Shuttle Astronaut Carl Meade Describes His ExperiencesAIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Dinner Meeting November 2014

By Seth PotterAmbassador to National Space Society Mars Society Los Angeles and A‐MAN STEMCenter AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Section

(Story begins on page 2)

Newsletter

December 2014

IN THIS ISSUE

1 Carl Meade Shuttle Astro‐naut‐‐AIAA LA‐Las Vegas November 2014 Dinner Meeting

3 Ron Blum Mooney International Chino Chief Engineer ‐ AIAA LA‐ Las Vegas Section December 2014 Technical Luncheon

6 Future Events

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Above photo from left Section Membership Chair and SMC Ambassador Rick Garcia Sectionmember Andrea Diamond Section Chair Nicola Sarzi‐Amade Buzz Aldrin astronaut CarlMeade SMC Ambassador Weston Hanoka Seth Potter

Below photo from left Programs Co‐Chair Greg Larson Rick Garcia AIAA Director RegionVI Jane Hansen Nicola Sarzi‐Amade Mr and Mrs Eugene Haberman Carl Meade

Photos Seth Potter

Many thanks for hosting

AIAA-Los Angeles-Las Vegas Meetings

December 2014 | Page 2

n Thursday evening 20 November the Section helda dinner at the LAX Crowne Plaza featuring former

Shuttle astronaut Carl Meade now a program manager atNorthrop Grumman Corporation in El Segundo CA Thewell‐attended event began with Section Programs OfficerGreg Larson and Section Chair Nicola Sarzi‐Amade intro‐ducing several notable individuals including Apollo 11 as‐tronaut Buzz Aldrin Aldrin sported a T‐shirt advocatingMars exploration showing the planet in its characteristicred and language even more colorful Several officers ofthe National Space Society were also present includingStan Rosen and Mark Hopkins

The formal portion of the evening began with the presen‐tation of an award to long‐time AIAA member EugeneHaberman in recognition of his 60 years of membershipHabermanrsquos wife was also thanked for her role in coordi‐nating this event

Larson then introduced Carl Meade a veteran of threeSpace Shuttle flights Meade began by describing theShuttle as mostly reusable He then showed a short videoand described some of his roles in the Shuttle programincluding participating in the Challenger accident investi‐gation and testing International Space Station construc‐tion techniques He continued with his description of theShuttle and associated hardware including the mobilelaunch platform and Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) He thentalked the audience through a typical Shuttle mission de‐scribing some of the split‐second events that must occurfor a safe successful launch including the SRB nozzlesclearing the launch platform holes and the inspection ofthe external tank after it is jettisoned

Meadersquos description of his missions gave the audience anappreciation of the excitement challenges and potentialdangers of space flight With occasional gallows humorhe pointed out such features as the euphemistically

Welcome to the Las Vegas Chapter of theAIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas SectionOn November 20 2014 the newly formed Las Vegas Chap‐ter had its first official Council meeting Congratulationsfor a great start and best of success to the Las Vegas Chap‐ter We look forward to some great programs From left to right Marty Waldman (Co‐Chair) Bob Morin(Treasurer) Sofia Russi (Co‐Chair) Zach Tolley (Secretary)Darrell Pepper (University of Nevada at Las Vegas StudentAdvisor)

named ldquorange safety systemrdquo on the orbiter While con‐trolled from the ground this feature activated if the shut‐tle goes off course shortly after launch triggers anindicator light on the Shuttle shortly before destroying itMeade wryly wondered about the usefulness of the lightHe then went on to describe less dramatic challenges in‐cluding woodpeckers pecking at the external tank while itwas on the launch pad

Meade then described extravehicular activity (EVA) as aldquopremier experience of the human racerdquo He conveyed asense of wonder mixed with an appreciation of the poten‐tial dangers of EVA such as separation from ISS He de‐scribed the latter as ldquogiganticrdquo and thus not easilymovable from its orbit to retrieve a separated astronautMeade wrapped up the formal part of his talk by dis‐cussing changes to the orbiters after the Challenger acci‐dent These changes added weight so the orbiters couldno longer launch US Air Force payloads from the never‐used Shuttle launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base

