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Incorporating Cooperative Learning Activities into Traditional Aerospace Engineering Curricula

Active learning is a term used to describe programs where students learn by doing. In active learning programs, students work on projects where they use their theoretical classroom knowledge in real-world, hands-on activ…

Modeling the Balance between Standardization and Innovation in a Flight School

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between standardization and innovation in a university flight training program.

The Daytona Beach International Airport in Uniform

The story of Daytona Beach International Airport is one which includes a mixture of politics and pioneers, depression and recovery, and peace and war.

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Airline Networks: A Comparison of Hub-and-Spoke and Point-to-Point Systems

The disparity between the relative success of low-cost and network carriers since 2001 has often been attributed to the difference in route system architecture.

Study of an Aviation Design Supportability Course for Engineering and Technology

The following reports on a study examining a typical aeronautical/aviation engineering senior design course, and examines how an aviation technology based course applying the elements of logistics support analysis might …

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The Flight Crew and Automation

"Automation is the allocation of functions to machines that would otherwise be allocated to humans" (Funk et al, 1999). Automation on the flight deck has continued to grow throughout the years, with each new generation o…

Challenges and Opportunities in Recruiting Middle School Students into Aviation Courses

It is no mystery that some people are enthralled with aviation from a very young age. These people are the dreamers. They live in a world with only windows, not walls.

Learning Theoretical Concepts through Community Problem Solving: Service-Learning in Flight Safety Courses

Critics of higher education often criticize the chasm separating esoteric academic theory from the pragmatic knowledge required of students after graduation.

Student Approaches to Learning in Aviation Contexts

Self-regulated learning is an important element of student performance and has been found to be linked with content domains. Aviation courses are complex yet serve as the foundation for student success in the flight envi…

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The Perceived Need for Training and Potential Training Topics for Indiana Airport Board Members

Individuals who serve as airport board members in the state of Indiana are not required by law to have any aviation experience or training.

Airline Quality Rating 2007

The Airline Quality Rating (AQR) was developed and first announced in early 1991 as an objective method for assessing airline quality on combined multiple performance criteria.

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Aviation Law: Cases and Materials

Just to clarify my position from the beginning, this is a great book. However, to avoid the very appearance of impropriety I must disclose Robert M.

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Distance Learning in Collegiate Aviation: A Survey of the Historical, Theoretical, and Contemporary Aspects

Distance learning, which, for the purpose of this study, is defined as academic courses that can be completed via the computer and internet and entirely absent from the traditional classroom, has seen tremendous growth i…

CRM is Dead

CRM is dead, at least in the U.S. No one killed it; it just passed on from natural causes, exacerbated by the evolution of the aviation industry, society and world politics.

ERAU: CRM Vectors 2007

Last February, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Bombardier, and Frasca co-hosted a Symposium titled "ERAU: CRM Vectors 2007." CRM leaders and participators in the military, academe, government, and industry were inv…

Collegiate Aviation in China: Opportunities and Challenges

The rapid growth of the aviation industry in China over the last ten years has led to a dramatic shortfall in supporting personnel and infrastructure.

Cost and Perceived Value in Obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in Aviation Professional Flight: Will Collegiate Aviation Price Themselves Out of the Market with Technologically Advanced Aircraft?

Traditional academic baccalaureate degree programs have become increasingly expensive throughout the US. For collegiate aviation students, this news is even more daunting.

Air Cargo Security - The Cost of Doing Business in the 21st Century

"Science and technology is key to winning this new kind of war" Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge (Press Release DHS, September 2004).

Student Enthusiasm for Part 135 Flight Simulations

The need to develop collegiate aviation simulation activities that mirror corporate and commercial operating practices, particularly those regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under Part 135 of Title 14…

Work-Based Learning: The Aviation Management Environment

The purpose of the study was to analyze and describe the work-based learning environment in post-secondary aviation management programs.

The Effects of Pedagogical Paradigms on Aviation Students with Hazardous Attitudes

Hazardous attitudes can adversely affect a pilot's judgment and thus impact the safety of a flight (FAA, 1991). These hazardous attitudes are antiauthority; impulsivity; invulnerability; macho; and, resignation.

Crew Resource Management is Still Flourishing in a Challenging Aviation Environment

CRM is alive and well. It has grown from an obscure concept - when even pilots had to ask what the initials represented - to a universally recognized model that plays a substantial role in military, airline, and corporat…

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Nonverbal Communications: A Commentary on Body Language in the Aviation Teaching Environment

Some time ago, while employed in the field of labor relations, as a chief negotiator for both a major and a national airline, one of the authors wrote an article on the use of and merits of 'body language' or kinesics in…

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A Delphi Study: Expanding K-12 Student Knowledge and Interests in Aviation/Aerospace Recommendations from NASA Aerospace Education Specialists

An aging aerospace workforce coupled with declining student interest and skills beginning at the secondary level and running through the doctoral level has prompted a potential crisis in the aviation/aerospace industry.

Workplace Conduct: One Company’s No-Nonsense Approach to Hate-Related Behavior

One morning a first-year student class was delayed when the instructor entered the classroom and discovered swastikas and race-related hate messages scrawled on some butcher paper that covered the class's easel.

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Current Trends in Air Traffic Controller Recruitment and Training

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) currently employs approximately 15,000 air traffic controllers (FAA, 2004). Over the next 10 years, more than 11,000 members of the air traffic control (ATC) workforce will becom…

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The Effectiveness of Augmented Reality as a Facilitator of Information Acquisition in Aviation Maintenance Applications

Until recently, in the field of Augmented Reality (AR) little research attention has been paid to the cognitive benefits of this emerging technology.

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Airline Quality Rating 2006

The Airline Quality Rating (AQR) was developed and first announced in early 1991 as an objective method for assessing airline quality on combined multiple performance criteria.

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