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Students
Discover how you can make the most of your first week at AIAA SciTech Forum while meeting fellow attendees. This orientation is ideal for first-time attendees, but all are welcome!
Session Category: AIAA SciTech Forum 2021
Rising Leaders in Aerospace: Speed Mentoring
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Leaders in the aerospace industry will take time to meet with Rising Leaders participants and share their experiences. Early, mid-, and late career mentors will be present. This event is a great way to gain insight and make new contacts.
Meet the Employers
AIAA’s “Meet the Employers” event at the 2021 SciTech Forum offers attendees the opportunity to virtually meet and network with AIAA corporate member companies. While attendance is open to the entire delegation, attendeesare primarily students and young professionals seeking employment information. Participating organizations present a 1-2-minute speed overview and mention of opportunities available, then have follow-on discussions with the attendees. Students will rotate themselves within the REMO platform in a virtual room with tables for each organization. Participant pre-registration recommended. Space is limited.
AIAA SciTech Forum attendees can sign up for this event after registering for the AIAA SciTech Forum. Space is limited, sign up now.
Meet the Author
Daniel P. Raymer
Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach and RDSwin Student softwareAircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach presents the entire process of aircraft conceptual design—from requirements definition to initial sizing, configuration layout, analysis, sizing, optimization, and trade studies. Widely used in industry and government aircraft design groups, it is also the design text at major universities around the world. A virtual encyclopedia of engineering, it is known for its completeness, easy-to-read style, and real-world approach to the process of design. The RDSwin Student software allows engineering students to take an aircraft design from first conceptual layout through functional analysis, leading to performance, range, weight, and cost results. By automating the “grunt work” of vehicle analysis, RDSwin Student makes time for the student to truly learn design.
Forum 360: Survive and Thrive: Resiliency Enables
Challenger: The Final Flight – Episode 1 Netflix Watch Party
Join us on Tuesday, 19 January, to watch the first episode together of Challenger: The Final Flight on Netflix. Engineers, officials, and the crew members’ families provide their perspective on the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and its aftermath. Sign into your own Netflix account to watch and join the Zoom link below to use the chat function. Start the discussion on Tuesday and then join us for the plenary on Thursday, 21 January, Perspectives on the Challenger Legacy, for a conversation on the impact Challenger had on multiple generations of space explorers and lessons learned.
Aerospace Design in the Age of Big Data and Big Compute
From data analytics and machine learning to digital twins, aerospace design is becoming increasingly data centric. Yet in our excitement to define a new generation of data-centric approaches, we must be careful not to chart our course based entirely on the successes of data science and machine learning in the lucrative but vastly different domains of social media, online entertainment, online retail, image recognition, machine translation, and natural language processing — domains for which data are plentiful and physics-based models do not exist.
Pathways to AIAA Leadership
Join us for an interactive session to find out how you can participate in a pathway to AIAA leadership on a technical committee, local section, standing committee, and more.
Speakers
Anjaney Kottapalli
Research Science Manager, Lockheed Martin
AIAA Senior Member, member of the Talent and Leadership Development Committee and Hypersonic Technology & Aerospace Planes TC, and AIAA DEFENSE Forum Technical Committee Chair
Peter Montgomery
Director of Commercialization, Jacobs, NASA Kennedy Space Center
AIAA Associate Fellow and chair of the Talent and Leadership Development Committee
Jeff Puschell
Principal Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Technologies
AIAA Fellow and member of the Talent and Leadership Development Committee
Kate Stambaugh
Senior Principal Systems Engineer, Space Sector, Northrop Grumman
AIAA Member and Member of the Talent and Leadership Development Committee
Sarah Shull
Artemis Surface Mission Planning Lead, NASA Johnson Space Center
AIAA Associate Fellow and member of the Talent and Leadership Development Committee; Region IV Director
Technical Activities Division Representatives
Phillip Ansell
Allen Ormsbee, Faculty Fellow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AIAA Senior Member and chair, Electrified Aircraft Technology TC
John-Paul Clarke
Professor, Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Memorial Chair in Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin
AIAA Fellow and chair, Human-Machine Teaming TC
Regional Engagement Activities Division Representatives
Sarah Shull
Artemis Surface Mission Planning Lead, NASA Johnson Space Center
AIAA Associate Fellow and member of the Talent and Leadership Development Committee; Region IV Director
Integration and Operations Division Representatives
Jeff Laube
Senior Project Engineer, Launch Systems Division, The Aerospace Corporation
AIAA Associate Fellow and Chief of the Integration and Operations Division (2019-2022)
Emerging Technologies that Will Change Our World
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Fireside Chat
Advances in Wind Technology
The cost of Wind Energy has been reduced by more than 50% in the last decade reaching all time lows. Key drivers of this trend have included increased manufacturing scale and improved efficiency of the turbine system. As the industry continues to advance, technology will become even more critical to progress. This talk will share a vision for the future of wind energy and explore key technology advances that will help drive continued cost reductions and improved performance.