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Journal articles on the topic "Aeronautical engineers in fiction"
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Varrasi, John. "Reach for the Sky." Mechanical Engineering 127, no. 09 (September 1, 2005): 44–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2005-sep-5.
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This article highlights that for centuries although space was the realm of wonder and fascination, of fiction and children’s bedtime stories, of shooting balls of fire and faraway heavenly bodies; still it was less than 50 years ago that things began to change in earnest. Enormous engineering resources were invested in the US space program during the 1960s. By the end of the decade, engineers had gained a sufficient level of knowledge about chemical rockets and storable propellants and turned their attention to other technologies, such as noise control and advanced computer systems. In its tradition of recognizing technological achievement, ASME has bestowed honors and awards on numerous engineers and scientists associated with the nation's space program. ASME’s publications and conferences have been important vehicles for disseminating technical information on aerospace and aeronautics technology. The Society’s Aerospace Division, which predates the lunar program, has been one of the most active sectors of ASME's technical divisions.
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SMITH, NICK. "HILDA LYON: AERONAUTICAL PIONEER." Engineer 300, no. 7913 (January 2020): 50–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/s0013-7758(22)90057-1.
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Culick, F. E. C. "The Wright Brothers: First Aeronautical Engineers and Test Pilots." AIAA Journal 41, no. 6 (June 2003): 985–1006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/2.2046.
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Yadav, Devinder K., and Hamid Nikraz. "AN INSIGHT INTO PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION OF TECHNICAL PERSONNEL IN AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRY." Aviation 16, no. 2 (June 29, 2012): 51–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/16487788.2012.701854.
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The aeronautical industry is a powerful force for progress in our modern global society. Industrial activities in this industry started to accelerate in the beginning of the 20th century, and the number of aircraft in airspace for civil purposes started increasing. Consequently, the industry and the personnel associated with aircraft were required to be regulated to ensure the safety and reliability of the product. Currently, various categories of personnel related to operations, airworthiness, and maintenance of aircraft are licensed by statute. Government authorities consider registration or licensing an instrument for controlling and regulating the professionals. This paper is primarily focused on licensing and approval of different categories of aeronautical engineers. It discusses the importance of the licensing of engineers in the aeronautical industry and presents a critical review of various licensing standards and practices, including the standard recommended by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). This paper also argues that the license issued by a contracting state of the ICAO must be fully convertible in another state, because it is granted by a member state in conformance with the standards recommended by the ICAO.
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Goraj, Zdobyslaw, Jonas Stankunas, Martinsh Kleinhofs, Villu Mikita, and Antonin Pištek. "A SHORT HISTORY OF SEMINARS ON “RECENT RESEARCH AND DESIGN PROGRESS IN AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING AND ITS INFLUENCE ON EDUCATION”." Aviation 11, no. 1 (March 31, 2007): 3–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/16487788.2007.9635948.
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The aeronautical sciences and aerospace industry are by nature international. Coming from this thesis, we decided in 1994 to organise an international meeting, further called the Seminar, devoted to “RECENT RESEARCH AND DESIGN PROGRESS IN AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING AND ITS INFLUENCE ON EDUCATION”. The objective of that first Seminar and following ones was to organise a multinational forum for discussion and interchange of aeronautical issues and subjects, focusing on their influence on university education. Other goals included promoting international co-operation in the study of the problems in aeronautical science and technology in which there was a common interest and facilitating personal contacts between scientists, university lecturers, and industrial engineers. Our area of interest was aeronautical technology, as it is widely understood. The special focus of our Seminars was concentrated on Aircraft Design, Aircraft Oriented Aerodynamics, Flight Dynamics, Helicopter Dynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Materials and Structures, Control and Flight Tests. All these topics and their influence on the teaching process at a technical university were considered — what we believe is a specific feature of our Seminars. We notice a mutual influence between contemporary research and education; it is impossible to deliver a modern university lecture without conducting one’s own serious research or design, and it is almost impossible to become a serious, successful researcher or designer without being a graduate of a good, contemporary university. The other specific feature of our Seminars is a student session. An international jury of professors and deans from aerospace faculties all over the world observes the sessions and awarded the best student papers diplomas (sometimes with small prizes contributed by different institutions). We believe that the student sessions promote personal contacts between students and foreign lecturers and encourage students to work harder in the future. For all of us, it is the promise of a new generation of engineers, designers and scientists.
