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Old Branch Officers
Student Branch Chair
Name: _Lauren Trollinger___ Member Number: _472727____
Student Branch Vice-Chair
Name: Nicholas Arnold-Medabalimi Member Number: _511110____
Secretary:
Name: _April Claus Member Number: ___511594___
Treasurer:
Name: __Dylan Henry__ Member Number: _51132_____
Other officers:
Name: _Anthony DeCicco__ Member Number: ___460563__
Name: _Arber Masati __ Member Number: __265454___
Name: _Shannon Gravette _ Member Number: ______________
Name: __Devin Murphy _ Member Number: ______________
Name: __Bradford Jones___ Member Number: ______________
Name: __Evelyn Flint ____ Member Number: ______________
Name: ___Evan Peaco __ Member Number: ______________
Name: _Ben Graney-Green Member Number: __512531___
Name: __Andrew Mills __ Member Number: ______________
Name: __Scott Kindl _____ Member Number: __543555__
Old Faculty Advisor:
Name: _Dr. Christine Hartzell Member Number: ______________
New Branch Officers
Student Branch Chair
Name: _Brandon Draper Member Number:__496079___
Student Branch Vice-Chair
Name: __Zachariah Brown_ Member Number: ____
Secretary:
Name: _Christopher Bernard Member Number: _514463___
Treasurer:
Name: __Ajay Singh_____ Member Number: ______________
Other officers:
Name: ___Anthony DeCicco Member Number: ____460563__
Name: ___Kyle Zittle __ Member Number: _506418 ___
Name: ___Shannon Gravette Member Number: ______________
Name: ___Devin Murphy _ Member Number: ______________
Name: ___Bradford Jones Member Number: ______________
Name: ____Evelyn Flint___ Member Number: ______________
Name: __Ben Graney-Green Member Number: ______________
Name: ___John Soong ___ Member Number: ______________
Name: _________________ Member Number: ______________
Name: _________________ Member Number: ______________
New Faculty Advisor:
Name: _Dr. Christine Hartzell Member Number: ______________
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Please indicate responses below:
1. Did your branch participate in local section events? Yes
2. Did any members of your branch participate in any AIAA conferences? Yes
3. Did you have any members participate in the following student programs?
Scholarships Yes No
Design, Build,
Fly
Yes No
No
No

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Design
Competitions
Yes No
Student Paper
Conferences
Yes No
Tell AIAA what your branch has done!!! Have you held an event for your community? Did you win a competition not hosted by AIAA? If you would like to provide more details regarding your branch activities please submit an additional page(s)
PROFESSIONAL EVENTS
Grad School Panel, 16 attendees
Geared toward graduating seniors, this event brought together UMD graduate students and undergrads in Aerospace.
Panelists answered students' questions and offered their own advice for success in grad school, as well as hints and tips for choosing faculty advisors, applying for fellowships, and maintaining a good work ethic. Next time, we want even more students to attend! We also received interest for a similar panel for freshmen and sophomores to hear about research opportunities in aerospace labs on campus.
Engineering Fall Picnic with the A. James Clark School of Engineering
Engineers from all majors came together for a catered lunch and company/organization fair. UMD engineering groups showed off their organizations and companies like L-3, Lockheed Martin, and Bechtel recruited students for jobs and internships. AIAA sold T-shirts, recruited members, and shared our purpose with students new to the Clark
School.
Engineering ExPO 2014
At this open-to-the-public event, engineering organizations and professional societies show off their group, put on demonstrations, and teach others about some aspect of engineering. The UMD AIAA showcased our rockets with members of the Rocket Club and our own launch-certified Vice President.
GE Aviation Day
Partnered with ASME to hold a private, informal Q&A with GE recruiters about the company’s new coop/rotational program. The info session targeted freshmen and sophomores.
GBM1: “STPI: The White House’s Scientific Think Tank” feat. Dr. Mark J. Lewis
Our first major General Body Meeting: We invited our past Department Chair and past President of AIAA Dr. Mark
Lewis to speak. Dr. Lewis spoke on the state of the U.S. science policy. Dr. Lewis often comes to speak at one
AIAA GBM a year. It was a great first meeting with all our new members, and we got even more to sign up!
COMSOL Workshop
Each Fall, AIAA hosts a COMSOL workshop to teach local professionals and interested students and faculty about the software. This allows our student branch to reach out to the community and COMSOL representatives, and
AIAA is responsible for the logistics and ensuring the event goes smoothly. We do this once every fall semester.
Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. John MacCarthy, UMD MSSE Director
This small luncheon with the Director of the UMD Systems Engineering program was meant to inform graduating seniors of the opportunities available in the graduate program. Though only a few students attended, the session was extremely useful for the few who did.

