TUESDAY, June 6th 2000
11 attending: Morgan Bracken, Matt Jardin, Stephen Jaeger, Mike Etz, Corky
Lakin, Gano Chatterji, Norm Bergrun, Rick Kwan, John van Arsdall, Larry Chien,
Howard Hamilton
-ate pizza
-Discussed the ANNUAL REPORTS.
ACTION ITEM: Get annual reports in to AIAA by June 30.
Committee Reports ( note action items)
-Dinner programs (Roger)
Very successful (and sold-out) May meeting with IL&M's John Hansen and
his talk on the "Crash Dynamics of a Podracer." Also Galileo
scholarships awarded. 84 attendees.
June - Dava Newman "Human Space flight", Preparing for Honors and
Awards meeting. Discussed in H&A below.
July - Cor Westerhoff, Space Systems/Loral, Essay Award dinner.Topic: "What
would life be like if all satellites disappeared tomorrow?",
September - Stephen J. Morris "Micro Air Vehicles"
Mentioned Joint Nov 1st meeting with Diablo Chapter of ASME "SR-71"
-Honors and awards (Srini)
3 Engineers of the Year chosen
1) Mel Bulman, Aerojet for "Aeronautics"
2) P. K. Menon, Optimal Systems for "Engineering Design"
3) Phil Snyder, NASA Ames, for "Project Management"
ACTION ITEM: prepare Certificates for long time members, council members and
Engineer of the Year winners (done)
ACTION ITEM: Send invitation letters (done)
-Newsletter (Morgan)
Discussed buying PC Framemaker for $200
Put out 4 page NL for July. 1 ad and awards announcement.
-Officer election (Matt)
Election unanimous for
Gano Chatterji, Vice Chair
Roger Martinez, Secretary
Seth Kurasaki, Treasurer
-RAC report (Matt)
Matt reported on May 20 RAC meeting:
-mentioned section award forms. Most packages must be under 10 pages.
-Region wants more involvement with local conferences. Considering having a
dinner meeting at the Reno Conf.
-UAV group looking for people
-Deputy Director for pre-college needed
-identify young members for Lawrence Sperry Award
-Young Professionals (Matt)
Fermented Mars Forum. over 25 people. Pascal Lee showed up. People actually
talked about topic. Very successful.
-Education (Matt, Howard)
Possible fly-in with sister section at Reno in Sep.
-public policy (Norm, Morgan)
possible forum ideas that were successful down South: stage candidate
debate, candidate's night. Include Stanford, SJSU. etc.
-Membership (Dan)
Going strong
-On-line (Corky)
Put photos and newsletter on web. Put photos up on web site that Mike
discovered.
talked about email lists and whether we can edit them to send electronic NL. How
do we avoid looking like junk e-mail? How do we protect e-mail lists?
ACTION ITEM (John): Build database setup off-line meeting to discuss issues.
-Pre-college outreach (Juanita)
Essay contest. Small number of submittals due to late start.
-Finance (Seth)
Budget planning to be done.
annual audit report to go in
Must do signature card for checking account
-Career (Mike)
Career web site links udated.
-Evolution of Flight (Steve)
Updated web site.
Invite Ray Kelly to dinner meeting. Possible 100th birthday celebration in
February.
ACTION ITEM:(Steve) have lunch with Ray to discuss. (DONE)
-Technical (Gano)
Upcoming technical forum from AGI