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2009-2010 Schedule

Time, Date, Location	Event
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6pm 56-154	Speaker: Brett Alexander Bretton (Brett) Alexander is a well-respected space policy expert with over 17 years in the space community, including five years at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under both Presidents Clinton and Bush and, subsequently, four years in the entrepreneurial space community. While at the White House, Brett was one of the primary authors of the Vision for Space Exploration announced in 2004. Brett also led development and interagency coordination of national policies on space transportation, GPS, and commercial remote sensing. Currently, Brett serves as President of the Personal Spaceflight Federation, the industry association of businesses and organizations working to make commercial human spaceflight a reality. Brett became President of the Federation in December 2006. Brett is also a consultant in the space and defense industries. In 2008, Brett was appointed to the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) by the Secretary of Transportation. Prior to the White House, Brett held positions in the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, the Aerospace Corporation, and ANSER Corporation. Brett holds Master and Bachelor of Science degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Thursday, October 1, 2009 3pm-4pm 33-422	Story Time with Ian and Dave This is your chance to meet with the Aero/Astro department heads and discuss whatever is on your mind (related to Aero/Astro, of course). Refreshments will be provided.
Friday, October 2, 2009 12pm-1pm 33-116	There is Life After Psets: Professor Darmofal Curious what life is like after college? Interested in getting a professor's take on what this era of your life is all about in the grand scheme of things? Wondering what opportunities are out there? Come hear what Professor Darmofal has done since college and ask any questions you might have about life after psets. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to aiaa-exec. Professor Darmofal's bio can be found here.
Thursday, October 8, 2009 12pm-1pm 33-116	There is Life After Psets: Professor Lozano Curious what life is like after college? Interested in getting a professor's take on what this era of your life is all about in the grand scheme of things? Wondering what opportunities are out there? Come hear what Professor Lozano has done since college and ask any questions you might have about life after psets. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to aiaa-exec. Professor Lozano's bio can be found here.
Thursday, October 15, 2009 3pm-4pm 33-422	Story Time with Ian and Dave This is your chance to meet with the Aero/Astro department he ads and discuss whatever is on your mind (related to Aero/Astro, of course). Refreshments will be provided.
Friday, October 16, 2009 12pm-1pm 33-116	There is Life After Psets: Professor Widnall Curious what life is like after college? Interested in getting a professor's take on what this era of your life is all about in the grand scheme of things? Wondering what opportunities are out there? Come hear what Professor Widnall has done since college and ask any questions you might have about life after psets. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to aiaa-exec. Professor Widnall's bio can be found here.
Thursday, October 29 2009 3pm-4pm 33-422	Story Time with Ian and Dave This is your chance to meet with the Aero/Astro department heads and discuss whatever is on your mind (related to Aero/Astro, of course). Refreshments will be provided.
Thursday, November 12, 2009 3pm-4pm 33-422	Story Time with Ian and Dave This is your chance to meet with the Aero/Astro department heads and discuss whatever is on your mind (related to Aero/Astro, of course). Refreshments will be provided.
Thursday, December 3, 2009 3pm-4pm 33-422	Story Time with Ian and Dave This is your chance to meet with the Aero/Astro department heads and discuss whatever is on your mind (related to Aero/Astro, of course). Refreshments will be provided.

