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AIAA TUCSON SECTION NEWSLETTER
August 2000
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Calendar of Events 2000-01
o 12 October 00 - Dinner Meeting. Peter Likins, UA
president, will be speaker. Awards ceremony.
o 4 - 5 November 00 - Aerospace and Arizona Days 2000
Airshow at Davis-Monthan AFB
o 20 - 22 April 01 - AIAA Student Design/Build/Fly Com-
petition, Patuxent River Naval Base, Maryland
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Welcome back, Tucson!!!
By Kevin Kremeyer
We've been very busy this summer putting together programs and
organizing our educational outreach effort! The objective of this
newsletter is two-fold:
1) To give you an idea of the plans for this year, and ask for input
before we start to finalize items on the calendar.
2) To strongly urge/beg/plead/(?bribe?)/request that each and every
one of you become involved (even at a very very low level) in our
local AIAA educational outreach programs.
You can play a regular role (such as working with a specific teacher,
classroom, or project of your choosing), or a smaller role (e.g. by
periodically answering email questions such as "why can't people
fly?" or "does a balloon float up into space?").
At whatever level, it will be personally rewarding, and its a way to
pay back all of the people who helped inspire and support you in your
goals and aspirations.
We'll describe these programs below, but please let us know
(tucson_aiaa@yahoo.com, (520) 882-7349) at what level you'd like to
participate, because if you don't tell us, there's no way we'll know
what part you're willing to play in passing on some knowledge to
students and future generations. (Please circle our contact info, and
leave us a quick message.)
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This Year's Outlook and Calendar
by Kevin Kremeyer
The time has come to finalize our events for the year, and we'd like
to check in with you to see if you have some preferences that we're
not considering. The different kinds of events will be: dinner
meetings, weekend outings/tours/events, and we're thinking about
trying a new kind of "after-work stopover meeting". For these
get-togethers, we'll be very punctual, to ensure that you're on your
way home by 7:00 or 7:30, so it starts to resemble more of an
educational "weekday happy hour".
Besides tours and guest speakers, we'd like to have events addressing
professional development, including:
o Topics of current interest
o Help with job-hunting and garnering promotions
o Developing a broader base of marketable technical skills
Our first dinner meeting will tentatively take place on Thursday,
October 12th, with Dr. Peter Likins as our guest of honor. He is an
AIAA Fellow, as well as the President of the University of Arizona,
and he will tell us about his goals for the University, including
outreach and integration into the community and surrounding industry.
We'll also take the opportunity to hand out some long-overdue awards
and reconnect after a long hot summer. We're shooting to start around
5:30 PM or 6:00 PM, and we'll confirm all of the details in the
upcoming newsletter.
One of our goals this year is to consistently provide information on
events not organized by us, but which are still of interest to our
membership. We will also make every effort to attend these events and
have booths and friendly faces to help welcome our members and their
guests.
Once the Fall semester begins, we'll point you to the many events and
seminars hosted by the University. To begin this trend, we'll announce
an upcoming event at Davis-Monthan AFB.
Please let us know your wishes now (tucson_aiaa @yahoo.com
(520)882-7349), so that we can make sure that we've covered all of the
bases. We really do appreciate input
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Aerospace and Arizona Days 2000
by Col. Ed Palanek-USAF (retired)
Tucson AIAA Military Liason
Date: November 4-5, 2000
Location: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
This upcoming two-day airshow will feature numerous military and
civilian aerial demonstrations and a wide range of static display
aircraft from across the United States.
The feature demonstration team will be the USAF Thunderbirds. The
team will fly its F-16's in about 70 airshows at 35 different
locations this year. D-M is the final show for their 2000 schedule.
This year's show may also have an international flavor as aircraft
from Canada and Germany are slated to participate. Some schedules
are not yet complete, but other attractions in the works include a
B-1, B-52, KC-135, F-16s, A-10s, EC-130s, and C-17. Civilian aircraft
demonstrations will also take to the air.
