{"425741":{"#nid":"425741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AE\u0027s year-long collaboration, AerosPACE, recognized by ASEE","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAerosPACE, a year-long collaboration between GT-AE, the Boeing Company, and three other universities has been recognized by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) with an Excellence in Engineering Education Collaboration Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EASEE\u0027s Corporate Member Council (CMC) presented the award to participants in the Aerospace Partners for Advancement of Collaborative Engineering (AerosPACE) program during ceremonies held June 16 at the Indiana Convention Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award went to The Boeing Company, Georgia Tech, Brigham Young University, Purdue University and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in recognition their joint participation in AerosPACE, a program that developed curriculum for real-life, hands-on learning and capstone design experiences for graduate students and seniors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAerosPACE teams at each of the participating schools used and developed a collaborative computer aided design (CAD) software and a social learning website to complete their work. Using different materials, each team had to design, build, test, and deploy a UAV that is capable of accurately monitoring agricultural crops and delivering useful information on irrigation, pesticide use, and vegetative health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThree of the schools were responsible for physically housing one of the UAVs during the construction process, but the project teams were composed of students from every school.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach student had to contribute to the concept, design, testing, and deployment of at least one UAV -- even if it was physically located hundreds of miles away.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe results of their collaborations were showcased in April, when representatives from each of the teams came to Georgia to launch their vehicles before an audience that included many high-ranking Boeing officials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1372\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead more about the project.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022400\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAerospace students from Georgia Tech, Embry Riddle, Purdue, and Brigham Young came together to work on three\u0026nbsp;UAVs under the auspices of Boeing\u0027s AerosPACE program. (Shown here are two of the final products and their prototypes. The third model was tested at Brigham Young.)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"AerosPACE, a year-long collaboration between GT-AE, the Boeing Company, and three other universities has been recognized by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) with an Excellence in Engineering Education Collaboration Award."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 13:15:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:08","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1325","name":"aerospace"},{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"2729","name":"asee"}],"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":""}}}