Baltimore Section

AIAA Region I, YPSE-08



YPSE-08, the AIAA Region I Young Professional Student and Education Conference, was held on Friday, November 21, and Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008 at the Kossiakoff Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland.



Dr. Matt Mountain, Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, was the Keynote Speaker. STScI is also known as "home of the Hubble", and Dr. Mountain demonstrated this to the audience with a presentation of "Hubble's Greatest Hits". This slide show packed in one stunning image of the near and far reaches of our universe after another, each one seemingly more extraordinary than the last. Since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched 18 years ago, much of the audience recognized many of the images produced by this iconic telescope.



















Dr. Matt Mountain



Dr. Matt Mountain receives framed MESSENGER photographs of Mercury from Tom Milnes and Jon Malay. MESSENGER had just successfully completed its second flyby of Mercury weeks earlier. The spectacular image on the right is one of the first to be returned, and shows the departing planet taken about 90 minutes after the spacecraft’s closest approach to Mercury.

Carolyn Slivinski, Matt Mountain, Jon Malay, Surya Raghu

MESSENGER's First Look at Mercury's Previously Unseen Side

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington






Over twenty Technical Session Presentations were made, and more than 30 Undergraduate and Graduate students vied for top prize in their category.



Student Award Winners





Baltimore Section Treasurer Victor Lougheed, Secretary Robin Vaughan, Vice Chair Carolyn Slivinski, Pre-College Chair Tom Milnes, and Chair Surya Raghu

Emily Springer, AIAA Region I Liaison.

A few of the Technical Presentation sessions:

Photos from the Saturday K-12 Education sessions:











A number of recruiters staffed tables, hoping to catch the interest of the many Young Engineers and college students attending. These recruiters included:









Begun in 2003 by Dr. Marvine Hamner, this conference has evolved into a more diverse event. It is unique within the Institute in specifically targeting the technical accomplishments of Young Professionals and highlighting the next generation of Aerospace Leadership, and those that are educating them, from Kindergarten to Graduate School and onto Professional Careers.





We would like to thank our generous Sponsors:










Lanyards Sponsored by:




Technical Program Co-Sponsored by:





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We are grateful for the additional support of:



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Student prizes sponsored by





For photos and a description of YPSE-07, go to http://www.aiaa-baltimore.org/YPSE-07/