Attendees
Brian Gulliver – Chair
Chris Zeller – Programs
Tracy Copp – Public Policy
Wesley Kenison – ATS 2017 Chair
Pamela Burke – Member-At-Large
Mark Kettles – Member-At-Large
Prof. Andrea Peterson -- MSU Denver
John Reed
Brett Shaffer
Jed Davison (New Member)
Rao Mannepalli (Recent Relocation to Denver / Associate Fellow)
Agenda
- Chair Opening
- Roll Call
- Programs
- Education Report
- Honors and Awards Report
- Public Policy Report
- Webmaster Report
- ATS 2017 Report
- Newsletter Report
- New Business
- Next Council Meeting
- Adjournment
Chair Opening
Brian kicked off the meeting by welcoming everyone and opened the council meeting at 6:13pm. Brian briefed attendees on:
- Update: Two new RMS members (Jed Davison and Rao Mannepalli)
Roll Call
Brian conducted a roll call of members in attendance. We had excellence attendance at tonight’s council meeting with excellent discussions.
Programs
Chris provided an overview of the programs held in 2016 as well as those programs scheduled for 2017. A summary of each is provided below:
2016 Programs:
• September 14th: Jack Elston, Ph.D. Founder and CEO Black Swift Technologies LLC Blackswift UAVs, Boulder CO
• October: No Program ATS
• November 16th: CYGNSS SNC-SWRI Debi Rose
• December 6th: Ball Aerospace Alion Sciences human factors
• January 25th: BOOM Aerospace Supersonic Jetliner Joe Wilding Chief Engineer & Co-founder
2016-2017 Plan Ahead:
• February 22nd: Lockheed Martin Robert Chambers Mars Base Camp
• March 15th: Air Force Academy Aero Lab Colorado Springs Wilkinson, Michael P Capt USAF USAFA USAFA/DFAN <>
• April: Vestas Wind Turbine Plant Northern Colorado/Wyoming
• May: Roccor Bruce Davis Louisville, Banquet
• June: Buckley AFB Commanders of the 460th Space Wing and Aerospace Data Facility Colonel David Miller and Colonel Chris Povak (This is a joint AIAA / NDIA Event)
Education
Sue provided the following update:
- COTSA Flight Competition Judging (23 Feb)
-- Recruited at least one Flight and Flight Endurance Judge = Andrzej Stewart
- Preparations for WY (6 Mar) and CO (6 Apr) Science Fairs
-- Mark Kettles has registered the AIAA Prizes
-- Request for volunteer judges was in newsletter – have not heard from anyone yet!
-- Sue purchased 8 Arduino kits (4 for WY, 4 for CO)
- JUNO Student Essay Contest – 15 March
-- Announcement emailed to members and have been forwarded to schools
-- Judges recruited:
--- Jesse Chuhta, LM
--- Todd Nathaniel, USAFA
--- Jordon Fletcher, General Dynamics
--- Michael L. Anderson, USAFA
--- Gary Myers
- GESTEM – 19 May
-- Sue plans to submit workshop application (due 5 Mar) if have enough volunteers
-- Recruiting workshop volunteers
--- Lyndsey Wright, Instar Engineering
--- Rhonda Ahrens,
--- Poti Doukas, Instar Engineering
--- Lenny Demchak, Instar Engineering & Retired LM
--- Kim Boyce, Ball
Action: We need to send out a section-wide “Call for Judges” email for the science. Brian will compile a needs list and send to the council.
Honors and Awards
Brian briefed the council that the location has been selected for the Awards banquet. We have reserved “The Falls Event Center” for April 28.
Public Policy Report
Caucus Lunch – February 22 – The topic is “weather” and Tracy is looking for someone who can provide a brief a 5 minute discussion on weather.
Colorado Aerospace Day (March 2017) - Open to Public
Congressional Visits Day – No one has committed to go yet. Wes Kenison volunteered at the meeting and will coordinate with Tracy.
Webmaster
- General
-- Was able to remove the block that Hotmail placed on email to Hotmail, Outlook, and MSN email addresses from the aiaa-rm.org domain. This blockage impacted two Council members and up to 50 section members.
-- No information on the transition from AIAA SharePoint to a Higher Logic based platform.
