stakeholder and position of the stakeholder by using research skills discussed in week four. All findings should be posted online before the 2nd Friday in-class discussion.
• Compile the main arguments made in support of or against the proposal policy based on your stakeholder research.
• Investigate to what extent engineers and scientists have been involved with the current public policy debate. Discuss ways you think engineers and scientists should be more involved in the policy discussion and why.

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 Wrap up

Current Policy Discussion in Congress

This week in Technology

Quiz 10:

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:

• Who is the primary audience for each presentation?
• What do the presenters do to initially engage their audiences?
• How did the presenters keep their audiences engaged throughout the presentation?
• Was the right level of information presented for the audience? Was the information a “need to know” or “nice to know”?
• What different ways did the presenters use to convey information (e.g. plot, pictures, list, etc.) and what was effective?
• How did the presenters conclude the presentation? Was the closing effective?

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 30^th.

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 4^th.

Quiz 11:

Problem Set 5:

Discussion 6:

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)

AIAA News Today

Quiz 12:

Discussion 7:

Quiz 13:

Problem Set 6:

Quiz 14:

Discussion 7:

No Class

Problem Set 7: