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MECE 348 Contemporary Issues (Aerospace)
Spring: 2165
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) : Paper Copy due by Mon 11 am to Instructor/ME Office
Week
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Monday
1/23/17
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
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:
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Ethical Decision Making Tools
Life Cycle Analysis
Break
Technical Writing 1
Technical Writing 2
Engineering and Public Policy
Making Excellent Presentations
Career Path
Intellectual Property
Licensure, Professional Societies
Student Presentations
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
Student Presentations
Discussion 3:
Read Chapter 6, 7 (text)
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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
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
Quiz 8:
Discussion 4:
- project groups
-project reports
-rate of climb
-absolute and service ceilings
-cirrus - cruise altitude
Short Takeoff competition
Aircraft Design
- Conceptual design
-Preliminary design
- Detail Design
Aircraft Regulation
- Civil standards
- Military standards
- About presentations
-High Speed flight and design issues
Student Presentations
Quiz 9:
Problem Set 4:
Read Chapter 11
Quiz 10:
Discussion 5:
Read Chapter 11
Quiz 11:
Problem Set 5:
Quiz 12:
Discussion 6:
Quiz 13:
Problem Set 6:
Quiz 14:
Discussion 7:
Problem Set 7:
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