New Initiatives Subcommittee TAC Report Thursday, January 12 th, 2012

Agenda Near Term & Old Business TAC Workshop (Dimitri Mavris, Mark Melanson) 2.TC/PC Chair Handbook (Mark Melanson, Satish Mohleji, Bill West) 3.Technology Survey & Recommendations (Tony Williams, Jim Rankin) 4.Moderating Sessions/Session Chair Guidelines (Nancy Andersen) 5.Professional Interest Codes (Carlos Cesnik, Steve Rizzi, Peter Hartwich, George Lesieutre) 6.AIAA Forum Proposal (Dave Riley, Michele Dominiak) 7.TAC Newsletter (Ian Halliwell, Satish Mohleji) 8.Program Committee Information (Mark Melanson) New Business 1.How to be a Conference Chair (Nancy Andersen) 2.New time for monthly teleconference (Jim Keenan) 3.Web Advisory Team (Tom Beutner) TAC Workshop (Jim Keenan) 2

Professional Interest Codes (Carlos, Steve, Peter, and George) Overview: The professional interest codes (PIC) had not been reviewed in many years and may be missing areas of aerospace business. Who uses the PIC information (Note 100 choices)  Professional interests are used to segment members for marketing  The 7 primary areas are used for Fellow selection  TAC: Solicit new members for the different technical committees Recommendations:  “Other” (with fill-in) should be an available option on Web site  Use “Other” results to determine under served segment of profession.  Yearly update requests should be sent to all members including Lifetime members (17% are “None Specified”) 3

AIAA Forum Proposals (ASG Dir. Dave Riley, Michele Dominiak) Overview: Expand how AIAA transfers information using web-based resources Dave Riley presented his concept  Papers are submitted through Scholar One  TCs review papers (e.g. quarterly)  Web Ex (or similar) used to present paper to online audience –Supported by online moderator –Allow for Blog/Chat question format  Web Ex presentations are stored for future viewing Michele informed us that storage capability should be available for testing in late summer Team formed to fill in details and conduct tests on approach 4

Program Committee Information (Mark Melanson) PC review cycle for the 14 PCs Typically review a PC every 3 years Current cycle is “broken” Path forward  Temporarily alter review process  Peter, Satoshi, & Mark do a separate review  Report overall assessment to NIS  Reset baseline and restart annual review 5

2013 TAC Workshop (Jim Keenan) Need path/idea for the next workshop Possible ideas  eConference –Couple with YPs to look at expanding/exploring online sessions –Webcast/Webinars from conferences  ITAR limitations on conferences  Refinement of 2012 Workshop –Tackle large conferences? 6

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Review of the Professional Interest Codes (PIC) – Status Report Workgroup membership: Carlos Cesnik, Peter Hartwich, Steve Rizzi, and George Lesieutre (Membership Committee) NIS meeting – January 2012

Motivation/Charge Motivation: The interest codes have not been reviewed in many years and miss many areas of the business Charge: –Are they aligned with current TC/PCs? –Possible work to review/reorganize/change? –Complications due to integration into various AIAA areas such as membership upgrades, other areas? 9

Initial “Action Plan” Current codes will be reviewed and possible suggestions will be made on new interest codes. Note these codes are used in Scholar One for keyword searches and are linked to the number of AIAA Fellows by area (e.g. if 25% of members indicate that primary interest is Fluids then 25% of Fellows will come from Fluids area). The goal is to generate a preliminary/findings update by the ASM NIS meeting. Gaps/oversight may be identified or a suggestion of “no action needed” may be the path forward. 10

11 Professional Interests 7 primary technical areas (or directorates) 100 professional interests within the 7 areas Members select primary, secondary and tertiary interests Who uses these?  Professional interests are used to segment members for marketing  The 7 primary areas are used for Fellow selection (more later)  TAC: Solicit new members for the different technical activities committees (??)  TAC: used by proposers of new Technical Awards to help establish the size of a technical community

Current PICs PICs organized under 7 areas (in this order):  ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT  AEROSPACE SCIENCES  AIRCRAFT & ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEMS  INFORMATION SYSTEMS  PROPULSION & ENERGY  SPACE & MISSILES  AEROSPACE DESIGN & STRUCTURES 12

Observations 1) The majority of the PICs are aligned with TC and/or PC names  Few codes (e.g., Product Support, Standards Engineering) do not seem to have TC/PCs. 2) 75% of PICs are primary choices by TC/PC members 13