Meade then took questions from the audience The firstquestioner asked what his first thought was on his firstspace walk Meade compared a space walk to a balletin that every move is memorized His reaction to seeingthe Earth from space was that it is an incredible sightleading him to ponder ldquoall this just for usrdquo Another ques‐tioner asked what his most terrifying experience was Hereplied that it was when the orbiter got hit by a smallmeteorite When asked about his most humorous expe‐rience he replied with humor that it is not fit for a publicdiscussion

The vivid description of space flight given by Carl Meadeand the presence of aerospace veterans such as EugeneHaberman and Buzz Aldrin left the audience with a re‐newed appreciation of where wersquove been and what it tookto get there

Shuttle Astronaut Carl Meade ‐ AIAA LA‐LV November 2014 Dinner Meeting (continued from page 1)

O

Attention to De Tail by Ron Blum Mooney Chino Chief EngineerAIAA Los Angeles‐ Las Vegas Section Technical Luncheon ‐ December 9 2014By Gary Moir (AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Section Technical Co‐Chair) and Ron Blum

December 2014 | Page 3

he chief engineer of the new Mooney Internationaldesign team at Chino airport entertained the Tech‐

nical Luncheon group on December 9 2014 at theAerospace Corporation cafeteria in El Segundo CA RonBlum summarized his career as a nerdy aeronauticalflight test engineer with a career in General AviationThen he discussed the Vintage Sailplane Associationrsquos(VSA) goal and leading the Wichita KS group efforts todefine and build a replica of the little‐known 1911Wright Glider Finally he talked about the new aircraftin the Mooney line and their place in the anticipatedChinese market

The Wright StuffRon became involved in constructing a replica of the1911 Wright glider when a group of Wichita VintageSailplane Association (VSA) members took on the proj‐ect That glider seemed to be a step backwards from theWrightsrsquo fairly successful but too often fatal Flyer man‐ufacture and sales business Orville cobbled the glidertogether from parts of different Flyers to test an ldquoau‐topilotrdquo that the Wrights patented in 1908 Ron showedan apparatus diagram from the patent It used a set ofpendulums and pneumatic valves to theoretically main‐tain coordinated flight The Wrights wrongly believedtheir safety record was due to inadequate control andof course pilot error was already the probable cause oftoo many accidents In fact their pilots were stalling dueto the small speed margin over stall and the short pe‐riod pitch instability due to cg location

Ronrsquos graphic of the trade‐off between stability and con‐trol showed the preference for control and lack of con‐cern for stability the Wrights developed in their bicycleracing All of the other aviation pioneers had focused onstability without the Wrightsrsquo glider control experienceTheir 1902 glider led to the discovery of rolling to climbaround a turn and the resultant adverse yaw Adverseyaw is the tendency of the increased drag of the highwing to yaw the aircraft in the opposite direction fromthe intended turn That led the Wrights to link their rud‐der to the wing warping In that way they invented thecoordinated turn Ron showed a photo of the 1902gliderrsquos graceful turn (see top right)

Orville never got around to testing the autopilot in 1911In part that was due to the multitude of configurations

his team had to create in their short 2‐week visit to KittyHawk In part it was because of Orvillersquos penchant for se‐crecy Orville thought the tail needed more authority andextended the fuselage truss However that extreme aftcenter of gravity required extending a 6‐ to 15‐pound sandbag far in front of the wing Unwittingly the forward cg somuch improved stability that Orvillersquos longest glide of 9minutes and 45 seconds established a world record forsoaring duration that stood for ten years His record wasonly broken when the Germans concentrated on sailplanes after the Versailles Treaty forbade them from build‐ing powered airplanes

Ironically when a reporter asked if the sand bag was theautopilot that he came to test Orville responded ldquoYesrdquoAn answer that was sarcastic but also acknowledgedthe importance of stability

The 1911 Glider turned out to be a difficult project forRonrsquos team There were no drawings or surviving hard‐ware so dimensions had to be reverse engineered byscaling 43 photographs Ron moved to another jobwhile the calendar advanced so finishing the Gliderproject remains one of Ronrsquos goals

