P&E Group

Aerospace Power Systems Technical Committee (APS TC)

Annual Report Inputto

P&E Group Meeting

January 3, 2011

By

Greg Carr, APS TC Chair

P&E GroupAPS TC Chair

TC Chair Name / Contact Info:Greg CarrJet Propulsion LaboratoryMail Stop 303-3004800 Oak Grove DrivePasadena, CA 91109(818)354-0680 (W)(818)640-5917E-mail: gregory.a.carr@jpl.nasa.gov

P&E GroupAPS TC Membership

¨ Number of Members = 48 – 35 Full, 1 Associate, 1 Foreign and 11 Emeritus– 2 new members and 2 rolled off.

• Karen Cunningham, MSFC• Steven Geng, GRC

¨ Employers – 18 From Government– 5 From Academia– 14 From Industry

¨ Grades– 1 Associate Member– 22 Members– 7 Senior Members– 16 Associate Fellows– 2 Fellows

¨ Number of Foreign Members = 1 by APS Charter¨ Member Roster - see next page

P&E Group

APS TC Roster (Members)

P&E GroupAPS TC Roster (Members Emeritus)

1Allen Douglas

Member Emeritus, IECEC growth subcomittee chair Schafer Corporation

2Bennett Gary Member Emeritus Retired

3 Dakermanji George Member Emeritus NASA/GSFC

4Fox Christopher Member Emeritus LaBarge Inc

5 Hakimzadeh Roshanak Member Emeritus NASA Glenn Research Center

6 Jenkins Jason Member Emeritus NASA Headquarters

7 Lewis Carol Member Emeritus NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

8 Marvin Dean Member Emeritus The Aerospace Corporation

9Milden Martin Member Emeritus Retired

10 Newhouse Al Member Emeritus Consultant

11Rusta Douglas Member Emeritus Retired

P&E GroupAPS TC Operations

¨ TC has a succession plan transitioned on May 1.– Secretary, Michael Butler, will serve 2 years, then move on to– Vice-chair, Richard Shaw, will serve 2 years, then move on to– Chair, Greg Carr, will serve 2 years, then move on to – Grand Poobah, Harout Avaysian, will serve 2 years

¨ TC has Six Subcommittees– Membership– Conferences & Activities– Publications– Specifications & Standards– Education– Awards

P&E GroupAPS-TC Meetings¨ Number of TC meetings last year: 2 face to face meetings, one telecon

– First meeting was held at the Space Power Workshop on 4/20/10– Second meeting was held at IECEC on 7/27/2010– Next telecon using meeting place will be January 19, 2011 for Winter meeting – Next face-to-face meeting at Space Power Workshop Tuesday April 19, 2011.

¨ Participation in AIAA national Technical Conferences: – IECEC sponsored jointly by APS and TES TCs International Energy Conversion

Engineering Conference (IECEC)– Steering committee members from the APS TC include H. Ayvazian, R. Raffaelle, & W.

Choy

¨ Participation in non-AIAA conferences: – APS TC members are actively involved in the organization of the Space Power

Workshop organized by the Aerospace Corporation in Los Angeles, CA– TC member Margot Wasz serves on SPW Steering Committee

P&E GroupSpecial Topics

¨ Training/Education– Space Power System Design Tutorial

• Instructors Robb Pinkerton, Ted Stern & Doug Allen All TC Members• Presented at SPW (typical), IECEC, or by invitation• Marshall Space Flight Center is requesting a course in 2011

– Outreach – Henry Brandhorst made a presentation on engineering/science to 660+ students at George Washington University

– Voted to send a proposal to TAC for a Robotics Arena for a Middle School Robotics Competition

¨ Specs/Standards– SMC has decided to fund AIAA to turn the two the Lithium Ion Aerospace

TORS (S/C Valerie Ang and L/V Margot Wasz) into an AIAA Standard– S111 & S112 photovoltaic cell/panel qualification standards are being

revised (Henry Brandhorst)¨ Treasury

– $2000.00 available in the account currently

P&E GroupAPS TC Honors & Awards

¨ 2010 Aerospace Power Systems Award– Edward M. Gaddy of the John Hopkins University Applied Physics

Laboratory, who will receive the AIAA 2010 Aerospace Power Systems Award.

