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 systembuilding 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 Program
in Aerospace Systems Design
PLE Supported by P/SLM is
Implemented through IPPD
Integrated
Product/Process
Development
• Market
Analysis
•Stakeholder Interface
•System Safety Management
•Risk Management
•Product Baseline Management
•Implementation
Plans
•Deployment
Strategy
Led by SE
Significant SE role
Deployment of
The Product
PRODUCT LIFE-CYCLE ENGINEERING
Strategic
Design
System
Design
Detailed
Design
Operations
& Life Cycle
Support
Development/
Fabrication
PRODUCT/SIMULATION LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT
• System
Concept
•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
Georgia Tech Aerospace Systems Design
Approach for supporting the Student Lifecycle
Goal is on Identifying and Attracting Students through High School Summer
Camps; Nurturing & Developing them through Formal UG Engineering
Programs and Re-educating and Retaining them through Certificate Programs
Technical
Colleges
K - MS - HS
Undergraduate
Program
Colleges and Universities
K-12
Identify & Attract:
Nurture and Develop
Summer
camps/workshops
K-12
Student competitions
Graduate
Program
(MS/Ph.D.)
Professional
Education
Employment
Re-Educate & Retain
GT
design courses
UG/Grad.
Student competitions
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 (1012 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 Camp
for 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 for
Implementation 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
3. Undergraduate
Student Design
Competition
.
.
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
• 3355 Junior course
*2355 Sophomore 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
RETIRE
NEED
CATIA
DELMIA
& PDM
DELMIA
CATIA
SIMULIA
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
Vintage Fighter CATIA V5 Model
Fighter Baseline
Aero & Propulsion
Calibration
Fighter Derivative
Design and Analysis
Aero Correction Factors
Baseline Engine Deck
Group Weight Correction Factors
Flight Manuals
Public Domain
• Books
• Periodicals
• WWW
ModelCenter
Fighter Baseline
Weight Calculation
Calibration
Utilizes Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
Simulation DELMIA for Process Design
•
•
•
Develop manufacturing alternatives for Fighter wing design concepts
– Metallic and composite
PRODUCT DESIGN
wing
Optimize each alternative
– Manual vs. automated
process
PROCESS DESIGN
– Production layout
– Required floor plan
– Production lot size
Give feedbacks to designers
– Design-for-manufacturing
– Design-for-assembly
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 Wing
Case 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