Submitting Campus
Prescott
Department
Aerospace Engineering
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
6-2010
Abstract/Description
This paper describes a junior-level semester-long class project for students in Fluid Mechanics courses. The goals of the project are to introduce students to engineering design, project management, and to incorporate material from other courses in engineering graphics, numerical methods, instrumentation and measurements, and manufacturing processes in a single project. The project focuses on airfoil design using computational tools, and the main emphasis lies on verification of results obtained from computational methods with experimentally measured values. Students will use the airfoil shape they select to make wings to go on a model foam glider. The final part of the project will be staged as a competition where student teams vie to see whose glider can fly the furthest under standard launching conditions.
DOI
10.18260/1-2--15791
Publisher
American Society for Engineering Education
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Location
Louisville, Kentucky
Paper Number
15.25.1 - 15.25.13
Number of Pages
13
Scholarly Commons Citation
Post, S., Seetharaman, S., & Abimannan, S. (2010). A Design-Build-Test-Fly Project Involving Modeling, Manufacturing, and Testing. , (). 10.18260/1-2--15791
Additional Information
Dr. Scott was not affiliated with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the time this paper was published.