- Support
-- Current registrations for 2016-2017 (as of 2/13/17)
--- Abstract Writing (2/2) – In Person, 14; Web Meeting, 6
--- Mars Base Camp (2/22) – 68
---USAFA Aero Lab (3/15) – 13
- Updated the AIAA-RM email list () on February 1, 2017.
ATS 2017
Wes provided the following update:
· Letter of support from the university for ATS
o Waiting for choice of event date
o New University President Janine Davidson – Former Undersecretary of the Navy.
· Venue progress update
o 10/21/17 – Tivoli Turnhalle, Center for Advanced Visual and Experiential Analysis (CAVEA), and 3 additional rooms reserved – Cost: $865
o 11/17/17 – Tivoli Turnhalle, CAVEA, and Baeressen Ballrooms reserved – Cost: $600
· Financials, budget assessment and sponsorship
o Will have estimated venue and catering costs by 03/15/17
· Planning spreadsheet
o Reviewed
· The members present at the council meeting preferred the Friday option over the Saturday option and asked Andrea to look into any other potential Friday days.
· There was significant discussion about the structure and organization of the program. The final conclusions was on have the following structure
o Morning
§ Registration
§ Welcome / Keynote
§ 4 Parallel Technical Presentation Tracks (Aerospace / Aviation / Engineering / UAS
o Lunch (networking / informal)
o Afternoon
§ Keynote
§ 4 Parallel Hands-on technical tracks, possibly sponsored by lead organizations
§ Closing
Newsletter
- Feb newsletter released on February 10th - thank you for all your help!
- Next newsletter: April, 2017 – inputs needed by March 14th… please!
-- Young Professionals - Tyler Franklin / Scott Tuttle
-- Education and STEM Programs Review - Sue Janssen
-- Program summaries for Feb. and Mar. - Chris Zeller
-- Colorado Aerospace Day review – Tracy Cobb
-- Honors and Awards Banquet announcement and speaker summary – Taylor Lilly
-- Personal Experience with AIAA-RMS judging event - John Marcantonio
-- Other events planned in next few months
* Last Newsletter: June, 2017 - Inputs by May 14 please
-- Year in review - Brian Gulliver
-- Membership article - Marshall Lee if (to be confirmed)
-- Election Results - Morty
-- Banquet event review – Taylor Lilly
-- Any committee closing comments (public policy, membership, etc.) - you know you need to submit a report in any case
Adrian advised the council that he will be on travel and shift work March and into early May. He would appreciate inputs as soon as possible so I can fit time to assemble the newsletters.
Newsletters were sent out in Aug., Oct., Dec., Feb., and soon Apr. The June newsletter will be too late for including it in the section awards. Will we submit newsletter and Facebook page for the Communications Section Award? Info at https://www.aiaa.org/SecondaryTwoColumn.aspx?id=35469.
Adrian sent out the latest newsletter on 10 Feb 17.
New Business
Brian briefed the council on:
- The 2017 AIAA election period is open until 31 March
- Col Angela Suplisson, Director, USAFA UAS Center
-- Region V professional members needed to recruit judges for the Region V Student Paper Conference which will be held April 7-8th 2017 at Metro State University
I need two separate set of judges, and would truly appreciate your help!
1) One set of judges will review the technical papers before the conference – papers are due March 17th, giving you 3 weeks to review/score.
2) The second set of judges will be onsite at the conference to review the presentations on Sat April 8th at Metro State Univ, scoring will be the day of.
3) I also need one person willing to be the head judge, who will be in charge of both sets of judges.
Pam discussed having a table at the upcoming AUVSI event.
Pam discussed our Colorado Engineering Council Membership:
· We paid existing membership dues of $100 that was budgeted. There was also an invoice for $75 for an award sponsorship that was not budgeted. Motion was made to council to pay $75, the motion was seconded and passed.
· Discussion occurred on the value of membership in CEC since we do not appear to have active participation. Pam to research CEC meetings and the council will attempt to have one member participate at each meeting.
Next Council Mtg
Brian briefed the council that the next council meeting would need to be rescheduled due to conflict with USAFA event on 15 March. The plan is to have the next meeting at Ball Aerospace in Boulder.
Adjournment
Brian thanked everyone for coming to the council meeting. Brian adjourned the meeting at 7:57pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Brian Gulliver
Chair, AIAA-RMS
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