Dr. King believed in the opportunity to provide service. He said, “Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve.” These panelists exemplify King’s call to service. Join the conversation with three Black female panelists who will share their dreams, discuss their service, and look ahead toward their next feats. This industry panel discussion will be moderated by Enanga Daisy Fale, Executive Director of the NSBE Aerospace SIG and the newly appointed Regional Deputy Director of Membership within AIAA. Attendees will be invited to interact with the panel and submit questions.
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2020 has been an interesting year to say the least. Hear from aerospace veteran journalists, Graham Warwick and Guy Norris, on the A&D industry’s highlights and setbacks in 2020, and as the dust begins to settle, hear what they think will be worth watching in 2021.
GoFly’s $1,000,000 Grand Prize is waiting to be won, and teams around the world are working to create a safe, quiet, and compact personal flyer. Think you have what it takes to win? Join us to learn more about becoming an official GoFly Team, and meet some of our current teams.
Watch the second episode in the documentary series, “Red Tail Angels – The Story & Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen.” This series showcases the hardships, struggles and ultimately the successes of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black men given the opportunity to serve as military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps that became the U.S. Air Force.
The film will be hosted by Joi C. Spraggins, PhD, founder of Legacy Bridges, a NASA-Related Career and Technical STEM Education, Workplace and Workforce Development Innovation Center. Dr. Spraggins also is an AIAA Member.
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The presentation illustrates the conceptual design of an aircraft from configuration definition, graphic geometric modeling of the fuselage and its compartments, selection of powerplant options to multi-level analysis and design space exploration of key design parameters.
About the Presenter
As one of the three founders and Managing Partners of PACE, Alexander Schneegans was instrumental in driving the enterprise from start-up to its current status as a trusted partner of leading aerospace organizations around the world. Alexander heads the business line Preliminary Design & Evaluation, which focuses on developing software solutions supporting the design and marketing of complex, highly engineered products such as aircraft and their sub-systems. Alexander earned his engineering degree in 1992 from Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where he also served as a research assistant before starting his own company.
Do I need to change myself to be successful in STEM or Aerospace? This panel will provide insights and advice on the importance of individuality in professional success and bringing your authentic self into everything you do. This will be a free-flowing discussion on intersectionality, imposter syndrome, and dispelling powerful myths within STEM and aerospace. Different journeys through aerospace and STEM will be highlighted to make clear that there is not one defined path towards success.
Ben’s Chili Bowl has been a mainstay of the Black community in Washington, D.C., for nearly 62 years. It stands as a historic example of how a business can serve as a driver of economic development during good times and provide hope and solidarity to a community during hard times.
Virginia Ali, cofounder of Ben’s Chili Bowl with her late husband, Ben, will share stories about sitting with Dr. King and later with the first Black President of the United States, Barack Obama, and share how her restaurant has served as a gathering place for everyone, whether you are homeless or the President of the United States.
Ben’s current staff will share a cooking demonstration of some of their specialties.
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Traditional autonomy stacks have not been equipped for the real complexities introduced by advanced perception systems on robotic platforms, such as operation utilizing limited range, noisy sensors in dynamic environments. This talk will overview existing technology, outstanding challenges, required capabilities, and recently developed solutions that integrate planning and perception to provide robust decision-making for real-world autonomy. The talk will also motivate and outline the development of safety and performance guarantees for learning-based approaches, along with methods for incorporating next-generation scene understanding capabilities into planners – all while ensuring that realistic uncertainties are appropriately captured in models used by autonomous systems.
This session describes the UAV Ground Control Station (or Segment) history at GA-ASI including the evolution from the early Predator days, to the current USAF & US Army configurations, as well as future initiatives, concepts, and paradigm shifts.
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