AIAA General Meeting

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AIAA General Meeting

• Thursday December 13, 2007

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Today's Agenda

• Student Group Polygon Update
• Looking to Next Semester
• Trip Details
• Speakers
• COE Book Sale
• T-Shirts
• Proposed Meeting Day Change
• Mid-term Elections

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AIAA SPRING TRIP 2008Ross Borchardt
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TENTATIVE ITINERARY

• Houston, TX (March 05 09)?
• NASA Johnson Space Center
• Mission Operations
• Meet an Astronaut
• Robotics Systems Technology
• Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
• Ad Astra
• Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket
  (VASIMR)?
• Any other ideas Talk to Ross

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COST

• Front 300-500
• Actual Cost 200-300
• Funding
• Polygon Engineering Council
• Engineering Physics
• AIAA Wisconsin
• Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium
• NASA?
• Pizza Sales

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PROCESS

• Dates, Places, General Itinerary finalized
• - Next couple months
• Students participate in Funding process
• - Instructions next meeting
• Students instructed when and where to purchase
  airline tickets
• - Second spring meeting
• Secure spot (20 person cap.)?
• - Participate in funding process
• - Purchase airline ticket

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Next Semester

• Guest Speakers
• Brant White, ORBITEC
• Prof. Matt Allen, UW-Madison
• Distinguished AIAA Lecturer, TBA
• COE Events
• Book Exchange (Volunteers needed!)?

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AIAA Shirt Designing

• Typically, we have a shirt for the AIAA trip
• Do we also want a t-shirt?
• Any graphic designers?
• Design decision by the end of winter break
• Orders taken at spring meeting

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Meeting Day Change

• Proposed Tuesday-night meetings
• Same general time and location
• Special meetings for trip guest lecturers
• Any conflicts?

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Mid-term Elections

• Amy Stoikes is graduating and leaving for Kansas
  to work for Cessna
• Kenny Kearney Outreach Chair
• Secretary Open
• Responsibilities Take notes (when necessary),
  volunteering for AIAA events and tasks

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Thank You

• Thanks for making it another successful semester
  in AIAA
• Much more going on next semester, stay tuned
• Have a safe break!
• Next Meeting Tuesday January 29 (tentative)?