AIAA Dayton-Cincinnati Section

Date: 18 Feb 2016 – 6:00PM – DLM, Springboro, OH

Attendees: Mike List, Mike White, Don Rizzetta, Marc Polanka, Ryan Schmit, Sid, Darius Sanders

Note: Meeting times will be arrive ~6PM and start sharply at 6:15PM

Action Items

Item / Actions / POC / Due Date / Status
15.9.1 / Mike/Jose will contact AIAA national for additional kid activities for STEM outreach events / List / 10/1/15 / Open
15.10.3 / Mike will figure out how to update the insurance policy for MWPG / List / Open
15.11.1 / Rick will prepare a flyer for Bill Brown / Wills / 2/1/16 / Closed
15.11.3 / Flyer for Monzel dinner will be finalized and distributed / Mehta List / 12/15/15 / Closed
15.11.4 / Mike will request a GE presentation from Robert
Presentation+video will be available on AIAA site / List / Closed
15.11.5 / Mike will send TechFest info to Mike White / List / Closed
16.1.1 / Mike will send Eric an example CC email / List

Event Summary

Month / Events / Categories / Date
Feb / TechFest
Shenk LNL / 14-15
26
Mar / Council Meeting
DCASS
Rep. Turner Lunch-time Meeting
Rizzetta LNL
Monzel Dinner Meeting / 1 Mar
2 Mar
10 Mar
18 Mar
23 Mar
April / Grimes tour?
New Hangar Private Tour
Kimmel LNL
Section Awards Due / 6 Apr
15 Apr
22 Apr
May / Brown LNL
Awards Banquet / 19 May
24 May
June / Hawthorn Hill tour/dinner?

Past Plans Review

  1. Jan 27 – Dinner Meeting, Greg Morris
  2. Four Bridges CC in Middletown, OH
  3. 40 attendees
  4. 13-14 Feb – TechFest
  5. 2400 attendees each day

Current Plans

  1. 26 Feb – Shenk LNL
  2. 2 Mar – DCASS
  3. 199 registered, ~160 abstracts
  4. Art in science needs more entries
  5. Food selections, venue, gifts set
  6. Cindy is looking for sponsors – numerous sponsors identified
  7. Projected costs ~$13k
  8. Need a volunteer for registration
  9. Need info for Arrington session
  10. Still need a few session chairs by tomorrow!
  11. Mar 10 – Rep. Turner visits (Thursdays)
  12. Noon meeting at Rep’s office
  13. Max of 10 people, need names ahead of times
  14. Can review anything for CVD that applies locally, would like a heads-up on other topics
  15. Mar 16 – CVD in D.C.
  16. Need to understand how money is making it to students from National
  17. Need a mechanism to distribute checks to students from section
  18. Mike W. will email Steve to determine money exchange
  19. Mar 18 – Rizzetta LNL
  20. Flyer posted
  21. Mar 23 – Chris Monzel (fmr city council, Ham. Co. Commissioner) – Role of Industry in Community Development - and how community can foster innovation, how government & industry can connect to be more effective, local and state funding for Aerospace (GE, UCRI) – Dinner meeting (POC: Jay)
  22. Four Bridges CC in Middletown, OH
  23. Co-sponsor with ASME, UC
  24. Apr 6 – New museum hangar tour
  25. May want to invite DVs of the high star variety
  26. Attendees: Jay, Darius, Mike L, Don R, Ryan, Sid, Oliver, Marc
  27. Apr 15 - Kimmel LNL
  28. HiFIRE
  29. Will follow up in 2017 with a dinner meeting with final results
  30. May 19 – THURSDAY – Bill Brown – Ballooning and HAM radio (POC: Wills)
  31. May 24 - Awards Banquet

Potential Plans

  1. Lunch and Learns
  2. EAA Young Eagles (April time frame)
  3. NASA subsonic fixed wing efforts, Energy Efficient Aircraft, Environmentally Responsible Aircraft
  4. 2018 - Balloon launch/video/radio (Wills)
  5. Historical topics – perhaps something in conjunction with Hawthorn Hill or Carrillon Park; Lush & Learn in the summer?
  6. Starbase – Lunch then demos for teachers? - POC: Wills (June/July 2016 time frame)
  7. Additive manufacturing
  8. Jim Gord – AIAA Fellow (POC: List)
  9. Origami/Folding structures (Kazuko Fuchi), POC: Jose *
  10. Ray Kolonay, Bob Mercier?
  11. Smart Structures (Ultrasonic Additive Mfg.) – Dapino, Tailoring of lipids to create living circuit-boards (POC: Ruggiero) *
  12. Dayton Leadership, Nan Whaley (POC: Jose)
  13. Topics: NASA big data management, aerospace medicine, multidisciplinary neurosciences (Sivaram)
  14. A Wooster bar has a science night every moth
  15. Oct talk is a speaker from NASA Glenn on the Columbia accident
  16. Retired pilots, etc.
  17. Local achievements/recognitions
  18. Dinner Meetings
  19. AHS co-sponsored event, POC: Tilmann
  20. HiFIRE – Roger Kimmel, Spring 2017?
  21. WACO Dinner in the hangar + historian talk (with ONU), POC: Leembruggen
  22. Hosted at Armstrong Museum, target after SciTech?
  23. President of Sinclair – Aviation & Education
  24. Invite Sandy Magnus to talk about being an astronaut – Joint with other societies in the area (coordinate with Cindy?)
  25. William Bahret – Invented stealth technology – WSU would like to have a lecture, POC: Chenault
  26. Was interviewed by Squire Brown a few years ago
  27. Could be DCASS keynote if interested
  28. Hawthorn Hill dinner meeting (with special exhibits?)
  29. Coordinate directly with Steve Wright to classify it as a NAHA event
  30. Could end with dinner at the Brewhaus
  31. Craft Beer events (full social event, no formal portions)
  32. Potential for Dayton, Cincy, and Columbus
  33. Contacts: Kirk Yerkes, Kris Cole
  34. Carrillon Park – piggyback with a tour of the flyer?
  35. Engineers club (POC: List)
  36. DL List
  37. DL year runs from 1 Oct – 30 Sep (quota used for this year)
  38. Local leadership should be invited to events, and submitted to local papers
  39. Liberty Plaza Hotel for dinner venue
  40. After work socials (membership)
  41. Nominally $50-100/quarter to invite new members with section covering first round
  42. Little participation from Cincy due to Dayton venues, need to look for other opportunities such as Marathons & collaborative events
  43. Venues: Brewhaus, Entertrainment Junction, Kings Island (engineering challenges talk & rides?)
  44. Potential tours
  45. AFIT facilities tour (Swenson)
  46. Wind tunnels, vacuum chambers, propulsion, spacecraft, telescopes, sat dishes
  47. Evening tour/after work social
  48. Date & Time TBD, with pizza at Doolittle’s then tours then stargazing
  49. Late April, June, July (Mike will suggest some dates)
  50. Human Performance Wing at WPAFB (Polanka)
  51. LNL followed by tour, perhaps C-130 mock-up?
  52. Magna Tour – late summer 2016 (Kimmel)
  53. MWPG (Wills)
  54. Dayton Airport Control Tower (Leembruggen) – staffing is too low currently to support tour
  55. NMUSAF walking tour (Ratcliff)
  56. Grimes Museum – Tour/Dinner – Spring, Apr 23 (POC: Don) *
  57. Need to solicit attendees
  58. Target April

