Integrating Aerospace Research Materials into a Project-based First-year Engineering Design Course

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His research is focused on computational plasma modeling using spectral and lattice Boltzmann methods such as in plasma turbulence (http://www.worldscinet.com/cgi-bin/details.cgi?id=jsname:ijmpc&type=all) and plasma jets (http://www.springerlink.com/content/j His research has also included fluid physics using Lattice-Boltzmann (http://aeweb.tamu.edu/Richard/LBE9a.ppt.pdf); electric propulsion (http://aeweb.tamu.edu/Richard/LBM Ion3.pdf); spectral element, etc. (see http://aeweb.tamu.edu/Richard/SEM.p Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (http://webs.csu.edu/˜bijcr/WENO4web/WENOppframe.htm), etc. Past research includes modeling single and multi-species plasma flows through ion thruster optics and the discharge cathode assembly; computer simulations of blood flow interacting with blood vessels; modeling ocean-air interaction; reacting flow systems; modeling jet engine turbomachinery going unstable at NASA for 6 years (received NASA Performance Cash awards). Dr. Richard is involved in many outreach activities: e.g., tutoring, mentoring, directing related grants (for example, a grant for an NSF REU site, see http://aero.tamu.edu/research/undergraduate/aero-propulsion-fluids/). Dr, Richard is active in professional societies (American Physical Society (APS), American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), etc.). Dr. Richard has authored or co-authored about 22 technical articles (17 of which are refereed publications). For more info see http://aeweb.tamu.edu/Richard/.

Combining Immersive Technologies and Problem-based Learning in Engineering Education: Bibliometric Analysis and Literature Review

“…The two maps help us identify clusters of keywords that cooccurred, which are then used to extract the related topic and engineering discipline as summarized in Table 1 for PBL and in Table 2 for VR along with a list of sample references. [8], [9]- [13], [14], [15] Mechanical Engineering Machine concepts, Finite element analysis, HVAC, Fluid and Thermal design, Thermodynamics, Dynamic [16], [17]- [19], [20], [21], [22] Aerospace Engineering Aerospace research materials [23] Computer Engineering Concepts of CE (generic) [24] Biosystem Engineering Biosystem engineering concepts (generic) [25] [34], [35], [36] Mechanical Engineering Wind tunnels, Prototype vehicles, Robot system, physical experiment, Virtual dynamic laboratory, Uncertainty analysis [37], [38], [39] Electrical Engineering Nanotechnology, VR simulation [40] Biomedical Engineering Simulations in biosystems [41] (a) Project-/problem-based learning. , we can see that PBL is used much more frequently than VR in engineering education.…”