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ABP TCs Joint Meeting 2014 Science and Technology Forum 13-17 January 2014 National Harbor, MD

ABP TCs Joint Meeting 2014 Science and Technology Forum 13-17 January 2014 National Harbor, MD. Agenda: 6:30 – 6:45 Gather & Welcome 6:45 – 7:30 ABP Business 7:30 – 8:00 Workshop – ABP Initiatives 8:00 – 8:15 Wrap-up Comments / Closing 8:15 – Informal Social Gathering.

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ABP TCs Joint Meeting 2014 Science and Technology Forum 13-17 January 2014 National Harbor, MD

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  1. ABP TCs Joint Meeting 2014 Science and Technology Forum 13-17 January 2014 National Harbor, MD

  2. Agenda: 6:30 – 6:45 Gather & Welcome 6:45 – 7:30 ABP Business 7:30 – 8:00 Workshop – ABP Initiatives 8:00 – 8:15 Wrap-up Comments / Closing 8:15 – Informal Social Gathering

  3. P&E Group Organization Director Propulsion and Energy Jeff Hamstra Deputy for Air Breathing Propulsion Jimmy Kenyon Deputy for Technical Products David McGrath Deputy for Rocket, Space & Advanced Propulsion Joaquin Castro Deputy for Operations Wayne Hurwitz Deputy for Energy Mike Piszczor Gas Turbine Engines John Sordyl (A) Hybrid Rockets Brian Evans Electric Propulsion Eric Pencil Aerospace Power Systems Dick Shaw High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Ryan Starkey Liquid Propulsion Scott Forde Nuclear & Future Flight Propulsion Chris Taylor Terrestrial Energy Systems Mark Bryden Air Breathing Propulsion Systems Integration Michelle McMillan Solid Rockets Mark Langhenry Propellants & Combustion M.S. Anand Energetic Components & Systems Hobin Lee Green Engineering Program Committee J. Slagle / V. Lyons Pressure Gain Combustion Working Group  Venkat Tangirala October 28, 2013

  4. Air Breathing Propulsion Branch Organization ABP Branch Jimmy Kenyon (860) 557-2817 james.kenyon@pw.utc.com Common Elements Communications Dora Musielak (817) 472-7115dmusielak@uta.edu Education Dan Kirk (321) 674-7622 dkirk@fit.edu Conferences Nayo Martinez (919) 349-5559 nayo@psnet.com Honors & Awards Han Bala (256) 489-5358 madhanbala@gmail.com Separate TCs ABP Systems Integration Michelle McMillan(314) 324-4482michelle@syngenics.com Gas Turbine Engines John Sordyl (248) 960-2629jsordyl@williams-int.com High Speed ABP Ryan Starkey(720) 290-7448rstarkey@colorado.edu

  5. Air Breathing Propulsion System IntegrationTC Activities Accomplishments Issues / Help Needed • Continued AIAA Propulsion Aerodynamics Workshop (PAW) • Successfully Completed PAW1 with >50 Participants • Presented 2 Invited Paper Sessions at JPC 2013 • Defined PAW2 Test Cases: Dual Stream Nozzle and Subsonic Inlet Duct with Passive Flow Control • Planning 2-day PAW2 for P&E 2014 • Invited CFD Vendors to Present Product Demos • Expecting >75 Participants from 4 Continents • Teams from HS thru Industry • Seeking Sponsorship and Financial Support from Aerospace Companies and CFD Vendors • Organized an Invited Group of Aeronautical Research and Technology in Europe (GARTEUR) Paper Session Focused on Integrated Aero Performance for SciTech 2014 • Reestablished GC Oates Award Agreement/Endowment Initiated Recipient Selection Process per AIAA Foundation Schedule Leading to Award at P&E 2015 • Recruited New Members • Published YIR Article • Resolve Overlap between TC Scopes / Calls Initiatives & Plans • AIAA Propulsion Aerodynamics Workshop (PAW) • 2nd Workshop - P&E Forum 2014  • Strengthening ABPSI TC Identity in ABP and AIAA • Increasing Technical Subcommittee Activities • Recruiting New Members in Underrepresented Areas • Building Quality Sessions • Documenting TC / Subcommittee Roles & Responsibilities Financial Status and Other Activities • Expenditures: $987 • PAW Scholarships / Promotion Materials • Current Funds: $5,164 • Planned expenditures: Scholarships for PAW2, ABPSI Banners, ABPSI TC Information Cards 14 January 2014 Chair: Michelle McMillan Vice Chair: Chris HughesPhone: 314-324-4482 Phone: 216-433-3924 Email: michelle@syngenics.com Email: christopher.e.hughes@nasa.gov