Ron acknowledged volunteering on the Flabob 1903replica Wright Flyer project that was originated by alocal AIAA team A little‐known fact about the 40 ft‐4inch wingspan on that Flyer is that the Wrights addedthe 4 inch extension on the starboard wing to balancethe static rolling moment when their engine turned outto be heavier than either of the brothers

(continued on page 4)

T

General Aviation SummaryRon pointed out that many aircraft companies werefounded in Wichita KS including Mooney General Avia‐tion production in the US went through an economicslump as costs rose the economy slumped and litigatorsextended the statute of limitations on ldquodesign flawsrdquo Dur‐ing the heyday Cessna was producing an aircraft an hourfrom three production lines Mooneyrsquos goal next year isto produce 24 M20rsquos

Ron invited audience participation One series of ques‐tions inquired about the ballistic parachutes used in somelight sport aircraft Mooney doesnrsquot plan to offer eitherparachutes or light sport aircraft Ron contends that thesafety record of aircraft with parachutes is actually worsethan those without them The structural and componentweight penalties and cost are mainly justified if thebuyerrsquos family allows the pilot to buy the aircraft He as‐serts pilots are generally much safer avoiding marginalconditions and flying a damaged aircraft to an airport orsurvivable crash site

Mooney News amp HistoryMooney Aircraft Company was founded in 1929 by Albertand Arthur Mooney and first bankrupted in 1930 Thebrothers restarted the company in 1946 with funding fromCharles Pappy Yankey in Kerrville Texas All three exitedthe company by 1955 the year the first four‐place M20entered production The company has passed throughseveral owners and bankruptcies since then while peri‐odically updating the M20 The latest M20 variants are theOvation and Acclaim Type S which continue the traditionof cruising at about one mph per rated horsepowerMooneyrsquos motto is ldquoWe love to fly FASTrdquo

Mooney was recently bought out of bankruptcy by a Chi‐nese investor called ldquoSoaring Americardquo They are NOTowned by the Chinese government as are many other avi‐ation‐related companies They recently added an office inHunan China and announced the new M10T and M10Jaircraft November 11 at the Zhuhai China airshow Theinvestors expect airspace restrictions in China to be liber‐alized in the next few years Ron says private aircraft arecurrently limited to fly below 3000ft above mean sealevel When the altitude restriction is raised they expecta healthy market for small light aircraft

Ron is the Chief Engineer at Mooney International‐Chinowhere they are developing the M10T and M10J Both aresingle engine low‐wing tricycle gear composite aircraftwith Continental diesel engines The M10T is a fixed geartrainer and has three seats The M10J adds retractablegear is a two‐seat airplane and has a 155HP flat‐ratedwater‐cooled turbocharged engine Both models can useeither jet fuel or diesel fuel and employ a single‐lever fullauthority digital engine control system This simplifies en‐gine management for the pilot as well as improving reli‐ability and efficiency since it prevents the engine frombeing operated improperly

Many thanks are due to The Aerospace Corporation forhosting this Technical Luncheon

Our next Technical Luncheon will be co‐hosted by theUCLA AIAA Student Branch on January 22 2015 Programmanager Bill Kelly will present the Multi‐Mission Radioiso‐tope Thermoelectric Generator which has powered theMars Curiosity Rover Scientific Laboratory for over 840Martian days Please see the advertisement on page 5

Ron Blum ‐ AIAA Los Angeles‐ Las Vegas Section Technical Luncheon (continued from page 3)

December 2014 | Page 4

From left M20T M20J (Mooney International)

Mars Curiosity Rover Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG)

Bill Kelly - Program Manager MMRTG

Upcoming AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas Technical Luncheon January 22 2015

