Section Annual Report

2000 SECTION ANNUAL REPORT
AND
OUTSTANDING SECTION AWARD
NOMINATION FORM

GENERAL INFORMATION:

SECTION San Francisco

REGION VI

DATE June 25, 2000
SECTION SIZE: (as of 1 June 1999)

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(AIAA Staff will verify Section Size Category)

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AIAA
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The Annual Report is the Business Report for the Section and must be received before a Section can receive its rebate for the next year. Please attach any supporting materials you may have, such as newsletters, programs, advertising, etc., describing the Section's activities. The complete package should not exceed 10 pages. The award period covers those events and activities between 1 June 1999 - 31 May 2000. The nomination deadline date is 30 June 2000. Nominations received after 30 June 2000 will not be considered for the award.

SUBMITTED BY:

Name: Stephen M. Jaeger

Section Officer Position: Chairman

Address: 333 N. Rengstorff Ave. # 13,
Mountain View, CA 94043
Telephone Number: (650) 604-1472
SECTION CHAIRMAN:

Name: Stephen M. Jaeger

Address: 333 N. Rengstorff Ave. # 13,
Mountain View, CA 94043

Telephone Number: (650) 604-1472



HIGHLIGHTS OF MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS THIS YEAR

1. Filled all Council Subcommittee positions with one or more volunteers.
2. Reinvigorated the Section's technical edge through five successful lunchtime technical forums, all with more than 50 attendees.
3. Produced six bi-monthly Newsletters for SF section members and the 300+ members of the Sacramento Section.
4. Hosted 12 dinners meetings, two with distinguished lecturers (June '99: William F. Chana, March '00: Scott Miller), three sellouts with over 60 attendees.
5. Started a new tradition of having at least one dinner meeting in the East Bay (Oakland, Berkeley etc.) to serve our East Bay and Sacramento area members.
6. Continued our strong outreach to the local student chapters through our dinner meetings, council meeting attendance and support of the First Annual Pioneer's Forum at Stanford University.
7. Hosted four European representatives of EUROAVIA/AIDAA Milan in support of our two-year old Sister Section Program.
8. Reinvigorated our Young Professional's outreach via seven well-attended Fermented Fluid Mechanics Forums.
9. Continued pre-college outreach efforts including family fairs, Discover E, science fair judging, essay contests, student scholarships, and model airplane contests.
10. Sponsored teacher workshops including one at IBM with Astronaut Steve Smith and one at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.:
11. Sent two representatives to the Congressional Visits Day in Washington D.C.
12. Continued an active and informative online outreach via the Section web site and e-mail list through the active efforts of the On-line Committee.
13. Updated the web links and job information on the local Career Enhancement web page.
14. Kicked-off the Section's commitment to the Evolution of Flight campaign with a local aerospace history website and audio interviews with living aerospace pioneers.


SECTION ORGANIZATION

1. List the names of the Section Officers:
Chairperson: Stephen M. Jaeger
Vice Chairperson: Matt Jardin
Treasurer: Seth Kurasaki
Secretary: Gano Chatterji

2. List the names and titles of the Section Council:
Membership Committee:
Dan Stuart, Director

Public Policy Committee:
Roger Martinez, Director
Norm Bergrun
Morgan Bracken

Education Committee:
Stephen M. Jaeger, Director
Matt Jardin
Larry Chien
Annie Kaplan
Howard Hamilton, Stanford Chair



Honors and Awards Committee:
Srini Srinivasan, Director
Stephen M. Jaeger
Gano Chatterji

Technical Committee:
Gano Chatterji, Director
Rick Kwan

Young Professionals Committee:
Matt Jardin, Director
Morgan Bracken
Michael Etz

Career Enhancement Committee:
Kay Jain, Director

Dinner Programs Committee:
Roger Martinez, Director

Newsletter Committee:
Morgan Bracken, Layout Editor
Michael Etz, Content Editor

Pre-College Committee:
Juanita Ryan, Director
Michael Etz
Fanny Zuniga

RAC Representative:
Stephen M. Jaeger
Matt Jardin (May '00)