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Lord Kings, Norton. "Extract from A Wrack Behind." Aeronautical Journal 103, no. 1022 (April 1999): 214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000192400009655x.
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In 1943, with the world still at war, a great discussion on the future of aeronautical education was held by the Royal Aeronautical Society. Not only would the war years, however many were still to come, demand more well-qualified aeronautical engineers, but the longed for peace years, with engineers turning swords into ploughshares, would want more. The discussion was in two parts. One took place on 25 June and the other on 23 July. Many of the leading figures in British aeronautics took part and in the chair on both occasions was Dr Roxbee Cox, a vice-president of the society. The discussion culminated in a resolution based on a proposal by Marcus Langley. That resolution and the discussion which led to it resulted in the recommendation by the Aeronautical Research Committee that a post-graduate college of aeronautical science should be established. This was followed by governmental action. Sir Stafford Cripps, then the minister responsible for aircraft production, set up a committee presided over by Sir Roy Fedden to make specific proposals, and the committee recommended in its 1944 report that such a college should be a new and independent establishment. In 1945 the government created the College of Aeronautics board of governors under the chairmanship of Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt to bring the college into existence and govern it. The first meeting of this board took place on 28 June 1945 and there were present: Sir Edgar Ludlow Hewitt, Dr W. Abbot, Mr Hugh Burroughs, Sir Roy Fedden, Mr J. Ferguson, Sir Harold Hartley, Sir William Hil-dred, Sir Melvill Jones, Dr E.B. Moullin, Mr J.D. North, Sir Frederick Handley Page, Mr E.F. Relf, Dr H. Roxbee Cox, Air Marshal Sir Ralph Sovley, Rear Admiral S.H. Troubridge and Mr W.E.P. Ward. Sir William Stanier, who had been appointed, was not present.
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Crawley, Edward F., Doris R. Brodeur, and Diane H. Soderholm. "The Education of Future Aeronautical Engineers: Conceiving, Designing, Implementing and Operating." Journal of Science Education and Technology 17, no. 2 (April 2008): 138–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10956-008-9088-4.
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Girão, André F., María C. Serrano, António Completo, and Paula A. A. P. Marques. "Do biomedical engineers dream of graphene sheets?" Biomaterials Science 7, no. 4 (2019): 1228–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8bm01636d.
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Maguire, Muireann. "Aleksei N. Tolstoi and the Enigmatic Engineer: A Case of Vicarious Revisionism." Slavic Review 72, no. 2 (2013): 247–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.72.2.0247.
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In this article, Muireann Maguire examines the cultural construction of the trope of the engineer-inventor in Russia during the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on the changing representation of this archetype in three science fiction novels by Aleksei Tolstoi: Aelita (1922-23), Soiuzpiati (The Gang of Five, 1925), and Giperboloid inzhenera Garina (Engineer Garin's Death Ray, 1925-26). Tolstoi's fiction portrays engineers as misguided and self-centred at best and as amoral, megalomaniacal, and irredeemably un-Soviet at worst. This increasingly negative portrayal of the engineers in these novels, and in their later redactions and cinema versions, helped to prepare the way for the alienation of engineer and technical specialist within Soviet society, providing cultural justification for Iosif Stalin's show trials and purges of both categories in the 1930s. Tolstoi's alienation of the engineer-inventor, the traditional hero of early Soviet nauchnaia fantastika (science fiction), prefigured the occlusion of science fiction as a mainstream literary genre. As a trained engineer, former aristocrat, and returned émigré whose own status in Soviet Russia was deeply compromised, Tolstoi's literary demonization of engineers effectively purchased his own acceptance within the Stalinist literary hierarchy.
