Engineering Education Lab

Development of engineering students' technical and professional competencies

Research Streams

Aerospace Engineering Education

We explore students' experiences in aerospace engineering programs.

1. • Learning experiences that affect aerospace students' intentions to leave or stay

   • Recommendations to improve learning experiences

   • Engagement of students in aerospace activities and generate excitement

This research stream examines different types of learning experiences encountered by aerospace engineering students and how individual and combinations of learning experiences affect student intention to stay in the aerospace field. We also engage in various aeronautical and aerospace activities to excite a future generation of aerospace engineers.

Relevant publications and activities

• Why undergraduate students choose and leave their aerospace engineering degree, by B. Ciccotosto, U. Tobey, S. Santos, and B. Ahn, International Review of Aerospace Engineering, vol. 14, no. 5, 2021.

• Food in Flight via High Altitude Balloon Experiments in Technology (HABET) Flight