On-line Committee:
Corwin Lakin, Director
Chung Park, Webmaster
Matt Jardin, Webmaster
Rick Kwan, Webmaster
Tsung-Chou Fang, Hostmaster

Evolution of Flight Committee:
Stephen M. Jaeger, Director
Norm Bergrun


3. Number of council/officer meetings held during the year__15____
Average Attendance __14___.

4. Percentage of membership voting in last election of Section Officers ___<1%_____.

5. Number of officers attending the Section Leadership Briefing _____3_____.

6. Estimated membership located within 45 min of the meetings __80%______.

7. Number of Chapters within the Section _0__ Number of chapter members_____ and name of chapter(s).

(Student chapters discussed in Education Section)


MEETINGS, PROGRAMS AND EVENTS

1. Describe the Section's general meetings. Include topic, number of meetings, average attendance and joint sponsorship.

Number of General Meetings: 12
Average attendance: 46
Joint sponsorship: 2
2 Distinguished speakers: William F. Chana, L. Scott Miller
3 dinner meetings were complete sellouts.

Date____________Topic Speaker Attendance_
June 17, 1999 Honors & Awards Dinner William F. Chana 65
Topic: High-Speed VSTOL Tilt-Wing Aircraft

July 15, 1999 Annual Essay Contest Banquet Mike Green 61
Topic: X-33 and Spaceliner-100

September 15, 1999 Pitching the Perfect ISO-9000 Game Rick Serrano 45
(Joint meeting with American Society for Quality)

October 21, 1999 CTAS Dallas Denery 32

November 18, 1999 Education and Training for Technology Senator Liz Figueroa 26

December 16, 1999 Astrobiology: Rationale and Future Š Douglas O'Handley 22


January 20, 2000 Strutjet RBCC Engine Testing Mel Bulman 36
(Special East Bay meeting in Oakland )

January 26, 2000 Management of Globalstar John Klineberg 114
(Joint meeting with IEEE Engineering Management Society)
(SOLD OUT)

February 17, 2000 Mars on Earth Pascal Lee 30

March 16, 2000 Shadowcraft: A World of Secret Flight L. Scott Miller 63
(SOLD OUT)

April 20, 2000 The Evolution of Comm. Satellites Chris Hoeber 33

May 18, 2000 Galileo Scholarship Awards Dinner John Hansen 85
Topic: Flight Mechanics and Crash Dynamics of a Podracer
(SOLD OUT)

2. Describe any young member oriented programs, meetings or activities.

This year the Section started a regular feature: The Fermented Fluid Mechanics Forum. Six forums were held on the first Friday of each month. Each forum was based around a theme of interest to the younger members including "Astronaut Hopefuls," "Learning to Fly," "Going Back to Grad School," and "Starting your own Business." The average attendance number was 18.

3. Describe any career enhancement programs, meetings or activities.

In keeping with it's status as a web-centered section, the SF Council updated career enhancement links and resume postings to reflect the fast-paced career market typical of Silicon Valley. At least three meetings were held with career-oriented themes including a young professionals forum on starting a business, a dinner meeting on training for technology-centered jobs and a lunchtime technical forum on patents and copyrights.

4. Describe your most unique meeting or program based upon subject, format, location, etc.

The Section's most unique event was the May Galileo Awards Banquet. The speaker was aerospace engineer and local AIAA member John Hansen of Industrial Light & Magic. Mr. Hansen creates computer-generated graphics for movies including "STAR WARS I: The Phantom Menace." His spectacular multi-media presentation on the crash dynamics of the podracer was well-received by the crowd of AIAA members, scholarship award winners and their parents. The meeting was completely sold-out at 85 attendees.

