Education Subcommittee (EdS)

1. Education Subcommittee (EdS) Mark W. Hilburger 9/23/10

2. Outline • Mission • Members • Status • Kick-off meeting summary • Topics of discussion • Proposed EdS output • Actions • Up-coming Opportunities

3. EdS Mission • To attract, and nurture the next generation of engineers by providing students with hands-on engineering activities and provide educators access to tools and information to enrich their lesson plans

4. EdS Members • Mark Hilburger – NASA/LaRC, Chair • Lisa Hardaway - Ball Aerospace • Michael Wolff - Gulfstream Aerospace • Need a few additional members from academia and government to round out the team. Everyone is welcome to join in!!!

5. Status • In the formulation and information gathering stage • EdS kick-off meeting/brain-storming session 2 Sept.

6. EdS Kick-Off Meeting – topics of discussion • Brain-storming session • What do we want to do? • How? • What • Provide students with opportunities to see/engage in hands-on educational/research activities through facility tours, workshops, competitions, internships • Provide educators with tools, information to help enrich their lesson plans • Address any specific AIAA needs (AIAA POC Lisa Bacon?)

7. EdS Kick-Off Meeting - topics of discussion • How • CD/DVD on Aerospace Structures Careers • Student competitions • Facility tours • Summer internship (undergrad, grad) • Career Days/Workshops • AIAA-run or roadmap (Michael Wolff example) • Student-run workshops at their schools (graduate-level activity) • Web-based activities and educational information • Focused information packets/lesson plans for educators • Enlist the help of trained educators • Funding requirements? • Grants

8. EdS Kick-Off Meeting - topics of discussion • Determine target age group: College Soph.-Jrs. • Felt they get left out of many opportunities • Critical time (help connect the dots between education and career path)

9. Potential EdS Output • CD/DVD on Aerospace structures and engineering careers • Information packets/website for students and educators • Focused & coordinated • Organize/facilitate student activities • Student competitions • career days • facility tours • internships

10. Action #1 • Gather information on existing education and outreach programs from: • YOU (TC members) • Lisa Bacon & Stephen Brock @ AIAA

11. Action #1 (cont.) • Need to identify and assess existing opportunities & ideas • Information & opportunities out there • not sure how well they are publicized or coordinated? • need help identifying the activities that work or have good potential (e.g., AIAA Student Design Competitions) • Find effective ways to make existing information useful & accessible to more people • AIAA website/ AIAA Educator Associate • Coordination with other organizations ASEE/ASME/NAE

12. Action #2 • Develop an outline for a CD/DVD on Aerospace structures and engineering • Structural Dynamics TC did something similar 10 years ago. • 3-4 technical areas to describe with representative video • Career section (interviews that describe different jobs, career & education paths, other interesting bits) • Provide a career development road map for students that includes information on where to find educational material, competitions, internships

13. Up-coming opportunities • Conrad Foundation – The Spirit of Innovation Awards Program (Mentor registration by 1 Oct. 2010) • NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP) (due 15 Oct. 2010) • Student Design Competition Abstract Request fromAIAA Student Activities Committee (due 12 Nov. 2010)

14. Conrad Foundation - Spirit of Innovation Awards Program • Call for Mentors - closes 1 Oct. 2010 • Students are challenged to conceive, design, and create products using science, technology, and entrepreneurship to solve 21st century problems • Program creates a long-term community mixing high school students, teachers, scientists, and entrepreneurs • Mentors can assist teams at their convenience in any of three distinct project phases • P1: Online response to student & teacher questions in your AOE • P2: Provide feed back on student team ideas, plans, presentations • P3: collaborate with Conrad Portal team to help pursue commercial opportunities

15. Conrad Foundation - Spirit of Innovation Awards Program • Break to Conrad presentation

16. NASA USRP • The NASA USRP is an internship program that offers R&D opportunities to undergraduate students who are U.S. citizens attending accredited U.S. colleges and universities, and who are pursuing a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) bachelor’s degree. • Working under the supervision of a NASA technical mentor, USRP provides students the opportunity to conduct NASA project and mission-related research. • The USRP spring session starts Jan. 18, 2011 and ends April 29,2011. • Selection deadline for the Spring 2011 NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP) is Friday, Oct. 15. • http://usrp.usra.edu/

17. AIAA Student Activities Committee: Call for Student Design Competition Abstract • AIAA SAC soliciting TC support to develop design competitions (undergrad and grad) • Goal of the program to provide an opportunity for students to learn the design process on relevant aerospace design topics • Good opportunity for our TC to get involved • 1-2 page Abstract due by 12 Nov. Please provide EdS with topics for a design competition (guidelines provided upon request)

18. Other - AIAA Students & Educators • AIAA website http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=5 • K-12 Programs • University Educators • Design Competitions • Scholarships • “Ask an Engineer” needs industry folks to answer questions from Project Lead the Way students • See Steve’s email 21 Sept. • Not a big time commitment • Contact Lisa Bacon, Manager STEM K-12 lisab@aiaa.org