SAN FRANCISCO SECTION COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
TUESDAY, April 4th 2000
10 total attendees. 7 council members attending: Larry Chien, Norm Bergrun,
Morgan Bracken, Corky Lakin, Annie Kaplan (New member), Matt Jardin, Steve
Jaeger. Also attending: Howard Hamilton (Stanford AIAA), Rocio Duran (SJSU
AIAA), Greg Rogers (SJSU AIAA)
-ate PIZZA
-SJSU AIAA representatives discussed need to raise funds quickly for proposed
function this month at Tech Museum starring Astronaut Janice Vass. Must pay for
her travel but cannot use astronaut for fund raising. We suggested bringing in
other student orgs like SWE, ASME etc. Also suggested contacting University
muckety-mucks. Also tap Tech museum...they got money somewhere. Stress
education, public outreach etc.
Committee Reports (note ACTION ITEMS)
-Honors and awards (Srini's E-mail report)
1. Galileo Scholarship Program: we have received 181 applications. A
3-person
committee has been formed by Sid Sun, the coordinator for this program this
year from NASA Ames. We have decided on the procedure to review these
applications. Our first meeting is scheduled for 4-5-00 at 10 A. M. The
following meeting will be on 4-13-00 to finalize the winners list. The
program is proceeding on schedule.
2. Engineer of Year: Only one nomination (self-nomination) has been received
to date. We need to send out another reminder to all concerned. Our Chairman
may have done this already. Thanks, Steve.
ACTION ITEM: (everyone) shake trees for nominations.
ACTION ITEM: put up web version of application (done)
ACTION ITEM: (chair) send out e-mail to contacts to get nominations (done)
3. I have been providing guidance to our members to upgrading their
membership
grade. I have also been giving them the web address to download the necessary
application material and other information. In some cases I have also signed
some applications as a nominator/reference.
4. I want an approval for a budget of $ 250.00 from the Council to buy some
gifts to the council members to be given out during our June Awards Meeting.
-Career (Mike)
no report this meeting
-public policy (Norm, Morgan)
Morgan and Norm returned from Congressional Visits Day last month. (Morgan
neglected to mention that she had been a congressional page during high school
and was able to reveal secret passageways and other cloak & dagger stuff to
Norm.) Met congresspersons and reps from OMB. Conveyed message that R&D
funding is low. Also: export controls, military R&D, aeronautics funding,
coherent space policy. Morgan Expressed concern that AIAA members were
occasionally conflicting with each other in conveying message to pols.
(aeronautics vs space etc.) Otherwise received well.
ACTION ITEM: (Morgan) web or NL article on DC adventure.
Howard wants public policy speaker for Stanford. Norm suggested Paul Looney
for next year.
An aerospace event featuring Rep. Dana Rohrbacher is tentatively in works.
-Newsletter (Morgan)
FULL PAGE AD SOLD!! Filemaker software purchase put off until next budget.
May/June NL in works but may be a short one. Suggested putting most photos,
articles on web. Ballot needs to go in!!
ACTION ITEM: (Morgan) Dump photos from Camera. Send good ones to Steve,
on-line, etc.
ACTION ITEM: Hit resources (ie.the rest of the Council). Finish newsletter.
ACTION ITEM: (Steve) send forth thy printing budget. (done)
-Evolution of Flight (Steve)
Steve to interview Seth Anderson at sometime soon. It was suggested that a
really cool dinner meeting would be a showing of Ray Kelly's video. An even
cooler idea would be a tribute to Ray on his 100th birthday next February.
ACTION ITEM: (Steve) contact Ray and arrange meeting for next year.
ACTION ITEM: (Steve) just for the heck of it, contact Ray and see how he's been
doing.
-On-line (Corky)
Main page scripts, backup scripts in works. Dropped Jan meeting links.
ACTION ITEM: (Matt) send commands to Corky.
ACTION ITEM: (between Matt and Steve) put Pat Ryan article and photos on web
-Finance (submitted in paper form by Seth)
Money getting low. Need to plan through October.