2008-2009 Schedule

Time, Date, Location	Event
Monday, 15 September 3:30 33-206	Story Time with Ian and Dave This is a chance to meet with the Aero/Astro department heads and discuss whatever is on your mind (related to Aero/Astro, of course). There will be FREE FOOD!!!
Friday, 19 September 12:00-1:00 Unified Lounge	There Is Life After PSets, featuring Professor Harris After your Unified psets, after 16.50, after 16.62x, what do you have left? The rest of your life! Your professors have been there. They've seen the homework come and go, joined industry, gone to grad school, done crazy research projects. Now is your chance to discuss your concerns about life after your classes are done. Professor Harris was the head of the Aero/Astro department before Prof. Waitz took the position. He researches things like Unsteady Aerodynamics and has more than 150 papers and presentations to his name. Space is limited. Please RSVP to ccobrien@mit.edu by Thursday evening.
Friday, 26 September 12-1 33-116	Internship Colloquium Emily Grosse: AA senior, Lockheed Martin (internship) Manal Habib: AA sophomore, NASA/GSFC (internship) Kim Jackson: AA junior, MEET (teaching experience) Pizza will be provided.
Monday, 29 September 3:30 33-206	Story Time with Ian and Dave This is a chance to meet with the Aero/Astro department heads and discuss whatever is on your mind (related to Aero/Astro, of course). There will be FREE FOOD!!!
Friday, 3 October 12:00-1:00 33-116	There Is Life After PSets, featuring Professor Greitzer and Professor Spakovszky After your Unified psets, after 16.50, after 16.62x, what do you have left? The rest of your life! Your professors have been there. They've seen the homework come and go, joined industry, gone to grad school, done crazy research projects. Now is your chance to discuss your concerns about life after your classes are done. Space is limited. Please RSVP to ccobrien@mit.edu by Thursday evening.
Friday, 10 October 2008 12-1pm 33-116	Internship Colloquium Kristin Uhmeyer: NASA Glenn Research Center, "Radio frequency mass gauging for cryogenic propellants in low gravity." Adam Fuhrmann: Orbital Sciences Corporation, "Information management database for the Stage One program." Pizza will be provided.
Friday, 17 October 12-1pm 33-116	There is Life After PSets featuring Professor Martinez-Sanchez
Friday, 24 October 12-1pm 33-116	Internship Colloquium Kristin Uhmeyer: NASA Glenn Research Center, "Radio frequency mass gauging for cryogenic propellants in low gravity." Joe Pokora: Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Pizza will be provided.
Wednesday, 29 October 12pm 33-116	Aerospace Corp Presentation (details)
Friday, 31 October 11:30-1:30 Unified Lounge	Halloween Party! Stop by for Halloween food and fun! There will be a costume competition! Dress up and win prizes in five categories: Best overall, Most like an aero-astro professor, Most creative, Most aero-astro, and Most aerodynamic
Friday, 14 November 12-1pm 33-116	Internship Colloquium Lindsey Holland: JPL, "Team X - Command and Data Handling Subsystem Design Tool" Frances Gonzalez: Orbital Sciences, Launch Abort System (part of Project Orion) Pizza will be provided.
Monday, 24 November 3:30 33-206	Story Time with Ian and Dave This is a chance to meet with the Aero/Astro department heads and discuss whatever is on your mind (related to Aero/Astro, of course). There will be FREE FOOD!!!
Monday, 8 December 3:30 33-206	Story Time with Ian and Dave This is a chance to meet with the Aero/Astro department heads and discuss whatever is on your mind (related to Aero/Astro, of course). There will be FREE FOOD!!!
Thursday, 04 Dec 12:00-1:00 33-206	There Is Life After PSets, featuring Professor Lozano After your Unified psets, after 16.50, after 16.62x, what do you have left? The rest of your life! Your professors have been there. They've seen the homework come and go, joined industry, gone to grad school, done crazy research projects. Now is your chance to discuss your concerns about life after your classes are done. Space is limited. Please RSVP to ccobrien@mit.edu by Thursday evening.
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 12:30pm 33-116	Internship Colloquium with: Emily Dykgraaf: Boeing Propulsion Systems, Everett WA Barden Cleeland: Personal Spaceflight Federation, Washington D.C. Come hear about the different internship opportunities that fellow Aero/Astro undergrads participated in last summer!
Wednesday, 4 March, 2009 4:000 33-418	Story Time with Ian and Dave This is a chance to meet with the Aero/Astro departme nt heads and discuss whatever is on your mind (related to Aero/Astro, of course).
Friday, 13 March 12:00-1:00 33-116	There Is Life After PSets, featuring Professor Frazzoli After your Unified psets, after 16.50, after 16.62x, what do you have left? The rest of your life! Your professors have been there. They've seen the homework come and go, joined industry, gone to grad school, done crazy research projects. Now is your chance to discuss your concerns about life after your classes are done. Dr. Frazzoli's main research interests lie in the general area of planning and control for mobile cyber-physical systems, with a particular emphasis on autonomous vehicles, mobile robotics, and transportation networks. For more information, check out his website here.
Friday, 3 April 12:00-1:00 Room TBA	There Is Life After PSets, featuring Professor Darmofal After your Unified psets, after 16.50, after 16.62x, what do you have left? The rest of your life! Your professors have been there. They've seen the homework come and go, joined industry, gone to grad school, done crazy research projects. Now is your chance to discuss your concerns about life after your classes are done.
Friday, 10 April 12:00-1:00 33-116	There Is Life After PSets, featuring Professor Newman After your Unified psets, after 16.50, after 16.62x, what do you have left? The rest of your life! Your professors have been there. They've seen the homework come and go, joined industry, gone to grad school, done crazy research projects. Now is your chance to discuss your concerns about life after your classes are done.
Friday, 10 April 6:00 pm MIT Faculty Club	Student Faculty Dinner Speaker: Dave Thompson Topic: Adventures in Space Commerce This is a great opportunity to hang out with professors and other Aero/Astro students of all undergrad years. It is free for Aero/Astro undergrads, faculty, and staff. If you would like to bring a non-Aero/Astro guest, the cost is $40. This is a semi-formal event. Sign up here before March 26 to choose your meal option (fish, chicken, or veggie) and reserve your spot!

