Technical Activities Region I Stephen A. Rizzi TAC Meeting SciTech 2015, Kissimmee, FL Thursday, 8 January 2015
Jan 06, 2018
Technical Activities Region I
Stephen A. Rizzi
TAC MeetingSciTech 2015, Kissimmee, FL
Thursday, 8 January 2015
Region I Technical Activities January 8, 2015
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Contents
Around the Sections
Student Activities
AIAA Conferences & Special Events
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Around the SectionsRegion I consists of 13 sections
• Central Pennsylvania• Connecticut• Delaware (2nd Place: Very Small)• Greater Philadelphia• Hampton Roads (plus Blue Ridge Chapter) (1st Place: Very Large)• Long Island (1st Place: Medium)• Mid-Atlantic (plus Aberdeen Chapter)• National Capital (plus Southern Maryland Chapter) (3rd Place (Tie):
Very Large)• New England• Niagara Frontier• Northern New Jersey• Northeastern New York (3rd Place (Tie): Small)• Southern New Jersey• …• and 47 student branches
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• (2) Honorary Fellows (2014) Edward Greitzer – MIT (New England) Paul Kaminski – Technovation, Inc. (National Capitol)
• (5) Fellows (2014) Tom Crouch – Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (National Capitol) Roger Krone – Boeing (National Capitol) Deborah Levin – Penn State (Central PA) Richard Wahls – NASA Langley (Hampton Roads) Andrew Zellweger – Consultant (National Capitol)
• (42) Associate Fellows (2015) (2) Greater Philadelphia, (15) Hampton Roads, (1) Long Island, (5) Mid-Atlantic,
(13) National Capitol, (6) New England
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Region I Membership Honors
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Region 1 Monthly Professional Membership
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Deltas (March to March)2011-2012 -195 -2.86%2012-2013 -494 -7.45%2013-2014 -350 -5.70%
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Deltas (March to March)2011-2012 -118 -8.53%2012-2013 272 21.50%2013-2014 -73 -4.75%
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Deltas (March to March)2011-2012 71 11.51%2012-2013 79 11.48%2013-2014 16 2.09%
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Student Activities
Region I Student ConferenceCornell UniversityApril 25-26, 2014
• Combined Northeast/Mid-Atlanticstudent conferences (2nd year)
• 117 students from 21 universitiesparticipated
Next conference to be hosted byVirginia Tech on March 27-28, 2015
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AIAA Conferences & Special Events
Region I Young Professional, Student and Education Conference (YPSE-2014)
2014 Mid-Atlantic Symposium on Aerospace, Unmanned Systems, and Rotorcraft
Region I Young Professionals Rocket Competition
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Young Professional, Student, and Education Conference 2014 “Highlighting the Future of Aerospace from Kindergarten to Age 35”
• Hosted by Mid-Atlantic Section (since 2003)
• November 7, 2014 @ JHU-APL
• Keynote speaker: Michael Toscano, President and CEO of AUVSI, “Innovation Breakthroughs: UAS the Next Frontier”
• Presentation categories – • 26 Undergraduate presentations• 15 Graduate presentations• 6 Young Professional presentations• 12 Educator and K-12 presentations
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YPSE-14
Brandon Horton, Virginia TechWinner of the Graduate Student Paper
(see Supporting Info slide)
Brittany Gater and Liza KossobokovaVirginia Tech
Winners of the Undergraduate Student Paper
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(see Supporting Info slide)
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2014 Mid-Atlantic Symposium on Aerospace, Unmanned Systems, and Rotorcraft
• AIAA Greater Philadelphia Section, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and AHS Philadelphia Chapter
• April 10, 2014 @ Villanova University
• Keynote speaker: Mr. Jon Greene, Interim Executive Director Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership, “The New FAA‐Sanctioned New Jersey – Maryland ‐ Virginia UAS Test Site”
• 11 Technical Presentations
• http://www.cuvr.org/MAS
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4th Region I Young Professionals Rocket Competition
• Objective: • Design and build an egg lofting rocket to
fly to a minimum altitude of 1000 feet, while maximizing acceleration during boost, and return the rocket to the earth as quickly as possible… without breaking the egg!
• Held April 5, 2014 in Culpeper, VA
• Only one team participated (two late drops)• High Eggspectations, from JHU APL,
Mid-Atlantic section• 11,500+ ft and 24+ g’s!!
• http://www.rocketbattle.org/Main.html
• Next competition: March 28, 2015Region I to support national student competition. Region I Technical Activities
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Some SciTech 2015 Feedback
• Federal Employees Lack of available government rate rooms at conference venue Forum coincides with last week of leave year… “lose or use” considerations
– 2015 end of leave year is January 9, 2016.
• General Difficult to choose between too many things happening… not enough time Conflicts between committee meetings
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Supporting Information
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YPSE-14 Award Winners
Award Presenter Co-Authors School Title 1st PlaceGraduate
Brandon Horton Virginia Tech Bio-Inspired Analysis of Bat Flight Kinematics and Unsteady
Aerodynamics 1st Place
UndergraduateLiza Kossobokova Brittany Gater,
Wes RoystonVirginia Tech Revolutionary, Unsteady Aero-
hydrodynamic Robotic Concept for High Density Fluid Environments
Space Automation & Robotics TC
Katherine McBryan Nicolas Limparis,Chris Carlsen
University of Maryland, College
Park
DYMAFLIGHT: Dynamic Manipulator Flight Experiment
Space Automation & Robotics TC
Adam Halperin Oliver Ortiz University of Maryland,
College Park
Development of Gas Compression Systems for Autonomous Martian
RoversSpace Operations and
Support TCUndergraduate
Nicholas Limparis Katherine McBryan University of Maryland, College
Park
Micro-Sat Based Dexterous Robotic Satellite Servicing: A Case for
Miniaturization
Space Operations and Support TCGraduate
Edward Hanlon United States Naval Academy
The Modeling, Construction and Installation of Bespoke Photovoltaic
Power Systems for Small Satellites at the United States Naval Academy
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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:
2005 - Mike Francis - DARPA. Invited Speaker: Mason Peck - Cornell University - recently named as new NASA Chief Technologist
2006 - Steven Brody – International Space University 2007 - Harley Thronson - NASA Associate Director for Advanced Concepts and Planning,
Astrophysics Science Division 2008 - Matt Mountain - Director, Space Telescope Science Institute 2009 - Laurie Leshin - NASA Deputy Director for Science and Technology 2010 - Tom Irvine - NASA Aeronautics 2011 - John Thornton – Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute 2012 - David Giger, Director for Dragon Spacecraft Development, SpaceX 2013 – Sandy Magnus, Executive Director, AIAA
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Stephen A. RizziRegion I DD for Technical Activities
Aeroacoustics Branch2 North Dryden StreetNASA Langley Research CenterHampton, VA 23681-2199
Telephone: (757) 864-3599Facsimile: (757) 864-8823
National Committee:Technical Activities CommitteeNew Initiatives Subcommittee
Aeroacoustics TCTransformational Flight PC