5. Describe each SPECIAL EVENT held this year. Please include the following: (1) goal, purpose and topic of the event, (2) target audience, (3) type of publicity, (4) company support, if any and (5) if the event attracted new or student members.

Nov. 5, 1999: The 1st Annual Pioneers Forum. The San Francisco AIAA co-sponsored the forum along with a diverse coalition of organizations including the Stanford Ethiopian Student's Union, The Stanford AIAA, the ASME, the Stanford African Studies Department and others. The event was held to showcase notable speakers who have succeeded despite great adversity. The speaker for this event was Noah Samara, Ethiopian-born founder and CEO of WorldSpace Corporation. Mr. Samara discussed the importance of providing low coast communications and education opportunities to the African Continent. Over 400 people attended, mostly Stanford Students. The event was advertised on our e-mail server, though flyers and through the Stanford student publicity channels. No company support was provided. No definite numbers exist on whether possible members were attracted by the event.

Jan. 20, 2000: Special East Bay Dinner Meeting. The section held a dinner meeting at an unusual site in Oakland, California. The intent was to accommodate section members who live in the East Bay cities (Berkeley, Fremont, Livermore, Oakland etc.) who normally find it difficult to drive the long rush-hour distances of up to 60 miles. The meeting was also intended to serve members of the inactive Sacramento section. The meeting was advertised in the newsletter, web site, e-mail list, via color flyers that were posted in public locations and through an informal network in each of the area universities. The event drew a full house of 35 including student members and non-members from UC Davis, Cal Berkeley and San Jose State.


MEMBERSHIP ACTIVITIES

1. Describe membership retention activities.

An important focus of the Council was to keep the section informed of activities and the benefits of the AIAA. In particular, the members were solicited for their feedback on what they consider to be the important issues in the aerospace field. Each month, the Council reviewed the membership numbers and discussed approaches for retaining members. The Membership Director sent "welcome" postcards to each new member and "reminder" postcards to members who were two months out. New members, members who volunteered at Section activities, and "Members on the Move" were recognized each month in the Section Newsletter and occasionally through the E-mail service.

2. Describe membership drive (recruitment) activities and results.

AIAA membership information was distributed at all Section activities such as dinner meetings and Young Professionals events. A significant number of membership applications "vanished" from the display table after section events. In particular, joint events generated interest from members of other technical societies. An AIAA information booth was also set up at Engineer's Week orientations at IBM and Lockheed-Martin. Local AIAA events were advertised through the E-mail servers of Lockheed-Martin and NASA Ames Research Center, the latter service sending AIAA notices out to 3700 potential members.

3. Describe activities to encourage member upgrades.

The Chair nominated members for senior member and associate fellow and encouraged the rest of the Council members and the Section membership to do the same through newsletter appeals, e-mail and the web site. Information on obtaining membership upgrades was published in every Section Newsletter. Members who received upgrades were recognized in the "Members on the Move" section of the Newsletter.


HONORS AND AWARDS

1. Describe any local section awards given to members and supporters.

o Council Recognition:
Each year the San Francisco Section recognizes the members of its Council at the Annual Honors & Awards Banquet. The meeting is held in June to straddle the two council years and to serve as an official "hand-off" to the new council. The 1998-99 Council was recognized with certificates at the banquet held on June 17, 1999. The 99-00 Council members were also recognized with certificates at the banquet held on June 15, 2000. Honored members were given a choice of an AIAA coffee mug, tie or pen.




o Engineer of the Year Awards:
Each year the AIAA SF Section honors a few Bay Area engineers for outstanding contri-butions in their field. The 1998-1999 award recipients were recognized at the annual Honors & Awards Banquet held on June 17th, 1999. Each winner and a guest received a complimentary dinner.
The winners were:
Aeronautics: Steven Green, NASA Ames Research Center.
Project Management: Thomas A. Dougherty, Lockheed-Martin Missiles and Space.

