2020 AIAA SSTC Houston Section Middle School Essay Contest Winner

Congrats Sashi Kulatilaka! Congratulations, Sashi Kulatilaka from College Station Middle School! Your vivid and eloquent narrative of the possibilities to come in the next half-century has been selected as the 1st place winner of the Houston Section. The essay advanced to the AIAA Space Systems Technical Committee’s national level contest, but did not place. Regardless, the […]

ASME/AIAA/IEEE Houston Sections Joint Dinner Meeting: The Texas High Speed Train

Carlos Aguilar, PhD, Texas Central Railway Thursday, July 16 Registration & Networking: 5:30 pm Presentation: 6:15 pm ABSTRACT Texas Central is developing a world-class, high speed train connecting Dallas and Houston via high speed (190 mph) in a 90-minute transit that includes a 15-minute Brazos Valley stop in Grimes County midway between Huntsville and College […]

Saturday, 6/27: SpaceGeekSpeak, 8:30am, Zoom

June 30th is Asteroid Day! Astronaut Stan Love will present on asteroids at this weekly gathering over Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/681362383 Saturday, 6/27/2020 8:30am If joining by phone only: 877 853 5247 (toll free) meeting id: 681362383 Saturday mornings, 8:30-9:30 am or as long as conversations last…. Bring your coffee and conversation starter, share a story, and […]

Seeking 2020-2021 AIAA Houston Executive Council Nomination Chair/Committee Members

Due to competing priorities with the pandemic and needing time to resume to some level of normalcy, the AIAA Houston Section executive council (with AIAA National concurrence) decided to postpone 2020-2021 elections to August. In the meantime, we are looking for AIAA Houston Section members to participate in the nomination committee as a chair/member. Duties […]