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.
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.
Section Chair
Eric R. Mueller
E-mail: chair (at) aiaa-sf.org
Section Vice Chair
Gary Kuhn
E-mail: vicechair (at) aiaa-sf.org
Section Secretary
Kathleen Starmer
E-mail: secretary (at) aiaa-sf.org
Section Treasurer
Ernie Fretter
E-mail: treasurer (at) aiaa-sf.org
Programs Director
(vacant)
E-mail: programs (at) aiaa-sf.org
Education Director
Felicita Saiez
E-mail: education (at) aiaa-sf.org
Membership Director
(vacant)
E-mail: membership (at) aiaa-sf.org
Communications Director
Rick Kwan
E-mail: newsletter (at) aiaa-sf.org
Honors & Awards Director
(vacant)
E-mail: honors (at) aiaa-sf.org
Public Policy Director
(vacant)
E-mail: pubpol (at) aiaa-sf.org
Young Professional Director
Tamika Rentas
Tamika.L.Rentas (at) nasa.gov
Professional Development Director
Steven Cerri
E-mail: steven (at) stevencerri.com
Technical Activities Director
(vacant)
E-mail: technical (at) aiaa-sf.org
Pre-College Outreach Director
Pallavi Shah
E-mail: precollege (at) aiaa-sf.org
Webmaster
Corwin H. Lakin
E-mail: webmaster (at) aiaa-sf.org
Laurel Stell
E-mail: 'laurel.stell (at) nasa.gov'
Advisory Council (former chairs)
Norm Bergrum
Gano Chatterji
Prasad Gogineni
Seth Kurasaki
Rick Kwan
Juanita Ryan
Fanny Zuniga
Todd C. Farley
Stanford University
Advisor: Steve Rock
E-mail: Eric Allison, AIAA Student Chapter Chairman
Stanford University, Aero/Astro Dept., Stanford, CA 94305 USA
E-mail: eric.allison (at) stanford.edu
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
Chairman: Michael Forrest (2004-2005)
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
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 Western Region Office
999 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 440
El Segundo, CA 90425
Phone: (310) 726-5001
Fax: (310) 726-5004
National AIAA Honors and Awards Liaison
Carol Stewart
Phone: TBD
E-mail: TBD (at) aiaa.org