Technical Activities Committee
TAC Exec Minutes – 8 December 2010
Attending: Laura McGill, Tom Duerr, Allen Arrington, Trevor Sorensen, Neal Pfeiffer, Ashwani Gupta, Tony Gross,
Jeff Hamstra, Bill West, Achille Messac, Terry Morris, Mark Melanson, Dolores Krausche, Megan Scheidt, Betty
Guillie
1. TAC VP Issues – Laura McGill
a. Meeting Schedule for ASM – Next meeting list is attached with minutes. This list shows the meetings
associated with TAC. The full committee list lists all meetings taking place at ASM.
Directors – remind your chairs to attend the TC/PC Chair Training on Monday afternoon. Also, remember
to invite the program committee chairs associated with your group to your group meetings.
Information concerning which program committees fall within each group will be sent to the Directors so
they will know which PCs they should invite to their group meeting. Contact information for the chairs will
also be included.
Directors – if you cannot attend any of the TAC related meetings at ASM, please send a representative
from your group and also let the chairperson of the meeting know you will not be attending..
Two new meetings on committee list – Systems/T&E Event, and TAC Ethical Standards Subcommittee
meeting. Laura will contact the relevant participants of the meetings.
TAC agenda at ASM – most reports should be about 10-15 minutes in length. Engineers as Educators
Workshop will be presented over lunch.
2. TAC VP-Elect Issues – Basil Hassan (not attending)
3. Staff Issues – Betty Guillie
a. TAC Funds Status – Allotted - $1528; Remaining - $47,573
b. Metrics for Recent Conferences – Missile Sciences – Budget 385; Actual 363
c. Conferences for Approval
TAC Event Approval Forms:
Aerospace T&E Days, New Orleans, LA, 25-28 June 2012. Approved by David Riley and Neal Pfeiffer
49th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit & the 11th Annual International Energy
Conversion Engineering Conference, San Jose, CA, 15-17 July 2013. Approved by Ashwani Gupta
Motion was made to approve, seconded, passed. Betty will send to TAC for an e-mail vote.
Cosponsored Conferences:
2011 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference, Washington DC, 17-19 May 2011.
The operating society is the IEEE AESS and AIAA Digital Avionics TC. The proposer of the form, John Gonda, is
the chair of the DATC. The Conference General Chair, Robert Kerczewski is an AIAA member. The Technical
Technical Activities Committee
Program Chair, Thomas Redling is an AIAA member and member of the DATC. The Administrative Chair, Ellis
Hitt, is also an AIAA member and member of the TC. Approved by Jim Neidhoefer.
Motion to approve, seconded, and passed. Betty will send to TAC for an e-mail vote.
2nd International IAA Symposium on Private Human Access to Space, Arcachon, France, 30 May – 1 June 2011.
The operating society is IAA International Academy of Astronautics. We did cosponsor the event in 2008.
According to the form, there are not any TC/PCs involved or supporting the event; however, they state that the
Space Colonization and Space Transportation TCs and Space Exploration PC would be interested in attending
this event. Garrett Smith is an AIAA member. IAC has approved this event as a cosponsored event. Also
approved by Trevor Sorensen. (This conference was delayed from last month’s telecom so Tony Gross could
check with the Space Exploration PC concerning their involvement.)
TAC does not object to this and will continue to find someone to report on this, but will not hold up IAC’s approval.
TAC will abstain.
IEEE CPMT 2011 ASTR Workshop, San Francisco, CA, 12-14 October 2011. The operating society is IEEE
CPMT Society. According to the form there is not any TC support. The Proposer and General Chair, Dr. Ephraim
Suhir, is an AIAA member. The technical program co-chairs are not. Sent to Kathleen Atkins for approval.
Kathleen did not approve this event.
TAC is declining support. The proposer of the form will be notified that TAC did not approve this request.