¨ 2010 Aerospace Power Systems Best Paper Award– Margot L. Wasz, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA,

Electrode Surface Area Characteristics of Batteries ¨ 2010 Aerospace Power Systems Best Student Paper Award

– Tyler G. Voskullen, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, An Analysis of the Hydrogen Sorption Kinetics of Ti1.1CrMn

P&E GroupAPS TC Publication Activities

¨ Aerospace America publication¨ Highlights article: Provided 1 page APS highlight article (by Ted Stern)¨ Newsletter: Yearly newsletter established¨ White papers/position papers: None¨ Books: None¨ Journal articles: None

P&E GroupAPS TC Participation in AIAA Sections, Committees & Activities

¨ TC participation/activities with AIAA sections: – No official joint activities with local AIAA sections, however, local AIAA sections have been

contacted with regard to participation/involvement in IECEC conference¨ Standards: Large number of TC members involved in AIAA Standards activities.

Substantial & active involvement in the following Standards activities: – AIAA Standard - Qualification and Quality Requirements for Space Solar Cells (S-111)– AIAA Standard - Qualification and Quality Requirements for Space Solar Panels (S-112)– AIAA Standard - Electrical Power Systems for Unmanned Spacecraft (S-122)– APS TC members are part of an international committee trying to create an ISO standard on solar

cells and panels.– APS TC members are involved with reviewing Aerospace Battery Qualification Standard TOR-

2007(8583)-1.– APS TC committee members are currently and actively involved in modifications to AIAA

Standards (S-111-2005 & S-112-2005 headed by Henry Brandhorst, and S122 headed by Winnie Choy)

¨ Education:– APS TC puts together the Aerospace Power Systems course, held annually at the Space Power

Workshop– APS TC has generated a draft Education Charter and is being reviewed by TC for release.

¨ Policy: One TC member emeritus (Doug Allen) is involved in this committee

P&E GroupAPS TC 2010 Significant Accomplishments

The Aerospace Power Systems Technical Committee has been extremely busy and involved over

the past year with various activities. The TC has successfully completed another transition of

leadership as defined in the bi-laws. A sub-committee has been focusing on bringing up the number

of papers in the IECEC as well as increasing attendance. The awards committee has completed the

process for the 2010 present at IECEC. The TC provided substantial organizational and technical

support for the IECEC this year. We submitted another end of the year highlights article as we did

last year. We are investigating whether to produce another position paper on Nuclear Power in

Space. The other major accomplishment by this TC has been its involvement in the development of

various standards for the aerospace community. Significant work over the past years was put into

the committee to establish and complete AIAA Standard S-122: Electrical Power Systems for

Unmanned Spacecraft. Earlier involvement in the AIAA Standards S-111-2005 and S-112-2005 on

Solar Cell and Array Qualification and Quality Requirements now has many APS TC members

involved in meetings to discuss clarification and possible changes to these documents in response to

comments from industry/Government. We are proposing to provide funding for Middle School

Robotic Competition arenas to support the robotics courses.

P&E GroupCRITERIA A. Effectiveness

of existing TCB. TAC governance C. Liaisons D.      No. of TC meetings

each year and how active are the TC members

E. Special tasks by TC

METRIC ITEMS FOR EACH TC EVALUATION

A 1. Membership balance analysisA 2. Create/update a charterA 3. Number of foreign members (optional)

B 1. Succession planningB 2. Training

C 1. AIAA TC’sC 2. Local or Regional AIAA ChaptersC 3. Other Professional Organizations ( i.e. SAE, ASME, etc. )

D 1. No. of Members that attendD 2. No. of TC members that actively work on your TC subcommittees

E 1. Professional short coursesE 2. Higher Educational Programs (Graduate and Undergraduate)E 3. K-12 Educational ProgramsE 4. Community Programs Publications:E 5. BooksE 6. Design GuidesE 7. News letters/BulletinsE 8. Journal ArticlesE 9. AIAA papersE 10. Aerospace America Articles Awards/Scholarships:E 11. Student (Graduate & Undergraduate)E 12. Young EngineersE 13. Lifetime achievementE 14. AIAA serviceCongress Contact:E 15. Participate in Congressional Day Visit

Importance order

1 1 1 1 1 

No. of Metric Items

2 plus 1 Optional Item

2 3 2 15

Points per Metric Item

5 5 5 5 5

Max Value of Metrics

10 plus 5 Optional 10 15 10 75

Max Percentage Evaluation Metric

10 plus 5% extra 8.33% 12.5% 8.33% 66.7%

TOTAL = 98.3TC: APS

A. 15 points B. 10 points C. 15 points D. 8.3 points E. 50 points

Percent Eval each TC

 15.0

 8.33

  12.5 6.91 50.0 Total = 92.7% 

Aerospace Power Systems Technical Committee Metrics