Engineering and Technology Management Group

1. Engineering and TechnologyManagement Group Group Status Report May 2012

2. Group Leadership - 2011-2012 • Director: Allen Arrington • Deputy Directors: • Nancy Andersen • Sophia Bright • Abdi Khodadoust • Committee Officers • Economics – Annalisa Weigel / ???? • History – Kevin Burns / Cam Martin / Tom Crouch / Peter Young • Legal (LA3) – James Rendleman / Doug Marshall / Keith Jenkins • Management – David Elrod / Andrea Amram / Tom Irvine • Asked to MTC to adjust their leadership cycle to a 2-year rotation. • Society & Aerospace Tech. – Jarret Lafleur / Brad Steinfeldt / Chris Hearsey • Systems Engineering – Sophia Bright / John Dahlgren / John Eiler • Value Driven Design PC – Peter Hollingsworth Changes from last year are in blue.

3. Highlights • Conference Related: • Great support by ETM at ASM and Space 2011. • SATTC – Organized the Delta Forum at ASM 2011 and Space 2011. • Great support by History TC at Centennial of Naval Aviation conference. • CASE planning committee ownership. • Standards: • SETC –AIAA-G-043, Guide for the Preparation of Operational Concepts • SETC –AIAA-G-135, Aerospace Systems Integration Guide • Awards: • History has it bevy of prestigious manuscript awards and historic sites. • SAT and LA3 – best student paper competition for Space 2012. • Education: • SETC – Continuing development of webinar series. • LA3 – working on ITAR related training and seminars. • History – Lester Gardner Bibliography • Publications: • SETC – 5 articles published in special section of JoA (May/June 2011).

4. Special Projects: Lester Gardner Bibliography • History TC: Subcommittee Chair – Dr. Deborah Douglas • This project has been ongoing for the last two years. • During the Great Depression, Lester Gardner (one of the founders of the AIAA) talked the government into hiring over 100 aeronautical scientists as a WPA project, to put together a bibliography of all the existing knowledge in aeronautics for the time. • The bibliography has 50 volumes and the History TC has been working with Cornell University and MIT to scan and OCR all fifty volumes. • These volumes were to be posted on the AIAA History TC website as a resource for researchers to be able to have access to original source material. • To preserve the historical context of the original material, the images of the typewritten pages are preserved. However, the document size is great enough that the AIAA recently withdrew their ability to host it on the AIAA website (~80 MB); especially if it becomes popular and is accessed often. • Working other possible alternatives.

5. Successes and Lessons Learned • Society and Aerospace Technology – Membership: • Although the TC has just one associate member, nearly 25% of the TC consists of student members. This demographic has grown over a period of years, largely because these members are exceptionally active in TC activities. These members have also been successful in recruiting new and enthusiastic student and young professional members via word-of-mouth advertising and subsequent discussions to gauge interest and commitment levels. In many cases, these members have multidisciplinary interests that fuel their interest in understanding the broader impacts of aerospace technology on society (and vice versa). The SATTC also attracts these students and young professionals because of the substantial opportunities for leadership and responsibility offered to them. The experience these members gain through SATTC membership in large part supports a pipeline to engage these members in a lifetime of AIAA activities.

6. Key Issues • Delta Forum: • Discussed relevance and need; opted to keep it going. • SAT has been leading this for several years; they have done their duty. • Working on rotation for leadership/planning future DFs. • CASE: • Opportunity for ETM to “own” a conference. • Builds into the integration level of the NEM. • SE, SAT, Econ and Management TC members are key participants. • Communications within the ETM Group. • Working with DDs on ideas for better communication with the hope of making a more cohesive group.

7. ETM TC and PC General Summary (May, 2011-April, 2012) Y: completed X: incomplete ?: no data available Primary focus area Secondary area Minimal support No activity *Target members are senior leaders **most TC members are student members

8. Opportunities and the Path Forward • The ETM TCs have had another great year supporting a variety of tasks and functions. • Only concern is Economics TC – they have “gone silent.” • No contact with Chair and they have no Vice-Chair, so working in a single point failure mode. • Excellent support from ETM TCs for CASE development. • SETC is an obvious lead for this event. • Management TC is working on a pre-CASE event. • Management TC leadership wants more “mainstream” involvement. • Need to improve communications with VDD PC. • Continue to work with DDs to develop better connections between the ETM TCs/PC and with the rest of TAC and AIAA. • History TC is has an interesting new project proposal.

9. History TC New Project • The thought is to work with older AIAA members (perhaps retired) to be mentors to students and Young Professionals (YP) in writing papers with a historical perspective. • Several ways to work this, including: • Having the student/YP develop a history paper based on the oral history provided by the mentor. • The mentor can simply guide the student/YP in the research and preparation of the paper. Based on the mentor‘s knowledge of the topic, the mentor would know where the information could be found, and could guide the student/YP in the outline and presentation. • The mentor could coauthor a paper with the student/YP. If the mentor could not attend the conference for presentation, this would be a way to continue authorship, provide mentorship, and maintain control of the shared project. • Each of these scenarios allows: • The student/YP an opportunity to gain experience with preparing papers and presenting their work. • Outreach to both the retired members and the students and will help to keep both groups engaged with the community. • We have some retired professionals who are ready to be paired-up with a student/YP, so if anyone is aware of a student/YP who wants to get started, have them get in touch with Kevin Burns.

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