UCLA in Mechanical amp Aeronautical Engineering Building 4

Click here to register httpaiaa-ucla-mmrtg-technical-luncheoneventbritecom

The next Technical Luncheon will be hosted by the UCLA AIAA Student Chapter Bill Kelly will present the development of

the power supply for the Mars Curiosity rover Bill served as a program manager for the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Ther-

moelectric Generator The MMRTG was developed by Aerojet-Rocketdyne and Teledyne The Curiosity Science Lab was

launched on November 26 2011 and landed August 6 2012 It has performed flawlessly on Mars for over 830 sols (Martian

days) and is still making news The MMRTG will be used on future similar missions to Mars and will be a key enabler for

nine other candidate deep-space missions

William M Kelly (Bill) had a whole career at

the Babcock and Wilcox Company (135

years) before he got to the Aerospace indus-

try That career included fossil-fueled (coal

oil gas) boiler and nuclear power plant

startup testing followed by system analysis

in fast breeder reactor design studies and

power plant improvement projects in pressur-

ized water reactors

He got to the aerospace industry at The Mar-

quardt Company where he started as the

manager of their small rocket and ramjet engine test facility (The

Marquardt Jet Laboratory MJL) and moved on to program manage-

ment of USN USAF and USA weapons systems development pro-

grams (cluster munitions chemical weapons Sidewinder missile

warheads etc) After that a short stint at Vacco Industries as a pro-

gram manager for satellite propulsion system components landed

him at Boeing Rocketdyne in 1998

At Rocketdyne Bill started on the RS-68 Development Program as

the engine test planner and got involved with gimbal and Pogo con-

trol systems He then joined the International Space Station team

and a control software test group for the solar arrays This task was

followed in 2003 by MMRTG System Engineering where he was

one of 2 system engineers on the program and the primary author of the first half of this paper In 2006 he became the

Deputy IPT Lead for System Engineering on the J-2X Development Program In 2011 he became the Deputy IPT Lead

for System Development and Test initially on NASArsquos J-2X contract of the Constellation program but ultimately expanded

to RS-25 and the Space Launch System program

He holds a Bachelorrsquos degree in Mechanical Engineering from New York University a Masterrsquos Degree in Nuclear Engineering

from the University of Virginia and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Astronautical Engineering from UCLA

December 2014 | Page 5

DISCOUNTS FOR NEW MEMBERSStudents who attend any of our Section events and are not yet AIAA members will receive a FREE 1‐year AIAAstudent membership In addition new AIAA professional members who attend any of our events will receive a $35DISCOUNT on their membership To obtain your membership promotion please sign up as a new member at theevent itself by completing our membership form or bring to us proof that you have signed up as a new memberduring the month prior to the event

We also offer a promotion for graduating students who transfer to professional membership The first year transitionfrom student to professional membership is $30 (14 of the full rate)

December 2014 | Page 6

Future Events

Thursday December 18 AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Dinner Meeting 530 pm ‐ 900 pm Author Craig HarwoodldquoA Unique Aviation Historyrdquo Crowne Plaza Los Angeles Airport 5985 W Century Blvd Los Angeles CA 90045He will be signing copies of his book ldquoQuest for Flightrdquo To register click here httpevrdusTRS+g

January 21 2015 and the third Wednesday of each month 1100 am Meetings of the AIAA Alumni Group of the LosAngeles ‐ Las Vegas Section Discuss topics of current or historical aerospace interest Lunch following the meetingWestern Museum of Flight Torrance Airport 3315 Airport Drive Torrance CA For more information contact JerryLockenour at (310) 406‐8068 jerrylockenourverizonnet or Gary Moir at (310) 378‐7076 garymoiringenuircom

January 22 2015 AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Technical Luncheon co‐hosted by the UCLA AIAA Student Branch onMulti‐Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) Speaker Bill Kelly MMRTG Program Manager UCLAin Mechanical amp Aeronautical Engineering Building 4 Check the AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Section website for updateson registration and time Please see the advertisement on page 5 for more details

February 10 2015 Deadline Reinventing Space Track 2015 ‐ Call for Abstracts Reinventing Space will be a Trackof the AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition (SPACE 2015) which will be held from 31 August ‐ 2September 2015 in Pasadena CA at the Pasadena Convention Center The Forum website is now open for ab‐stract submission httpswwwaiaaorgEventDetailaspxid=20952

