1. Technical Activities Region I Stephen A. Rizzi TAC Meeting SciTech 2015, Kissimmee, FL Thursday, 8 January 2015

2. Region I Technical Activities January 8, 2015 2 Contents  Around the Sections  Student Activities  AIAA Conferences & Special Events

3. 3 Around the Sections Region I consists of 13 sections Central Pennsylvania Connecticut Delaware (2 nd Place: Very Small) Greater Philadelphia Hampton Roads (plus Blue Ridge Chapter) (1 st Place: Very Large) Long Island (1 st Place: Medium) Mid-Atlantic (plus Aberdeen Chapter) National Capital (plus Southern Maryland Chapter) (3 rd Place (Tie): Very Large) New England Niagara Frontier Northern New Jersey Northeastern New York (3 rd Place (Tie): Small) Southern New Jersey … and 47 student branches Region I Technical Activities January 8, 2015

4. (2) Honorary Fellows (2014)  Edward Greitzer – MIT (New England)  Paul Kaminski – Technovation, Inc. (National Capitol) (5) Fellows (2014)  Tom Crouch – Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (National Capitol)  Roger Krone – Boeing (National Capitol)  Deborah Levin – Penn State (Central PA)  Richard Wahls – NASA Langley (Hampton Roads)  Andrew Zellweger – Consultant (National Capitol) (42) Associate Fellows (2015)  (2) Greater Philadelphia, (15) Hampton Roads, (1) Long Island, (5) Mid-Atlantic, (13) National Capitol, (6) New England 4 Region I Membership Honors Region I Technical Activities January 8, 2015

5. Region 1 Monthly Professional Membership 5

6. Region 1 Monthly Student Membership 6

7. Region 1 Monthly Educator Associates 7

8. 8 Student Activities Region I Student Conference Cornell University April 25-26, 2014 Region I Student Conference Cornell University April 25-26, 2014 Combined Northeast/Mid-Atlantic student conferences (2 nd year) 117 students from 21 universities participated Next conference to be hosted by Virginia Tech on March 27-28, 2015 Region I Technical Activities January 8, 2015

9. 9 AIAA Conferences & Special Events  Region I Young Professional, Student and Education Conference (YPSE-2014)  2014 Mid-Atlantic Symposium on Aerospace, Unmanned Systems, and Rotorcraft  Region I Young Professionals Rocket Competition Region I Technical Activities January 8, 2015

10. 10 Young Professional, Student, and Education Conference 2014 “Highlighting the Future of Aerospace from Kindergarten to Age 35” Hosted by Mid-Atlantic Section (since 2003) November 7, 2014 @ JHU-APL Keynote speaker: Michael Toscano, President and CEO of AUVSI, “Innovation Breakthroughs: UAS the Next Frontier” Presentation categories – 26 Undergraduate presentations 15 Graduate presentations 6 Young Professional presentations 12 Educator and K-12 presentations (see Supporting Info slides) Region I Technical Activities January 8, 2015

11. 11 YPSE-14 Brandon Horton, Virginia Tech Winner of the Graduate Student Paper (see Supporting Info slide) Brittany Gater and Liza Kossobokova Virginia Tech Winners of the Undergraduate Student Paper Region I Technical Activities January 8, 2015 (see Supporting Info slide)

12. 12 2014 Mid-Atlantic Symposium on Aerospace, Unmanned Systems, and Rotorcraft AIAA Greater Philadelphia Section, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and AHS Philadelphia Chapter April 10, 2014 @ Villanova University Keynote speaker: Mr. Jon Greene, Interim Executive Director Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership, “The New FAA ‐ Sanctioned New Jersey – Maryland ‐ Virginia UAS Test Site” 11 Technical Presentations http://www.cuvr.org/MAS Region I Technical Activities January 8, 2015

13. 13 4 th Region I Young Professionals Rocket Competition Objective: Design and build an egg lofting rocket to fly to a minimum altitude of 1000 feet, while maximizing acceleration during boost, and return the rocket to the earth as quickly as possible… without breaking the egg! Held April 5, 2014 in Culpeper, VA Only one team participated (two late drops) High Eggspectations, from JHU APL, Mid-Atlantic section 11,500+ ft and 24+ g’s!! http://www.rocketbattle.org/Main.html Next competition: March 28, 2015 Region I to support national student competition. Region I Technical Activities January 6, 2015

14. 14 Some SciTech 2015 Feedback Federal Employees  Lack of available government rate rooms at conference venue  Forum coincides with last week of leave year… “lose or use” considerations –2015 end of leave year is January 9, 2016. General  Difficult to choose between too many things happening… not enough time  Conflicts between committee meetings Region I Technical Activities January 8, 2015

15. 15 Supporting Information Region I Technical Activities January 8, 2015

16. 16 YPSE-14 Award Winners AwardPresenterCo-AuthorsSchoolTitle 1st Place Graduate Brandon HortonVirginia Tech Bio-Inspired Analysis of Bat Flight Kinematics and Unsteady Aerodynamics 1st Place Undergraduate Liza Kossobokova Brittany Gater, Wes Royston Virginia Tech Revolutionary, Unsteady Aero-hydrodynamic Robotic Concept for High Density Fluid Environments Space Automation & Robotics TC Katherine McBryan Nicolas Limparis, Chris Carlsen University of Maryland, College Park DYMAFLIGHT: Dynamic Manipulator Flight Experiment Space Automation & Robotics TC Adam Halperin Oliver OrtizUniversity of Maryland, College Park Development of Gas Compression Systems for Autonomous Martian Rovers Space Operations and Support TC Undergraduate Nicholas LimparisKatherine McBryan University of Maryland, College Park Micro-Sat Based Dexterous Robotic Satellite Servicing: A Case for Miniaturization Space Operations and Support TC Graduate Edward HanlonUnited States Naval Academy The Modeling, Construction and Installation of Bespoke Photovoltaic Power Systems for Small Satellites at the United States Naval Academy Region I Technical Activities January 8, 2015

17. YPSE History Started in 2003 by Marvine Hammer, originally known as a “Technical Mini Conference” Began inclusion of educators in 2007 (Added the “E” to YPSE) Notable past keynote speakers:  2005 - Mike Francis - DARPA. Invited Speaker: Mason Peck - Cornell University - recently named as new NASA Chief Technologist  2006 - Steven Brody – International Space University  2007 - Harley Thronson - NASA Associate Director for Advanced Concepts and Planning, Astrophysics Science Division  2008 - Matt Mountain - Director, Space Telescope Science Institute  2009 - Laurie Leshin - NASA Deputy Director for Science and Technology  2010 - Tom Irvine - NASA Aeronautics  2011 - John Thornton – Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute  2012 - David Giger, Director for Dragon Spacecraft Development, SpaceX  2013 – Sandy Magnus, Executive Director, AIAA Region I Technical Activities January 8, 2015

18. Stephen A. Rizzi Region I DD for Technical Activities Aeroacoustics Branch 2 North Dryden Street NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA 23681-2199 Telephone: (757) 864-3599 Facsimile: (757) 864-8823 s.a.rizzi@nasa.gov National Committee: Technical Activities Committee New Initiatives Subcommittee Aeroacoustics TC Transformational Flight PC