Region 1 Young Professional, Student and Education Conference for 2006


On November 10 and 11, 2006, the Region I “YPSE-06” (Young Professional, Student and Education) Conference was held at the Kossiakoff Center at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland. Attendees from throughout Region I came to this two-day event, which included forty technical presentations, a dozen student presentations, and a live web seminar. The technical presentations covered a wide range of topics, from materials, to aerodynamics, to space law, and many more. The keynote address was given by Mr. Steven Brody, Vice President for North American Operations, International Space University (ISU) (http://www.isunet.edu/ ). ISU provides graduate-level training to the future leaders of the emerging global space community at its Strasbourg, France campus, and other locations around the world. Mr. Brody spoke about “the Three I’s” – International, Intercultural, Interdisciplinary - on which ISU concentrates. The webinar was centered on the use of Maplesoft software, and was presented by Dr. Robert J. Lopez (see http://www.maplesoft.com/ ). It was presented for educators of science and engineering from local schools, and was organized by Dr. Pramud Rawat, Chair of AIAA, Baltimore Section, as well as the YPSE 06 Chair. Go to http://www.aiaa-baltimore.org/YPSE-06/Titles.shtml to see the complete list of presentations.

Ken Weidaw, Chair AIAA Pittsburgh Section


 Xiaofeng Liu, Dr. Pramud Rawat, Ken Weidaw

Ben Prats (eINFORMe), Karen Brown, Martha Prats (eINFORMe)

CPIAC recruiting booth

JHU/APL recruiting booth

Tom Milnes, Wilfredo Toldeo

Xiaofeng Liu, Tom Milnes

Tom Milnes (Region 1 Director), Robin Vaughan (Secretary, Baltimore Section)

Tom Milnes, Dr. Pramud Rawat (Chair, Baltimore Section, Chair, YPSE 2006)

Tom Milnes, Carolyn Slivinski (Vice Chair, Baltimore Section)

Keynote Speaker Mr. Steven Brody, International Space University

Tom Milnes presenting "Maryland Aloft" to Mr. Steven Brody

Tom Milnes, Larry Strawser (JHU/APL)

Carolyn Slivinski, Jon Malay (National Capital Section)

Dr. Surya Raghu, YPSE 2006 Technical Program Chair

Xiaofeng Liu (Johns Hopkins University)

Our judges

Ira Walker

Robin Vaughan

Attendees Network Tom Moore and Dr. Ed Liu of CPIAC
Martha and Benito Prats of eINFORMe Larry Strawser Students at recruitment table
Ed Liu, Ron Fry, Tom Moore (CPIAC) talk to Xiaofeng Liu Xiofeng Liu (JHU), Jiarong (Jerry) Hong (AIAA student member, JHU) Tom Milnes (AIAA Region 1 Director), Ben Prats, Ken Weidaw, Karen Brown, Martha Prats

Keynote speaker Steven Brody, International Space University

Tom Milnes presents "Maryland Aloft" to Steven Brody Jon Malay and Larry Strawser
APL Recruiting Table Rotunda Floyd (MESA Maryland), Tom Milnes, high school students Bruk Berhane (MESA Prince George's county) and Pramud Rawat (Chair, AIAA Baltimore Section)

NJIT Student team: Soumitri S. Seshadri (NJIT), Salil Mohan, Ervin Beloni (Student winner), Professor Edward L. Dreizen (Advisor), Swati M. Umbrajkar (Student winner); Tom Milnes (AIAA) congratulates the team on its two winning student presentations

Soumitri S. Seshadri and Ervin Beloni of NJIT

Ervin Beloni of NJIT and Tom Milnes

Swati M. Umbrajkar of NJIT and Tom Milnes