o AIAA Length of Service Recognition:
Each year the AIAA honors those members who have completed 25, 40, and 50 years of continuous membership with the AIAA. Certificates and pins are awarded during the June Awards Banquet. Thirty-four members, including five 50-year members were recognized on June 17th, 1999 for the 98-99 Council year. Thirty-eight members were recognized on June 15, 2000 for the 99-00 Council year including 50-year member Raymond Kelly who turned 99 this year.

o Galileo Memorial Scholarship Awards:
Galileo Scholarship Awards are open to high school seniors who intend to pursue a career in engineering, mathematics, or physical or natural sciences. The scholarship program was established in 1973 by the SF Section and NASA Ames Research Center as a memorial to the men who perished onboard the Galileo I aircraft on April 12, 1973.
This year over 180 applications were received. Cash awards and certificates were presented to the five winners during the Annual Galileo Awards Banquet held on May 18th, 2000. John Hansen of Industrial Light & Magic was the guest speaker for the evening.
The winners were:
George Lee, Aragon High School, San Mateo, CA
Aruna Venkatesan, Foothill High School, Pleasanton, CA
Michele Cash, Lincoln High School, San Jose, CA
Monica Morrison, Notre Dame High School, Belmont, CA
Xijia Chen, Homestead High School, Cupertino, CA

2. List members nominated for national or regional honors and awards. Please include (1) nominee's name, (2) award, and (3) status.

At a special sold-out dinner meeting, featuring an AIAA Distinguished Lecturer (March 16th, 2000), long-time Council member Dr. Srini Srinivasan was awarded an AIAA Special Service Citation. Dr. Srinivasan was honored for his excellent work as the Section Honors and Awards Director for the last few years.
Members Steve Green and Thomas Dougherty were nominated for the 1999 AIAA engineer of the Year Award.
Section member, and former Section Chair, Dr. Paul Kutler received an AIAA Sustained Service Award.
The Section had more new Fellows (5) and Associate Fellows (27) this year than any other Section. Two of the Associate Fellows were nominated by the Chair.

3. Describe the purpose and criteria for selection of any new awards established this year.

No new awards were established.


TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES

1. Describe local technical committees, their function and activities for this year.
The Technical Programs Committee's tasks were to liaison with local TC members and organize the lunchtime technical seminars as described below.

2. Describe any technical symposia and short courses not described in detail elsewhere in this report.

Nov.8th, 1999: AIAA Lunchtime Technical Seminar: Dr. P. K. Menon, "Genetic Search Methods for Nonlinear Control and Signal Processing," over 50 people attending.

Jan.26th, 2000: AIAA Lunchtime Technical Seminar, Jeppesen Inc. "Flight Planning," 50 people attending.

Feb. 16th, 2000: AIAA Lunchtime Technical Seminar, Robert Padilla, Chief Patent Counsel, NASA Ames Research Center. "Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights," 40 people attending.

Mar. 23rd, 2000: AIAA Lunchtime Technical Seminar, Dr. Mark Ardema of Santa Clara University, "Airships - Past and Future." Over 50 people attending.

May 3rd, 2000: AIAA Lunchtime Technical Seminar, Dr. Kevin Corker of San Jose State University, "Human Factors of Advanced Air Traffic Management," 71 people attending.


EDUCATION ACTIVITIES

1. List the student branches within the section and describe any section activities related to these branches.

1) University of California-Berkeley Student Chapter: No formal activities were established this year although a number of Berkeley students and faculty attended the East Bay Dinner meeting in January.

2) San Jose State University Student Chapter: The SF Council advised the SJSU members in organizing and funding a recent event at the San Jose Tech Center featuring Astronaut Janice Voss. Student representatives attended several SF Section Council meetings.

