AIAA BALTIMORE & NATIONAL CAPITAL SECTIONS

SPACE SYSTEMS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

DINNER MEETING

On Wednesday, October 25, 2006, the Baltimore and National Capital Sections held a Space Systems Technical Committee Dinner meeting at NASA Goddard's Space Flight Recreational Facility. The invited speaker was Dr. Gang Wang, a Senior Engineer at Techno-Sciences, Inc., an Assistant Research Scientist at University of Maryland, College Park, and the NCS 2006 Young Engineer/Scientist of the Year. While Dr. Wang directs and performs research development focused on rotorcraft systems technologies, smart materials, advanced actuators and controls for air vehicle performance enhancement, vibration and motion control, mechanical and dynamic analysis, and test and evaluation of prototype flight systems, his talk was about fishing rods! Dr. Wang has used his wide expertise to develop smart fishing rods using SMA materials, linear/nonlinear finite element model to analyze the static and dynamic behavior of fly rods. This led to computer-aided comprehensive fly rod/line design technology, which is a revolutionary development in the fly rod industry. Mike Wooster, Chair of the NCS Section, and Pramud Rawat, Chair of the Baltimore section, joined those in attendance.

People enjoy dinner before the talk

Mike Wooster, chair of the National Capital Section, welcomes everyone

Goddard Deputy Director Mike Ryschkewitsch also welcomes attendees

Young Engineer Honoree Gang Wang delivers his address

Dr. Pramud Rawat, chair of the Baltimore Section, welcomes the crowd and describes the benefits of AIAA membership