D-M's last airshow was in 1998. Approximately 500 000 to 700 000
people attended the event and it was the largest single event to take
place in the history of Arizona. Admission to A & A Days 2000 is free
for everyone. Refreshments and souvenir items will be available for a
nominal fee.
The tentative flybys and Demos will include the following-
* B-1 Flyby
* Wings of Blue-USAFA Parachute Team
* Canadian Tudor Demo
* KC-135 and F-16 Flyby
* AH-64 Apache Demo
* Julie Clark T-34 Demo
* Tornado and F-4 Flyby with pyro
* Steve Appleton Hunter Demo
* F-16 Demo
* DM A-10s and EC-130 Flyby
* Bill Reesman Mig 17 Demo
* Dave Eastman Pitts Demo
* HH-60 Demo
* F-15 Demo
* Dan Buchanan Glider Demo
* Frank Borman F-86 Demo
* A-10 Demo
* F-18 Demo
* USAF Thunderbirds
The Tucson Section of AIAA will have a booth at the Airshow, and we
will report the specifics in our newsletter as the date draws near.
This is a notice for you to mark your calendars, and to let you know
that we look forward to seeing you and your friends and families
there.
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Regional Leadership Conference
by Kelly Sinnock
On July 21 and 22, Kevin and I attended the Regional Leadership
Conference (RLC) in Las Vegas, NV. Not only did we learn more about
National awards and procedures, but we also met and conversed with
AIAA staff members and officers from other sections in the country.
The primary goal was to bring the officers up to speed on the
Institute's activities, mission and procedures, and to learn how to
become a more effective section. Throughout the weekend, we shared
many stories and ideas with each other and came up with ideas for
possible activities for the upcoming year.
There are a number of individual awards available to you as members,
including technical awards, publication awards, education awards,
service awards, certificates of merit, and international awards.
Several service awards, including member anniversaries, will be
distributed at our first dinner meeting.
Most of the other awards, however, require us to know what you've
been up to. Have you published any books? Do you know someone that
should be nominated for Engineer of the Year? Are you a student
looking for a scholarship? What kind of technical work are you doing?
Please let us know and we'll see if you fit into one of the award
categories. You can also check out the available awards on the web at:
http://www.aiaa.org//information/professional/awards.html
Along with these individual awards, there are membership upgrades
available. When you first joined the Institute, you probably joined
as a member (or student member or Educator Associate). As you gain
seniority, knowledge, credibility, etc. you can move up the ranks to
Senior member, Associate Fellow, and Fellow.
Now, I'm sure there are many of you out there who are long overdue
for an upgrade. If you are one of those well-deserving people who are
due for an upgrade, please tell us! For more information, contact us
at tucson_aiaa@yahoo.com or check out the national honors and awards
web site listed above.
Aside from the individual awards, there are also several section
awards available. These awards are given out annually and have
monetary prizes associated with them.
This year, the Tucson Section, submitted applications for all seven
awards. We'll pass the results on to you as soon as we know! Any
winnings will be deposited into our treasury and put toward upcoming
section activities. (Keep you fingers crossed! The more awards we
win, the more $$ we get for activities, student projects, K-12
outreach, and professional development!)
In addition to these honors and awards, we picked up on some other
Institute activities. First of all, we became aware of the Young
Professional Committee. If you are under 35 years of age and are
interested in becoming more involved in AIAA, we'll also be
organizing more Young Professional activities that will bring
together some of the newer members. This will allow you to meet
other people your age so you can share new-hire stories or help
new-hires adapt faster.
In addition, we learned about the Institute's involvement with
celebrating the Evolution of Flight (http://www.flight100.org).
(If you have any ideas of how we, the Tucson Section, could get
involved with the Centennial of Flight, please speak up!)