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Florman, Samuel C., and Walter G. Vincenti. "What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History." Technology and Culture 33, no. 1 (January 1992): 140. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105813.
Full textDissertations / Theses on the topic "Aeronautical engineers in fiction"
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Stevens, D. R. "The novelist as engineer a thesis on credible engineering components of fiction novels (supplemented by an "engineering" fiction novel) /." View thesis, 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/39903.
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Thesis (M. Eng. (Hons.)) -- University of Western Sydney, 2007.A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney, College of Health and Science, School of Engineering, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering (Hons.). Includes bibliographical references.
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Slusser, Daniel Lawrence. "Learning to Fly: The Untold Story of How the Wright Brothers Learned To Be The World's First Aeronautical Engineers." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2011. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/554.
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This paper examines the education, events, and experiences of the Wright brothers in order to determine how they developed the necessary skills to engineer the first viable aircraft. Without high school diplomas, and with no advanced formal education, the Wright brothers were able to develop aircraft that far exceeded the capabilities of aircraft designed and built by professional engineers that had worked on the problem of flight for much longer and with substantially larger research budgets. I argue that the Wright brothers’ success resulted from their experiences in the printing and bicycle industries as well as their formal and informal educations at school and in the home.
In the printing business it was their experiences designing and building printing presses, printing newspapers, and operating a job printing shop that taught them how to build machinery and work efficiently and methodically. These same skills were perfected as the Wright brothers managed their second business venture: The Wright Cycle Exchange.While working at the bicycle shop the Wrights learned to be proficient machinists as well as expert mechanics and frame builders. This industry provided them with many skills such as brazing and machining that would be directly applicable to aircraft fabrication. In addition to these skills, building bicycle frames and wheels taught them practical material limits and structural design that informed their aircraft design decisions. Moreover, bicycle design influenced their approach to aircraft control and aerodynamic theory that gave them an edge over other aeronautical experimenters in their race to the sky.
When these skills were combined with their rigid religious upbringing, the Wright brothers were uniquely prepared to solve the complex problem of practical human flight. It was the combination of their fabrication skills, understanding of material limits, dogged determination, methodical testing procedures, and their unique approach to aircraft control that was informed by their experiences with bicycles that made them the first in flight.
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Stevens, D. R., University of Western Sydney, College of Health and Science, and School of Engineering. "The novelist as engineer : a thesis on credible engineering components of fiction novels (supplemented by an "engineering" fiction novel)." 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/39903.
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This thesis investigates not so much the engineer as a character in fiction but the writer of fiction, the novelist, as a person who can have surprising insights into engineering principles without formal study or training in engineering. The engineer has featured in fiction novels significantly in the last century. The engineer as a protagonist in the novel on many occasions has been created by an author who is not an engineer. The same comment could well be made regarding the writers of science fiction who indeed are not necessarily scientists but write credibly about scientific inventions, usually set in the future. This thesis argues that there is a distinction between writing science fiction and writing about engineering, although the two are often combined in the one novel. This thesis distinguishes science fiction (Sci-Fi) from what is described as En-Fi or engineering fiction. Engineering fiction or En-Fi is based upon real life engineering feats, if one accepts that the definition of engineering is the “application” of science and technology. The specific hypothesis of this thesis is that credible engineering fiction (En- Fi) can be constructed by non-engineer trained authors. To support this hypothesis there is both a review of novels with the engineer as a central character and an examination of novels where engineering concepts used in developing a storyline are outlined in detail. Indeed, to support the above hypothesis a supplementary “En-Fi” novel has been created. This novel, titled, “Amber Reins Fall”, is used as the central device in