ACTION ITEM (Steve): spend ALL of the money before Matt can get his hands on
it. =8-)
-Nomination/election (Matt)
Working on it. ballot to go out. Working on next year's council.
ACTION ITEM: ballot in nl.
Suggested Roger for Secretary. Sugg John Van Arsdall take over for Roger as
Programs Director.
ACTION ITEM: (Matt) recruit John.
-Young Professionals (Matt)
Grad School pool playing Forum planned. Budget concerns: will just pay for
pool and not beer.
Wants to put photos of Mustangs, provided by regular FFF attendee, onto web
site.
Suggested member profiles, photos etc. on web. Regular feature.
-Education (Howard)
Howard held telecon last week with EUROAVIA reps, SF AIAA reps and Stanford
students. Discussed ways to cultivate Sister Section Program. 1) talked about
ways of exchanging international students for various study programs. 2)
Suggested exchange of written material, info on courses, universities etc. 3)
Identified major aerospace events: OshKosh, Reno air races, Paris air show,
Farnborough etc. where reps can meet with each other. 4) Asked Euros how they
secured funding. Franco suggested hitting up many companies for small amounts.
Need to get more of an idea of what we want to do. Written report given to
Vice-chair and Chair.
Discussed setting up web-based meetings for future. Technology, Technology,
Technology.
Annie Kaplan (worked before with previous Region 6 Student Conference and
Education Associates program at Ames) will assist with AIAA Sister Section
program.
ACTION ITEM: (on-line) begin planning to put up interlinked web pages for the
sister section program on SF AIAA page, Stanford AIAA page Milan EUROAVIA page.
Need Italian/English translations etc.
ACTION ITEM: (Howard) talk with Stanford EE professor, Bruce ?
ACTION ITEM: Find roles for Stan Horn, Annie Kaplan and Larry Chien
-Membership (Dan)
no report
-Technical (Gano)
no report
-Dinner programs (Roger)
No report
-Pre-college outreach (Juanita by e-mail)
Hello,
I will be on travel for the SETI Institute through Sunday
night so I'll be unable to attend tomorrow's meeting. Hopefully,
this update will prove usefuL
March 25 Teacher Workshop: Went very well. Held at the
Moscone Center for approx. 50 teachers, the event was fully funded
by Roche Bioscience who received a grant from the
Kirsch (sp?) Foundation. We can expect a few more Educator
Associates in our Section.
Essay Contest: We will receive $2500 in funding through Space
Systems/Loral. The actually money is coming from Loral vendors
and contractors, but it was solicited from them by Gary Chesney,
Executive Assistant to the President at Loral.
Gary will assist in presenting the awards to the students at
the July dinner meeting. Cor Westerhoff (VP? at Loral) has agreed
to speak at the dinner. He did a great job at
our teacher workshop last year. Roger will need to confirm date,
time, and subject matter with him.
Fanny is helping me with the essay contest. I'm behind in
getting the flyer to her. (Sorry, Fanny.) We will be faxing
them to the junior highs this year. I discovered during our
Discover E program that faxing was much more efficient than mailing.
Less expensive, too!
The essay question this year will be on a satellite theme
in honor of Space System/Loral's contributions: "Describe
how your life would change if all satellites disappeared tomorrow."
Loral was very pleased.
Science Fair: AIAA members John Lee and Paul Zakian did an excellent
job representing AIAA at the Synopsis Science & Engineering Fair
and the San Francisco Bay Area Science
Fair. $100 and $50 savings bonds were awarded along with
an AIAA certificate. (Seth, expect the completed bond forms
in the mail.)
Speakers for next year: Are you interested in either Frank Drake
or Jill Tarter for next year? 8 students and I will be traveling
to Arizona with Frank Drake (of Drake Equation fame) during Spring
break. The students will be filmed, featuring Dr. Drake, for
a tv series called "Superteachers" to be aired in Japan. NHK-Japan
TV will be hosting this trip. The culminating activity will
be an ET costume party at the SETI Institute with Jill Tarter,
Frank Drake, Seth Shostak, etc. Shall I start asking now?
Hope all is well with y'all.
-juanita