Overview
Edmonds Community College and the Federal Aviation Administration, through collaboration with industrial and academic partners, is developing course material for a training program addressing the maintenance and repair of composite aircraft structures. The course will be a blend of distance (web-based) learning to establish composite repair knowledge and principals, and regional laboratories where students will implement theory in a hands-on environment. This course is designed to provide students with an awareness of the safety implications of proper maintenance and repair of composite materials. Engineers, technicians, inspectors, and others involved in decision-making are the target audience for this material. The course material has detailed terminal course objectives (TCOs) and teaching content. The framework defined by the TCOs and teaching points developed in collaboration with industry may be viewed as a course standard that can be adopted by training organizations to help develop a course containing appropriate content for civil aviation applications. The course may be used as a basis for further in-depth study and skill-building for practitioners in any of the many topics covered. The course will go through rigorous aviation industry reviews and updates while Edmonds Community College develops the final content. This website includes course objectives, or TCOs, modules which contain written course material, story boards which can be utilized by course developers for organizing teaching materials, and testimonials from experienced practitioners to provide meaning and relevance to students. The 2005 workshop provided an opportunity for feedback on the development by over 60 composites technology experts. Much of the module material was subsequently modified based on that feedback.
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