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Newsletter Highlights• Message from the 2007-2008 Chair• Chair’s Welcome• Award Banquet Results• Congressional Visits Day 2008• Design Build Fly 2008• UCSD in microgravity• Membership• SPACE 2008 in San Diego
Message from the 2007-2008 ChairGreg Marien, Outgoing Chair
Summer is here, which means elections are over, Awards Banquet is complete, and now it’s time to hand over the reins to Kevin Willett, our new chair. I won’t be going far. I am still going to be active on the council as the Vice Chair - Long Range Planning. As outgoing chair, I also take up the role of the RAC VI representative.
It has been an exciting time as the chair of the San Diego section. For the last two years I have been part of a wonderful experience. Among the experiences, I have witnessed a growth in the Young Professionals group, an explosion at UCSD’s involvement in the AIAA and Pre-college outreach events, and chairing of the National En-gineers Banquet planning committee.
I would like to thank the entire council for their hard work and support making San Diego AIAA a national award winning section. We could not have done it without you.
My offer continues to stand for those that are in-terested in taking up a role in the San Diego sec-tion. Kevin Willett will be choosing his appointed chairs soon, so get on board early to find a posi-tion that you might be interested in pursuing.
See you all around the council chambers and at AIAA events. And as our local legend would say, and many of you know who I am talking about, “Over and out.”
Chair’s WelcomeKevin Willett, AIAA Chair
The votes are in for the new AIAA San Diego www.yahoo.comcouncil for 2008/2009. I am very happy to be the new Chair for this coming year, and will do my best to keep our San Diego section one of the most active in AIAA. Greg has done an amazing job as Chair the last couple of years, and I am very thankful that he will still be there to help this next year. Joel will continue as VC-Technical after a great year in 07-08. Penny has agreed to tackle the job of Treasurer, and has already helped greatly after taking over the position in the middle of last year. I have yet to meet Nijel, but I have heard good things, and I’m sure he will do an outstanding job as Secretary.
This next year will be very eventful. Starting off the year is our Technical Symposium on August 13. Joel has put a lot of effort into organizing this event. We have some great speakers lined up and expect a good turnout. In July we will be hav-ing a planning meeting to create and organize the events for this year. We will be continuing, and possibly expanding, the Young Professionals events that were increasingly popular last year. As always, there will be plenty of education outreach events, including Education Alley at the Space Conference 2008 (yah!), and many other ways you can get involved. Also, if you would like to help the council plan and organize events we en-courage anyone to come to our monthly meetings on the second Wednesday of every month at Ven-ice Pizza at 5:30 (the next one will be June 11th). The AIAA student organizations at UCSD and SDSU are a great way for students to get in-volved, and students are also welcome and en-couraged to come to our council meetings (free pizza for students!).
Check the website frequently for updates. Irene has done a wonderful job improving the website and we will try to keep it updated with the latest information. Also, we are looking into sending out monthly newsletters this next year to keep every-one informed about upcoming and past events. I hope everyone has a great year.
Volume 7, Issue 3 May 2008Website: www.aiaa-sd.org Editors: Jenny Rhymer Greg Marien
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Award Banquet 2008Keith Glassman, Honors & Awards, Career Enhancement
This years awards banquet followed the formula of the last few years maintaining a consistent re-cord of success. A full house was there to honor some of the best in San Diego aerospace.
The following pages list the recipients of awards given out by the AIAA San Diego section for ac-complishments by local San Diego aerospace companies and individuals. Also listed are the AIAA National Awards, which are given to the San Diego Council for their efforts.
Alex Fleet, the grandson of Reuben H. Fleet, founder of Consolidated Aircraft, was our guest of honor. He awarded ten Reuben H. Fleet Scholar-ships to deserving students. Since 1983, 116 students have received the scholarship. The scholarship is made possible by the Reuben H. Fleet Foundation at The San Diego Foundation.
Each year, AIAA national organizes a competition called Design Build and Fly (DBF). Teams from universities make remotely piloted aircraft which compete at the international DBF fly-off. For mak-ing a higher standing at the fly-off than SDSU, we presented the UCSD team with our perennial DBF trophy.
The Space Grant Education and Enterprise Insti-tute presented the Madison High School Devil Duckies
Robotics Team with a check to assist their team in the national U.S. FIRST Robotics Competition in Atlanta, GA.
AIAA selected the best two aviation related pro-jects at the 54th Annual Greater San Diego Sci-ence and Engineering Fair held April 1 through 6, 2007. Ian Larson and Zachary Sharpell were both handed $100 awards for their projects , "Hy-drogen Powered Rockets," and "Which Wing De-sign Creates the Greatest Lift" respectively.