6th Int. Conference Supply on the Wings, Frankfurt, Germany, 2-4 November 2011. The operating society is Airtec
GmbH & Co. KG. Although they do not list any specific committee as supporting the event, Dr. Grzegorz Kawiecki
of Boeing is a current member of the Adaptive Structures TC. Other AIAA members listed on the form are:
Richard Degenhardt, contact person and technical program chair of the event, Leslie Cohen, Janusz Narkiewicz,
Murray Scott, and Trevor Young. IAC approved this event as a cosponsored event. Sent to Kathleen Atkins for
approval. Kathleen did not approve this event, as there was not a close enough connection to AIAA.
TAC will abstain.
4. NIS Activities – Mark Melanson – SAE Space Environments Committee – proposal will be presented at NIS
and TAC in January for it to officially become an AIAA Program Committee. Working on the Assessment Tool for
TCs. Bill West and Mark Melanson will draft a letter for use in the distribution and once approved, Betty will send
the letter and assessment tool to Directors for final review.
5. Public Policy – Tom Duerr
CVD Key Issues Update – Tom did receive some feedback concerning the Key Issues but it was very
limited. TAC will need to come up with POC on the issues. Tom Duerr will take the issues list and determine the
lead technical group. Public Policy Position Paper Process needs to be finalized. PPC and TAC will look over it
and vote at ASM. Both CVD Key Issues Update and PP Position Paper Process should be on the agenda in
Orlando.
6. Liaison Reports – as indicated by the Liaisons
a. Honors and Awards – Sanjay Garg – not attending
b. Publications – Wayne Hurwitz – not attending
c. Membership/RSAC – Cathy Downen – not attending
d. Young Professionals – Jeremy Kenny/Ben Tutt – not attending
d. Education / SAC – Dolores Krausche – no report
e. Exhibits – John Chawner – not attending
Technical Activities Committee
f. Standards – Allen Arrington – Standards is currently working on a list of Standards being sent to
Archives. The committee is also trying to get contacts from the TCs concerning their POC for
Standards. A section is being added to the Annual Report that asks for subcommittees within each
committee. This will help determine which TCs have certain subcommittees.
g. International – Need to Identify
7. Program Committees – Tony Gross – Two of the PCs will be giving reports at TAC. They are: Reusable Launch
Vehicles PC and Space Exploration PC. Presentations should be no longer than 15 minutes. Tony will report on
the health of PCs – 10 minutes.
8. Directors – Around the Room/Phone
Achille Messac (for Kathleen Atkins) – The Crichlow selection committee is wrapping up their selection.
They will present their choice at H&A and the Board of Directors in January. The Directors of the
Aerospace Design & Structures Group and Engineering & Technology Management Group are looking
into the possibly of merging the remaining members of the CAESTC with the DETC.
Neal Pfeiffer – There will be a 20XX meeting at ASM.
Ashwani Gupta – JPC/IECEC – first to use ScholarOne. Did not get good feedback. Megan reported that
we have now been using ScholarOne for a year. A survey was sent to participants and feedback is being
collected. Staff has been making constant improvements to the terminology and 2 training sessions are
being provided at ASM. TAC will be provided with a ScholarOne Update at the TAC meeting in Orlando.
Update will be provided at the TAC meeting in January.
Terry Morris (for Jim Neidhoefer) – The Group has been reviewing the different areas of Information
Systems. The plan is to adjust the TC charters to make sure all areas are covered.
Trevor Sorensen – planning for Space 2011 in Long Beach is going well. Space 2010 had some problems
– addressing those problems for Space 2011. Second SMG Newsletter was released last month.
Allen Arrington – LAAATC – elections being held this week. ABET (Structured Programming) white paper
– NIS needs to review.
Bill West and Mark Melanson (for David Riley) – TAC Funding request form – question was asked about
using TAC Funding for reimbursement of conference registration. TAC will not approve reimbursement of
conference registration in the future.
10. Old Business - none
11: New Business – none
See you in Orlando!!