addition to the literature review to prove that a writer untrained in engineering can write an En-Fi novel that has a high degree of credibility in engineering terms. The construction of this engineering fiction (En-Fi) novel is carried out in detail outlining the various engineering devices used to strengthen the storyline. Examples of engineering such as a light engineering factory of the 1950’s, operational aspects of the Panama Canal and the disposal of nuclear waste in the Australian desert are included in the novel. Three other novels by the author (of this thesis) are included as part of the argument supporting the hypothesis. They also demonstrate the combination of En-Fi and Sci-Fi. In the first novel “Greenwars” (d’ettut 1998) the overriding engineering component is AARDVARK (accelerated animal reasoning, decision making, voicing and reflective kinetics); the interactive voting video and dolphin scooters. The second novel “Pie Square” (d’ettut 2000) has as the major engineering component the interactive video games. The third novel, “Vampire Cities” (d’ettut 2000) has as the major engineering component a conductor’s baton (although this might be construed as science fiction). Two of the actual novels, “Greenwars” and “Pie Square” have been appended as part of the thesis presentation. They both deal with the central character “Adam Teforp”, also featured in “Amber Reins Fall”. “Vampire Cities” has not been appended as this critical character is not part of that novel. The literature review and the construction of ����Amber Reins Fall���� point to the validity of the hypothesis; that is that non-engineers can write convincing engineering orientated novels. Its also asserted that there is sufficient evidence to recognize a genre called En-Fi, different from the science fiction genre.Master of Engineering (Hons.)
Books on the topic "Aeronautical engineers in fiction"
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Salz, Hanuš. "Etrich - The Aeronautical Work and Life of DSc h.c. Igo Etrich (1879-1967)." In Engineering and Engineers, 161–69. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.dda-eb.4.00823.
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Caeners, Torsten. "Negotiating the Human in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus." In Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction, 199–226. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496816696.003.0010.
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Using psychoanalytic theories, Torsten Caeners places the film Prometheus squarely in the canon of YA literature. The characters Elizabeth and the android David are “ciphers for young adult concerns of coming of age.” The crew of the spaceship Prometheus discovers the Engineers, superhuman aliens who created humans. Elizabeth, obsessed with origins, believes they have found the source of humanity, but because of her refusal to let go of her belief paradigms (represented by her father, God, science, and finally the Engineers) she remains in stasis and even moves backward from transitioning in her development. David, though, is the true adolescent, in-between human and nonhuman, moving on and changing, experiencing transformations—the hallmark of posthumanism—serially. Caeners argues that posthumanism is adolescence, as both are liminal conditions, fluid, boundary-less, marked by the angst of transformation and new possibilities.
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Kollmann, Karl, Calum E. Douglas, and S. Can Gülen. "Prelude." In Turbo/Supercharger Compressors and Turbines for Aircraft Propulsion in WWII: Theory, History and Practice—Guidance from the Past for Modern Engineers and Students, 1–7. ASME, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.884676_ch1.
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kollmann is one of the most important aeronautical engineers in the story of piston aeroengine development in Germany in WWII. In 12 years, Dr.-Ing. Kollmann progressed from the role of senior engineer to chief engineer of the aeroengine design department in Daimler-Benz. This book is an historical record of his own engineering work in developing high performance piston aeroengines. The original document that Dr.-Ing. Kollmann wrote in 1947 is presented here in English with extensive additional material by the authors.
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Almanza, German, Victor M. Carrillo, and Cely C. Ronquillo. "Optimization of Utility Functions in an Admissible Space of Higher Dimension." In Handbook of Research on Military, Aeronautical, and Maritime Logistics and Operations, 102–13. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9779-9.ch006.
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S. Smale published a paper where announce a theorem which optimize a several utility functions at once (cf. Smale, 1975) using Morse Theory, this is a very abstract subject that require high skills in Differential Topology and Algebraic Topology. Our goal in this paper is announce the same theorems in terms of Calculus of Manifolds and Linear Algebra, those subjects are more reachable to engineers and economists whom are concern with maximizing functions in several variables. Moreover, the elements involved in our theorems are accessible to graduate students, also we putting forward the results we consider economically relevant.