Awards from AIAA National
Honoree Awards
Greg Marien Outstanding Section
Keith Glassman Career Enhancement
James Peterson Membership
Philip Smith Public Policy
Kevin Scanlon Young Professionals
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ELECTED OFFICERS Outgoing 2007-2008 Incoming 2008-2009
Section Chair Greg MarienNorthrop Grumman
Kevin WillettGeneral Atomics ASI
Vice Chair
(Long Range Planning)
Penny UlanderNAVAIR ISSC, North Island
Greg MarienNorthrop Grumman
Vice Chair
(Technical)
Joel PerezPratt & Whitney
Joel PerezPratt & Whitney
Secretary Kevin WillettGeneral Atomics ASI
Nijel GrandaNorthrop Grumman
Treasurer Penny UlanderNAVAIR ISSC, North Island
Penny UlanderNAVAIR ISSC, North Island
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Reuben H. Fleet Scholarship recepi-ents pictured right. (Back row, from left to right) Alex Fleet (presenter), Jennifer Rhymer, Pablo Mendez, Richard Krutop, Thomas Hong, Greg Marien (AIAA San Diego Chair). (Front row) Brian Preedanon, Raquel Weitl, Timothy Palmer, Zeena Khalfan, Steven Floyd, (not pictured) Ian Yates.
Greg Marien and Irene Chan, Irene received the Outstanding Contribution to the AIAA San Diego
Section
Alex Natchev, Guinness Helfrick and Philip Shacter mingling before the ceremony
Bill Chana and Greg Marien, Bill received the Lifetime Achievement Award
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Awards from the AIAA San Diego Section
Award Honoree Comments
Lifetime Achievement Award William F. Chana General Dynamics/ Convair, ret
For an exciting career as a Flight Test Engineer, Test Pilot, Aerospace Manager, Historian and author of Over the Wing.
Lifetime Achievement Award Frank W. Pace General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
For a 27 year long career in Unmanned Aircraft Systems and his leadership in programs like GNAT and Predator UAS.
Outstanding Contribution to Aerospace Management
Ryan BoganD3 Technologies
For his leadership at D3 and the transformation of the company achieving financial success and recognition as a leading provider of engineering services.
Outstanding Contribution to Aerospace Management
Nicholas J. Yorio Northrop GrummanUnmanned Systems
For his extensive contributions to unmanned systems, intelligence and special projects. In-cludes leading dispersed teams and the Army Hunter UAV.
Outstanding Contribution to Aerospace Engineering
Michael Wiskerchen,Ph.DCalifornia Space Institute, Space Grant Consortium, Space Grant Education & Enterprise Institute
For extensive work on space and planetary physics, remote sensing information systems and facilitating alliances for natural hazards and environmental research. Bringing industry uni-versity and government together in space-related projects.
Outstanding Contribution to Aerospace Education
Francis French San Diego Air and Space Museum
For his enthusiastic promotion of aerospace, his ability to appeal to both professional and novice exemplified in his books, That Silent Sea: Trail-blazers of the Space Era and In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility
Outstanding Contribution to the Community
Greg Marien Northrop Grumman Unmanned Systems
For his dedication to the next generation of aerospace engineers, including volunteering in Project Lead the Way and mentoring the SDSU Design/Build/Fly team.
Outstanding Contribution to the AIAA San Diego Section
Irene Chan University of California, San Diego
For her dedication to the San Diego section, especially reconstructing and maintaining the San Diego AIAA website.
Outstanding Contribution to AIAA Region VI
Kevin Burns Wyle Laboratories
For his consistent participation in Region VI conferences, the History Technical committee and establishing the Homeland Security Techni-cal Committee.
Outstanding Contribution to AIAA at the National Level
Phil Smith Space Grant Education and Enterprise Institute
For his efforts keeping us in touch with national events such as Congressional Visits Day and education initiatives.
Outstanding Educator Associate
Sharon Freeburn Space Grant Education and Enterprise Institute
For her dedication to the San Diego section and keeping us in touch with the local education scene and for opening the Science & Technology Teacher Resource Center
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Congressional Visits Day 2008Jenny Rhymer, Newsletter Editor
AIAA Congressional Visits Day (CVD) was held on April 16th this year. During this event AIAA members from across the country converged on capitol hill, meetings were arranged with numer-ous Senators and Representatives. They are given information about the 10 topics AIAA feels are important for the upcoming year. As part of the meeting a few topics are emphasized, specific to that member, and AIAA is offered as a resource for technical expertise. The goal of this event is to express the importance of long term investment in the sciences, engineering, and technology.
I was fortunate enough to attend this year and as part of the Region 6 delegation I met with staff from both Senator Feinstein and Senator Boxer’s offices as well as Representatives Bilbray, Issa, Lofgren, Rohrabacher and Davis. Throughout the day, the Region 6 delegation met with all five San Diego Representatives along with other members throughout southern California.
