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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: HUB SciTech 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.
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.
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)
Gold Award Girl Scouts—Engineering for Your Community
Girl Scouts who earn the Gold Award tackle real-world issues that they are passionate about and drive lasting change in their communities and beyond. Join Gold Award Alums in STEM as they discuss how they built strong foundations in engineering through community problem-solving with a diversity, equity and inclusion lens. You’ll leave inspired to approach engineering challenges in your own field from a community-first mindset. Mix of presentation/conversation, Q&A, and other audience engagement.
Transforming the Role of the UAV
For over two decades, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) have been employed, whether high or medium altitude, for similar-type missions. These missions tend to exploit their long endurance attribute and they have seen great success. However, what has been part of their success has also generally typecast them into very specific roles. The challenge is that the missions and objectives of their customers have shifted in recent times. The benefits of using reliable and proven platforms to meet emerging objectives are numerous and multifaceted. But that’s the easy part… The hard part is meeting these same emerging objectives while being an important player, but this time, of a much bigger team.
Sponsored by:
Sonic Boom and the X-59
Speakers
John M. Morgenstern
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Sriram K. Rallabhandi
NASA Langley Research Center
Description
Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract to manufacture the X-59, a NASA experimental demonstrator aircraft designed to mitigate the adverse impact of sonic boom through advanced aircraft shaping methodologies. Initial flights and envelope expansion of the X-59 is expected to begin within the next couple of years, followed by community tests at multiple locations. This discussion highlights the vision for commercial supersonic flight, sonic boom assessments of the X-59 and details of the low-boom flight demonstration mission.
The Future of Green Propellants
This discussion highlights the successes of NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) and what the demonstration means for the future of green propellants.
The panel of green propellant and propulsion subject matter experts from industry and government will share surprising takeaways from the mission, their perspectives about the infusion of the technology, and answer questions from the audience.