2007-2008 Schedule

Time, Date, Location	Event
Wednesday, 5/21/08 Time: 3:00pm Location: Unified Lounge	Break with the Department Head and Deputy Head Voice your opinion about the department, or simply come hang out with Aero/Astro Department Head Ian Waitz and Aero/Astro Deputy Department Head Dave Darmofal

2006-2007 Schedulevents:

Time, Date, Location	Event
4/27/07-4/28/07 Time: see schedule Location: MIT	AIAA Regional Conference More info TBA
Friday, 03/02/07 Time: TBA Location: Walker	Student Faculty Dinner More info TBA
Friday, 01/26/07 Time: 2-4 pm Location: Johnson upstairs track	Jet Blue Paper Airplane Contest Prize of Jet Blue tickets for first place in categories of distance, duration, and originality Entry fee of $1 All construction will take place in the track just prior to flying Pictures of the competition can be found here.
Friday, 12/01/06 Time: 13:00 Location: 33-116	Internship Colloquium Isaac Tetzloff `07 - Orbital Sciences: Isaac was an engineering intern in the guidance, navigation and control department at Orbital Sciences in Dulles, VA. He made a program to calculate and optimize burns to place satellites in geosynchronous orbit. Eleanor Lin `08 - Avidyne: Eleanor worked at Avidyne, a company founded by a former MIT Course 16 alum in Lincoln, MA that makes integrated cockpit displays for general aviation aircrafts. She was involved with QA and systems engineering. Tina Srivastava `09 - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Tina worked as a Research Associate at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. As a member of a four-person team, she conceptualized, designed, machined, and assembled a full-scale robotic crane for use of autonomous construction of a human base on the Moon or Mars.
Monday, 11/13/06 Time: 12:00 Location: TBD	AIAA Student-Faculty Lunch Professor Cummings
Tuesday, 11/07/06 Time: 12:00 Location: 33-206	AIAA Student-Faculty Lunch Professor Roy is a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics with research affiliation in CSAIL. His current and prospective students should know that he teaches Real-Time Systems and Software, Principles of Autonomy and Decision Making, and Robotics: Science and Systems. His research interests include: Robotics, Autonomous Systems, Planning and Reasoning, Human-Computer Interaction, and Machine Learning. You can read more about his current research at http://web.mit.edu/nickroy/www/research.html
Thursday, 11/02/06 Time: 12:00 Location: 33-116	AIAA Student-Faculty Lunch Colonel Keesee is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He served in the Air Force for over 30 years developing aerospace systems such as communications satellites and their ground control systems. At MIT, he is the faculty advisor for the MIT Rocket Team and MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Project and specializes in instructor resource moduels for transferable skills, spacecraft engineering desing, and CDIO curriculum development.
Thursday, 10/18/06 Time: 12:00 Location: 33-208	AIAA Student-Faculty Lunch Professor Drela is a familiar face in the Aero/Astro Department, teaching fluid dynamics for Unified Engineering, 16.82 - Flight Vehicle Design, and 16.110 - a graduate course in flight vehicle aerodynamics. In addition to his teaching interests in fluid dynamics and aerodynamics, Professor Drela explores several research interests including Computational Fluid Dynamics and Design Methodology.
Wednesday, 10/18/06 Time: 12:00 Location: 33-319	AIAA Student-Faculty Lunch Professor Deyst is a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. As the professor teaching 16.06, he is a familiar face with all A/A undergrads, and his research interests include: Information systems for Aerospace vehicles, control theory and methods, fault tolerant systems, sensors for Aerospace vehicles, and the Lean Aerospace development and production
Friday, 10/13/06 Time: 12:00 Location: 35-520	Internship Colloquium Carl worked for AeroVironment, Inc. in Simi Valley, CA this summer. He supported preliminary development of Global Observer, a liquid hydrogen powered High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) UAV, focusing on rapid model and design development. Andrew utilized engine cycle models to calculate engine performance under various conditions and changes to engine characteristics. I also assisted engineers in creating compressor maps and incorporating empirical data into models. Finally, I collaborated with my team to design an automated code to use engine test data in multiple cycle model predictions. These results were analyzed to compare test data and model predictions for an update to the cycle model. Viviana worked at the Multi-Scale Fluidics Laboratory at Caltech. Her project involved designing, building and testing a pressure generating device for driving "lab on a chip" microfluidics.
Friday, 10/06/06 Time: 12:00 Location: 33-116	Internship Colloquium Buddy Michini worked at Aurora Flight Sciences on many different projects from thermal modeling to UAV engine testing and development Nicki Lehrer worked in the composites lab at Boeing Rotorcraft in Philadelphia, PA. IShe did crack propegation and failure analysis on composite specimens as well as project engineering to support V22, CH47, and CRAD Programs. Karl Kulling worked at the Measurement and Control Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He designed a UAV guidance system and performed controller analysis in MATLAB.
Friday, 9/29/06 Time: 12:00 Location: 33-116	Internship Colloquium Carl worked for AeroVironment, Inc. in Simi Valley, CA this summer. He supported preliminary development of Global Observer, a liquid hydrogen powered High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) UAV, focusing on rapid model and design development. Andrew utilized engine cycle models to calculate engine performance under various conditions and changes to engine characteristics. I also assisted engineers in creating compressor maps and incorporating empirical data into models. Finally, I collaborated with my team to design an automated code to use engine test data in multiple cycle model predictions. These results were analyzed to compare test data and model predictions for an update to the cycle model. Viviana worked at the Multi-Scale Fluidics Laboratory at Caltech. Her project involved designing, building and testing a pressure generating device for driving "lab on a chip" microfluidics.
Wednesday, 9/20/06 Time: 5:30 PM Location: 33-419	Bob Liebeck "Design of the Blended-Wing-Body Subsonic Transport" This talk will discuss technical development over the past four years of the BWB concept at Boeing. Topics include efficiency, noise reduction, and the X48B flight demonstrator, which is scheduled to fly in December 2006 at Edwards Air Force base.