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Michaud, Thomas. "The Imaginary Structure of the Fourth Industrial Revolution." In Imagination, Creativity, and Responsible Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, 63–79. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9188-7.ch002.
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Science fiction is increasingly involved in innovation processes in technological sectors. The imaginary, through design fiction, stimulates the creativity of decision makers and engineers who work to create a better world through technoscience. Science fiction participates in global innovation by constructing sectoral myths and by proposing a new form of rationality integrating the technical imaginary. Imaginnovation is a neologism, a synthesis of the terms imagination and innovation. This practice, already developed in several companies and organizations, will guide the decision-making process during the next industrial revolution. Science fiction appeared more than 200 years ago, when technical progress profoundly changed society. It later became an integral dimension of collective psychology. Its critical dimension must also be considered as a structuring element of the contemporary technical imagination. Innovation realizes imagination and science fiction allows the productive system to access the unconscious fantasies of individuals and social groups.
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Enns, Anthony. "Information Theory of the Soul." In Believing in Bits, 37–54. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190949983.003.0003.
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This chapter examines the similarities between the techno-fantasies promoted by the modern spiritualist movement and the claims made by contemporary scientists and engineers with regard to the uploading of human consciousness onto computers. It argues that these similarities help to explain why spiritualist concepts, such as the survival of the soul after death and the possibility of communication with disembodied spirits, appear so frequently in contemporary science fiction narratives, which often depict the survival of human personalities as virtual subjects in cyberspace. Instead of celebrating these spiritual possibilities, however, science fiction narratives often represent simulated experience as a loss of true identity and agency, which more closely resembles the arguments made by the opponents of spiritualism in the nineteenth century. Spiritualist concepts thus remain relevant today because they continue to serve as a common language for representing and critiquing the effects of new information technologies.
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Cubitt, Sean. "Temporalities of the Glitch: Déjà Vu." In Indefinite Visions. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407120.003.0018.
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Glitch describes the visual and auditory effects of interruptions of electronic signals. Glitches may be caused by naturally occurring electromagnetic noise, by electromagnetic effects of the technology, or by errors in coding, storage or transmission. Glitches have been treated as noise by engineers, but used by artists to foreground the materiality of the medium in recording, transmission and reception. This chapter investigates these interruptions of image/signal, and the deliberate instigation or emulation of glitch effects in fiction, where typically they work to indicate the diegetic authenticity of fictional media, notably in the trans-temporal transmissions of Déjà Vu (Tony Scott, 2006), which forms the major case study. Foregrounding imperfection and the materiality of media, glitches interrupt the dominant temporal regimes of contemporary media and society.
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Keats, Jonathon. "Spime." In Virtual Words. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195398540.003.0035.
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The word robot first appeared in print in 1920, forty-one years before robotics became an industrial reality. Derived from the Czech term robota, meaning “forced labor,” the name was given to the automata in R.U.R., a play by Karel Čapek in which machines manufactured by humans eradicate their creators. When the play traveled to the United States in 1922, the New York Times called it “a Czecho-Slovak Frankenstein.” Isaac Asimov was somewhat less charitable in a 1979 essay: “Capek’s play is, in my own opinion, a terribly bad one, but it is immortal for that one word. It contributed the word ‘robot’ not only to English but, through English, to all the languages in which science fiction is now written.” Asimov was himself one of the foremost authors of this genre, coining the word robotics in a 1941 story, and nine years later formulating the Three Laws of Robotics, the first code of conduct for machines. Those laws have immeasurably influenced real-world engineers in the decades since the first working robot, the four-thousand-pound Unimate, was installed in a General Motors plant in 1961, just one example of how Čapek’s immortal word, freed of its trite theatrical frame, has profoundly impacted the evolution of technology. The fate of R.U.R. stimulates a provocative question: Can an effective work of science fiction be written in a single word? At least one seems worthy of consideration. That word is spime. Spime was coined by Bruce Sterling, a Hugo Award–winning author of numerous sci-fi novels that have helped to define cyberpunk. Many of those novels, such as Heavy Weather and Holy Fire, are set in the near future, presenting dystopic visions of what our world might become if we continue to behave as irresponsibly as we have in the past. Heavy Weather, for instance, is a story of a globally warmed environment ravaged by tornadoes, one of which threatens to devastate the planet unless “hacked” by a cyberpunk Storm Troupe.
