Hosted by the AIAA San Diego Section, in collaboration with the San Diego Engineering Council (SDCEC).
Come join AIAA SD and the San Diego County Engineering Council (SDCEC) as we kickoff Engineers Week 2023! This event will feature booths from local engineering societies and companies, STEM outreach, and an awards ceremony to celebrate the accomplishments of local engineers. Tickets can be purchased directly from SDCEC at the link below
Hosted by the AIAA Northern Ohio Section, in collaboration with the International Women’s Air and Space Museum.
The AIAA Northern Ohio Section is teaming up with the International Women’s Air and Space Museum to offer a dinner and program focused Sandra Durbin, who joined the U.S. Navy in 1966 and subsequently became the first Black female Air Traffic Controller in the U.S. Navy, while simultaneously becoming the first in the U.S. Durbin will explore her groundbreaking career and service at both Naval Air Stations Pensacola and North Island. She will also share her post-military service activities and her work as the 2022-2023 California AMVETS Commander engaging with and serving fellow veterans.
Hosted by the AIAA Northern Ohio Section, in collaboration with the International Women’s Air and Space Museum.
The AIAA Northern Ohio Section is teaming up with the International Women’s Air and Space Museum to offer a dinner and program focused on Casey Grant as she shares her story as one of Delta Airlines’ first Black female flight attendants and a new project—International Black Aviation Day.
Hosted by the AIAA Orange County Section, via Zoom.
The Orange County Section is hosting a talk by Robert Zubrin, President of Pioneer Astronautics, an aerospace R&D company located in Lakewood, Colorado; and is the Founder and President of the Mars Society. Uniting the entrepreneurial genius of Silicon Valley with the hard-won technological expertise of the old aerospace industry, a new generation of space companies has been born whose upstart members are revolutionizing our prospects. In this talk, Zubrin will examine the possibilities. Starting with a discussion of the present-day breakthroughs, Zubrin will take a deeper look at where it leads: to ultrafast global travel through suborbital space, to new industries on orbit, and to human settlement of the Moon, Mars, the asteroids, the outer solar system, and ultimately the stars.
Hosted by the AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section.
This talk, by Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant, will provide a short description of the recent incidents in which an un-authorized aerial object (claimed as a surveillance balloon by US authorities, and a breakaway civilian airship by Chinese authorities) was shot down by an F-22 aircraft. This was followed by further sightings and shooting down of several similar (and not so similar) objects. We will describe the incidents based on the reports available, and also provide our insights on the issue, to try and obtain a solution to this modern conundrum, which has lead to a worsening of the diplomatic relations between USA and China.
The annual Huntsville Engineers’ Week awards dinner returns in-person. Join us for this event at the Jackson Center, featuring a social, keynote speaker, and awards from multiple engineering organizations in our community. Our ticketing deadline is February 14th, 2023. Organization of this year’s event is led by the AIAA Greater Huntsville Section. Partner organizations that will also be recognizing members include the Huntsville Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Huntsville Section, Aerojet Rocketdyne, University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Alabama Agricultural & Mechanical University.
wThis event is free and open to the public.
Join Tuskegee University for this virtual presentation.
Tuskegee University is the only Historically Black College and University to offer an ABET accredited Aerospace Engineering program. Come learn about how Tuskegee University continues to produce alumni who excel in aerospace. Javed Khan, Professor and Head of the Aerospace Science Engineering Department, will share information about Tuskegee’s cutting-edge program.
Following Khan’s presentation, Ken Garrett, Director of Model-Based Systems Engineering at Lockheed Martin, will lead a panel discussion with his fellow Tuskegee alumni as they discuss their preparation to become aerospace engineers at Tuskegee University, their professional careers, and their work within the AIAA domains—Aeronautics, Aerospace R&D, and Space.
Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Kevin Bowcutt, principal senior technical fellow and chief scientist of hypersonics at The Boeing Company.
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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.
Join AIAA as we celebrate the 2021-2022 winners for the annual section awards! There will also be an opportunity to network with peers and for section officers to swap best practices with one another.
This presentation will describe the technical and program challenges involved in developing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and show how an innovative idea became an international program with engineers from half a dozen countries developing a single replacement aircraft for multiple aircraft types. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was developed to meet the multirole fighter requirements of the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and our allies. The Air Force variant is a supersonic, single engine stealth fighter. The Navy variant has a larger wing and more robust structure in order to operate from aircraft carriers, while the Marine Corps variant incorporates an innovative propulsion system that can be switched from a turbofan cycle to a turbo shaft cycle for vertical takeoff and landing. This propulsion system enabled the X-35 to become the first aircraft in history to fly at supersonic speeds, hover, and land vertically. The development team won the Collier Trophy, which recognizes “the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America” each year, for this accomplishment.
This presentation will be on Wednesday, 9 November 2022, from 1200–1300 hrs PST, via Zoom.