2005-2006 Schedulevents:

Time, Date, Location

Event

Wednesday, 12/14/05

Time: 3:00pm

Location: Mac Court in the Z-center

Jet Blue Paper Airplane Contest

GRAND PRIZE: Round Trip Ticket on JetBlue, not to mention the glory!Snacks, raffle prize, and giveaways for all participants

Basic Rules:
1. Paper airplanes must be folded at the beginning of the contest using paper provided

2. Paper airplanes may not be made of any material other than the paper and paper clips provided to you

3. Contestants are given 3 launches, in between which they are allowed to make modifications to their design.

4. Planes will be judged on distance, time aloft, and design creativity

5. The overall winner will receive one regular round trip ticket from JetBlue

These rules are not necessarily comprehensive and are subject to change. If you have any questions, email

aiaa-exec at mit dot edull participants

Friday, 2/17/06

Time: 6:00pm

Location: MIT Faculty Club

Student Faculty Dinner

All Course XVI undergraduates, faculty, and staff are welcomed to come, mingle, and hear our guest speaker, Brian Binnie For more information or to RSVP, click here

Past Events:

Weekly Internship Colloquims

Time, Date, Location

Event

Saturday, 9/24/05

Time: 11:00pm

Location: MIT Chapel

Zack Weston Memorial Service

Saturday, 9/24/05

Time: 12:00pm

Location: 33-206

Zack Weston Memorial Reception

Thursday, 10/6/05

Time: 5:30pm

Location: 32-144

Talk by John Tylko

Vice President, Aurora Flight Sciences

www.aurora.aero

Monday, 10/31/05