aerospace engineering standards

Aerospace Engineering: Standards-based Curriculum

The aerospace engineering curriculum is designed to satisfy several national and California state academic content standards.  Collected here are summaries of the standards germane to aerospace engineering, correlation matrices showing what standards are satisfied by each lesson, and lesson plans for each of the six weeks curriculum.

Descriptive summaries of the content standards significantly referenced in the aerospace engineering module. 

• National SCANS [Dept. of Labor] Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills

• California Engineering Technology Standards

• California Drafting Technology Standards

• California Algebra 1 Standards

• California Algebra 2 Standards

• California Physics Standards

Correlation matrices showing how each aerospace engineering lesson satisfies content standards. 

• Algebra 1 correlation matrix

• Algebra 2 correlation matrix

• Chemistry correlation matrix

• Drafting correlation matrix

• Engineering Technology correlation matrix

• Geometry correlation matrix

• Language Arts correlation matrix

• Physics correlation matrix

• SCANS correlation matrix

Lesson plans for each aerospace engineering week showing strategies for conveying and assessing the standards.

• AE History lesson plan

• AE Physics of Flight lesson plan

• AE Aerodynamic Forces and Controls lesson plan

• AE Aerodynamic Lift lesson plan

• AE Rockets Flight lesson plan

• AE Satellites Orbital Mechanics lesson plan

• AE Careers lesson plan

• AE Aerospace Environment lesson plan

• AE Wind Tunnel Experimentation lesson plan