2015/2016 Online Instructional Materials Correlation
Aerospace Engineering (PLTW)
8428 - 36 weeks
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8428
36
weeks
Aerospace Engineering (PLTW)
TASKS/COMPETENCIES
Correlation
Demonstrating Workplace Readiness Skills: Personal Qualities and People
Skills
Demonstrate positive work
Required 1
ethic.
Required 2
Demonstrate integrity.
Required 3
Demonstrate teamwork skills.
Required 4
Demonstrate self-representation
skills.
Required 5
Demonstrate diversity
awareness.
Required 6
Demonstrate conflict-resolution
skills.
Required 7
Demonstrate creativity and
resourcefulness.
Demonstrating Workplace Readiness Skills: Professional Knowledge and Skills
Required 8
Demonstrate effective speaking
and listening skills.
Required 9
Demonstrate effective reading
and writing skills.
Required 10
Demonstrate critical-thinking
and problem-solving skills.
Required 11
Demonstrate healthy behaviors
and safety skills.
Demonstrate an understanding
Required 12 of workplace organizations,
systems, and climates.
Required 13
Demonstrate lifelong-learning
skills.
Required 14
Demonstrate job-acquisition and
advancement skills.
Required 15
Demonstrate time-, task-, and
resource-management skills.
Required 16
Demonstrate job-specific
mathematics skills.
Required 17
Demonstrate customer-service
skills.
Demonstrating Workplace Readiness Skills: Technology Knowledge and Skills
Demonstrate proficiency with
Required 18 technologies common to a
specific occupation.
Required 19
Demonstrate information
technology skills.
Demonstrate an understanding
Required 20 of Internet use and security
issues.
Required 21
Demonstrate
telecommunications skills.
Examining All Aspects of an Industry
Examine aspects of planning
Required 22
within an industry/organization.
Required 23
Examine aspects of management
within an industry/organization.
Examine aspects of financial
Required 24 responsibility within an
industry/organization.
Examine technical and
production skills required of
Required 25
workers within an
industry/organization.
Examine principles of
Required 26 technology that underlie an
industry/organization.
Required 27
Examine labor issues related to
an industry/organization.
Examine community issues
Required 28 related to an
industry/organization.
Examine health, safety, and
Required 29 environmental issues related to
an industry/organization.
Addressing Elements of Student Life
Identify the purposes and goals
Required 30
of the student organization.
Explain the benefits and
responsibilities of membership
Required 31 in the student organization as a
student and in professional/civic
organizations as an adult.
Demonstrate leadership skills
through participation in student
Required 32 organization activities, such as
meetings, programs, and
projects.
Identify Internet safety issues
Required 33 and procedures for complying
with acceptable use standards.
Engineering Option 2: The following tasks are part of Virginia's "Project Lead
the Way" program. For course content and additional information, please
contact the Technology Education Specialist at the Virginia Department of
Education (804-786-4210).
UNIT 1: OVERVIEW OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Exploring the History of Flight
Required 34
Identify the various vehicles
used for human flight.
Required 35
Explain the functions of the
main components of an airplane.
Required 36
Identify the forces acting upon
an airplane in flight.
Evaluate and compare the
Required 37 effects of design changes on the
performance of an airplane.
Required 38 Operate a flight simulator.
UNIT 2: AERODYNAMICS AND AERODYNAMICS TESTING
Exploring Aerodynamics
Required 39
Explain the various forces acting
on an airplane in flight.
Identify the various factors that
Required 40 affect the lift and drag forces
generated by an airfoil.
Define the technical terms used
Required 41 to describe the geometry and
performance of an airfoil.
Analyze, using a computer
Required 42 simulation, the performance of
an airfoil design.
Evaluate and compare, using a
Required 43 computer simulation, several
airfoil designs.
Required 44
Design an airfoil that is
aerodynamically sound.
Exploring Airfoil Construction
Extract geometric data from the
Required 45
FoilSim applet.
Scale the geometric data points
extracted from FoilSim, using a
Required 46 spreadsheet application, to
define an airfoil with a given
chord length.
Cut airfoil shapes from a foam
Required 47 core, using modeling software,
to design templates.
Construct an airfoil, using
appropriate tools and machines,
Required 48
to be safely and accurately
tested in a wind tunnel.
Evaluate different types of
readily available foam products
Required 49
for the construction of airfoil
shapes.
Exploring Wind Tunnel Testing
Identify the components of a
Required 50
wind tunnel.
Identify the instruments used to
Required 51 measure the lift and drag forces
generated by an airfoil.
Synthesize a test plan to
Required 52 measure the performance of an
airfoil.
Required 53
Measure the performance of an
airfoil.
Required 54
Analyze performance data
gathered during testing.
Evaluate and compare several
Required 55 performance characteristics of
the airfoil.
Communicate test results
Required 56 through a technical report and a
presentation.
Exploring Propulsion (optional)
Relate propulsion to Newton’s
Optional 57
Three Laws of Motion.
Optional 58
Research propulsion and
propulsion systems.
Identify the four main
Optional 59 propulsion systems and the parts
of an engine.
Conduct a propulsion systems
analysis with calculations and
Optional 60 graphs of data of various types
of airplanes and propulsion
systems.
Design an engine, and test the
Optional 61 design, using engine simulation
software.