75% of PICs map against PCs & TCs PC and TC populations drive AIAA activities and define intent and character of AIAA  8% of AIAA membership engages in PCs and TCs  89% of AIAA members are categorized as non-participatory Expectation is that all PICs are represented among PC and TC membership  No or weak representation of PIC within PC and TC populations suggests –PIC is irrelevant to TAC –PIC is poorly defined »Too broad? »Too narrow? »Obsolete? 14

Primary PIC 2010

Observations (cont’d) 3) Significant percentage (17%) of our membership under “None Specified”  Can’t tell if the reason is simply not interest in indicating an area or if the member’s area is not capture in the list  Current form does not require one area to be selected for the application to be completed  Current form does not contain “Other. Please fill out ____________” option. Recommendations:  Membership form should require choice of PIC for completion  “Other” (and specify) should be an available option  Yearly update requests should be sent to all members (including Lifetime members) 16

Motivation/Charge Motivation: The interest codes have not been reviewed in many years and miss many areas of the business Charge: –Are they aligned with current TC/PCs? Yes –Possible work to review/reorganize/change? Yes. NIS could do it. –Complications due to integration into various AIAA areas such as membership upgrades, other areas? Not really… 17

Fellows Selection Process (as we understand it) AIAA President selects Fellow grade selection committee chair Committee chair selects committee members (all Fellows or higher) and provides guidance Committee members are responsible for evaluations within individual Groups (nominations based on PICs and mapping to groups) (There are lower-bound quotas for each group based on PICs, with a few "open slots." The overall rate is 1 per 1000 professional members.)  Aerospace Design and Structures  Aerospace Sciences - Applied  Aerospace Sciences - Basic  Aircraft and Atmospheric Systems  Engineering & Technology Management  Information Systems  Propulsion & Energy  Space & Missile Systems  International (some years) Committee members select 6-8 evaluators (all Fellows or higher) to rate the nominees in their group Nominees are rated according to the criteria including technical and management contributions, contributions to AIAA, other Society activities, qualities of endorsement letters. (The form is available as part of nomination packages.) The top nominees are ranked by each committee member for their group. Other factors may be considered, especially for the open slots. These might include, for example: the distribution between academia, industry, and government; diversity representative of the membership, and other considerations. The committee as a whole discusses recommended nominees and makes the final selections. The Board of Directors approves the final slate, essentially validating the process. 18

Fellows Selection Process (as we understand it) Committee members are responsible for evaluations within individual Groups (nominations based on PICs and mapping to groups) (There are lower-bound quotas for each group based on PICs, with a few "open slots." The overall rate is 1 per 1000 professional members.)  Aerospace Design and Structures  Aerospace Sciences - Applied  Aerospace Sciences - Basic  Aircraft and Atmospheric Systems  Engineering & Technology Management  Information Systems  Propulsion & Energy  Space & Missile Systems  International (some years) 19 So, as long as we don’t touch the 7 main areas, the impact into Fellows selection will be indirect by distributions within those areas (which could impact Aero Sciences, although unlikely)

Summary and Recommendations PICs have been reviewed and they are mostly covering our TC/PC membership  Still 17% of AIAA membership has not indicate a PIC PICs used for:  AIAA marketing (at what level?)  Fellows distribution (according to main areas and % membership)  Determine size of membership when considering new awards creation Opportunities for improvement  New PICs could be created to best aligned TAC organization with AIAA strategic directions  Some PICs could be retired/consolidated – although keeping more does not seem to hurt anything Recommendation : should know what is the desired roles/usefulness of the PICs before further action is warranted 20

Additional Information 21

ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT  0100 Economics  0105 History  0110 Legal Aspects of Aeronautics & Astronautics  0115 Management  0120 Society & Aerospace Technology  0130 Systems Engineering  0135 Environmental Assurance Compliance  0140 Computer-aided Enterprise Solutions 22

AEROSPACE SCIENCES  0200 Aeroacoustics  0210 Applied Aerodynamics  0215 Astrodynamics  0220 Atmospheric & Space Environments  0225 Atmospheric Flight Mechanics  0235 Fluid Dynamics  0240 Guidance, Navigation, & Control  0245 Aerodynamic Measurement Technology  0250 Plasmadynamics & Lasers 23  0255 Sounding Rockets  0265 Thermophysics  0270 Remote Sensing & Applications  0275 Thermodynamics  0280 Computational Fluid Dynamics  0285 Modeling & Simulation  0290 Ground Testing  0295 Meshing, Visualization & Computational Environments