Conference papers on the topic "Aeronautical engineers in fiction"
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Crawley, Edward, Doris Brodeur, and Robert Niewoeher. "The Education of Future Aeronautical Engineers: Conceiving, Designing, Implementing and Operating." In 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition. Reston, Virigina: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2010-531.
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Gonzalez, Luis. "Aircraft Detail Design Course at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University." In ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2014-34013.
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The capstone course in aircraft detail design at the Aerospace Engineering department of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will be presented. It is structured as a balanced mixture of lectures and a real-world project given by industry with some other activities carefully conceived to address specific deficiencies encountered in traditional engineering education; specifically, the dissociation in the students minds, or even practicing engineers, between abstract or numerical analysis and real-world design. In earlier semesters students tend to be exposed only to “clean” problems, where only one type of loading or deformation is considered or where certain aspects of the problem, such as attachments, are left out. Furthermore, in many cases these disciplines are taught in isolation, detached from their natural context. This results in students lacking a sense of feel and touch for structural analysis, something also observed for other engineering disciplines; capable of manipulating mathematical formulae but without understanding what the numbers they calculate really mean and therefore deprived of confidence about whether their design is sound or not. A special innovative learning experience at the beginning of the term has been implemented to deal with these problems, which consists, in essence, in a condensed version of the semester-long project.
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Zucca, S., C. M. Firrone, and M. Facchini. "A Method for the Design of Ring Dampers for Gears in Aeronautical Applications." In ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2010-38788.
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In order to reduce resonant vibration of thin walled gears used for aeronautical applications, friction ring dampers may be added to the gear. In order to design the damper geometry, engineers must be able to evaluate its effect on the dynamics of the gear. In this paper a method for the calculation of the forced response of gears with friction ring dampers for aeronautical applications is proposed for the first time. The gear and the damper are modeled by means of FEM and they are coupled by means of contact elements, characterized by tangential and normal contact stiffness. The periodical response of the system is computed in the frequency domain, by means of the harmonic balance method. The harmonic excitation is calculated by means of Fourier analysis of the periodic force profile acting on the gear teeth. The methodology is applied to a case of industrial interest. The effect of the principal design parameters of the ring damper is highlighted.
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Platzer, Max, and Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn. "A Novel Approach to Extract Power From Free-Flowing Water and High Altitude Jet Streams." In ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2009-90146.
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It is well known to aeronautical engineers that oscillating wings may extract power from an air stream. The bending and torsion flexure of airplane wings exposed to an air flow may extract sufficient energy to result in structural damage or even catastrophic failure. Fortunately, this phenomenon can also be used to extract energy from a wind or water stream and convert it into electric power.
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von Hoyningen-Huene, Martin, Walter Wedig, Julie Jeanpert, and André Edel. "A Comparative View of Engineering Training in the US, Germany, and France With Special Focus on Turbomachinery-Relevant Skills." In ASME 1999 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exhibition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/99-gt-323.
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In this study, the status quo of university engineering education in the US, Germany, and France is presented. The different ways of training mechanical and aeronautical engineers are compared. Based on this, the strengths and weaknesses of their “products”, the outcoming engineers at Bachelor’s and Master’s level, are analyzed in respect to the needs in industry. After a presentation of new tendencies and concepts in engineering education in the three countries under concern, the authors outline their vision of an engineer’s training. Some of these proposals are currently under realization in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Karlsruhe and at the Grande Ecole ENSAM in Paris that jointly have pursued this broad study.
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Flachsbart, B. R., S. Prakash, J. Yeom, Y. Wu, G. Z. Mozsgai, Z. C. Leseman, K. Wong, et al. "Theory, Fabrication, and Characterization of MEMS Devices: An Interdisciplinary Course for Mechanical Engineers." In ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2006-13741.
