Technical Activities Region I Stephen A. Rizzi TAC Meeting SciTech 2016, San Diego, CA Wednesday, 6 January 2016
Region I Technical Activities January 6, Contents Around the Sections Student Activities AIAA Conferences & Special Events
3 Around the Sections Region I consists of 13 sections Central Pennsylvania Connecticut Delaware (1 st Place Outstanding Section: Very Small) Greater Philadelphia Hampton Roads (plus Blue Ridge Chapter) Long Island (1 st Place (Tie) Outstanding Section: Medium) Mid-Atlantic (plus Aberdeen Chapter) National Capital (plus Southern Maryland Chapter) (2 nd Place Outstanding Section: Very Large) New England Niagara Frontier Northern New Jersey Northeastern New York Southern New Jersey … and 47 student branches Region I Technical Activities January 6, 2016
(7) Fellows (2015) Thomas Beutner, Office of Naval Research- NATIONAL CAPITAL John Crassidis, SUNY at Buffalo - NIAGARA FRONTIER Eric Evans, MIT Lincoln Laboratory - NEW ENGLAND Debra Facktor Lepore, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation - NATIONAL CAPITAL Alison Flatau, University of Maryland - NATIONAL CAPITAL David W. Miller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/NASA - NEW ENGLAND Alton Romig, Jr., Lockheed Martin Corporation- NATIONAL CAPITAL (39) Associate Fellows (2016) (2) Connecticut, (8) Hampton Roads, (3) Mid-Atlantic, (21) National Capitol, (1) New England, (4) Niagara Frontier 4 Region I Membership Honors Region I Technical Activities January 6, 2016
Region 1 Monthly Professional Membership 5
Region 1 Monthly Student Membership 6
Region 1 Monthly Educator Associates 7
8 Student Activities Region I Student Conference Virginia Tech March 27-28, 2015 Region I Student Conference Virginia Tech March 27-28, 2015 Combined Northeast/Mid-Atlantic student conferences (3 rd year) 60 presentations were made across 14 colleges & universities. 102 faculty and student attendees. Next conference to be hosted by Worcester Polytechnic University on April 22-23, 2016 Region I Technical Activities January 6, 2016
9 AIAA Conferences & Special Events Region I Young Professional, Student and Education Conference (YPSE-2015) Region I Technical Activities January 6, 2016
10 Young Professional, Student, and Education Conference 2015 “Highlighting the Future of Aerospace from Kindergarten to Age 35” Hosted by Mid-Atlantic Section (since 2003) November 13, JHU-APL Keynote speaker: Gabe Rogers, Spacecraft Systems Engineer, New Horizons Mission, JHU APL, “Going where No One Has Gone Before: New Horizons at Pluto” Presentation categories – 31 Undergraduate presentations 16 Graduate presentations 8 Young Professional presentations 9 Educator and K-12 presentations (see Supporting Info slides) Region I Technical Activities January 6, 2016
11 YPSE-15 Elena Shrestha University of Maryland, College Park, Winner of the Graduate Student Paper Kirsten Muirhead The Pennsylvania State University Winner of the Undergraduate Student Paper (see Supporting Info slide) Region I Technical Activities January 6, 2016
12 Issues/Concerns The new ½ day TAC meeting format has negative consequences because region (& liaison) reports are, for the most part, written-only Participation/attendance is a problem if not giving oral report. –If participation reduced, connections between regions/sections and TAC suffer –If participation reduced, connections across regions suffer A written report posted on SharePoint will receive little or no readership, so why write the report at all –The action of writing the report itself is one that helps establishes a connection between the region/sections and TAC. –This is a test. If you read this report, please me Liaison between national committees and regions/sections will be diminished at a time when we should be trying to invigorate that. –Are other standing committees going to a shorter format? Region I Technical Activities January 6, 2016
13 Issues/Concerns What is role of the Regional DD Technical Activities in the TAC under the new governance model? How do we stay connected going forward? What kind of things can the Regional DDs do to help inform the regions/sections on the impact of the new governance model on AIAA technical activities & TAC? Region I Technical Activities January 6, 2016
14 Supporting Information Region I Technical Activities January 6, 2016
15 YPSE-15 Award Winners AwardPresenterCo-AuthorsSchoolTitle 1st Place Graduate Elena Shrestha Inderjit Chopra University of Maryland, College Park Disturbance Rejection Capability of a Cycloidal-Rotor-Based Aircraft 1st Place Undergraduate Kirsten MuirheadStephen P. Lynch The Pennsylvania State University Interaction of High Turbulence Dilution Flow with Turbine Vanes in Gas Turbine Engines Space Automation & Robotics TC - Graduate Jason Reiter David B. Spencer The Pennsylvania State University An Analytical Solution to Quick-Response Collision Avoidance Maneuvers in Low Earth Orbit Space Automation & Robotics TC - Undergrad Joshua KorsnessVirginia Tech In-Space Reusable Staging in Lunar Mission Architecture Utilizing a Propellant Depot Region I Technical Activities January 6, 2016
YPSE History Started in 2003 by Marvine Hammer, originally known as a “Technical Mini Conference” Began inclusion of educators in 2007 (Added the “E” to YPSE) Notable past keynote speakers: Mike Francis - DARPA. Invited Speaker: Mason Peck - Cornell University - recently named as new NASA Chief Technologist Steven Brody – International Space University Harley Thronson - NASA Associate Director for Advanced Concepts and Planning, Astrophysics Science Division Matt Mountain - Director, Space Telescope Science Institute Laurie Leshin - NASA Deputy Director for Science and Technology Tom Irvine - NASA Aeronautics John Thornton – Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute David Giger, Director for Dragon Spacecraft Development, SpaceX 2013 – Sandy Magnus, Executive Director, AIAA Michael Toscano, President and CEO of AUVSI Region I Technical Activities January 6, 2016
Stephen A. Rizzi Region I DD for Technical Activities Aeroacoustics Branch 2 North Dryden Street NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA Telephone: (757) Facsimile: (757) National Committee: Technical Activities Committee New Initiatives Subcommittee Aeroacoustics TC Transformational Flight PC