1. State of the Structures TC Jeanette Domber Structures TC Chair 09/17/13

2. Standing Officers Jeanette Domber – Chair Steve Russell – Vice Chair, Chair Elect Lisa Hardaway – Secretary

3. Standing Subcommittees Steering  Advises chair, reviews membership applications Education  Chaired by Mike Wolff  Concentrating on undergraduate design competition  Looking at ways to do outreach at future conferences Awards  Chaired by Brett Bednarcyk  Helps find and complete nomination packages for AIAA awards that Structures TC participates in  Choose Collier Best Structures Paper Award  Help TC members apply for membership upgrades 3

4. Standing Subcommittees Agenda  Chaired by Grant Henson  Determines topic for “educational” TBD night conference meeting Student Paper Awards  Chaired by Rob Taylor  Determines winner for Hilton Best Structures Student Paper Award  Determines winner for Lockheed Martin Best Structures Student Paper Award 4

5. Two New Subcommittees (1/2) NEM transition subcommittee  Subcommittee charter is to ease the transition from the SDM to colocating at the SciTech Forum staring in January 2014 –Extra reminders about deadlines –Disseminating information –Feedback to representative on timing of events (like Awards Luncheon, SDM Key Notes, Student paper presentations)  Looking for people with SDM and ASM experience  Former SDM planning representatives  Current SDM planning representatives So far I have 3 volunteers  Dave Wieland, Mark Sensmeier, Dawn Phillips I have not yet provided this subcommittee with a kick-off 5

6. Two New Subcommittees (2/2) Procedures subcommittee  Update handbook based on new calendar associated with colocating at SciTech 2014  Goal to reissue handbook by June of 2014  I have not yet provided this subcommittee with a kick-off So far, I have 1 volunteer  Troy Mann 6

7. Structures Representatives  Dawn Phillips, 54 th SDM 2013, Boston, MA  Ali Najafi, 55 th SDM 2014, National Harbor, MD  Alex Selvarathinam, 56 th SDM 2015, San Diego, CA 55th SDM Conference in National Harbor, MD  January 13 – 17, 2014  SDM General Chair is Carlos Cesnik –Converted to SciTech Technical Chair

8. Liasons and other Tasks TC Web Editor: Cristina Beldica, Univ. Illinois Aerospace America Editor: Harry Hilton, Univ. of Illinois Liaison with Materials TC: Brian Wardle, MIT Liaison with Structural Dynamics TC: Bruce Willis, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Liaison with Space Structures TC (former Gossamer PC): TBD Liaison with AIAA Long Range Planning Committee: Stan Smeltzer, NASA Langley Research Center Liaison with AIAA Strategic Directions Committee: Stan Smeltzer, NASA Langley Research Center 8

9. Structures TC Membership Structures TC Membership includes:  35 Members  5 International Members  6 Associate Members –46 officially recognized participants in the committee –Below AIAA requirement of 50 maximum  62 Friends  109 Total The Structures TC uses the “Friend” category to introduce newcomers to the TC Committee membership is limited by AIAA to 35 Members, so longstanding Members of the TC are returned to Friend status on an annual basis to make room for new Members

10. TAC News AIAA TC applications are open  Deadline to apply is November 1  If you are a friend and applied last year, you do not need to reapply New Standard Available: AIAA Qualification and Quality Requirements for Electrical Components on Space Solar Panels (S-112A-2013)  For a full list of standards available, visit AIAA's Aerospace Research Central (ARC). Please note, these Standards are available at no cost to AIAA members and may be downloaded individually or as a setAIAA's Aerospace Research Central (ARC) Gossamer Systems Forum to the Spacecraft Structures Conference effective at SciTech 2015 10

11. Upcoming TC Activities SciTech  2 TC meetings still planned Annual Report  Due to TAC on January 31  Summary of committee activities over the past year Membership application review by Steering subcommittee  New member list due to AIAA on January 31

12. Goals for 2013 (1/2) Increase the committee’s activities in engineering education outreach  Mike Wolff and the subcommittee are very busy with the student design competition  I would still like to see us do some STEM outreach at conferences, like Dynamics TC does  Need more volunteers on education subcommittee or a parallel subcommittee to champion this effort 12

13. Goals for 2013 (2/2) Continued higher participation from the TC members  Each TC member should serve on 1 subcommittee –Friends (especially those wanting to become members) are highly encouraged to serve on subcommittees and can even chair them  Several subcommittees could use a few more people  Formation of other relevant subcommittees is always welcome –Just come talk to me about what you would like to do or directly to subcommittee chairs Help ease the transition to the New Event Model 13

14. Announcements Mike Hyer is the new liaison to ASC  ASC cosponsors many conferences and awards with AIAA in which the STR TC participates 14

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16. Standing Subcommittee Membership Steering (advisor to the Chair)  Brett Bednarcyk  Steve Engelstad  Tom Lacey  Lisa Hardaway  Mike Hyer  Steve Russell Education  Mike Wolff – Chair  Lisa Hardaway  John Zipay Agenda  Grant Henson - Chair  Craig Collier  Norm Knight  Bob Sierakowski

17. Standing Subcommittee Membership Student Papers Awards  Rob Taylor - Chair  Michael Enright  Harry Hilton  Mike Hyer  Mary Mahler  Marc Schultz Awards  Brett Bednarcyk - chair  Massimo Ruzzene  Anthony Palazotto  Rob Taylor

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