{"426291":{"#nid":"426291","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ASDL\u0027s AerosPACE collaboration with Boeing wins praise of educators","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA year-long collaboration between AE\u0027s Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL), the Boeing Company, and three other universities was recognized recently by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EC\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehief Learning Officer\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;magazine with a Learning In Practice award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoeing executives Michael Richey and Barry McPherson accepted a Gold Award on behalf of the Aerospace Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering\u0026nbsp;(AerosPACE), a program that\u0026nbsp; brought together students from Georgia Tech, Purdue, Embry Riddle and Brigham Young for a year-long design-build-fly modeling project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award recognized the Boeing Company\u0027s commitment to fostering collaboration among the engineering students, who worked remotely on many aspects of the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, the foundation of the AerosPACE project was laid by ASDL\u0026nbsp;research engineers Neil Weston, Ph.D., and Carl Johnson, who jointly taught the Capstone Design Class that prepared students for the final fly-off in April.\u0026nbsp;Weston, Johnson, and ASDL\u0026nbsp;director Dimitri Mavris, Ph.D., were recognized by the Boeing AerosPACE team\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EASDL research engineer Carl Johnson took the lead in teaching the Capstone Design class that culminated in the AerosPACE project.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eas they accepted the award during the magazine\u0027s Learning in Practice Symposium, October 5.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the second major award bestowed on the AerosPACE\u0026nbsp;program. In July, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) recognized the program with an Excellence in Engineering Education Collaboration Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaunched in the fall of 2013, the AerosPACE\u0026nbsp;project tasked teams from each of the participating schools with designing, building, testing, and deploying a UAV that was capable of accurately monitoring agricultural crops and delivering useful information on irrigation, pesticide use, and vegetative health. Geographically disbursed, the teams learned creative ways to collaborate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEffective collaboration \u2013 across different engineering disciplines, different cultures even different time zones \u2013 is the biggest challenge in today\u2019s business world,\u201d said\u0026nbsp; Marcus Nance, one of several Boeing executives who oversaw the 2013-14 AerosPACE project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EASDL\u0026nbsp;senior research engineer Neil Weston, Ph.D., worked alongside Johnson in the Capstone Design class.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAt Boeing, we have a 24-hour workforce, with engineers collaborating on the same project all around the world. Today\u2019s students will need to have collaboration skills to succeed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 2014 Learning In Practice Awards were announced at a special awards ceremony during the Fall 2014 Chief Learning Officer Symposium in Carlsbad, California. That event attracted more than 300 top corporate learning executives from around the world to discuss long-term learning strategies for creating and sustaining high performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe symposium was sponsored by Human Capital Media,\u0026nbsp; which publishes\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EChief Learning Officer\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003Emagazine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ASDL is participating in the AerosPACE\u0026nbsp;challenge for the 2014-15 school year, which will also include participation by student engineers from Tuskegee Univeristy.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A year-long collaboration between AE\u0027s Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL), the Boeing Company, and three other universities was recognized recently by Chief Learning Officer magazine with a Learning In Practice award."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 15:46:50","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1325","name":"aerospace"},{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"100921","name":"ASDL"},{"id":"135131","name":"Carl Johnson"},{"id":"135731","name":"Neil Weston"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}