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The need to provide students with hands-on instruction in the fabrication of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) led to the development of an upper-undergraduate, introductory-graduate, laboratory course offered each spring in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering (MechSE). The laboratory is taught in a class 100 cleanroom located in, and operated by, the MechSE department. Fabrication and testing of two MEMS device projects, a piezoresistive membrane pressure sensor and a microfluidic logic chip, facilitate the teaching of standard fabrication procedures, fabrication tool operation, and cleanroom protocols. The course appeals across disciplines as evident by half the students coming from other departments (chemical engineering, chemistry, material science, physics, electrical engineering, aeronautical engineering, etc.). The course also serves to attract prospective graduate students as many students continue to use the cleanroom in their graduate level research. This course broadly covers MEMS fabrication theory while maintaining a focus on practical understanding and laboratory application of that theory. The lecture is tied closely to the laboratory work by covering the tool and procedure theory that is used in the lab each week. An exciting aspect of the course is the hands-on learning experience the students get by independently operating the fabrication equipment themselves, including metal deposition tools, reactive ion etch (RIE) tools, lithography tools (spinners, mask aligners, etc.), and bath etchers and cleaners. Safety is an important aspect of the course where students are tested on safety protocol, Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) and National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) familiarity, personal protection procedures, etc. The students also learn benchmark fabrication procedures including standard cleaning protocols (with ultrasonics), the Bosch RIE etching of silicon microstructures, and anisotropic etching of silicon. The piezoresistive membrane pressure sensor project facilitates an understanding of the residual stresses involved in thin-film deposition, stress-strain relationships, and signal analysis for transduction mechanisms. The microfluidic logic chip project, a chip of logic gates (NAND, NOR, etc.) and a half-adder, facilitates understanding fundamental principles of microfluidics, the Navier-Stokes equation, and flow in microchannels. This course, originally sponsored by Intel Corporation, prepares Mechanical Engineers in a multi-disciplinary environment to learn both the practical fundamentals and the theoretical basis of basic and advanced microfabrication that goes beyond the usual CMOS fabrication theory and methodology taught in Electrical Engineering for the microelectronics bound students. As evident from its popularity, the course also serves to excite and equip students for the important Mechanical Engineering field of MEMS.
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Gharib, Mohamed, Benjamin Cieslinski, Brady Creel, and Tala Katbeh. "A Model Engineering-Based STEM Learning Program." In ASME 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10360.
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Abstract Over the years, various programs have been created to entice students to the STEM disciplines at early stages of their education. This paper gives insight to STEM education pedagogy through a model STEM program — named “Future Engineers”. Future Engineers was developed and implemented at Texas A&M University at Qatar with the aim of developing and channeling students’ critical thinking skills to apply science and engineering approaches to a real-life problem. The theme of the program was aeronautical engineering and it enabled the students to apply what they have learned in hands-on activities and competitions that challenged the students into performing an objective analysis approach to their designs. Throughout the program, students learned about the advancements of flight instrumentation and how aviation evolved into today’s specialized career field. In addition, the program topics included the standard atmosphere, airplane flight principles, structural concepts, airplane stability, material selection, aerodynamics, and wing airfoil selection. The program encapsulates concepts related to physics, mathematics, engineering, 3D CAD modeling, and 3D printing. This paper identifies the different phases of the program development and the program outcomes in terms of projects created. Future Engineers displayed a significant impact toward the students’ motivation to explore and learn more about science and engineering.
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Coddet, C., G. Montavon, M. Verdier, S. Costil, and G. Barbezat. "PROTAL Processing of Titanium Alloys as an Alternative to Degreasing and Grit-Blasting Prior to Thermal Spraying." In ITSC2001, edited by Christopher C. Berndt, Khiam A. Khor, and Erich F. Lugscheider. ASM International, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.31399/asm.cp.itsc2001p1321.