Other Activities

  1. MWPG
  2. Will be shooting rocket stand in a field near Union early in March. Will be passing more info to council as plans are finalized.
  3. Women in Engineering - $1000 approved by council
  4. WASP interment in Arlington Cemetery has recently been rescinded
  5. Can the local council write a letter supporting this?
  6. Would need some opinion from National or PP committee to make sure language is okay. Mike W will check with Steve S.
  7. Centennial of Engineering (Army Air Corps/McCook)
  8. Logo contest in the near term – looking to get AFRL JFC involved
  9. Technology challenge
  10. MAV race, design/build/fly competition
  11. WSU seminar
  12. Awards Banquet
  13. Misc items
  14. Speaker gifts for returning dinner speakers
  15. Invite specific leaders to attend events
  16. CubeSat government meeting – can time a dinner meeting to coincide with a speaker being present (POC: Swenson)
  17. Go For Launch (higherorbits.org), POC: Jose with WSU and educational outreach at WP
  18. Jun 22-24, 2016
  19. Age group: Middle school +, 150-200 participants
  20. Team competitions over 3 days to design/propose experiments for the space station
  21. Mentors and judges needed
  22. Potential HBO miniseries based on the Wright brothers (McCullough). Perhaps sponsor a red carpet premier in Dayton?
  23. AF Museum events
  24. 75th of Tuskegee on Feb 20th at 4PM
  25. Mar 12th Women Air Racers
  26. Museum Hollywood series
  27. Mar 27th – Independence Day
  28. Apr 24th – The Martian
  29. Jul 24th – Star Wars Ep 7

Officer Reports

  1. Chair’s Topics
  2. Needed Positions:
  3. Newsletter
  4. CWD
  5. Governance & Voting!
  6. Jensen attendance at DCASS, meeting the night before
  7. Honors and Awards (Polanka)
  8. Associate Fellows
  9. Dinner at SciTech went well
  10. Nominations for 2016 will be due 1 April but can be submitted any time after Dec 15, 2015.
  11. Marc and others are scouring the list
  12. 3 year cycle + revisions if desired
  13. Mike will check to see that list from Dec was sent to Marc
  14. Dr. Jim Gord made AIAA Fellow!!!
  15. Section Awards due April 22nd
  16. Outstanding Management, Outstanding Science, Outstanding Application
  17. Historical (Polanka)
  18. K-12/STEM (Camberos)
  19. Looking to revamp volunteer list
  20. Science Fairs
  21. March 5th in Dayton (9-noon)
  22. March 19th in Cincinnati (9-noon) – still need 1 volunteer
  23. College Outreach (Leembruggen)
  24. Treasurer (Sanders)
  25. Will be receiving ~$3k from Columbus section
  26. Membership
  27. New letters for new & lapsed members from AIAA national
  28. Career & Workforce Development
  29. Technical/DCASS (Schmit)
  30. Public Policy (White)
  31. CVD is Mar 16, 2016 (could change if Congress schedule changes)
  32. Team OH may still be doing Tuesday afternoon (local reps) and Wednesday
  33. UC/UD students very interested in attending
  34. Seeking Region 3 Cat 3 funds to support attendees once PP runs out of scholarship money
  35. Young Professionals (Mitchell)
  36. Social Media (Leembruggen)
  37. National likes and re-tweets our twitter! Please post.
  38. We may try periscoping (twitter-based live feed) our dinner meetings
  39. Endowments (Wills/Chenault/Sanders)
  40. Website (Ratcliff)

Next Meetings:

  1. Tuesday, Mar 1 – 6:00PM – Sinclair Ponitz Center, Room 171, Dayton, OH
  2. Pizza and Drinks provided
  3. Thursday, Mar 17 – 6:00PM – Teleconference only
  4. Thursday, Apr 21?
  5. Thursday, May 19?