SSECTION COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
TUESDAY, May 2nd 2000
9 attendees: Howard Hamilton, Mike Etz, Norm Bergrun, Seth Kurasaki, Gano
Chatterji, Corky Lakin, Dan Stuart, Srini Srinivasan, Stephen Jaeger
-Ate pizza from new Pizzeria
-Chair announced that annual reports are now due.
-Matt to attend RAC meeting down in LA on May 20th. He is also looking for
anyone who wants to go with him to Rock Vegas for the RLC in July.
Committee Reports ( note ACTION ITEMS )
-Membership (Dan)
Membership at 1348, down 20. Lowest so far this year but typical for the
season. We had 1417 last June.
Chair noted that RAC I rebate is based on June 1st numbers but SF has it's
highest membership in December through free memberships for the Reno Conference.
(up 100 or so.)
ACTION ITEM: Submit Membership award form. Steve.
-Finance (Seth)
We are over-spent. Need to finalize cost estimates to survive the rest of
the year.
Items: newsletter, essay contest, RAC travel, pre-college outreach expenses etc.
ACTION ITEM: Prepare budget and audit materials for annual report and
incoming chair. Steve, Matt and Seth.
-Dinner programs (Roger)
April dinner meeting successful.33 people attending.
April speaker Chris Hoeber has been asked by National to be a AIAA Distinguished
Lecturer based on our meeting.
May - John Hansen, Industrial Light and Magic, Galileo awards. Expecting SELL
OUT
June - Dava Newman "Human Space flight", Honors and Awards meeting
July - Cor Westerhoff, essay contest winners
September - Stephen J. Morris "Micro Air Vehicles"
Would like to get a speaker on the orbital Baseline Interferometry telescope.
-Honors and awards (Srini)
Five Galileo Scholarship winners picked. Winners get tour of NASA as well as
recognition at awards dinner. Steve Jaeger will coordinate meeting in Srini's
absence.
Engineer of the Year award has low number of nominations. Will go with what we
got.
Steve and Srini will prepare for Honors and Awards dinner. Need brochure etc.
Getting certificates for all council members.
Srini suggested Fanny for new H&A director.
-On-line (Corky)
Helping Chris Hoeber get info on attendees who wanted a copy of his
presentation. Can visit page with presentation.
matt worked our PERL scripts for backup.
ACTION ITEM: provide on-line info to Mike for Communications Award.
-Newsletter (Morgan)
Ballot will be in newsletter
2 Advertisements in May/June issue.
Morgan disappointed with pace of printer. Suggested looking at alternates. Chair
noted that Kay Peterson is no longer affiliated with Pony Express 'n Printing
but it may be hard to find a place that is cheaper and provides service. Will
put this off to new administration.
Morgan needs FrameMaker for PC...NOW!
ACTION ITEM: Buy FrameMaker for Morgan. Matt.
ACTION ITEM: Bill advertisers...get money. Morgan.
ACTION ITEM: Submit Communications Award form. Mike.
-Nomination/election (Matt)
Gano, Roger and Seth are the nominees. We await ballots.
ACTION ITEM: VOTE! All council members.
ACTION ITEM: Encourage others vote early and often. All council members.
-Fermented Young Professionals (Matt)
Fermented Fluids Forum May 5th
ACTION ITEM: Submit Young Professional Activity Award form. Matt.
-Education (Howard)
Matt set up sister section page with link to Stanford. Still working on
EUROAVIA link.
Howard talking with Professor Bruce Lusignan regarding program. has contacts
with Polytechnica in Milan.
Discussed September's Reno Air Races (9/14-17) as possible "fly-in"
opportunity to meet Euros in US.
-Career (Mike)
Mike will forward his career links to chairman.
ACTION ITEM: Send list to Steve. Mike.
ACTION ITEM: Submit something to Career Enhancement award. Steve.
-Public Policy (Norm)
Steve taking on Region Deputy Director for Public Policy
Morgan working on CVD article for web.
Paul Looney asking: What are we generally trying to accomplish? Time scales?
Purpose? Norm suggests identifying effective milestones for PP.
"A milestone is like a kidney stone, you know when you've passed one."
- Norman Bergrun
3 critical areas:
1) Coalition building
2) Critical issues
3) membership outreach
3 Improvements for the committee
1) CVD
2) Public Policy colloquiums (missing 2 regions)
3) Regional Leadership Conference: more emphasis on PP.
Norm Bergrun has been asked by Pres. Bob Crippen to be the RSAC/PP liaison for
the AIAA. Congratulations from the council.
On 4/24 US Congressional sub-committee discussed technology. "Where are the
Feds on High Tech Curve?"
ANSWER: Biotech, nano-technology, Info Technology
ACTION ITEM: Need to find an angle on these 3 for the local AIAA.
-Evolution of Flight (Steve)
Worked on web page. Its working now. More to come.
-Technical (Gano)
May 3rd Tech forum on Human Factors of Air traffic control. Turned out to be
the most successful lunch time seminar to date with 70 attendees.
-Pre-college outreach (Juanita)
Juanita's comments appended:
Essay flyers have been faxed to schools. Loral continues their
support. I'll be needing readers in early June. Any volunteers?
Arizona with Frank Drake and NHK-TV went very well. Dr.
Drake says just to give him about 2 months notice, and he'll
be glad to be a guest speaker for AIAA. Didn't get a chance
to see Jill Tarter. She was on travel. I understand she's very
willing to speak when children are involved.
Perhaps we can ask for her later in the year . . . Galileo
or Essay Contest dinners.
Have been asked to give a teacher session for this year's NEW
(NASA Educator Workshop) program. Will be presenting
in July for AIAA.
I have not received an award form for Precollege Outreach.
Can someone fax me a copy? (408)937-4908 thanks
Steve ... need to confirm time and place for our May 1 tour with
you. Please e-mail or call. Classroom (408)251-5365
Home (408)926-0862 thanks, again.
* April 5-9 NSTA (National Science Teachers Assoc.)Conf.
Orlando, Florida. Teacher workshop in
conjunction with the SETI Institute.
* Apr.21-28 Filming with NHK-TV, Japan
8 students, 4 parents, Dr. Frank Drake, and
10 production crew from NHK-TV filmed a two-
part special as part of a series called
"Superteachers". We visited/filmed: UC
Berkeley (SETI@home), Berringer Crater (AZ),
Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff), Lake Powell
(Page, AZ), and the SETI Institute (Mt. View).
Great trip! Wonderful interaction with all.
Half-million dollar project will be shown in
Japan about mid-June. Will also be shown in
US (Discovery or Learning channel) and in
other parts of the world.
* May 4 Space Day at Toyon School
AIAA member Dr. Chris McKay was the guest
speaker at Toyon's annual Space Day celebra-
tion. His presentation was followed by make-
and-take science activities. Space "freebies"
were provided by Space Systems/Loral.
* On-going 12th Annual Essay Contest is underway. Total
sponsorship secured through Space Systems/
Loral ($2500). Essay deadline extended to
May 30.