Georgia Tech’s Aerospace Systems Design Education

Program – A Springboard for CDIO Implementation at Georgia Tech

Dr. Daniel P. Schrage

Dr. Lakshmi Sankar

Dr. Dimitri Mavris

Professors School of AE

Georgia Tech

Presentation Outline

• What is CDIO?• Aerospace Systems Design Program• Product Lifecycle Engineering (PLE) and

Student Lifecycle Engineering (SLE)• Example Programs along the SLE• Potential Alignment with CDIO

What is CDIO?

• CDIO stands for Conceive – Design – Implement – Operate.

• It’s an innovative educational framework for producing the next generation of engineering leaders. Industry benefits from CDIO because it produces engineers who have the knowledge, talents and experience it specifically needs.

Why CDIO?• Educators are interested because the CDIO

Syllabus forms a basis for curricular planning and outcome based assessment that is universally adaptable for all engineering schools.

• And, students are enthusiastic because they’re graduating with a unique array of personal, interpersonal, and system-building experiences that allows them to excel in real engineering teams, and produce new products and systems.

Georgia Tech and School of AE• Georgia Tech is the largest U.S. university producer of

engineers, including women and minorities• The Georgia Tech School of AE has the largest U.S. number

of graduate students (>400) and close to the largest number of undergraduate students (>800)

• The Georgia Tech School of AE graduate program in Aerospace Systems Design (>300 students) is the largest in the world

• The Graduate Program in Aerospace Systems Design serves as a catalyst for– Undergraduate Design/CDIO focus courses– High School Engineering Design Summer Camps School– Professional Education Program

Georgia Tech Master’s Degree Programin Aerospace Systems Design

Led by SE

Significant SE role

IntegratedProduct/ProcessDevelopment

Deployment ofThe Product

Operations& Life CycleSupport

StrategicDesign

SystemDesign

DetailedDesign

Development/ Fabrication

• SystemConcept

•System Req. •Sys Req. Valid•Operations/ Maint Concept•System Architecture•System Safety

•System Integration•Subsys Reqt Alloc•Production Planning

• System Verification and validation•Lean - Six Sigma Process Improvement

•Identification of upgrades•Capture lessons learned•MRO

• Market Analysis

•ImplementationPlans•Deployment Strategy

•Stakeholder Interface•System Safety Management•Risk Management•Product Baseline Management

PLE Supported by P/SLM isImplemented through IPPD

PRODUCT LIFE-CYCLE ENGINEERING

PRODUCT/SIMULATION LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT

Undergraduate Program

Graduate Program

(MS/Ph.D.)

Professional Education

Technical Colleges

K - MS - HS

K-12 Colleges and Universities Employment

Goal is on Identifying and Attracting Students through High School SummerCamps; Nurturing & Developing them through Formal UG Engineering Programs and Re-educating and Retaining them through Certificate Programs

UG/Grad. Student competitions

K-12 Student competitions

Summer camps/workshops

GT design courses

Nurture and DevelopIdentify & Attract: Re-Educate & Retain

Georgia Tech Aerospace Systems Design Approach for supporting the Student Lifecycle

Example K-12 Engineering Design Summer Camps

• With support of Dassault Systemes (DS) PLM Tools and Agusta- Westland Funding the following K-12 Education Initiatives have taken place over the past years:– Engineering Design- CATIA Summer Camp 2007 for

High School Students (~20)– Engineering Design- CATIA Summer Camps 2008

for High School Students (~40)– Introduction to 3-D Sketching- Cosmic Blobs

Summer Camp 2008 for Middle School Students (10-12 yrs) (~30)

– Introduction to 3-D Modeling- Solid Works Summer Camp 2008 for Middle School Students (12-14 yrs) (~30)

• GT participation with DS in K-12 Workshop at ASEE Conference, Pittsburg, PA for High School Teachers

