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1.6.1 Systematic Course Design at The Aerospace Institute
Author(s) -
Mosher Todd
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1998.tb00102.x
Subject(s) - aerospace , course (navigation) , variety (cybernetics) , analogy , corporation , engineering management , engineering , engineering ethics , computer science , political science , artificial intelligence , aerospace engineering , linguistics , philosophy , law
A new course design methodology has been created to aid instructors at The Aerospace Institute, the education and training division of The Aerospace Corporation. This methodology's heritage is an approach described in “The New Professor's Handbook” by Dr. Cliff Davidson and Dr. Susan Ambrose that compares planning a course with planning a research project. 1 For The Aerospace Institute this analogy has been modified to an analogy between course design and systems engineering, which is a concept very familiar to its instructors. This paper walks through this methodology and offers suggestions for implementation that should be useful in a variety of educational environments. Examples are provided throughout to illustrate the concepts.