Some of the issues focused on this year were workforce development, life sciences, the re-evaluation of ITAR, the gap between shuttle re-tirement and CEV operations, and the FAA-UAV regulations. For more information visit the AIAA website. The day concluded with a congressional reception where members of congress, staff, and AIAA enjoyed amazing food. Overall the day was successful, and quite memorable for those in-volved. I was able to see how much an individual (or single organization) can do in working with their government.
A follow up to CVD is coming in August, when AIAA hosts August is for Aerospace. This event
involves visiting members of congress at their home offices during the August recess, right here in San Diego! More details will be provided in future newsletters, and on the website, but to anyone considering participating I strongly en-courage you to get involvement, both in August and next April.
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Design Build Fly 2008Thomas Hong, UCSD Student
We started off this year as a team of about 14 juniors and seniors only with members from com-puter science, mechanical engineering, and aero-space engineering. As always our team advisor was Prof. John Kosmatka and our non-faculty advisors were Steve Neu and Steve Manganelli. Our sponsors included NASA/Space Grant, So-lidworks, NeuMotors, and Diversified Materials Company.
This was the first year UCSD was able to fly a prototype model before the design and construc-tion of the competition model and much was learned from the prototype. Innovative design choices for the aircraft involved such things as placing the wingspan across the main diagonal of the constraint box, swept forward horizontal tails in order to fit the constraint box, and a low place-ment of the wings for faster loading times.
The empty aircraft weighs 5.19 lbs of which 1.5 lbs is taken up by propulsion and controls systems. Loaded flying weight as proven in the competition was 14.5 lbs. At the competition, the aircraft was a crowd pleaser with its high lap count and beautiful flight characteristics. Crucial points were lost in propulsion optimization, which resulted in UCSD placing in 11th place. Currently the aircraft is being refurbished in order to be dis-played at UCSD's Geisel Library.
UCSD in MicrogravityTim Havard, UCSD Student
One of the highlights this year for the UCSD AIAA Student Chapter is the addition the Microgravity University Team. The project, also identified as the Reduced Gravity Student Flight Program, is run by NASA, Johnson Space Center where stu-dent teams nationwide are selected to conduct research under a zero gravity environment. UCSD's AIAA team was one of the 40 teams cho-
sen, of over 70 that applied. This rich experience provides for an excitement of a lifetime by allow-ing undergraduates to not only experience micro-gravity, but also gain practice in experimental re-search.
This year's area of focus for UCSD’s Microgravity team was centered on deployable tensegrity structures, and exploring the potential use as fu-ture space habitats or radar dishes. Led by team leader, Timothy Havard along with faculty mentor, Professor Bob Skelton, the team put together a cylindrical tensegrity structure and tested the ex-periment on board the C-9, Microgravity-Simulating aircraft, during the first available flight the week of April 16, 2008. This year all five team flyers successfully flew on the plane and came back to UCSD with many stories to tell. The rest of the team flyers and alternate flyer includes An-tonio Diaz, Derek Peterson, Andrea Qualm, and Jacqueline Yu.
Membership News James Peterson, Membership Chair
Section professional membership stands at 399 as of May 1, 2008. In addition, the Section has 31 Educator Associate Members and 92 Student Members.We would like to welcome the following new AIAA professional members to the San Diego Section over the last three months:
March 2008Dario Baldelli Northrop GrummanRobert Kolozs San Diego CompositesIvan Pulido Banda Honeywell Aerospace de MexicoRoberto Sabatini SPAWARMadison Schepps Northrop Grumman
April 2008James Burnette Andy Cianciotto Northrop GrummanWalter Faulconer Johns Hopkins Univ.Madhurya Gupta Anne Kilman Booz Allen HamiltonHwa-Wan Kwan Goodrich CorpJeff Miller UCSDJohn Powell JP Aerospace
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Aaron Valdes
May 2008Gwendolyn Baldwin UCSDJeffrey Beckman Goodrich AerostructuresPaul Bremner ATAMatthew Easterly UCSDBenjamin Volberding UCSD
If you have any questions about membership, or about advancing your membership grade, please contact Jim Peterson at (858) 279-1940, or E-mail to: [email protected] .