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Abstract Titanium alloys exhibit high specific strength characteristics. They are for this reason widely used by aeronautical engineers mostly to design airframes and gas turbine components. Very often, surface treatments are applied to locally increase the surface properties, especially to obtain a better resistance against wear. Thermal spraying is largely used to manufacture these coatings. This technology requires a specific surface preparation prior to the spraying stage. This surface preparation conventionally consists in surface degreasing and grit-blasting which has some drawbacks, among them a significant decrease of the components fatigue resistance due to the notch-sensitive behavior of these alloys. The PROTAL process consists in combining surface cleaning based on laser ablation to the deposition stage thus avoiding grit-blasting. This paper aims to present an overview of the possibilities offered by this process for the coating of titanium alloys; the criticality of the different processing parameters is studied and discussed.
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Pullen, K. R., A. W. Court, and C. B. Besant. "The Advanced Turbogenerator Project — A Total Technology Education Experience for Engineering Undergraduate Students." In ASME 1998 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exhibition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/98-gt-023.
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The preparation of engineering students for industrial careers after graduating is a vital part of the education process at university. It is the responsibility of the university to teach sound foundations of engineering science but this on its own is not sufficient preparation. The subject of design has been identified as a valuable means by which engineering science can be applied at advanced levels but at the same time teach students skills which are necessary for successful careers in industry. Three years ago, five senior engineers from UK industry were appointed as Visiting Professors in Engineering Design with the support of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In was decided after discussions with academics at the college to undertake a project entitled the Advanced Turbogenerator project (ATG). The project was to be conducted by a large team of undergraduates with the aim of producing a design and finally an actual small gas turbine of 50 kW output. Applications for the small gas turbine include the highly topical hybrid vehicle propulsion powertrain and compact low emissions generator sets. The paper describes the progress made in the project in two years which has involved over 30 final year engineering students in the Mechanical, Electrical, Aeronautical and Materials Science Departments. The students have found the project very challenging but have experienced an unusually high level of motivation and commitment to the work. They have been provided with state of the art software and have demonstrated that realistic designs can be produced with the guidance of experienced gas turbine engineers. The project has been reviewed by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and both have expressed the highest support for the programme. It is intended to continue the project next year with the intention of turning the design into prototype hardware.
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King, Alex, Matt Del Buono, Jonathan Marolf, Michael Dop, and Richard S. Stansbury. "An Intelligent System for Improving the Efficiency of a PHEV for the EcoCar Challenge." In ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2009-90309.
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Globally, significant efforts are being made to reduce green-house gases and decrease the demand of fossil fuels. Automotive manufacturers are offering significantly more “green” versions of their popular automobiles in order to combat the negative impact of rising fuel prices. The EcoCar Challenge is a college-level competition primarily sponsored by General Motors and the United States Department of Energy in an effort to provide global awareness of this effort and educate future engineers in the processes and technologies used to construct fuel economic hybrid vehicles. The program consists of 17 teams with a wide variety of hybrid vehicle types. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is implementing a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) through the modification of a stock 2009 Saturn Vue as described in [1]. This paper presents the Intelligent Drive Efficiency Assistant (IDEA) system a hardware/software component being added to ERAU’s EcoCar vehicle. The IDEA system uses artificial intelligence techniques to analyze the driving conditions ahead (terrain, traffic, and anticipated torque requirements) to select the best operating mode for the hybrid vehicle. The IDEA system submits its recommendation to a hybrid or supervisory control unit, presented in [2], which does the necessary work to transition the vehicle into that operating mode (so long as it deems the request safe). This preemptive strategy is believed to provide two key benefits. First, through learning algorithms, new control strategies may be developed based on the driving conditions and past experience. Second, by preemptively making recommendations ahead of a driving event such as an uphill climb, or a frequent stop in rush-hour traffic, it is believed that there will be less energy wasted by not waiting until the need arises to start making the transition between hybrid modes. Within this paper, the initial design of the IDEA system is be presented, and the evaluation plan using hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop simulation is discussed.