Events Category: Aeronautics

2020 AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition (2020 AIAA AVIATION Forum)

The 2020 AIAA AVIATION Forum will be held as a virtual conference in an online-only format, 15–19 June. Information on the schedule, specific content, format, registration, refunds, and many other details will be available in the coming weeks. We appreciate your patience as we finalize the details for this virtual event.

AIAA recognizes that the face-to-face meeting is ideal for sharing research, ideas, and convening the community. Given the current challenges posed by COVID-19, we feel that the virtual forum format provides the best opportunity for the AIAA community to meet and share information. By removing some of the barriers to traditional forum attendance, including travel costs and time, the virtual forum format will enable greater participation from the aerospace community—traditional and nontraditional. We are excited to use this new format to accomplish AIAA’s mission of helping aerospace professionals and their organizations succeed.

Please see our initial FAQs, which will be updated regularly with additional details, and follow @AIAA on Twitter for real-time updates. Should you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. 

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The AIAA AVIATION Forum is the only aviation event that covers the entire integrated spectrum of aviation business, research, development, and technology. The 2020 forum will bring together experts to share ideas on aeroacoustics; applied aerodynamics; fluid dynamics; multidisciplinary design optimization; air traffic operations, management, and systems; and much more.

38th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

Please join us in sunny San Diego, California for the 38th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), the preeminent R&D Conference in the field of digital avionics offered by its two most distinguished professional societies, the Digital Avionics Technical Committee (DATC) of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Amelia Earhart Aerospace Summit

The 2019 Amelia Earhart Aerospace Summit is a national event during Purdue’s 150th anniversary year, intended to empower all students to pursue careers in aerospace industry, academia, and government, and to provide the opportunity to expand their personal and professional networks through interactions with preeminent leaders in these fields. The event hopes to acknowledge both the gender disparity as well as the significant social and cultural advancements in the aerospace field, while seeking out ways for students to make an impact. The summit will feature speakers representing a wide variety of aerospace-related fields, including Virgin Galactic’s Chief Astronaut Instructor, Beth Moses, former Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisitions, Sue Payton, Blue Origin’s Configuration Design Engineer, Tamaira Ross, JPL’s Mars2020 Lead Planetary Protection Engineer, Moogega Cooper Stricker, and Purdue’s Hsu Lo Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kathleen Howell. Summit events will include a ‘Careers in Space Exploration’ panel, a research poster competition, a research art exhibit, professional development workshops, and a banquet.

Registration for this summit is $20.

Microgravity and Space Processes TC Webinar: Analog Mission to Mars – HERA C7M2 (AIAA Member Exclusive)

Analog Mission to Mars (HERA C7M2)

AIAA Members: make sure you are signed in to the site  with your member credentials to be able to register.

Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Jason Lee, University of Connecticut

Analog Mission to Mars (HERA C7M2) Description: Jason Lee participated in NASA’s Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) Campaign 7 Mission 2. Along with 3 other crew members he spent 45 days in the habitat. The purpose of the analog was to simulate a mission to mars, conducting experiments to study the effects of isolation, confinement in a small space, and simulated remote conditions. Throughout the mission, the crew was responsible for carrying out various individual and team based operations.

Dr. Lee will discuss his experience working with the crew and mission control, as well as the observed effects of isolation and communication delays.

Building a Career on Tackling the Challenges of Hypersonic Flight (Member Exclusive Webinar)

Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Kevin Bowcutt, principal senior technical fellow and chief scientist of hypersonics at The Boeing Company.

AIAA Members: make sure you are signed in to the site  with your member credentials to be able to register for this event.

This webinar is offered exclusively to AIAA members. Want to learn more about the benefits of AIAA membership?

Join us as we discuss some of the toughest challenges of hypersonic flight, along with efforts by the presenter and his colleagues to tackle these challenges, advance the state of the art of hypersonics, and help enable current hypersonic system capabilities. Despite progress made, many challenges remain before hypersonic flight becomes routine and the full potential of hypersonics is realized, including capabilities such as global travel, reusable vehicles for defense applications, and truly routine and affordable access to space. Further advancement is needed in challenging research domains such as high-temperature materials and viable structures affordably built from those materials; design accounting for the strong interaction of disciplines, such as fluid dynamics, propulsion, thermal, structure, and control; and revolutionary increases in the fidelity and speed of multidisciplinary modeling and simulation required to support advanced vehicle design. These tough challenges provide excellent opportunities for engineers and scientists to advance their careers in hypersonics by helping to develop solutions to the challenges.

HyTASP Technical Committee Hypersonics Webinar (AIAA Member Exclusive)

Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Andrew Neely, Associate Dean for Research Engagement, UNSW Canberra.

AIAA Members: make sure you are signed in to the site  with your member credentials to be able to access the replay.

This event is offered exclusively to AIAA members. Want to learn more about the benefits of AIAA membership?

The Impact of Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions on Hypersonic Vehicle Performance.

Aerothermodynamic heating is an unavoidable consequence of high-speed flight. This presents design challenges for hypersonic vehicles that must be understood and addressed. Even at moderate hypersonic Mach numbers, elevated structural temperatures can distort the airframe of a vehicle, its control surfaces, and propulsion flow paths, degrading performance and reducing life. Multifidelity simulation approaches must be optimized for an appropriate balance between efficiency and accuracy, depending upon their application in the design cycle. Detailed validation cases are required to build confidence in these approaches but these data sets, whether from ground-based or flight experiments continue to be limited. This webinar will explore these challenges and discuss recent experimental approaches developed at UNSW Canberra to build confidence in numerical design tools.

The U.S. Aerospace Workforce: Obstacles and Opportunities

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global workforce has changed significantly. Against this backdrop, other factors, such as working from home, the great resignation, and the arrival of advanced technologies, such as automation and artificial intelligence, continuously impact talent and the workforce. During this session, the obstacles and opportunities related to the U.S. aerospace workforce are revisited through a panel discussion. The envisioned conversation intends to provide an opportunity to gain an industry perspective on some of the pain points and relevant opportunities for the workforce. Observation of historical facts and gaps—where more efforts are needed to nourish talent for invigorating the U.S. aerospace industry—is vital.

This webinar is arranged in collaboration with the AIAA Society and Aerospace Technology Outreach Committee (AIAA SAT OC). AIAA SAT OC regularly investigates the impact of aerospace technology on society. In this context, that impact is considered from the contributions of the U.S. aerospace workforce to state-of-the-art technologies that in turn lead to societal outcomes.

AVIATIONx Webinar: Automation and Autonomy in General Aviation: Opportunities and Challenges for Safety, Accessibility and Sustainability

This webinar is co-organized by PEGASAS and the AIAA Intelligent Systems and General Aviation Technical Committees.

This webinar is open to the public and free of charge.

Focus: How introducing more automation and/or autonomy for general aviation could increase safety, accessibility and sustainability.

  • Reducing pilot workload
  • Preventing loss of control in flight
  • Lowering training requirements and proficiency training
  • What needs to be addressed to make this happen?
  • Discussion of current examples
  • Challenges that prevent this from being certified and adopted