June 3, 2018
Our June meeting will be on Monday June 4 at Razzi’s in Greenwood at 6pm. The agenda is:
February 4, 2018
Here is the February Agenda. We will meet at Razzi’s in Greenwood at 6pm on Monday February 5.
– Call to Order
– Approval of Agenda
– Approval of Minutes
– Around the Room
– Treasurer Report
– Calendar
– Website Updates
– Mentor Nights
– Engineering Fair
– Awards Banquet
– ISOW
– Action Item Review
– Adjourn
October 30, 2015
AIAA will have another outstanding program for the 2015 Technical Symposium: “Pacific Northwest at the Forefront of Innovation” being held at the Future of Flight Aviation Center in Mukilteo on Saturday November 14.
The program will feature presentations from:
Dr. Paul Bevilaqua, VTOL specialist and Chief Aeronautical Scientist at Lockheed Martin who invented the dual cycle propulsion system that made it possible to build a stealth supersonic VSTOL Strike Fighter;
Dr. Rostislav Spektor, Chair of the AIAA National Electric Propulsion Committee, and research scientist and Electric Propulsion and Plasma Science Section Head at The Aerospace Corp;
Ed Petkus, Vice President Airplane Development Engineering, Boeing Commercial Airplanes; and
Nick Patrick, Human Integration Architect at Blue Origin, former NASA Astronaut and Boeing flight deck engineer.
Presentations from experienced veteran in aviation technologies from outside the region include:
Capt. Joe Burns, a twenty-five year veteran of the aviation technology and communications industries and most recently the Managing Director of Flight Operations Technology and Flight Testing at United Airlines, NASA ATM subject matter expert, and CEO of Sensurion Aerospace; and
Dr. Bruce J. Holmes, senior executive with more than 40 years’ experience in industry and in NASA, and entrepreneurial experience in air transportation innovations at DayJet Corporation and , in complexity science tools applied to flightpath management at NextGen AeroSciences Inc. and global transportation demand and supply modeling AirMarkets Corporation.
Presentations from Pacific Northwest scientists, engineers, service providers, entrepreneurs and other members of the aeronautical, including:
Dr. Ralph Cavalieri, Center Director and Technical Lead for Alternative Jet Fuels Research, Aviation Sustainability Center (ASCENT) aka FAA Center of Excellence: Alternative Jet Fuels and the Environment;
Dr. Jacob Leachman, Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, WSU, and the initiator of the Hydrogen Properties for Energy Research Laboratory. Dr. Leachman will discuss a partnership with Insitu Inc. funded by the Washington Joint Center for Aerospace Technology and Innovation (JCATI) to convert the popular ScanEagle UAS over to liquid hydrogen powered flight. He will also explain why “60 Years after Project Suntan the Future of Liquid Hydrogen Flight is Bright.
Dr. Kristi Morgansen, Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics at UW, recent AIAA Associate Fellow, who will discuss “Integrated Sensing and Actuation for Biological and Engineered Aerospace Systems.”
Dr. Roger Parker, CTO, AirMarkets Corporation, who will explain the market for air travel and “What People Pay to Fly” or something like that.
Scott Philiben, President, CiES Inc., successful business founder with a track record of bringing new aircraft system design ideas and concepts to market that have become industry standards;
Jeanne Yu, Director, Environmental Performance and Integration Product Development, Boeing Commercial Airplanes; and
Financing Innovation Panel: Craig Ladkin, FOCUS Investment Bankers; Mike Kelley, Cascadia Capital, and others with experience assisting entrepreneurs and stories you’ll enjoy.
Register now at AIAA Tech Symposium Registration
October 26, 2015
This year’s Technical Symposium focuses on informing our audience and our membership of ways in which innovations in aerospace are redefining technological boundaries, creating new and improved aircraft and flight related systems, and expanding exploration opportunities in all aspects of flight and space travel.
The presentations in the Symposium will reveal the ways in which the presenters have found solutions for difficult problems and overcome obstacles by working together as a team. These experiences will show different ways of breaking through the technical, business, social and political barriers that we all face every day and, in that respect, we believe everyone will benefit from discussions at the Symposium.
Join us for cutting-edge speaker and panels including a Keynote session from:
Dr. Paul Bevilaqua
VTOL specialist and Chief Aeronautical Scientist at Lockheed Martin, who invented the dual cycle propulsion system that made it possible to build a stealth supersonic V/STOL Strike Fighter.
Other speakers include:
Dr. Ralph Cavalieri, Center Director and Technical Lead for Alternative Jet Fuels Research, Aviation Sustainability Center (ASCENT), the FAA Center of Excellence: Alternative Jet Fuels and the Environment.
Scott Philiben, President, CiES Inc.
Dr. Rostislav Spektor, Chair of the AIAA National Electric Propulsion Committee
Kurt Polzin, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama
Dr. Kristi Morgansen, University of Washington Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics and new AIAA Associate Fellow
Captain Joe Burns, Managing Director of Flight Operations Technology and Flight Testing at United Airlines
Dr. Bruce J. Holmes, senior executive with more than 40 years’ experience in industry and in NASA
Dr. Roger Parker, AirMarkets Corporation.
Dr. Jacob Leachman, UAV Hydrogen Power System for Insitu and Hydrogen Properties for Energy Research Laboratory at Washington State University.
Plus an expert panel on Innovation Financing,
with regional investment bankers and venture capitalists.
When:
Saturday November 14, 2015
Where:
Future of Flight Aviation Center
8415 Paine Field Blvd
Mukilteo, WA 98275
Registration Link: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ebnl23qe5b54d6df&llr=zhotlqdab
Contact symposium@pnwaiaa.org for more information
June 4, 2015
Celebrating the 70th Years Anniversary
The last two meetings were held at Razzis Pizzeria, Greenwood area of North Seattle. This last year was spent evaluating various new venues to hold our meetings and it appears that the restaurant’s amenities are favorable, resulting in a new meeting home for our monthly meetings.
Introduced Short Society Presentations that went well. It is nice to hear details and accomplishments of the societies that make up PSEC. We went through about ½ of them.
In general, it was a very successful year!
July 3, 2014
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