  6. Gas Turbine Engines TC Activities Accomplishments Issues / Help Needed • Conference attendance – leadership and membership • Engage a higher percentage of TC membership, address issues of “flagging enthusiasm” • Rapid review of JPC 2014 Papers (3 weeks!) • Jimmy Kenyon promoted to ABP Deputy Director • New Vice Chair – Janet Convery • New Membership Chair – Steve Lynch • Appointed TAOs for SciTech 2015 - Jason Smith, Mani Subramanian) • Restructured membership SC for improved efficiency • Good balance between academia, industry, USG • 5 gas turbine engine OEMs represented • Improved paper quality institutionalized for JPC 2014 • NEM timing creates challenges, but working • Joint AIAA/IGTI Engine Design Competition for Undergraduate Teams • Strong participation, including international teams • Gordon C. Oates award re-established • Published YIR article • Issued TC Newsletter Initiatives & Plans • Best paper award to be given in 2014 • Assign every TC member to a subcommittee • Assign lead for TC business cards • New Member Handbooks • Investigate TC short course • Fill Secretary, Education, Communications chairs Financial Status and Other Activities • No funds, no expenditures Updated 12 January 2014 Chair: John Sordyl Vice Chair: Janet Convery Phone: (248) 960-2629Phone: (540) 387-7579 Email: jsordyl@williams-int.com Email: janet.convery@ge.com

  7. High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion TC Activities Accomplishments Issues / Help Needed • Determine new methods to engage TC members with travel restrictions • Nominations for ABP Award • Published Biannual Newsletter – Issue 7 at SciTech2014 • Continued to mature Website; usage growing for TC members and public visitors - e-mail distribution implemented • Supported nominations, reviews, and approval of the Air Breathing Propulsion Award • New “High-Speed Air-Breathing Propulsion Technology” short course has been approved for P&E 14 • Supported AIAA/IGTI Engine Design Competition • Supporting Pressure Gain Combustion Working Group • 2013 Year-In-Review Article Initiatives & Plans • High-speed component for PAW • Developing new banners for P&E Forum 2014 • Investigating possible HSABP TC sponsored webinars • Conference meeting time streamlining (lunch?) • Develop and execute charter for TC member involvement (roles and responsibilities) • Creation of TC Technical Subcommittees • New member drive, membership roll-off Financial Status and Other Activities • $1809 • Fundraising for Gordon C. Oates Award Updated 14 Jan 2014 Chair: Dr. Ryan P. Starkey Vice Chair: Dr. Dora Musielak Phone: (303) 492-0871 Phone: (817) 272-1481 Email: rstarkey@colorado.edu Email: dmusielak@uta.edu

  8. ABP TC Membership Overview

  9. Conferences Subcommittee • ABP TCs will support SciTech and P&E Forum • There are concerns about compressed abstract review timeline: action to track abstract and paper metrics • All TCs should provide 2015 TAO names to Dave McGrath this week • Idea raised to offer poster presentations to authors of rejected abstracts Propulsion & Energy ASM / SciTech P&E 2014 abstract reviews due Feb 7

  10. ABP Honors and Awards • Air Breathing Propulsion Award • 3 nominations in hand for 2014 – no new nominations so far (minimum is 3) – Deadline for 2014 is Feb 1. • Need help identifying nominees for 2015 (new deadline Feb 1) • Must have at least three new nominations for 2015 to sustain award • Best paper awards • Evaluation process starts after ASM • Each TC overseas their own best paper award • Volunteer reviewers welcome – contact TC H&A lead • Session chairs email bet paper choices to your H&A chair

