Globalization, technology, and risk sharing business partnerships have changed the landscape of large scale systems integration. In today's business environment, the traditional style of knowledge transfer presuppositions and foundations are inadequate for dissemination of process knowledge in a global multi-cultural environment. The following paper describes a research university -industry approach as well as knowledge transfer strategies for successfully implementing a "Multi-site, cloud based capstone design project" within a cross cultural peer-to-peer design-build-test environment. Within this environment students were exposed to the industry principles of collaborative digital design and manufacturing targeting complex cyber-mechanical systems. Proper software selection, especially to facilitate instantaneous file sharing, collaborative analysis, and face-to-face meetings proved critical to the students' success. Given ever increasing computing power and proliferation and familiarity of the current generation with social networking applications and virtual design-build-test methodologies for design verification and quality assurance demonstrate a major advancement and departure from traditional aircraft design and manufacturing approaches.
Michael Richey is an Associate Technical Fellow currently assigned to support workforce development and engineering education research. Michael is responsible for leading learning science research, which focuses on learning ecologies, complex adaptive social systems and learning curves. Michael pursues this research agenda with the goal of understanding the interplay between innovation, knowledge transfer and economies of scale as they are manifested in questions of growth, evolvability, adaptability and sustainability.Additional responsibilities include providing business leadership for engineering technical and professional educational programs. This includes topics in advanced aircraft construction, composites structures and product lifecycle management. Michael is responsible for leading cross-organizational teams from academic, government focusing on how engineering education must acknowledge and incorporate this new information and knowledge to build new methodologies and paradigms that engage these developments in practice. The objective of this research is focused on achieving continuous improvement and sustainable excellence in engineering education. Upon completing his B.S. degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Camarda began work for NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, in 1974. He was a research scientist in the Thermal Structures Branch of the Structures and Materials Division and was responsible for demonstrating the feasibility of a heat-pipe-cooled leading edge for Space Shuttle by analysis, laboratory experiments, and aerothermal testing in Langley's 8-foot High Temperature Tunnel. He conducted analytical and experimental research in heat pipes, structural mechanics and dynamics, heat transfer, and numerical optimization for aircraft, spacecraft, and space launch vehicles. While at Langley, Camarda earned his masters' degree from George Washington University in Engineering Science with emphasis on mechanics of composite structures at elevated temperature and his doctorate degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with emphasis on the development of advanced modal methods for efficiently predicting transient thermal and structural performance. In 1989, Camarda was selected to lead the Structures and Materials Technology Maturation Team for the National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) program, which was responsible for maturing materials and structures technologies necessary to enable the development of an airbreathing hypersonic vehicle capable of horizontal take-off to orbit. Camarda was selected to head the Thermal Structures Branch (TSB) in 1994 with responsibility for a research engineering staff, two major focused programs (the high-speed research (HSR) and reusable launch vehicle (RLV) programs), and several structural test facilities including the Thermal Structures Laboratory. Some of the primary responsibilities of the TSB are the development of durable, lightweight metallic thermal protection systems (TPS), advanced leading edges for hypersonic ve...
This paper describes the first three years of a multi-university, multi-discipline, team-based, design-build-test/fly project called AerosPACE. All authors are former students who took the AerosPACE course. The paper does not present a rigorous research approach, but rather, particular focus is placed on the first-hand student experience and consequent translation of learned skills into the workforce. The evolution of the industry-sponsored program is outlined including lessons-learned, student experiences and achievements. A methodology which other industry sponsors could use to replicate and scale similar projects in other fields is discussed. To conclude the paper, the authors (all alumni of the program who are now working in industry) offer their thoughts on how the program has impacted their early careers in industry.
Michael Richey is an Associate Technical Fellow currently assigned to support workforce development and engineering education research. Michael is responsible for leading learning science research, which focuses on learning ecologies, complex adaptive social systems and learning curves. Michael pursues this research agenda with the goal of understanding the interplay between innovation, knowledge transfer and economies of scale as they are manifested in questions of growth, evolvability, adaptability and sustainability.Additional responsibilities include providing business leadership for engineering technical and professional educational programs. This includes topics in advanced aircraft construction, composites structures and product lifecycle management. Michael is responsible for leading cross-organizational teams from academic, government focusing on how engineering education must acknowledge and incorporate this new information and knowledge to build new methodologies and paradigms that engage these developments in practice. The objective of this research is focused on achieving continuous improvement and sustainable excellence in engineering education. Ms. Deepa Gupta, The Boeing CompanyDeepa is responsible for developing Boeing's strategies to support early learning, primary and secondary education, and ensure alignment with post-secondary workforce initiatives across the company. Throughout her career, she has worked on a range of issues including U.S. public health, global health and economic development, the arts, and nonprofit capacity development. Prior to Boeing, she was a senior program officer for the MacArthur Foundation and a consultant with McKinsey. In 2012, President Obama appointed her to the National Council on the Arts. Deepa has an MBA from Northwestern University, an MPA from Harvard University, and an AB from the University of Chicago. Dr. Timothy Kieran O'Mahony, University of Washington, College of Education LIFE CenterCurrent research interests involve socio-cultural perspectives on cognition, learning, graphical representation, and use of technology in formal and informal learning environments. I explore diffusion of innovations systemically across multiple learning environments and stakeholder communities. In particular, I am interested in teacher/learner interaction across various settings, including multi-dimensional designbased implementation research (DBIR) in various workplaces and academic institutions. In addition, my work looks at the impact of co-constructed methodologies in settings that are a mix of informal sites as well as traditional (but evolved) classrooms. I am engaged in a longitudinal research project for teacher professional development in informal learning environments and blended arenas (MOOCs and SPOCs) that impact student performance and engagement. I look at questions involving fluency in geo-literacy around consequential everyday issues and 'sense of place.' For this research I examine prevailing western worldviews of science that are constructed and deri...
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