Section Council (2009-2010)

We invite your questions, comments, and interest in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Listed below are the names and contact emails for the Executive Council of the San Francisco Section of AIAA for the current council year. AIAA members can find more detailed contact information in the AIAA member directory.


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What's a Section? What's the Council?

In addition to the many services which AIAA offers its members nationally (including technical conferences, publications, and committees), it also encourages regional activity in each of the many sections (or chapters) located across the nation. Each section is governed by a council of officers (elected by the section membership) and directors (appointed by the section chairman).

The San Francisco Section has roughly 1,100 members located throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area, primarily in Silicon Valley. A dinner meeting featuring a timely speaker is held each month. The council meets regularly on the first Tuesday of the month.

Active participation in the local council provides members with outstanding opportunities to network with colleagues, enhance leadership skills, further their personal careers, and have a positive influence on the aerospace field.

A note about e-mail addresses: Internet users are now acutely aware of unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam), viruses, and other attacks on the infrastructure of the Internet. To minimize the automatic harvesting of council e-mail addresses for those purposes, the addresses below use the string ' (at) ' in place of the standard commercial-at ('@') symbol. When sending mail to a council member, please modify the address accordingly.


Officers: AIAA San Francisco Section

Section Chair
Steven Cerri
E-mail: chair (at) aiaa-sf.org

Section Vice Chair
Laurel Stell
E-mail: vicechair (at) aiaa-sf.org

Section Secretary
Gerardo Vazquez
E-mail: secretary (at) aiaa-sf.org

Section Treasurer
Corey Ippolito
E-mail: treasurer (at) aiaa-sf.org

Directors: AIAA San Francisco Section

Communications Director
Rick Kwan
E-mail: commstaff (at) aiaa-sf.org

College Outreach Director
Ali Guarneros Luna
E-mail: education (at) aiaa-sf.org

Honors & Awards Director
(vacant)
E-mail: honors (at) aiaa-sf.org

Membership Director
Laurel Stell
E-mail: membership (at) aiaa-sf.org

Pre-college Outreach Director
Samantha Infeld
E-mail: precollege (at) aiaa-sf.org

Professional Development Director
Steven Cerri
E-mail: career (at) aiaa-sf.org

Programs Director
Sylvee Walenczewski
E-mail: programs (at) aiaa-sf.org

Public Policy Director
Kathleen Starmer
E-mail: pubpol (at) aiaa-sf.org

Technical Development Director
Balachandar Ramamurthy
E-mail: technical (at) aiaa-sf.org

Webmaster
Corwin H. Lakin
Laurel Stell
E-mail: webmaster (at) aiaa-sf.org

Young Professional Director
Tamika Rentas
E-mail: youngprof (at) aiaa-sf.org

Advisory Council (former chairs)
Norm Bergrum
Gano Chatterji
Todd C. Farley
Prasad Gogineni
Gary Kuhn
Seth Kurasaki
Rick Kwan
Eric R. Mueller
Juanita Ryan
Fanny Zuniga


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Local Student Branches

Stanford University
Advisor: Steve Rock
Stanford University, Aero/Astro Dept., Stanford, CA 94305 USA

Santa Clara University
Advisor: Dr. Mark Ardema
Phone: (408) 554-4173
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Phone: (408) 554-4937
Fax: (408) 554-5474

San Jose State University
Advisor: Dr. Periklis Papadopoulos
Phone: (408) 924-7168
E-mail: ppapado1 (at) email.sjsu.edu

University of California - Berkeley
Advisor: Professor Omar Savas
Chairman: Suparn Vats
E-mail: suparn (at) uclink4.berekeley.edu

University of California - Davis
Advisor: Professor Ron Hess
Phone: (530) 752-1513
E-mail: rahess (at) ucdavis.edu
Chairman: Albert Dato
E-mail: amdato (at) ucdavis.edu
 


AIAA Region VI Connections

AIAA Western Region Office
999 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 440
El Segundo, CA 90425
Phone: (310) 726-5001
Fax: (310) 726-5004

Director
Bruce Wilson
E-mail: bruce.w.wilson (at) boeing.com

Deputy Director-at-Large
Norman Bergrun
E-mail: ddatlarge (at) aiaa-sf.org


AIAA National Connections

Manager, AIAA Honors and Awards (National)
Carol Stewart
Phone: (703) 264-7623
E-mail: carols (at) aiaa.org


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