Twin Cities Section Outreach Trip October 18 th , 2013

1. Twin Cities Section Outreach Trip October 18th, 2013 University of North Dakota North Dakota State University

2. What is aiaa?

3. AIAA exists to ignite and celebrate aerospace ingenuity and collaboration. NEED AARON TO CREATE VISUAL

4. AIAA is a launching pad for emerging professionals. NEED AARON TO CREATE VISUAL

5. AIAA creates an atmosphere that inspires innovation. NEED AARON TO CREATE VISUAL

6. AIAA stimulates idea exchange and collaboration. NEED AARON TO CREATE VISUAL

7. AIAA celebrates our members’ discoveries. NEED AARON TO CREATE VISUAL

8. AIAA is a lifelong home for the industry’s most successful professionals. NEED AARON TO CREATE VISUAL

9. AIAA Stands For… • AIAA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Largest aerospace society in world AIAA is a lifelong link for aerospace professionals and a champion for their achievements. • If you want to advance in your career and make a greater impact with your work, AIAA can help you do that. • If you want to see aerospace better understood and appreciated, AIAA can help you do that.

10. AIAA: purpose and promise Purpose: Promise: To be your vital lifelong link to the aerospace community and a champion for its achievements • To ignite and celebrate aerospace ingenuity and collaboration, and its importance to our way of life

11. AIAA: Core Themes

12. Benefits of being an AIAA member: Top Level Overview • Get connected with people who can help advance your career and stimulate great new thinking about your work • Quickly find vital research information and exchange ideas about it with other professionals • Build leadership skills that prepare you for the next rung on your career ladder • Be part of an organization that’s protecting jobs and helping create more opportunities for aerospace professionals • Make sure there’s a pipeline of future aerospace workers • Offers members opportunity to give back (through leadership, mentoring, telling the aerospace story, sharing ideas)

13. Who is AIAA?

15. There are 9 Grades of AIAA Membership

16. Brief AIAA History • Started out as two societies in the 1930s • American Rocket Society 1930 • Science fiction writers and editors • Performed own experiments • Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences 1932 • Scholars and professionals • Amazing library/collection • Merged in 1963 to form AIAA • 25,000 professional members in 85 countries • Over 7,000 student members in over 150 student branches worldwide • 20 technical conferences, 8000 papers per year • Hundreds of books • 7 technical journals • Short courses, standards, public policy • Electronic library of all papers and journal articles since 1963; some back to 1930 • Foundation

17. In Short: AIAA Is… • Members who’ve made nearly every modern discovery or significant advancement in aerospace • And… • Volunteers!

18. AIAA Volunteer Structure • The AIAA Organization, from the top down, is primarily run by volunteers (non-profit organization). • Staff members (paid) exist to support to organization (institute) • The volunteer and staff structures are complementary • There are Institute, Regional and Section officers to look after each individual area of the Institute • A staff person(s) is assigned to work with the volunteers in each area, both by geography and by activity • AIAA is governed at the National (International) level down to the Region and then Section levels

19. AIAA National (International) Organization • AIAA divides its leadership between Regional Activities and Technical Activities • 2 different ways to be involved in AIAA (not mutually exclusive!) • Regional activities involve those which occur at the Region/Section levels • Member meetings and events, Public Policy, Young Professionals, STEM, Outreach, Awards, etc. • Technical Activities involve those which are ‘technical’ • Technical Conferences, Papers, Journals, Committees, etc.