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JPL Talk feat. Dave Mohr
Attendance: 53
This event was held to introduce students to new prospective internship and job opportunities by providing insight on the activities and programs that are generally performed and how to get such a job or internship. We will do this again because the people from JPL enjoy spreading the word about their programs and the students jumped at the chance to learn more about opportunities and how to get them.
GBM2: “The James Webb Space Telescope and the Big Bang” Feat. NASA’s Dr. John C. Mather
Attendance: 31
This was our second general body meeting of the Fall semester. After discussing business items, we then turned the meeting over to our guest speaker, Dr. John Mather. Dr. Mather was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, and came to speak to the students about his the work that lead up to that achievement. He also spoke about his role as the
Lead Scientist in the James Webb Space Telescope project. Many engineering students came and eagerly asked questions about the JWST mission, while several Astronomy majors also attended to ask questions about the science side of his research.
GBM3: AIAA hosts NASA’s Dr. Michelle Thaller
Attendance: 31
This was our third general body meeting of the Fall semester. After reviewing our business items, we turned the meeting over to our guest speaker, Dr. Michelle Thaller. Dr. Thaller is a prominent scientist at NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center. She spoke about her career, experiences as a NASA employee, and research. Her attendance to the meeting attracted many Astronomy students, along with all of the aerospace students who attended. We definitely hope to invite Dr. Thaller to come back again.
An Afternoon with Colonel Nizar Bechara
Colonel Nizar Bechara spent a few hours one evening to share with AIAA his experiences of flying small and sport aircraft. He has been a flight instructor for the last 14 years, and talked about his flight instruction class he teaches at the University of Maryland each year.
UMD AIAA & AIAA NCS Presents: “Unmanned Aircraft, Initial Concept to Post Production” feat. Dr.
Kevin Uleck
Attendance: 39
We were very glad to welcome UMD alumnus Kevin Uleck back to talk to us about his experiences working on various UAS over the last 15 years. His experiences in the UAS industry gave him a unique perspective on initial concepts of aircraft all the way through post production support, and it was a great all-around lesson about UAVs today and those that will come in the future.
UMD AIAA & AIAA NCS Presents: “Making a Difference at Mach 2” feat. Major Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton
Attendance: 20
This was one of our most exciting General Body Meetings; “Cinco” shared his close calls, memorable maneuvers, and vast experiences flying Air Force fighter aircraft with us, showed actual videos from flight logs, and inspired us all with some well-advised wisdom. He also stressed the importance of outreach with AIAA, and encouraged everyone to get and stay involved with our chapter and the National Capital Section (great publicity for us from a very impressive source!).
UMD AIAA & AIAA NCS Presents: “The Evolution of a Helicopterologist” feat. Dr. Ashish Bagai
Attendance: 20
We were so excited to get Dr. Bagai, a Maryland alumnus, to come to talk to the AIAA membership about his experiences in the rotorcraft industry. A member of the UMD A. James Clark School of Engineering’s Innovator

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Hall of Fame, Dr. Bagai worked on the Sikorsky X-2 Technology Demonstrator. He also discussed a bit about his time at DARPA and the future of vertical lift. This was a fantastic event, and we had local professionals join our students, graduate students, and faculty to hear Dr. Bagai’s talk.
Book Signing Event with Dr. John Mather
Attendance: 30-40
We invited Dr. John Mather to host a book signing with AIAA for his new book, titled “The Very First Light”, which discussed his work with the COBE mission. We had about 35 books pre-ordered, and we were able to sell all of them. Dr. Mather spent about two hours talking with students, answering their questions about his work and
JWST, and autographing books for them.
Clark School of Engineering Alumni Cup Competition
Each spring, in honor of Engineer’s Week, the A. James Clark School puts on the Alumni Cup Competition, in which a team of undergraduate students from each engineering department compete to build a Rube Goldberg-style machine to perform a specific task in a week under a prescribed budget. This year’s competition objective was to screw in a lightbulb. AIAA’s team created a fantastic 40-step machine showcasing the aerospace research conducted at UMD and in industry, and we came in fourth place. We had a blast with this competition, and we are coming back with a vengeance next year!
AIAA Region I Student Conference at Virginia Tech
Attendance: 19
AIAA organized a carpool to and from the conference and organized signups and payment. The University of
Maryland had a strong showing with 19 student presenters, and we are extremely proud to place in the top 3 undergraduate categories and two of the top three graduate presentations!
SERVICE AND OUTREACH EVENTS
UMD First Look Fair
Got students from all engineering majors and even some outside engineering to sign up for our listserv--we welcome anyone with an interest in aerospace, and it was a great way to expand our base outside of the AE major.
AE Dept. First Year Success and Professionalism Workshop
AIAA partnered with the Aerospace Department to put together a panel of undergraduate students who exemplified success, professionalism, leadership, and academic prowess to give advice to the freshmen and sophomore classes.
Everyone’s questions were answered! This was the first of what will become an annual event.
Discover Engineering Family Day at the Smithsonian
Attendance: 14
This year AIAA coordinated with the Aerospace Department to put on a wind tunnel demonstration where kids could make their own paper airplanes and then test-fly them in a portable wind tunnel. The kids absolutely loved the activity, asked lots of questions about forces in flight and Bernoulli’s Equation, and it was overall a wonderfully rewarding experience that we will definitely get involved with again.
CMSE STEM Expo
The Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering hosts this STEM Expo for local elementary, middle, and high school students every spring. This year, AIAA got to be a part of it! We partnered with the UMD Collective
Dynamics and Control Laboratory to put on a demonstration all about UAVs, the dynamics of a quadcopter, and the