Engineering Design-CATIA Summer Campfor Gifted High School Students Using CATIA V5

in IPLE Lab, July 2007

Engineering For the 21st Century -CATIA

High School Summer Camp

June 2008

Challenges• The summer camp lasted

for two weeks• Each student learned

using CATIA and modeled an aircraft or some other product during the first week

• Course was taught by a graduate student in the IPLE Lab, with assistants

Team project

• The students were tasked to form design teams and model a complex product of their choice, provided it was an assembly of multiple components and could be made functional

• They were given less than one week to complete the model, create a large-size poster explaining their project, and do a 20 minute presentation on the last day to parents and faculty

Teams

• Students formed teams of their choice

• They helped each other to complete the challenging task of assembly modeling, having only one week of CATIA training.

Results from 2008 Engineering Design Summer Camps

• The team projects produced outstanding results. In a short time, they created functional models of a CH-47, Space Ship One, a paintball gun, and

a bicycle.

Three Design Projects Used forImplementation with Industry Support

1. AHS International Rotorcraft Design Team Competition

2. Fixed Wing Design Derivative of the F-86 SabreJet for Boeing Certificate Program

Over 80 grad & UG students and 8 professors involved in the development of the projects above

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3. UndergraduateStudent DesignCompetition

Design Build Fly PLM Project

• Developed and executed as a streamlined integration of the current AE*355 Design Competition series of classes into simplified product lifecycle management (PLM) and engineering (PLE) functions for the purpose of education and training

• Project provides a direct linkage to CDIO for Implementation

• Georgia Tech is open to joining CDIO for further implementation, including documenting, tracking, analyzing and reporting learning results

• Formal CDIO initially executed and documented in:* 1355 Freshman course *2355 Sophomore course

• 3355 Junior course *4355 Senior course• Graduate students serve as mentors to UG Teams

Design Build Fly (DBF) Project Plans to Link Lifecycle Functions supported by PLM

CATIA

SIMULIA

DELMIA

DELMIA

& PDM

CATIA

NEEDRETIRE

Build DEVELOP

Vertically Integrated Design Project

F-86 StratoSabre A Legendary Vintage Fighter Aircraft

Wing Redesign Trade Study For Professional Education Certificate

Vintage Fighter Aircraft Derivative Project Starts with a CATIA V5 Model

Fighter BaselineAero & PropulsionCalibration

Fighter BaselineWeight CalculationCalibration

Fighter DerivativeDesign and Analysis

Aero Correction FactorsBaseline Engine Deck

Group Weight Correction Factors

ModelCenter

Flight Manuals

• Books• Periodicals• WWW

Public Domain

Vintage Fighter CATIA V5 Model

Utilizes Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) Simulation DELMIA for Process Design

• Develop manufacturing alternatives for Fighter wing design concepts– Metallic and composite

wing• Optimize each alternative

– Manual vs. automated

process– Production layout– Required floor plan– Production lot size

• Give feedbacks to designers– Design-for-manufacturing– Design-for-assembly

PRODUCT DESIGN

PROCESS DESIGN

Professional Certificate Summary• CURRENT STATUS

- Completed Pilot Certificate Program with Boeing- Experiential Capstone Team Trade Study in third course was

well received by Industry students

• FUTURE Plans– Refine Pilot Certificate Program to introduce Team Trade

Study in First Course– Expand use of Applied PLM Tools to include Siemans Suite

of Tools

Integrated Design & Manufacturing (IDM) Tradeoffs Through PLM for Redesign of the F-86 WingCase Study for Boeing Certificate Program

PLM

IDM

Summary and Conclusions

• GT School of AE has initiated an aggressive program to identify, attract, develop, mature, and retain the necessary U.S. engineering work force for continued prosperity

• Boeing and Agusta Westland have been big supporters of this program with both Dassault Systemes and Siemens now providing the necessary PLM tools

• The GT School of AE approach is informally applying many elements of the CDIO Syllabus

• GT School of AE is interested in formally applying the CDIO Syllabus to both its UG and Graduate Programs