20. 2013 AIAA Board of Directors PRESIDENT-ELECT Jim Albaugh PRESIDENT Mike Griffin VP – MEMBER SERVICES Merri Sanchez VP – TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES Basil Hassan *VP ELECT- MEMBER SERVICES Annalisa Weigel VP - PUBLICATIONS Vigor Yang VP - PUBLIC POLICY Mary Snitch *VP - ELECT TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES David Riley (RSAC) (TAC) DIRECTOR - TECHNICAL James A. Keenan DIRECTOR - REGION 1 Ferdinand Grosveld VP - INTERNATIONAL Susan Ying VP - FINANCE Robert C. “Bob” Winn VP - EDUCATION Steven Gorrell VP - STANDARDS Laura McGill DIRECTOR - REGION 2 G. Alan Lowrey DIRECTOR - TECHNICAL Neal Pfeiffer (Staff/Corporate Officers) DIRECTOR - REGION 3 Sivaram Gogineni DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE J Stephen Rottler DIRECTOR-AT-Large, INT’L Shamim Rahman DIRECTOR - TECHNICAL Allen Arrington *EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Sandra Magnus DIRECTOR - REGION 4 Jayant Ramakrishnan DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE Bob Lindberg DIRECTOR - INT’L In Lee *DEPUTY E. D. Klaus Dannenberg DIRECTOR - TECHNICAL Sanjay Garg DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE Neal Barlow DIRECTOR - REGION 5 Laura Richard DIRECTOR - INT’L Kevin Massey *SEC/TREASURER Bill Seymore DIRECTOR - TECHNICAL Jeffrey Hamstra *STUDENT LIAISON Cheryl Blomberg *Chief Operations Officer Angelo Iasiello DIRECTOR - REGION 6 Jane Hansen *YP LIAISON Ryan Rudy DIRECTOR - TECHNICAL Trevor Sorensen DIRECTOR - REGION 7 Luisella Giulicchi * This is a non-voting position DIRECTOR - TECHNICAL Kathleen Atkins

21. AIAA Standing Committees PRESIDENT Mike Griffin VP-INTERNATIONAL Susan Ying INSTITUTE DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES VP-EDUCATION Neal Barlow EXECUTIVE PUBLIC POLICY PRESIDENT Mike Griffin VP-PUBLIC POLICY Carol Cash CHAIRMAN Aaron Byerly ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AEROSPACE AMERICA STEERING STANDARDS EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHAIRMAN Vigor Yang VP-STANDARDS Laura McGill STUDENT ACTIVITIES CHAIRMAN Co-chairs VP-TECHNICAL Basil Hassan TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES STEM K-12 OUTREACH CHAIRMAN Edgar Bering CHAIRMAN James Maser CORPORATE MEMBER EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES CHAIRMAN Dan Jensen IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Brian Dailey PROFESSIONAL MEMBER EDUCATION PRESIDENT’S ADVISORY CHAIRMAN David Mitchell YOUNG PROFESSIONAL CHAIRMAN Kimberley Hicks ELECTION CHAIRMAN Carol Cash FINANCE VP-FINANCE Bob Winn MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN Alexander Pechloff HONORS AND AWARDS CHAIRMAN Mike Yarymovych AUDIT CHAIRMAN Wayne Schroeder REGION & SECTION ACTIVITIES VP-MEMBER SVCS Merri Sanchez ETHICAL CONDUCT PANEL CHAIRMAN John Whitesides VP-FINANCE Bob Winn COMPENSATION CAREER AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CHAIRMAN Karen Copper VP-PUBLICATIONS Vigor Yang PUBLICATIONS

22. Staff Organization Executive director who’s one of few women to ever fly in space

23. Technical activities

24. Technical Committees and Working Groups

25. New AIAA Forums Approved by BoD in May 2012 • AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (“SciTech”, Winter timeframe) • AIAA Defense and Security Forum and Exposition (“DEFENSE”, Winter timeframe, TBD) • AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition (“AVIATION”, Early Summer timeframe) • AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum and Exposition (“Propulsion and Energy”, Mid Summer timeframe) • AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition (“SPACE”, Late Summer timeframe) Publishes content not available anywhere else

26. AIAA Journals • AIAA Publishes 16 Journals and a Variety of Books: AIAA Journals

27. Regional / section Structure

28. US Regions and Sections

29. Individual Sections AIAA HQ Board of Directors RSAC Section Chair C&WD Officer Education Officer Section Treasurer Standing Committees Honors & Awards Officer Membership Officer STEM K-12 Public Policy Officer Technical Officer Young Professionals Officer Regional Organization Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) Individual Sections Regional Director (RAC Chair) Section Representatives Regional Deputy Directors Career & Workforce Dev Education Finance Honors & Awards Membership STEM K-12 Public Policy Technical Young Professionals