  11. GC Oates Student Award Status • Agreement Has Been Signed by ABP TCs and AIAA Foundation • New Award Funding Distribution • $1000 Cash Award • $150 Plaque • No Travel Expenses • Award To be Re-instated for 2015 P&E • Looking for Volunteer for GC Oates Head Judge • AIAA Foundation Agreement • AIAA Foundation restored the Endowment to $25,000 • TCs Agree to Work with AIAA to Identify Fundraising Opportunities to Support the Endowment • Fund is Intended to Last in Perpetuity – Award Will Be Suspended if Fund Balance Goes Below $20,000 Threshold • Endowment Fund Assets Will Be Managed by AIAA Foundation • TCs Have Requested Quarterly Reporting on Fund Status • TC’s have requested, but not yet received overview of portfolio investment strategies and outlook for the coming year • Fund Balance is $29k as of 30 Sept 2013

  12. ABP Education • Accomplishments/Status • New ABP Education Subcommittee Chair – Dan Jensen • All ABP TCs Participated in Undergraduate Design Competition Evaluation • Short Courses • HSABP Short Course Planned for P&E 2014 • “Practical Introduction to Air Breathing Propulsion” for P&E 2014 • Second Propulsion Aerodynamics Workshop at P&E 2014 (July 31st – August 1st in Cleveland) • Significant discussion on how best to engage high school students for STEM outreach • New Initiatives and Plans • Offer More Webinars – Seeking Volunteers • Support Undergraduate Design Competition • Possibility to expand PAW to more fully cover all three ABP TCs • Develop new courses – HSABP collaborating with Pressure Gain Combustion Working Group

  13. Engine Design Competition Accomplishments Issues / Help Needed • This year, the second round of judging will take place at the AIAA Propulsion & Energy Forum in Cleveland, OH in July • The special session will be chaired by Ian Halliwell • Volunteers are sought for judging panel • Suggestions for “low-speed” topics for the next RFP are invited! Topic: Candidate Engines for a Supersonic Business Jet • 12 letters of intent have been received from: • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (3) • Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India • InstitutTeknologi, Bandung, Indonesia (2) • University of Economics & Technology, Ankara, Turkey • University of Istanbul, Turkey (2) • University of Kansas (2) • Western Michigan University • The response is 4 higher than last year Updated 14 January 2014

  14. ABP Communications • Accomplishments/Status • All 3 TCs published Year in Reviews • HSABP, GTE Newsletters published • HSABP Banner in Revision • New Initiatives and Plans • New ABP Communications chair elected – David Blunck • Social Media* Eric Hansen, ABPSI SM POC - twitter @AeroEricEngin and Erik Axdahl, HSABP POC – LinkedIn group created for HSABP • Business-size cards to replace tri-folds – Erik Axdahl proposed design for HSABP TC. Request P&E funds for cards, banner and stands • Use SharePoint for New Member Orientation – Need volunteers! GTE David Blunck ABPSI Neal Herring HSABP Jeff Dalton * Greg Johnston, JPC13 Social Media Chair, hgregjohnston@gmail.com

  15. AIAA “State of the Union” January 2014

  16. Continuing Operations YTD September 2013

  17. Impacts to AIAA • Ended 2012(471K) and 2013(2.2M) with a negative operating balance • Budgeted 2013 anticipating negative operating balance (500K) • Major Factors (see following charts): • overall 25% decrease (average) in conference attendance in 2013 • Cancellation/delay of vended events • Mandated a balanced budget for 2014 • Used new reporting structure • Constructed Forum budgets as “projects” incorporating all relevant Institute activities • Overall budget cuts of $1.1M had to be identified

  18. Net Margin by VP

  19. FY13 Budget Variance Breakdown $(1,567) $(1,824) $356 $(1,278) $665

  20. FY14 Operations by Reporting Group

  21. It is all about Growth…. • If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins • If you are not growing, you are dying. –Many • It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin

  22. Things in work (or coming down the pipeline) • New Messaging • Purpose: To ignite and celebrate aerospace ingenuity and collaboration and its importance to our way of life. • Promise: To be your vital lifelong link to and champion for the collective creativity, brainpower, and achievements of the aerospace profession. • Enhanced on-line engagement capabilities • Growth into new technical areas • Engagement of sections/YPs/Students • More engagement with policy issues • Collaborations with other organizations

  23. New Event Model • Complete move to the NEM in 2014 (NOW) • 4 Forums – SciTech, Aviation, P&E, Space • 3 “layers” – Plenary, Integration, Technical • Plenary & Technical similar to before • Integration to “tie it all together” • Systems or multidisciplinary focus • Broader issues (e.g., operational, policy, workforce and education, management) • Integral with rest of forum program

