Baltimore Section

YPSE - 09



AIAA Region I Young Professional,

Student and Education Conference

Friday, November 6, 2009

Saturday, November 7, 2009 *(K-12 Education Only)

 

Schedule

 

The The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) organized the AIAA Region 1 YPSE-09, which was held on Friday, November 6, 2009, at the Kossiakoff Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland. Presentations were made by Young Professionals (aged 35 and under), Graduate and Undergraduate Students; other presentations of interest to young professionals, such as by those with long experience to share, were also shared. The Friday conference day included any area of engineering, science, mathematics, economics, education and law of interest to the aerospace community, particularly young professionals and students. Parallel sessions were held for Technical Presentations; a separate track of parallel sessions was held for Student Presentations, and included a Best Student Presentation Award in both Undergraduate and Graduate categories.



(See list of Student Presentation Award Winners below.)



Abstract Deadline was Oct. 19, 2009.

*K-12 Education topics were included on Saturday morning, November 7. Presentations by formal and informal educators were made, as well as pre-college student presentations. Topics included informal teaching techniques, engineering challenge competitions, high school intern project presentations, education outreach efforts, Public Policy and more. Saturday's K-12 Education track also included parallel sessions.

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Laurie Leshin

Deputy Director for Science and Technology

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

"Extreme Makeover: Hubble Edition"

 

Dr. Laurie Leshin

Photo Credit: NASA/Pat Izzo

Dr. Leshin is a cosmochemist with a particular interest in deciphering the record of water in objects in our solar system. She has more than 15 years experience in conducting research in Antarctica and performing quantitative analyses of extraterrestrial rocks in the laboratory, including meteorites from Mars used to assess the history of water and the potential for life on the red planet.

She is a member of two science teams on the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, including as a co-investigator on the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) experiment. SAM, led by Goddard Principal Investigator Paul Mahaffy, is the most sophisticated instrument to be sent to Mars since Viking and will allow us to trace the volatile and organic constituents in rocks and soils on Mars.

She has collaborated on 40 published scientific papers, and she played a major role in ASU's Astrobiology Program where she worked to understand the formation of life's precursor molecules on asteroids.


She recently completed service on President Bush's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy, a nine-member commission charged with advising the president on the execution of his new vision for American Space Exploration announced in January 2004.

She received her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Arizona State University, and her doctorate in 1994 from the California Institute of Technology.

NASA honored Leshin in 2004 by awarding her the Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest award for non-NASA personnel. Among her other awards are the first Dean's Distinguished Professor in the ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and in 1996 she was recognized as the first recipient of the Meteoritical Society's Nier Prize, which is awarded for outstanding research in meteoritics or planetary science by a scientist under the age of 35. The International Astronomical Union recognized her contributions to planetary science with the naming of asteroid 4922 Leshin.






STUDENT PRESENTATION AWARD WINNERS

AwardAuthor's Name & AffiliationAbstract Title
Graduate
1st PlaceCamilo Aguilera, B. Pang, A. Ghosh, A. Winkelmann, and K.H. Yu

University of Maryland		Scramjet Mixing Control Using Fin-Guided Fuel Injection
2nd PlaceWesley C. H. Slemp, Rakesh K. Kapania, Erik Nelson

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University		Combined Compression-Shear Testing of the Curvilinear Stiffened Panels
3rd PlaceShanti Hamburg

West Virginia University		Preliminary Aerodynamic Design of a Super-Portable Ruggedized Micro Air Vehicle
Honorable MentionNicholas L. Wilson

University of Maryland		Performance Robustness of a Magnetorheological Seat Suspension to Temperature Variations
Honorable MentionWilliam Wilson

Cornell University		Results of Flux-Pinning Modular Spacecraft Demonstration in Microgravity
Honorable MentionDale Arney

Georgia Institute of Technology/National Institute of Aerospace		Modeling Space Architectures through Graph Theory
Undergraduate
1st PlaceHeather Bradshaw

University of Maryland		Morphing Space Suit Design: A Range-of-Motion Study
2nd PlaceMatt Hemke, Alan Klein, Matt Kuhns, Mike Vioski, Ryley Karl

University of Wisconsin, Madison		Swift Racer: The Flying Wing, Unlimited Class Air Racer
3rd PlaceSiddarth Kolluru Venkata

University of Maryland		Active Flow Control: Flow over Bluff Bodies using Synthetic Jet Actuators
Honorable MentionElizabeth Janca, N. Ried, N. Nussbaum

United States Naval Academy		Microdosimeter Instrument (MIDN-II) for Personnel Dosimetry
Honorable MentionAndrew Ellsbury, Connie Cialerglio

University of Maryland		Long Range Link Testing of Commercial off the Shelf Radio Modules for Stratospheric Communications
Honorable MentionLaurie Meyer, Connie Cialerglio, Andrew Ellsberry, Jarred Young

University of Maryland		Cansat Competition:

Small Aerospace Systems Design



Photos to be posted shortly. Please check back again soon.




TOPICS OF INTEREST:


  • Hypersonics

  • Smart Structures

  • Robotics

  • Space and Aviation Law

  • Medical Modeling

  • Public Policy

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics

  • Plasma

  • Flight Kinematics

  • Experimental Materials

  • Non-linear Models

  • New Technology

  • UAV's

  • and more





Location

The Kossiakoff Center at JHU/APL


Sponsors

Analytical Graphics





Alliant Techsystems Inc.



Orbital Sciences



Intelligent Light



Lockheed Martin



Recruiters:

Pagnotta Engineering Inc.



Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory



Location

The Kossiakoff Center at JHU/APL


Conference General Chair: Ms. Carolyn Slivinski carolyn.slivinski@aiaa-baltimore.org

Technical Program Chair: Dr. Surya Raghu sraghu@aiaa-baltimore.org

A brief account of the 2008 conference is available here. A brief account of the 2007 conference is available here.

Additional information to follow soon. Check back frequently!



Conference Hours

FRIDAY, NOV. 6, 2009 - Young Professionals, College/University Students


8:00

8:45

Breakfast

8:15


Registration Desk Opens

9:00

10:40

Session A

10:40

11:00

coffee break

11:00

12:40

Session B

12:40

1:45

Lunch

1:45

2:45

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

2:45

4:25

Session C

4:25

5:15

coffee break/student scores collected

5:15

5:45

Student Award Presentations


5:45

Friday Conference Day Ends





SATURDAY, NOV. 7, 2009 - K-12 Education



8:00

8:45

Breakfast

8:15


Registration Desk Opens

9:00

9:45

Opening Presentation

9:45

10:00

Transition to Sessions

10:00

12:00

Sessions

12:00

1:15

Lunch - Meet and Greet


1:45

Conference Ends