Design, construct, and launch a
Optional 62 rocket, and make predictions of
the rocket’s altitude.
Optional 63
Calculate the average altitude
and relate Newton’s Three Laws
of Motion to the height the
rocket achieved.
UNIT 3: FLIGHT SYSTEMS
Exploring Glider Design, Construction, and Test
Describe the requirements for a
Required 64
glider to remain stable in flight.
Required 65 Lay out a glider, using software.
Required 66
Design a glider for maximum
flight distance.
Required 67
Construct a glider, using the
design.
Required 68
Summarize test data to identify
the best glider design.
Write a proposal for “phase
Required 69 two” funding for a revised glider
design.
Exploring GPS (Global Positioning System) and Achieving Spatial Awareness
Required 70
Research the evolving
technology of aerial navigation.
Required 71
Measure the location of objects,
using GPS.
Required 72
Summarize GPS data, and create
a navigational chart.
Required 73
Plan a multi-segment flight
through a simulated airspace.
Compare the ease of
maintaining situational
awareness during a flight
Required 74
through simulated airspace,
using textual versus visual
information.
Research the enhancements of
the WAAS (Wide-Area
Augmentation System), LAAS
Required 75
(Local-Area Augmentation
System), and SVS (Synthetic
Vision System) on the GPS.
UNIT 4: ASTRONAUTICS
Measuring Rocket Engine Thrust
Required 76
Design and build a rocket engine
thrust-testing device.
Required 77
Test the thrust of a model rocket
engine, using the device.
Modify the calibration of the
Required 78 testing device to gather differing
results of thrust-to-time data.
Exploring Model Rocket Trajectory
Define the terms and concepts of
design, flight, and forces as they
Required 79
relate to model rockets, and
explain how these interact.
Analyze how changes in design
characteristics of a model rocket
Required 80
will affect the model rocket’s
flight performance.
Work as a member of an
engineering team to construct a
model rocket from a kit, fly it
Required 81
safely, and make predictions,
observations, and comparisons
of flight data.
Calculate an estimate for the
maximum altitude a model
Required 82
rocket obtains during a launch,
using trigonometry.
Calculate a rocket’s maximum
velocity and maximum
Required 83 acceleration, given rocket data
and rocket engine performance
specifications.
Exploring Rocket Camera
Research aerial photography and
Required 84 its role in rocketry and
aerospace technology.
Formulate a testable research
question, and design and
conduct an aerial photography
Required 85
project/experiment,
demonstrating the scientific
method.
Calculate the scale factor for
aerial photographs, and use the
scale factor to determine the
Required 86
rocket’s altitude and length of
objects when the photograph(s)
were taken.
Describe how the launch angle
Required 87 relates to or affects the forces of
lift, thrust, weight, and drag.
Exploring Orbital Mechanics
Required 88 Define conic sections.
Required 89
Research historical figures in
orbit theory.
Required 90 Test basic orbit theory.
Required 91
Describe orbit parameters by
observing earth-satellite motion.
UNIT 5: SPACE LIFE SCIENCES
Exploring Life Support and Environmental Systems
Work in a team to design
Required 92 experiments related to positive
g-force.
Required 93
Conduct experiments, and
collect data.
Required 94
Analyze the results of
experiments.
Synthesize the data from
positive g-force experiments,
Required 95 and apply experimental
conclusions to real-world
situations.
Exploring the Effect of Gravity on the Human Body
Required 96
Experience and describe the
feeling of vestibular stimulation.
Acquire data such as pulse rate
and response time during stress
Required 97
tests performed in a reducedgravity environment.
Analyze data, and draw
Required 98 conclusions regarding the effects
of reduced gravity and
vestibular stimulation on the
human body.
Research the effects gravity has
Required 99 on the body in space and on
Earth.
Exploring the Microgravity Drop Tower
Required 100 Describe the drop experiment.
Required 101
Evaluate the results of the drop
experiment.
Required 102
Describe recommendations for
modifying the experiment.
Required 103
Document the drop experiment
on a daily basis.
UNIT 6: AEROSPACE MATERIALS
Exploring Composites Fabrication and Testing
Mold various composite
Required 104 materials into the standard size
1" x 12" test sample.
Required 105
Build a test jig to test each
composite sample for deflection.
Conduct experiments and record
data on the deflection of various
Required 106
composite samples, using a
micrometer and a dial indicator.
Required 107
Analyze and graph the results of
the deflection experiments.
Exploring Thermal Protection Systems for Space Vehicles
Identify the material properties
that are necessary for an
Required 108
effective TPS (Thermal
Protection System).
Describe the process of a space
vehicle re-entry and the
Required 109
temperature extremes to which a
space vehicle may be subjected.
Determine the thermal
protection capability of several
Required 110
materials through tests of
materials and related research.
Evaluate and compare the
Required 111 thermal test results of several
materials.
Required 112
Select the best materials for use
in a TPS.
UNIT 7: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Exploring Intelligent Vehicles
Design a computer-driven
system for a robot to perform a
series of predetermined
functions without having
Required 113
anything impede its progress
while successfully delivering a
payload to a predetermined
location.
Develop a rubric that will be
Required 114 used to assess the design-buildoperate criteria of the robot.
Design, build, and test an
intelligent vehicle that will meet
Required 115
criteria determined by the goals
established by the students.