3) Stanford Student Chapter: The Stanford Chapter was very active, taking the lead on the Section's effort to continue the Sister Section Program with EUROAVIA/AIDAA Milan. The Stanford Chapter assisted the SF Section Council in hosting representatives from Milan, Italy. Future joint meetings, exchanges, linked web sites and other plan were established through face-to-face meetings and telecons. The Stanford Chair, Howard Hamilton, regularly attended SF Section Council meetings as a member of the Education Committee.
During September the SF Section Chair gave a presentation on "Professional Membership in the AIAA" to the first meeting of the 99-00 Stanford University Chapter.

4) University of California-Davis Student Chapter: Although technically a chapter under the inactive Sacramento Section, the SF section assisted the active Davis Chapter in securing speakers for their meetings. A large contingent of students made the long drive to attend the East Bay Dinner Meeting.

2. Describe actions taken to establish new student branches.

No new student branches were established.

3. Describe involvement of section with the regional student conference.

A solicitation was made to the members for audio and paper judges via the web site and e-mail list. The Chair served as an oral judge at the National Student Paper Competition at the 2000 Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Reno.

4. Describe any professional continuing education programs.

There are currently no ongoing local CE programs.

5. Describe any precollege outreach programs instituted/continued this year.

* Teacher Workshops: The Section continued its eighth year of Teacher Workshops. The workshops included hands-on science, facility tours, and presentations by AIAA members and Educator Associates.
Teacher workshops scheduled for the '99-'00 Council year included:
… March 2000: Science and Technology Conference 2000. Held at IBM for 200 teachers and students. Astronaut and San Jose native, Steve Smith was the keynote speaker.
… March 2000: American Chemical Society annual meeting. Held at San Francisco's Moscone Center and funded by Roche Pharmaceuticals.

* Discover E Program: Chaired by AIAA member, David Levinson, the Discover E program continued with its goal of putting engineers into K-12 classrooms in an effort to cultivate interest in mathematics and science. Training sessions were held at corporate sites and supplies were distributed to make the experience a positive one for the engineer, teacher, and students. Many local engineers participated including Council Members Stephen Jaeger and Michael Etz.

* Science Fair Judging: Each year the Section supports the San Francisco Bay Area Science Fair and the Synopsis Science & Engineering Fair by providing judges and awards (in the amount of $50 and $100 U.S. Savings Bonds). This year, AIAA members John Lee and Paul Zakian served as judges.

* Annual Essay Contest: The Annual Essay Contest is held each year to commemorate the first manned landing on the moon. The ten 7th and 8th grade winners of the 11th Annual Essay Contest were honored at the Annual Banquet held in July. Prizes included: U.S. savings bonds, scientific calculators, and AIAA seals flown in space. The topic was "As a Settler on the Moon in the Year 2029, What Will the Moon Be Like?" Essays were judged on originality and realism of ideas presented, soundness of logic used to develop ideas, and quality of composition and clarity of expression.
The 12th Annual Essay Contest winners will be honored at an Essay Contest Banquet to be held on July 20th, 2000. The topic is " Describe how your life would change if all satellites disappeared tomorrow." Space Systems/Loral has donated $2500 to support the contest.

* Annual Galileo Memorial Scholarship: Details in Honors and Awards section.

* NASA/AIAA Model Airplane Contest: Directed by AIAA member George Xenakis, this contest includes design, building and training sessions held on the third Saturday of each month in Hangar One, Moffett Field. The actual contests are held in the Fall and Spring. Planes are judged on length of flight and/or aesthetic design. Trophies are awarded in three age divisions: 11 & under, 12-14, and 15-18.

* Mars Day: This event was held at the San Jose Tech Museum to coincide with the landing of the ill-fated Mars Lander. Hands-on activities were provided.

* Filming with NHK-TV, Japan: During April, 8 students, 4 parents, Dr. Frank Drake, and former Section Chair Juanita Ryan filmed a two part special as part of a Japanese series called "Superteachers." The Half-million dollar project will be shown be shown in the US on the Discovery channel.



