The paper, after introducing an overview of Aerospace Engineering courses organization, describes the Design-Lab teaching activity offered to the third year undergraduate students and reports a critical analysis of six years of activity, that involved till now 478 students. During the presentation will be illustrated the encountered difficulties, in particular related to the large number of participating students, and on the other hand the positive feedbacks received from the students. Two examples of Design-Lab will be reported and finally an overview of future implementation of these multidisciplinary activities into the reshaped Aerospace Engineering course organization, for a better CDIO implementation purpose, will be provided.
Pages:
13
Affiliations:
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Keywords:
aerospace engineering
Design-lab
CDIO
multi-disciplinary
Year:
2008
Reference:
Crawley, E. F., Greitzer, E.M., Widnall, S.E., Hall, S.R., et. al., “Reform of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Curriculum at MIT”, ASEE Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 83, No. 1, pages 47- 56, January 1994. :
Crawley, E.F., “The CDIO Syllabus: A Statement of Goals for Undergraduate Engineering Education”, MIT, Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Source: http://www.cdio.org, May 2002 :
Olivier De Weck, O, Willcox, K, “Trends in Multidisciplinary Engineering Education: 2006 and Beyond”, 11thAIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Portsmouth, Virginia, September 7, 2006. :
Kim I.L., de Weck O.L., Nadir W., Young P., Wallace D., “Innovative Modern Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping Course: A Rewarding CAD/CAE/CAM Experience for Undergraduates”, Session 332, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) 2004 Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 20-23, 2004 :
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