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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