Engineering and Technology Management Group Leadership Telecon
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Convened at 12:03 PM ET; adjourned 12:29 PM ET
Participating
 Allen Arrington, ETM Director
 John Dahlgren, SETC Chair
 Steve Justice, SATTC Vice-Chair
 Abdi Khodadoust, ETM Deputy Director
 Jairus Hihn, Economics TC Chair
 Tom Irvine, Management TC Vice-Chair
Agenda:
 ETMG Meeting Schedule
 TAC Actions
 TAC Updates
 NIS report
 TC updates
ETMG Meetings
 The December ETMG telecon will be canceled due to the holidays.
 The January ETMG telecon will also most likely be canceled since we will have a face-to-face meeting
at Sci-Tech.
 The EMTG leadership at Sci-Tech will take place on Sunday, January 12, 2014, at 6:30 to 8:30 PM in
Chesapeake conference room 9. This is not a dinner meeting, but there will be dessert (there should
be time for folks to grab dinner before the meeting). I will send out a meeting notice in Outlook in
order to get a head count.
TAC Action Items:
 TAC will hold Deputy Director and TC/PC Chair Training and the TAC workshop on Sunday January 12
as part of Sci-Tech. But the format will be a little different than in past years.
o TC/PC Chair Training will run from 9:00 AM until 2:00 PM (including lunch). This will allow more
time for Q&A.
o The workshop will be a presentation by staff on the options for virtual opportunities
(conferences, etc.) and the vendor that has been identified to support these efforts. The
workshop will be a data-dump and open discussion. In particular, staff is looking for ideas on
what we see as useful virtual offerings and would also like to gage the cost threshold that is
reasonable for each offering.
o Registration forms for the training and workshop are due to Betty by December 11.
 Reminder that updated TC rosters and the TC annual reports are due January 31.
NIS Update: Abdi reported that there have been no NIS telecons the past couple of months but that
there is a telecon scheduled for tomorrow (November 20). He will provide an email update to the ETMG
if needed.
TC updates:

Systems Engineering (John):
o Overall things are going well with the TC.
o They have one paper session set for Sci-Tech (Tuesday afternoon).
o Face-2-face meeting on Wednesday at Sci-Tech (January 15).
o Three SETC members were named AIAA Associate Fellows. Congrats!
o The Value-Driven Design PC may also be meeting at Sci-Tech.
o The Technical Review Subcommittee held their kick-off meeting last week.
o The TC will probably also hold a F2F meeting at Space.

Society and Aerospace Technology (Steve ):
o The ComicCon in Pittsburgh was a big hit. Opportunity to interact with 300 attendees. Handed
out a lot of aerospace material (copies of Aerospace America, the SATTC pocket guide and some
AIAA trinkets). Seems like a great way to reach out to the general population. More details
pending from John Christian and Jarret Lafleur.

Economics (Jairus):
o Planning on another Cost/Risk Workshop in March. This one will be hosted by the Aerospace
Corp.

Management (Tom):
o The TC completed the review of a proposed short course on business basics for engineers. They
thought it was a good concept and gave their approval to AIAA.
o The Hap Arnold award was not given in 2013, but they now have enough nomination packages
to support the award in the upcoming award cycle.
o TCM meeting slate for 2014:
 February: Huntsville; subject is Additive Manufacturing. MSFC Director is on the agenda;
hoping that Mike Griffin will also be available.
 June: Williamsburg with the AIAA Aerospace Today and Tomorrow Event.
 October: Dayton
o We need to work on the Forum Integration Tier. Suggest a discussion with Basil and Allen. This
is also on TAC’s radar. Allen will set up a telecon.
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
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
10/30/12
10/19/12 10/19/12
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

Allen
Sophia
Jairus
10/19/12 10/19/12
10/30/12 Complete
2/20/12 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
AI-001 – it is imperative that each TC has a succession plan with an elected Chair and Vice-Chair
(Chair-Elect).