State of the Structures TC Steven G. Russell Structures TC Chair January 5, 2016

Standing Officers Steve Russell – Chair Rob Taylor – Vice Chair, Chair Elect Mike Wolff – Secretary

STRTC Goals for 2015 (1 of 2) Strategic planning  Process strategic planning survey data collected from TC members and friends  Update mission and vision statements, goals and objectives  Produce draft strategic plan for approval at annual business meeting Support standing subcommittees and recruit new subcommittee chairs as needed Facilitate stand up of new subcommittees Provide TC support as needed to ensure a successful SDM at SciTech

STRTC Goals for 2015 (2/2) Continued higher participation from the TC members  Each TC member should serve on 1 subcommittee  Friends (especially those wanting to become members) are highly encouraged to serve on subcommittees and can even chair them  Several new subcommittees are forming and are awaiting your input and contributions  Formation of other relevant subcommittees is always welcome –Just come talk to me about what you would like to do or directly to subcommittee chairs 4

Joint STRTC/SCSTC Mid-Year Meeting Mid-year meeting took place on Tuesday June 2 at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA Greg Davis of JPL (SCSTC Vice Chair) did a great job hosting the meeting and guided us through a very nice tour of JPL Professor Sergio Pellegrino of Caltech provided an informative tour of his labs and hosted an evening reception before the meeting Meeting minutes are available on-line at the STRTC website

Structures TC Membership Structures TC Membership includes:  38 Members  7 International Members  4 Associate Members  63 Friends  112 Total Affiliation breakdown: 35 Academia, 30 Government, 41 Industry, 6 Unknown The Structures TC uses the “Friend” category to introduce newcomers to the TC Committee membership is limited by AIAA to 35 members, so longstanding members of the TC are returned to friend status on an annual basis to make room for new members

Standing Subcommittees (1/3) Steering  Advises chair, reviews membership applications  Past TC chairs, current TC officers  Current membership applications under review Education (Craig Merrett, Chair)  Concentrating on undergraduate design competition  Looking at ways to do outreach at future conferences Awards (Brett Bednarcyk, Chair)  Helps find and complete nomination packages for AIAA awards in Structures TC disciplinary areas –Vipul Ranatunga, Olesya Zhupanska represented STRTC on 2016 SDM Award Selection Committee  Chooses Collier Best Structures Paper Award  Helps TC members apply for membership upgrades 7

Standing Subcommittees (2/3) Agenda (Grant Henson, Chair)  Determines topics for the informal TC meeting usually held before the start of SDM at SciTech (the Sunday night meeting) Student Paper Awards (Pavana Prabhakar, Chair)  Determines winner for Hilton Best Structures Student Paper Award  Determines winner for Lockheed Martin Best Structures Student Paper Award  Requires close coordination with the SDM Student Papers Chair (Dawn Phillips for SciTech 2015 & 2016) Strategic Planning (Keith Belvin, Chair)  Drafting long range strategic plan (5 to 10 year horizon) to guide future TC initiatives and activities 8

Standing Subcommittees (3/3) Continuing Education (Alex Selvarathinam, Chair)  Developing and organizing short courses and other educational opportunities for future meetings and conferences Procedures Subcommittee (Troy Mann, Chair)  Updated Structures TC Guidebook based on new calendar associated with co-locating at SciTech  Updated Guidebook available at TC website  Further updating may be required over the next several years as new precedents are established for organizing SDM as part of the SciTech forum 9

Liasons and Other Tasks TC Web Editor: Cristina Beldica, Univ. Illinois Aerospace America Editor: Harry Hilton, Univ. of Illinois Liaison with Materials TC: Brian Wardle, MIT Liaison with Structural Dynamics TC: Bruce Willis, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Liaison with Space Structures TC: Sergio Pellegrino Liaison with ASC: Michael Hyer, Virginia Tech Liaison with ASME: Olesya Zhupanska, Univ. of Arizona 10

STRTC Participation on SciTech Organizing Committees Structures Discipline Representatives  Alex Selvarathinam, 56 th SDM 2015, Kissimmee, FL  Peter Gustafson, 57 th SDM 2016, San Diego, CA  John Zipay, 58 th SDM 2017, Grapevine, TX 58th SDM Conference at SciTech 2017 in Grapevine, TX  January , 2016  Aerospace Design & Structures Technical Chair is Ben Thacker  Structures Technical Representative is John Zipay

Future SciTech Information 2016 AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition 4-8 January 2016 Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, CA 2017 AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition 9-13 January 2017 Gaylord Texan Grapevine, TX 2018 AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition 8-11 January 2018 Gaylord Palms Kissimmee, FL 12

TAC News Achille Messac is the new Director of the Aerospace Design and Structures Group  Achille is Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University, AIAA Fellow, ASME Fellow  He succeeds Kathleen Atkins as Director, was previously Deputy Director for Design Norm Wereley (U. of Maryland) is the Deputy Director for Structures in the Aerospace Design and Structures Group  Norm is Professor and Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland; he is an AIAA Fellow with many honors and awards, and he served on the SDM Long Range Planning Committee for many years 13

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Other News (1 of 2) Associate and alumni members now have voting privileges on technical committees (TCs) and program committees (PCs) AIAA Board has been studying governance reform to make the institute more nimble, strategically focused and relevant to the profession The Structures TC has a positive cash balance of funds that can support future activities – TAC is evaluating ways in which TCs and PCs can request financial assistance and will provide future guidance Sandy Magnus, AIAA Executive Director, put together a very good “State of the AIAA” presentation in April 2015 – available upon request 15

Other News (2 of 2) Steve Russell developed short course material for materials and structures for hypersonic air-breathing propulsion  Short course coordinated by Dora Musielak, Hypersonic Air-Breathing Propulsion TC Chair  Presented at 2 day short course prior to the AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum in Orlando, FL in July 2015  Approximately 20 course attendees  Course honorarium donated to the Structures TC 16

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