Activity 9.5 Case Analysis Effectiveness
I think that the case analysis was very effective in facilitating
deeper research and understanding of unmanned systems by the students as well
as getting a better idea about the challenges ahead. While the class was very thorough and covered
a wide range of topics nothing helps the learning process and the expansion of
knowledge as much as research. Searching
and sifting through the vast amount of information available to us today opens
you up to finding information and stories that you never would have thought to
look for. In this aspect I think the
case analysis excelled in its purpose.
This tool also helped to develop more analytical thinking about
the problems faced by unmanned systems and made us more aware of opposing or
just different viewpoints on these issues as well as UAS themselves. This type of decision making is can be very
relevant to my line of work as a UAS flight instructor. Because this is such a new and growing
industry with many challenges facing it now and in the future good decision
making will be crucial. A case analysis provides the ability to have well
thought out and logical reasoning about and issue and puts it in a package to present
to others for review and consideration.
I don’t think there are many areas that this type of paper and problem
solving would not be applicable. A recent example that would this type of research
would have been applicable would be when I was working on finding a way to
improve the process for updating our lesson plans. We used Six Sigma practices for this at the
time but this process of researching and presenting a case analysis would have
been just as effective. Another example
would be using a case analysis to show some safety of flight issues that we
have because of inexperienced personnel being put in decision making
positions. A case analysis could be used
to show them what the problem is and how to fix it in a logical and subjective manner.
I don’t really see any way to improve the process for an online
class. Of course in actual classroom environment more collaboration between
students and more frequent feedback would be very helpful for this
process. For this class I think it was
done as well as it possibly could be.