April 9, 2020 modelling software and testing facilities used to conduct research. It was a great event, and the kids really enjoyed flying the quadcopters!
Annual Fall BBQ
The fall barbecue is an event sponsored by the UMD student chapter of AIAA near the outset of the school year.
The primary purpose is to provide a fun social event for students in the A. James Clark School of Engineering that also serves as an outreach event for the society. Members, non-members, faculty, and passerby have the opportunity to enjoy great food, refreshing beverages, and good company. The fall barbeque is intended to be the primary event early on in the academic year where aerospace engineering students, although other majors are welcome, have the opportunity to join AIAA, pay membership dues, learn more about what we do, and buy t-shirts to wear to meetings, other AIAA events, or just around campus to show their AIAA pride. The fall barbecue was held in front of Glenn
L. Martin Hall with a turnout of around 100 students and will be held again in the same place, and we expect a similar turnout in the fall of 2015.
SOCIAL
Baltimore Airshow: 200th Anniversary of the Star Spangled Banner
Attendance: 17
This event was a great experience. 17 students met early in the morning and carpooled to Baltimore. One of our members had contact information with a resident in the Fort McHenry area. As a result we were able to have front row seats to the Navy Blue Angels show as a part of the anniversary of the national anthem.
Udvar Hazy Field Trip
This weekend trip was intended to provide students who had not yet visited the Udvar Hazy Center a chance to look around and learn what the museum had on display. Thought few students were able to attend this particular event, the few who went had a great time checking out the SR-71 that was featured in the Transformers movie (and everything else too, of course).
Student Faculty Softball
Attendance: 27
This was a great event; professors, faculty, and their families came out to challenge the undergraduate and graduate students to a friendly game of softball. Alliances were formed, hearts were broken, and the Space Team crushed the
Air Team in the final score—we look forward to a rematch!
Aerospace Movie Night (The Right Stuff)
Attendance: 20
This event was initially scheduled for the sophomore aerospace engineering students in the ENAE283/ENAE283H courses. The TAs for the course that had scheduled the event agreed to co-host the event with AIAA and expanded the invitations to all aerospace engineering students. We played ‘The Right Stuff’ on the projector screen in a classroom, and Dr. Mary Bowden provided Maryland Dairy ice cream for the event.
AIAA Finals Breakfast
Attendance: 30
This event was held to aid the students in taking their first finals of the semester by providing them with breakfast foods and coffee to jump start their day. The event also provided an occasion for socialization with other members and gave them a chance to take a break from all the studying done on Reading Day. The students appreciated the food and coffee.

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Coldstone Ice Cream Fundraiser with A.O.E.
In an effort to network with other engineering organizations and raise money for AIAA at the same time, we partnered with Alpha Omega Epsilon, the engineering sorority, for a fundraiser at Coldstone. This was a huge success (the line was out the door for the full two hours) and we will definitely have to do this again!
AIAA NCS, UMD AIAA, and the UMD Dept. of Aerospace Presents: Student Faculty Bowling
Attendance: 19
We rented 3 bowling lanes on a Tuesday night and invited faculty, staff, and students to play for two hours and relax, hang out, and enjoy pizza and snacks. Professors brought their kids, who got to share a lane with the less capable students, and a great time was had by all.
2014-2015 UMD AIAA Officers