Development of a Systems Engineering Undergraduate Elective for Chemical Engineering Students

Authors

  • T. Grant Glover 1University of South Alabama Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 150 Jaguar Dr. Mobile, AL, 36688
  • Robert Cloutier 1University of South Alabama Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 150 Jaguar Dr. Mobile, AL, 36688
  • Tracy Gill 2NASA Kennedy Space Center Research and Technology Management Office Mail Code UB-T, KSC, FL, 32899

Abstract

In collaboration with NASA, the Space Grant Foundation, and the eXploration Habitat Academic Challenge, the University of South Alabama developed a systems engineering undergraduate elective that instructs students on the fundamentals of systems engineering and provides the students the opportunity to apply systems and chemical engineering concepts in a NASA funded project. The course was designed such that it can be offered to a variety of majors with or without external funding.

Author Biographies

T. Grant Glover, 1University of South Alabama Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 150 Jaguar Dr. Mobile, AL, 36688

T. Grant Gloveris an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of South Alabama.  He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include adsorption behavior, adsorbent materials, metal-organic frameworks, and related surface chemistry.  

Robert Cloutier, 1University of South Alabama Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 150 Jaguar Dr. Mobile, AL, 36688

Robert Cloutieris a Professor and Systems Engineering D.Sc. Program Chair at the University of South Alabama (USA) and holds a concurrent appointment at University College of Southeast Norway, Kongsberg, Norway. His research interests include application of systems engineering to healthcare delivery, concept of operations, system architecting, model-based systems engineering, complex patterns for systems engineering. Before joining USA, Dr. Cloutier was an Associate Professor and Director of Systems & Software Programs at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ. Prior to Stevens, he spent over 20 years at Lockheed Martin and The Boeing Company (where he was an Associate Technical Fellow). He received his BS from the US Naval Academy, his MBA from Eastern University, and his Ph.D. from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Tracy Gill, 2NASA Kennedy Space Center Research and Technology Management Office Mail Code UB-T, KSC, FL, 32899

Tracy Gillworks for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). He has over twenty-five years of experience on space shuttle payloads and on space station elements and experiment payloads gaining valuable experience doing “hands-on” work on flight and ground support hardware and working with people from all over the United States and the world.  He currently supports the NASA NextSTEP (Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships) project for Lunar Orbital Platform - Gateway.  He also manages the X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge for NASA.  Tracy holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Aerospace and Mechanical Systems from the University of Florida, an MS in Space Systems from Florida Tech, and is a graduate of the International Space University Space Studies Program in 2006.  He is also an adjunct professor for the International Space University.

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Published

2018-09-17

Issue

Vol. 52 No. 4 (2018): Fall 2018

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