Engineering and Technology Management Group Leadership Telecon
Tuesday, July 17, 2013
Convened at 12:03 PM ET; adjourned 12:23 PM ET
Participating
 Allen Arrington, ETM Director
 Shirley Brandt, SETC Secretary
 Brad Steinfeldt, SATC Chair
 John Dahlgren, SETC Chair
 Cam Martin, History TC Chair
 Tom Irvine, ManagementTC Vice-Chair
Agenda:
 TAC Updates:
 NIS report
 TC updates
TAC-HAC Liaison – Per the email from Betty, TAC is looking for someone to take over as the liaison
between TAC and the Honors and Awards Committee (HAC). This is probably the most active of the TAC
liaison positions; not necessarily a lot of homework, but certainly a lot of communication that takes
place between TAC and HAC. TC Chairs are asked to poll their membership to see if anyone is
interested. Someone with experience with TC awards would be a good candidate.
 Shirley indicated that she was interested in the position. She is currently a Regional Deputy Director
for Awards, so she has the right background. But, would this be a conflict of interest? Allen will
forward the nomination to Basil and ask about the COI question.
CASE Update: The program has been finalized and looks very interesting. Nassim Taleb, author of
“Black Swan” and “Antifragile” and Art Thompson, project lead for the Red Bull Challenge, are
confirmed as keynote speakers for CASE.
NIS: TAC Workshop at Sci-Tech 2014 – Just a heads up that the subject for the 2014 TAC workshop will
most likely focus on virtual conference options.
TC updates:

Systems Engineering (John):
o Face-to-face meeting at Space; all day Monday (0900 – 1700). The agenda is filling up.
o Will be meeting with Megan about the webinars.
 Big difference between a 60-90 minute webinar versus a 6-8 hour webinar.
o Four sessions set-up for SPACE.

Society and Aerospace Technology (Brad):
o TC virtual meeting the week after SPACE. They night use something like Google hang-out.
o Working the student paper contest and a couple of technical sessions for SPACE with Legal and
History.
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Working towards ComicCon in Pittsburgh; two weeks after SPACE. The plans are coming along
nicely.
Sci-Tech response for papers is up for 2014.
UAV session in the works for Aviation 2014.
History (Cam):
o Added a link to the History TC website for a NASA e-book on sonic boom suppression work”
“Quieting the Boom: The Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator and the Quest for Quiet Supersonic
Flight” by Lawrence Benson. The link is provided below.
http://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-ebook-quieting-the-boom/#.UeaxLLZTJ6A

Management (Tom):
o TC meeting on Sunday 8/11 from noon to 5:30.
o The TC will also have a tour of SpaceX on Monday afternoon.
o The CASE Executive Workshop is 90% ready.
Action Item Review: The updated action item list is given in the table below. Details on specific actions
are provided following the table.
ETM Action Item List
No.
Date
Action
001 6/17/11 TC/PC leadership succession plan.
013 11/18/11 TCs have a goal of 5 Young Professional
members.
020 10/19/12 Add Sophia back to the meeting list for the
CASE 2013 planning committee telecons.
021 10/19/12 Follow-up on “Inform” conference.
022 10/19/12 Check on draft meeting list for ASM
023 10/19/12 Check on funding for ITAR event
024 10/19/12 Check with Econ about POC for SE/Econ book
025 2/15/13 Forward Econ TC workshop announcement to
Allen.
026 2/15/13 Forward Econ TC workshop announcement to
ETMG leadership and TAC leadership.
027 3/15/13 Complete draft of ETMG annual report and
distribute to leadership team for review.
028 4/19/13 Provide SETC invitees for the CASE Executive
Workshop to Tom Irvine.
029 4/19/13 Develop poll for rescheduling ETMG monthly
telecon
030 5/21/13 Check with AIAA staff on the status of Forum
details being posted in the website
031 7/17/13 Submit Shirley as a candidate for the TAC-HAC
Liaison and check on COI question
Assigned to
Chairs
Chairs
Due
9/30/11
1/31/12
Completed
On-going.
On-going
Allen
10/19/12 10/19/12
Sophia
Allen
Allen
Sophia
Jairus
10/30/12
10/19/12
10/19/12
10/30/12
2/20/12
10/19/12
10/19/12
Complete
Complete
Allen
2/22/12
Complete
Allen
4/12/13
Complete
John E.
6/3/13
Canceled
Allen
4/30/13
Complete
Allen
5/21/13
Complete
Allen
7/17/13
Complete
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AI-001 – it is imperative that each TC has a succession plan with an elected Chair and Vice-Chair
(Chair-Elect).