  24. Proposal for the Formation of aPressure Gain Combustion Program Committee Timeline • PGCWG Officially Established (2012) • Over 30 members join • Enthusiastically supported by TC’s • Goal of eventual PC status from the start • Working Group Works (2012-present) • Regular meetings at ASM & JPC • Reports to TC’s • Recruitment of new members • Invited ITAR session @JPC 2013:DARPA Vulcan Review • Invited international session organized for ASM 2014 • PGC sessions organized • Status paper explored • PC Participation Sought (early 2014) • Informal conversations positive • Written participation commitment requested via e-mail • Essential roles & responsibilities presently under discussion • Written Endorsements From HSABP, GTE, ABPSI, and P&C TC’s • Presented to TAC NIS for Approval Vote Today Goals • Provide focal point for all PGC related activities in AIAA • Provide Synergy across TC’s, PC’s, and SC’s • Bring Technology Integration to forums • Visibility/Advocacy to “decision makers” • Make Progress! PGC-WG Co-Chairs Dan Paxson Venkat Tangirala Chris Brophy THANKS FOR P&E GROUP & ABP TCs ENDORSEMENT

  25. Propulsion Aerodynamics Workshop (PAW) • Sponsored by the AIAA Air Breathing Propulsion Systems Integration Technical Committee • Goal: • Mobilize industry to focus research and analysis efforts on air breathing propulsion areas and to assess the numerical prediction capability of CFD technology/tools for propulsion related flows • Objectives: Organize/mobilize the industry in Air Breathing Propulsion CFD focuses • Facilitate an impartial forum for participants to showcase their work • Perform data control and to compiled/summarize the results • Referee and judge the work and presentation by participants • Test Cases • for the P&E2014 • 2nd PAW workshop ONERA Serpentine Diffuser GTTC Dual Flow Reference Nozzle 21 member organizing committee consist of 21 members from 14 Organizations. The workshop offer Scholarship to qualified students, educators and retirees. Financial contributions & services to the workshop are welcome. If interested, please email aiaapaw@yahoo.com or visit http://aiaapaw.tecplot.com/

  26. ABP Objectives & Initiatives • New P&E Director identified objectives for each Branch • Focused on growth, member engagement and involvement in changing environment • Asked Branches to take on 2-3 initiatives to make progress toward objectives

  27. Workshop • Break into 3 groups based on topics • One TC Chair “Champion” for each group, but membership across TCs • Deliverables • 2-3 solid, achievable ideas • Action items identified, assigned • Follow-up meeting scheduled within 1 month • Will follow up with “Champion” to track progress until P&E Forum

  28. P&E Forum • Outbrief on each topic • Final plan including key milestones or events • Progress to date • NOTE: Don’t wait until P&E Forum to start if plans are achievable earlier!

  29. TOPIC 1 – Conference Sustainability Champion: John Sordyl • Issues • Conference length (SCITECH) • Compressed planning schedule • Paper quality • Scope • Abstract/paper reviews – quality, reducing withdrawals and no-shows • Innovative session planning/scheduling

  30. TOPIC 2 – Member Engagement Champion: Ryan Starkey • Issues • Flagging enthusiasm • Travel restrictions • Scope • “Why P&E” • Adding to the value proposition for members • Virtual engagement, social media • Engaging Young Professionals

  31. TOPIC 3 – Continuing Education Champion: Michelle McMillan • Issue • Professional development needs of members • Scope • Develop/expand short courses • Technical workshops (e.g., PAW) • Innovative ways to integrate with conferences

  32. Open Floor • Comments? • Concerns? • New Business Items Not Addressed? • Motion To Adjourn?

  33. Closing Comments • APB TCs are vibrant contributors to AIAA • Robust, active membership across all ABP TCs – always room for additional members who will contribute • ABP TCs work and play well together – model for other P&E TCs • Stay active and engaged in the TC • Collaborate to build quality sessions within and across TCs • Look for growth opportunities within NEM and other new products – how can AIAA be more valuable to YOU? • Support Educational and professional development activities – shape the industry leaders of tomorrow • Keep up the great work!

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