2012-2013 Election Results

It is our pleasure to announce the 2012-2013 elected council members:
Chair: Daniel Nobles
Chair-Elect: Jonathan Sandys
Vice-Chair, Technical: Brian Banker
Vice-Chair, Operations: Michael Frostad
Secretary: Robert Plunkett
Treasurer: Clay Stangle
Councilors: Shirley Brandt, Larry Friesen, Sarah Shull, Christopher Davila, Alan Sisson
(One year term left) Ellen Gillespie, Matt Johnson, Melissa Kronenberger

We will also be interviewing candidates for appointed positions for next year’s AIAA Houston Executive Council very soon.

If you are interested and would like to be considered for any of positions with a red border or without any border on the 2011-2012 org chart, please contact the chair, Daniel Nobles, at chair2012[at]aiaahouston.org.

Congratulations to all! The 2012-2013 year will be another fantastic year with these leaders serving the council!

Horizons

The AIAA Houston Section is proud to present its latest issues – including a special edition highlighting the section’s 50th Anniversary gala – of Horizons, the award-winning bi-monthly newsletter publication.

• May/June 2012 Issue (PDF, 13948kb)
  Volume 37, Number 7
  
  • Cover story: Morpheus, by Dr. Jon B. Olansen, NASA/JSC
  • Dinner meeting of June 6, 2012, the 50^th anniversary of AIAA Houston Section
  • The 1940 Air Terminal Museum at Hobby Airport
  • The Annual Technical Symposium (ATS 2012) at NASA/JSC
  • Planetary Resources: Flight of Fancy or Real Wealth?, editorial by Shen Ge
  • Will Europe Participate in the Orion MPCV Project of the USA?, by Philippe Mairet, 3AF MP
  • Ellington Field, Airport, Spaceport & The Lone Star Flight Museum
  • Yuri’s Night Houston 2012: The 5k Fun Run and Space Day
  • Space Fighter: 1963, by Scott Lowther, Aerospace Projects Review
  • Rest in Peace, John Llewellyn, Apollo era engineer
• 50th Anniversary Edition (PDF, 14884kb)
  Volume 37, Number 6, Special Edition, June 6, 2012
  • The 1987 twenty-page booklet celebrating the 25^th anniversary of AIAA Houston Section
  • More than twenty news pages extending that 1987 for our 2012 celebration of the 50^th anniversary of AIAA Houston Section
• March/April 2012 Issue (PDF, 14731kb)
  Volume 37, Number 5
  • Cover story: Develop Cislunar Space Next, by Paul Spudis
  • Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC 2012), by Shen Ge
  • Commercial Cargo, by Carl Walz of Orbital Sciences Corporation
  • Leading the Next 50 Years of Exploration, by Douglas Terrier, NASA/JSC
  • NASA GRAIL Lunar Mission, from the Lunar and Planetary Institute Cosmic Explorations lecture series
  • Dream Chaser for NASA Commercial Crew Development (CCDev), by John Curry of Sierra Nevada Corporation
  • Book review by Daniel R. Adamo, Astrodynamics Consultant, 50 Years on the Space Frontier by Robert W. Farquhar
  • Astronaut Training in Star City, by Philippe Mairet, 3AF MP
  • International Cooperation, by Philippe Mairet, 3AF MP
  • Virtus, by Scott Lowther, Aerospace Projects Review (APR)
  • The Conquest of Space and The Ugly Spaceship, by Dr. Albert A. Jackson IV

AIAA-Houston Section Annual Awards Banquet

Featuring guest speaker, Nicolaus A. Radford, Robonaut 2 Deputy Project Manager, who will give us an update on the latest developments of Robonaut 2

Please join us in honoring fellow AIAA Houston Section members that are celebrating their 25th, 40th, 50th, and even 60th anniversary as AIAA members! We will also be recognizing outstanding members that have gone above and beyond to enrich our section’s programs and technical endeavors.

Date: Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Time: 6:00pm
Location: NASA JSC, Gilruth Center, Alamo Ballroom
$15 – Members; $20 Non-members
Public welcomed
Come meet the 2012-2013 AIAA Houston Section Council!

AIAA-Houston will also be presenting a charitable donation to the Challenger Center from Yuri’s Night’s proceeds.

Details on how and when to RSVP will follow.  We look forward to seeing you there!

Speaker Biography:

Nicolaus A. Radford currently works for National Aeronautics and    Space Administration at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas in the Dexterous Robotics Laboratory. He serves as the Deputy Project Manager and Chief Electrical Engineer for NASA’s Robonaut 2, an anthropomorphic humanoid robot. He is also the Principal Investigator for NASA in DARPA-funded advanced electric machine research for robotics. He also leads NASA efforts in exoskeleton research for crew exercise and mobility assistance.  He specializes in inverter design for brushless DC motor control. He graduated with a B.S.E.E. (’00) and a M.S.E.E (’12) from Purdue University and is currently pursuing a PhD absentia with Dr. Steven Pekarek in Optimal Design of Variable Flux Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines at Purdue also.

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