CAD in Aviation
Student Flight Plan
Welcome to Ground Control Construction Site. Our class is responsible
for operations and layout plans. Have
you looked at the design table? (Above table)Ý
Do you have your hard hat on? (Internet
Safety)Ý Have you read all
the worker contract rules? (Citation,
Acceptable Use Policy, Netiquette,
Netiquette Quiz)Ý
Do you have communication with the control tower? (Aviation
Command Center (Instructors), Free
E-mail )Ý Have you read the construction plan? (Student
Newspaper, Student Pages)Ý
Do you know where to get help? (Aviation Resources)Ý
Do you have a list of required floor plan quidelines? (Document
Rubrics, Multimedia Rubrics,
Board Presentation Rubrics)Ý
These questions and more will be answered during your flight.
How are your decision-making skills?Ý
How well do you work alone and together with others?ÝÝ How much work are you willing to put in?
Are you a self-started?Ý Are you someone
others would want to work with?Ý If you
donít know these answers, you soon will.Ý
This construction project has never been done before. Ý
You along with your peers will have a part in designing an Aviation
Academy.ÝÝ You will design the research,
the layout of the academy, the promotion products, and the selling method
for convincing the Vallejo School Board to accept your proposal.Ý
The Task:
Starting today, your class has one semester (approximately eighteen weeks)
to design and create a written document and a multimedia presentation that
you will introduce at a student assembly and/or District Board Meeting.Ý
Your end products will demonstrate the need for an Aviation Academy
and importance of incorporating CAD into that Academy.Ý
Your planning and preparation for this task will determine if Vallejo
School Board will approve such an academy.Ý
Your product will also be used as a promotional vehicle for recruiting
students to this academy. To help you get started you need to keep the following
in mind:
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Answer the question
ìWhat does an aviation academy look like?î
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Answer the main
question ìHow does CAD fit in this academy?î
…
Defend the ìCAD fitî
with resources, experts in the field, CAD skills required, and examples.
…
Work together as
a class and individual teams to produce an end product that will answer the
above questions.
…
Evaluate you and your
teamís progress throughout this flight.
…
Remember you are the
pilot, the teacher is part of the ground crew.Ý
Her job will be to assist when you hit bad weather.
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Work on CAD projects
that support your investigation of CAD in aviation.
…
Use the tools ofÝ technology to enhance the more traditional
methods of investigation.Ý
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Have fun and take
pride in your work.
Where do we go from here?ÝÝ Down
the runway to Project Assignments.
Created for the Fermilab
LInC program sponsored by Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory Education Office
and Friends of Fermilab,
and funded by United States Department of Energy,
Illinois State Board of Education,
North Central Regional Technology in Education
Consortium which is operated by North
Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), and the National
Science Foundation.
Author(s): Jim Connelly (vhsjconnelly@myschoolmail.com)
School: Vallejo High, Vallejo, CA
Created: February 15, 2001 - Updated: December 28, 2002
URL: /lincon/w01/projects/aviation/cadstart.htm