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AIAA Student Branch Status Report
by Matthew J. Angiulo
President, UA AIAA Student Branch
As we return to regularly scheduled classes at the University, the
Student Branch is, once again, working strong to make this another
landmark year for the organization. Last year's experience at the
AIAA Design/Build/Fly competition was very memorable and exciting,
and the entire membership is motivated to further our performance
in this year's competition at the Patuxent River Naval Base in
Maryland.
The new competition guidelines and rules were posted in June and
since then we have been holding weekly meetings to work on our new
design. These summer meetings are a first for the team --
historically the Student Branch has almost always been inactive
during the summer.
In addition to that progress, our fund raising campaign is also
underway. The Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department has
donated one thousand dollars to our project and it is expected
that the College of Engineering will match that donation.
Added to the Tucson Section's very generous donation, this year is
looking very promising. Our donations coordinator, Keith Brock, has
been very successful in arranging for the donation of many building
supplies and accessories. This is helping us greatly being that our
travel to Maryland is expected to be our most significant expense.
Our plan is to appeal to the local aerospace and engineering industry
for support for our project. Since the AIAA is the major forum of
this community, we're looking for sponsorship from your businesses
and organizations. We'd very much appreciate any contact information
you could provide for us.
Thank you very much for all your help and support so far. I am
confident that this year will surpass all others as our finest
year. If you'd like to become involved in our road to victory,
please contact me at this address:
angiulo@engr.arizona.edu
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Tucson Section Officer Roster 2000-2001
Chair: Kevin Kremeyer
Secretary/Treasurer: Kelly Sinnock
Membership: Rina Shivashankara
Webmaster: Robert Wagoner
UA Faculty Advisor: Larry Scott
Education Chair: Rajka Corder
Military Liaison: Ed Palanek
Newsletter Editor: Frank Manning
Support Staff: Jason Blauert
Web site: http://www.aiaa.org/sections/ts/
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The AIAA's Local Partner in Educational Outreach: "School to Work"
by Jodi Horton
School to Work is an innovative and effective approach to workforce
development that gives young people, grades K-16, real-life,
real-work experience that will prepare and motivate them to succeed
in tomorrow's jobs.
Our overall objectives are to add value to academic studies by
demonstrating how skills learned in the classroom are applied in
the workplace (and vice versa), and to cement this new understanding
through "connecting activities" such as independent research,
journaling and oral reports.
In Tucson, over 500 employers have assisted us in this effort to
date by providing opportunities for students and educators to job
shadow, intern and/or receive mentoring services. Employers also
provide training opportunities and may speak at career days or
other special events.
Local School to Work activities across the nation are funded
jointly by the US departments of Education and Labor through
5-year grants to all 50 states. Approximately $4 million has
come to the Pima & Santa Cruz School to Work Partnership through
a series of performance-based contracts with the AZ Department of
Commerce since the spring of 1996, and 131 new long and short-term
programs and projects have already served over 150 000 youngsters!
For comprehensive national information, please see:
http://www.stw.ed.gov/factsht/act.htm
For information on how to become directly involved on a local level,
please call 740-1749.
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Scramble Space Tours
by Steve Lubliner
We at the Southern Arizona Rocketry Association (SARA) are inviting
the AIAA and their families to participate in a model rocketry
contest involving delicate payloads. SARA web site:
http://www.primenet.com/~tmorgan/rockets/sara/
Scramble Space Tours is looking for new launch vehicles for its new
Space Tours Transportation System (STTS). STTS provides
opportunities for Eggonauts to experience a space launch, coast,
and recovery. Awards will be given for the greatest number of
eggonaut-flight-minutes while keeping the precious payload intact.
The contest rules, written in the form of a Request for Proposal
(RFP), can be found on the AIAA web site:
http://www.aiaa.org/sections/ts/
No prior experience is necessary, and fun is to be had by all. For
more information, please contact Steve Lubliner at (520)296-1689 or:
103056.621@compuserve.com
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