AIRCRAFT & ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEMS  0300 Air Transportation Systems  0305 Aircraft Design  0310 Aircraft Operations  0315 Aircraft Safety  0316 Balloon Systems  0320 General Aviation  0325 Helicopter Design  0330 Lighter-Than-Air Systems  0335 Unmanned Systems  0340 V/STOL Aircraft Systems  0345 Marine Systems & Technology  0355 Hypersonic Systems 24  0360 Flight Testing  0365 Electronic Equipment Design  0370 Ground Support Equipment  0375 Aircraft Maintenance  0380 Reliability  0385 Test & Evaluation  0390 Standards Engineering  0395 Producibility & Cost Engineering  0396 Production Engineering  0397 Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems  ???? Product Support

INFORMATION SYSTEMS  0400 Aerospace Electronics  0405 Aerospace Maintenance  0410 Intelligent Systems  0420 Information & Command & Control Systems  0425 Communications Systems  0430 Computer Systems  0435 Digital Aviontics Systems  0440 Sensor Systems  0445 Software Systems  0450 Support Systems  0455 System Effectiveness & Safety  0465 Micro/Nanotechnology 25

PROPULSION & ENERGY  0500 Aerospace Power Systems  0510 Electric Propulsion  0515 Liquid Propulsion  0520 Propellants & Combustion  0525 Solid Rockets  0530 Terrestrial Energy Systems  0535 Nuclear & Future Flight Propulsion  0540 Hybrid Rockets  0545 Energetic Components & Systems  0550 Gas Turbine Engines  0555 High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion  0560 Air Breathing Propulsion Systems Integration 26

SPACE & MISSILES  0600 Life Sciences & Systems  0605 Missile Systems  0610 Space Operations & Support  0615 Microgravity & Space Processes  0620 Space Systems  0625 Space Transportation  0630 Space Sciences & Astronomy  0635 Space Automation & Robotics  0640 Weapon System Effectiveness  0645 Human Factors Engineering  0650 Satellite Design, Integration & Test 27  0655 Launch Operations  0660 Laser Technology & Applications  0665 Space Tethers  0670 Space Colonization  0675 Space Tourism  0680 Terraforming  0685 Space Resources  0690 Space Architecture  0695 Space Logistics

AEROSPACE DESIGN & STRUCTURES  0701 Survivability  0705 Design Engineering  0710 Design Technology  0735 Materials  0745 Structural Dynamics  0750 Structures  0755 Adaptive Structures  0760 Radar Absorbing Materials & Structures  0765 Gossamer Spacecraft  0770 Non-Deterministic Approaches  0775 Multidisciplinary Design Optimization 28

Professional Members (FY2002 & FY2010 dues increase years)

Primary Business (2010)

Primary Business (2010) – Aerospace Manufacturing – Breakout of the 21%

List of Primary PICs w/o Representation in PC/TC Rosters (1 of 3) Engineering & Technology Management  Environmental Assurance Compliance  140 -Computer-Aided Enterprise Solutions Aerospace Sciences  255 – Sounding Rockets  275 – Thermodynamics (NOTE: close title of TC)  290 – Ground Testing (NOTE: title of TC) Aircraft & Atmospheric Systems  345 – Marine Systems & Technology  365 – Electronic Equipment Design  370 – Ground Support Equipment  Production Engineering  397 – Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems 32

List of Primary Primary PICs w/o Representation in PC/TC Rosters (2 of 3) Information Systems  450 – Support Systems  455 – System Effectiveness & Safety Propulsion & Energy  550 – Gas Turbine Engines (NOTE: title of TC)  555 – High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion (NOTE: title of TC)  560 – Air Breathing Propulsion Systems Integration (NOTE: title of TC) 33

List of Primary PICs w/o Representation in PC/TC Rosters (3 of 3) Space & Missiles  625 – Space Transportation (NOTE: title of TC)  655 – Launch Operations  660 – Laser Technology & Applications  680 – Terraforming  685 – Space Resources (NOTE: title of TC)  690 – Space Architecture (NOTE: title of TC)  695 – Space Logistics (NOTE: title of TC) Aerospace Design & Structures  760 – Radar Absorbing Materials & Structures  770 – Non-Deterministic Approaches  775 – Multidisciplinary Optimization (NOTE: title of TC) 34

PIC vs PC/TC Correlation - Methodology 35 For detailed review of correlation, open embedded file

36 PIC Code Analysis

37 Observations (cont’d) Large jump in “None Identified” in 2010  Increase in “None Identified” attributed to a decease in ALL groups. The largest decrease (3%) taken in the Aerospace Sciences group. Name change of some Technical Discipline Groups sometime after 2008  Increase in “None Identified” not likely due to group name changes since membership selects PICs, not areas. Was there a corresponding change in PIC names after 2008?

Primary PIC 2008

Primary PIC 2010

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