Education Papers

• W.H. Mason, “Applied Aerodynamics Literacy: What Is It Now? What Should It Be?” AIAA Paper 91-3313, AIAA 9th Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Baltimore, MD, September 23-25, 1991.

• W.H. Mason, “Applied Computational Aerodynamics Case Studies,” AIAA Paper 92-2661, 10th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Palo Alto, CA, June 22-24, 1992.

• W.H. Mason, “Aircraft Design Information Sources,” VPI-AOE-208, September 1993 (rev: February 1994). now on the web, just click on the title!

• James F. Marchman, III and W.H. Mason, “Freshman/Senior Design Education,” AIAA Paper 94-0857, 32nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, January 10-13, Reno, 1994.
  

• W.H. Mason, N.S. Eiss, Jr., R.H. Pusey and J.F. Marchman III, “ Freshman-Senior Design Teams: Experience at Virginia Tech,” First Annual Conference, SUCCEED, An NSF Engineering Education Coalition, March 3-4, 1994.

• James F. Marchman III and William H. Mason, “Incorporating Freshman/Senior Design into the Aerospace Curriculum,” ASEE Annual Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, June 25, 1994.

• W.H. Mason, “Aircraft Design Course Computing Systems Experience and Software Review,” ASEE Annual Conference, Sunday, June 25, 1995, Anaheim, CA (Gary Slater, session chairman: Software and Multimedia).

• W.H. Mason, Zafer Gurdal and R.T. Haftka, “Experience in Multidisciplinary Design Education,”, ASEE Annual Conference, Monday, June 26, 1995, Anaheim, CA (Conrad Newberry, session chairman: Multidisciplinary Design).

• W.H. Mason, “Aircraft Design at Virginia Tech: Experience in Developing an Integrated Program,”, AIAA Paper 95-3894, 1st AIAA Aircraft Engineering, Technology, and Operations Congress, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 19-21, 1995

• Michael P. Deisenroth and William H. Mason, “Curriculum Development in Aerospace Manufacturing”; Session 0402, 1996 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Washington, DC, June 23-26, 1996 (this is an Adobe Acrobat file, ASEE has the copyright, and has given permission for this file to be posted here. Their permission is gratefully acknowledged.)

• Mason, W.H., and Grossman, B., “Virginia Tech's New Practice Oriented Aerospace Engineering Master's Degree,”; Session 0502, 1996 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Washington, DC, June 23-26, 1996 (this is an Adobe Acrobat file, ASEE has the copyright, and has given permission for this file to be posted here. Their permission is gratefully acknowledged.)

• Mark Gordon, Dan Schrage, Joel Greenstein, Jack Hebrank, Doug Hirt, Bill Mason, Tom Miller, and Jim Nau, “Early Design: Lessons and Strategies from SUCCEED”;, Session 3225, 1996 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Washington, DC, June 23-26, 1996 (this is an Adobe Acrobat file, ASEE has the copyright, and has given permission for this file to be posted here. Their permission is gratefully acknowledged.)

• Marchman, J.F. III, and Mason, W.H., “Freshman/Senior Design Education,” International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1997, pp. 143-152

• James F. Marchman III, William H. Mason and Peter Ryan, “Vertically Integrated Design”; Final Report, SUCCEED, September 30, 1997. (this is an Adobe Acrobat file)

• Mason, W.H., and Devenport, W.J., “Applied Aerodynamics Education: Developments and Opportunities,” AIAA 16th Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Albuquerque, NM, AIAA Paper 98-2791, June 1998.

• Mason, W.H., “Haftka's Helicopter Project: Combined Theoretical/ Experimental Design,”; Session 2202, 1998 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA, June 28-July 1, 1998. This is an Adobe Acrobat pdf file. I have a verbal OK from ASEE to post this. Note that the pdf file they made for their Conference CD used extreme compression, and came out with very low quality photos, and the spacing had a problem.

• William H. Mason, “Teaching Applied Aerodynamics in the IT Age”, Invited, 20th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, AIAA Paper 2002-2725, June 24-27, 2002, St. Louis, MO.

• William H. Mason, Harry Robertshaw and Daniel J. Inman, “Recent Experiments in Aerospace and Design Engineering Education,” 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, AIAA Paper 2004-0415, Jan. 5-8, 2004.

• W.H. Mason, “Reflections on Over 20 Years of Aircraft Design Class (Invited),” AIAA 2010-9065, 10th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 13-15, 2010

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