SERVICES TO THE MEMBERSHIP AND COMMUNITY

1. Describe activities that inform the public and section members and activities that support government officials.
The web site advertised technical conferences and grant solicitations by industry groups such as the California Space & Technology Alliance.

2. Describe section publications other than the newsletter. Include information on the content, frequency, and distribution.
No other publications were sponsored by the section.

3. Describe any new or revamped service(s) provided to the membership.
No new services.

4. Describe any involvement with science clubs, vocational guidance, speakers bureau, science fairs, tutoring etc.

The Section supported local science fairs as detailed in the Education section above.


INTERNET ACTIVITY

1. Does your Section have a home page? When was it established?

Yes, at http://www.aiaa-sf.org. Established 1995.

2. Who maintains the site and how often is it updated?

Corwin Lakin, the Online Committee Director manages most of the web pages. Tsung-Chou Fang administers the server and e-mail list. The directors and members of each committee are responsible for updating their respective pages. The dinner meeting and current event pages are updated on a weekly basis.

3. Do you use it to promote upcoming Section Activities? How?

Yes, the web site is fast becoming the main tool for advertising dinner meetings and receiving on-line reservations. The local E-mail list, presently consisting of over 500 names, is also used for special bulletins, to announce meetings and to solicit meeting reservations.

4. Does your Section reference other section pages to keep up-to-date on what other Sections are doing?

Yes. The Evolution of Flight page links to the Los Angeles Section's ongoing program to fly a replica of the Wright Flyer in 2003. All the student chapters in the area are linked to the web site and updated frequently. The Web site is also linked with the EUROAVIA/AIDAA web site in Milan, Italy as part of the Sister Section Program.

5. Other Activity:

The Section Council recently purchased a digital camera in 1999. The camera is well suited for quick uploading of photographs for the website and newsletter.




FINANCIAL SUMMARY (this portion of the report does not satisfy the requirements for an audit report)

Beginning Balance on 6/1/99 $ $17,697.72

Checking Account $ 1483.18
Savings Account $ 4392.22
Other (specify) $ 11822.32 (6 month CD and bulk mail account)

Section Rebate $ 10850.75
Other Income* $ 8110.13
Expenses $ 22782.96

Estimated Ending Balance on 5/31/00 $ 13,875.64

*Dinner meetings, advertisements, interest on CD, donations.


PROBLEMS AND GOALS

1. Identify any problems/concerns facing the section.

The erosion of the local aerospace industry in the wake of the internet revolution is taking its toll on the membership despite the booming job market. This predicament is particularly acute in the San Francisco Bay Area where the software industry dominates the local economy. There are indications however that strong growth in commercial satellites and wireless communication may increase the ranks of potential members (especially younger members.) It will require a crusade on the part of the SF Section and the entire Institute to appeal to engineers of all kinds to see the AIAA as relevant to their chosen careers

2. Recommend up to three (3) priority goals for next year.

1) Spend money wisely and keep the books in the black.
2) Maintain sister-section relationship with Euroavia-AIDAA.
3) Host at least one major public policy program.


OTHER

The San Francisco Section was very active in support of the Evolution of Flight campaign inaugurated by the AIAA to celebrate the 100th birthday of the airplane. A web site was established with links to aerospace history sites, museums and other sites with the "Wright" stuff. The SF Evolution of Flight Committee also began a project to interview local aerospace pioneers and other "senior members" to record their experiences for posterity. So far two pioneers have been interviewed including Raymond Kelly, 99, a retired chief engineer with United Airlines and Russell Robinson, 92 , retired from NASA Ames Research Center. More interviews are planned.
The San Francisco Section said goodbye to some distinguished members including Harvey Lomax, Charles Hall and the legendary R. T. Jones, inventor of the swept wing. The section also lost Pat Ryan, husband of former chair Juanita Ryan and an active supporter of the many AIAA-sponsored activities including the Robot Wars competition.