Lifetime MembershipAny member can become a Lifetime Member of AIAA – from the new graduate to the retired. The cost - $1275 – is equivalent to 15 years of annual membership dues, but your dues are paid for life. Do some quick math and you will see that Lifetime Membership in AIAA is a great way to invest in your career. Lifetime Membership assures you the conven-ience of uninterrupted access to AIAA’s benefits and services, as well as protection against future dues increases. A Lifetime Membership would actually save you money over the course of your career.Several convenient payment plans are available. You can choose to pay in two or four installments over one year, or up to eight installments over two years. You will receive a handsome plaque de-noting your Lifetime Member status, and your name will be included among the prestigious list of Lifetime Members on the AIAA Web site. Cur-rently, over 600 people have chosen to become Life Members.To become a Lifetime Member, contact Customer Service at 800-639-AIAA (2422). If you have any questions, contact Jim Peterson at [email protected].
SPACE 2008 in San DiegoEducation Alley is coming to San Diego. This unique educational opportunity will happen right here in San Diego from September 9 through 11.The look of wonder in a child's eyes is a wonder-ful thing to behold. Look carefully at the eyes of these girls attending Education Alley when it was in Long Beach, California. They are interested, intrigued, and involved in what is happening. This kind of active learning happens at Education Alley
every year and you can be part of it by volunteer-ing to help with this amazing event.
What happens at Education Alley?Students have the amazing opportunity to meet the professionals in the exciting field of aero-space. NASA brings displays of things they are working on. Aerospace companies bring displays of their products. Special speakers and present-ers talk about the work that they do. Education Alley is more than just listening or looking it is also doing. Demonstrations, presentations, spe-cial guests, hands on activities, and a few sur-prises will help students and teachers find more out about space. Students have the opportunity to do hands on activities. In the past they measured the height of things with a protractor, they froze flowers, they created craters, they used a solar cooker to toast a marshmallow, and they even ate marshmallows that they froze. Alley is the place to learn and have FUN. We will need your help! AIAA will need our San Diego Section's help to have things run smoothly. Volunteers are needed
to do a host of different tasks. We will need help ranging f rom s imple clerical help at the registra-tion desk to v o l u n t e e r s w h o e s c o r t small groups of the students
and their chap-erones through the Main Exhibit Hall. Each tour guide will be able to choose the locations within the Hall that they would prefer to visit with the children. This is a wonderful place for AIAA Stu-dent Members to participate! We will also need engineers to staff the "Ask the Engineer" Booth. These volunteers interact with the students by answering questions posed by the students. This is a wonderful spot for people who enjoy interact-ing with kids. This spot has become one of the favorites of the children. New this year is the "Story Telling" Booth. The perfect spot for our re-tired members to reminisce about the "good old days". Bring an artifact or two with you and share the stories that go with it.Call Sharon Freeburn at 619-847-5518 to volunteer for this exciting event!
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2007-2008 Contact InformationPosition Name/Company Work Phone/Fax Email AddressSection Chair Greg Marien, Northrop Grumman (858) 618-5207 [email protected]
Secretary Kevin Willett, General Atomics (619) 405-5699 [email protected] Penelope Ulander, NAVAIR North Island (619) 545-3935 [email protected] Chair – Long Range Planning Penelope Ulander, NAVAIR North Island (619) 545-3935 [email protected] Chair – Technical Joel Perez, Pratt & Whitney [email protected] Arrangements Tom Ohno [email protected] Trips Doug Armstrong, Retired (858) 451-5637 [email protected] Jenny Rhymer, UCSD [email protected] & E-Bulletins Jenny Rhymer, UCSD [email protected] Irene Chan, UCSD [email protected] & Bylaws Chris Root, NAVAIR North Island (619) 545-0626 [email protected] VI Delegate Kevin Burns, Wyle Laboratories (619) 543-1700 [email protected] Policy Phil Smith, CSGF (619) 944-2555 [email protected] Jim Peterson, General Dynamics − Retired (858) 279-1940 [email protected] & Awards, Career Enhancement Keith Glassman, NAVAIR North Island (619) 545-3736 [email protected] Activities Maziar Sefidan (858) 583-4354 [email protected] Society Liaison Warren Johnson, BFGoodrich Aerospace − Retired (858) 278-1317 [email protected] Outreach Phil Smith, CSGF (619) 944-2555 [email protected] Associate Sharon Freeburn, CSGF (619) 234-8291 [email protected] Professionals Kevin Scanlon, Goodrich Aerostructures (619) 691-6612 [email protected] H. Fleet Scholarship Bill Chana, Convair, Retired (858) 488-7183SDSU Faculty Advisor George Faulkner, SDSU (858) 270-7354 [email protected] Student Chair Alejandro Aquirre, SDSU [email protected] Faculty Advisor Dr. Keiko Nomura, UCSD (858) 534-5520 [email protected] Student Chair Irene Chan, UCSD [email protected] Project Steve Harrington, Flometrics [email protected]
American Institute of Aeronautics and AstronauticsSan Diego Section
PO Box 503453San Diego, CA 92150-3453
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