30. Twin Cities Section Leadership • Twin Cities Section Leadership: • Officers: • Chair: Kristen Gerzina • Vice Chair / Membership: Chris Sanden • Treasurer: Frank Hoffmann • Secretary: WogahtaDebasai • Council Members: • Webmaster: Andrew Carlson • Programs: Weston Kirch • Stem / K-12: Josh Kohn • Education: Anand Vyas • Young Professional: Matt Boysen • Public Policy: Lindsay Wagner • In-State At Large: Brian Gulliver • Out-of-State At Large: Jim Casler Student Sections: NDSU University of Minnesota

31. AIAA Twin cities section

32. AIAA Twin Cities Section Website! https://info.aiaa.org/Regions/MW/Twin_Cities/default.aspx

33. Twin Cities Section: Challenges and Opportunities • Our section size and diversity has it challenges, but also has many benefits • The ‘Twin Cities’ AIAA Section encompasses three whole states: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (and three counties in Wisconsin) • The majority of members are located in the Twin Cities area • Our large section size makes it difficult to engage all members in person • Our large section size provides many unique and diverse opportunities and programming for our members!

34. Where Do Twin Cities Section Members Live / Work? Our Section Professional Membership fluctuates between 160-200 members

35. Twin Cities Section Membership Make-Up Section Professional Members: 161 * does not include student members, associate members, educator associate members Total Members: 301 (Professional Members 35 and younger are considered young professionals) (After being a Member for over 8 consecutive years, including student membership years – you are upgraded to a Senior Member) Data Current as of October 17, 2013

36. The Twin Cities Section • Various Member Activities throughout the year in support of AIAA Core Values and Plan • Distinguished Lecture Events and Dinner Meetings • Tours (BRS, Fluidyne, PaR Systems, AirGuard Museum) • Avionics in the Midwest Technical Lecture Series • Joint Events with AIAA Student Groups and other Professional Societies • Social, Outreach, Professional Development Events • RC Aircraft Project • Focus Areas • Young Professionals, STEM K-12, Public Policy, Education

37. STEM / Outreach Events Section Activities In Pictures Lectures and Dinner Events Tours

38. Ways To Get Involved: TC Section and Beyond • Distinguished Lecture Program • 1 lecture per year for each student section • 2 lectures per year for each professional section • Technical Conferences • Presenting or Attending • Congressional Visits Day • Student Competitions • Student Paper Conference! Twin Cities Section Hosting This Year! • Design, Build, Fly • Cansat • Many more: (See: http://www.aiaa.org/DesignCompetitions/?terms=student%20competitions) • Other Ideas?? • The TC Section is happy to help facilitate other events outside of the Twin Cities Area

39. RECAP: AIAA Member Benefits / opportunities

40. Advantages of AIAA Membership Lifelong Link to the Aerospace Community!

41. Additional Member Resources • AIAA Electronic Library • Search for meeting and conference papers dating back to 1930 • Member discount on certain books • Reduced cost of conference attendance • Participation in various committees • Membership Directory

42. Twin Cities Section Member Opportunities • Networking opportunity for peers in the local aerospace community • Leadership opportunities at Section / Region level • Volunteer and K-12 outreach activities • Public Policy opportunities - help shape local and national policies • Career Development Opportunities • Access to technical leaders, companies, and lectures • A good way have some FUN with others who share common interests!

43. Additional Links and Resources • AIAA Website: • www.aiaa.org • Twin Cities Section Website: • https://info.aiaa.org/Regions/MW/Twin_Cities/default.aspx • Contact Information • Twin Cities Section Chair: Kristen Gerzina • kristen.gerzina@atk.com; 763-744-5553

44. info.aiaa.org

45. Questions & Answers