February 13 2015 Deadline Call for Presentations Improving Space Ops Workshop Presentations (no paper required)are solicited on a broad range of operations and support topics related to the workshop theme Presentations shouldbe of an educational nature and not a product or service advertisement Please send a paragraph describing yourtopic(s) to the chair of the AIAA Space Operations and Support Technical Committee Larry Bryant atlarrywbryantjplnasagov by close of business February 13 2015 Include your employer and contact informationwhen submitting your proposal(s) If selected for presentation charts must be submitted by end of business April 1 2015

March 14 2015 INCOSE‐LA 2015 Mini‐Conference The 2015 Mini‐Conference is a one‐day event geared forthose local to Los Angeles and will be hosted at Loyola Marymount University on March 14th Traditionally theevent has provided a relatively low‐key environment to interact with others in the systems engineering com‐munity Early Registration is now open and accessible at httpwwwincose‐la‐miniconferenceorg

UCLA Extension Spring Courses Spring enrollment for UCLA Extension Engineering courses begins February 3 2015 In addition classes are being of‐fered in areas such as Integrated Circuit Design Manufacturing Digital Signal Processing Communication Systems andLean Six Sigma For the general engineering flyer for a list of current programs and details on how to enroll clickhttpsinfoaiaaorgRegionsWesternLAListsAnnouncementsAttachments215General20Engineering20Flyerpdf For a flyer for the Astronautical Engineering Space Mission Systems Engineering course required for UCLA Ex‐tensionrsquos Certificate program click httpsinfoaiaaorgRegionsWesternLAListsAnnouncementsAttach‐ments215Space20Mission20Systems20Engineering[1]pdf

For those who would like to take a shorter course in a more specialized area UCLA Extension Engineering offerspublic short courses that may be of interest Please follow the link below for more details Communications amp Sensors Engineering1 DSP for Communication Systems

Aerospace amp Mechanical Engineering1 Kalman Filtering Theory and Applications2 Aerospace Composite Materials

Public Short Course Website httpswwwuclaextensionedushortcoursesPagescoursesaspx

Attention to De Tail by Ron Blum Mooney Chino Chief EngineerAIAA Los Angeles‐ Las Vegas Section Technical Luncheon ‐ December 9 2014By Gary Moir (AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Section Technical Co‐Chair) and Ron Blum

December 2014 | Page 3

he chief engineer of the new Mooney Internationaldesign team at Chino airport entertained the Tech‐

nical Luncheon group on December 9 2014 at theAerospace Corporation cafeteria in El Segundo CA RonBlum summarized his career as a nerdy aeronauticalflight test engineer with a career in General AviationThen he discussed the Vintage Sailplane Associationrsquos(VSA) goal and leading the Wichita KS group efforts todefine and build a replica of the little‐known 1911Wright Glider Finally he talked about the new aircraftin the Mooney line and their place in the anticipatedChinese market

The Wright StuffRon became involved in constructing a replica of the1911 Wright glider when a group of Wichita VintageSailplane Association (VSA) members took on the proj‐ect That glider seemed to be a step backwards from theWrightsrsquo fairly successful but too often fatal Flyer man‐ufacture and sales business Orville cobbled the glidertogether from parts of different Flyers to test an ldquoau‐topilotrdquo that the Wrights patented in 1908 Ron showedan apparatus diagram from the patent It used a set ofpendulums and pneumatic valves to theoretically main‐tain coordinated flight The Wrights wrongly believedtheir safety record was due to inadequate control andof course pilot error was already the probable cause oftoo many accidents In fact their pilots were stalling dueto the small speed margin over stall and the short pe‐riod pitch instability due to cg location

Ronrsquos graphic of the trade‐off between stability and con‐trol showed the preference for control and lack of con‐cern for stability the Wrights developed in their bicycleracing All of the other aviation pioneers had focused onstability without the Wrightsrsquo glider control experienceTheir 1902 glider led to the discovery of rolling to climbaround a turn and the resultant adverse yaw Adverseyaw is the tendency of the increased drag of the highwing to yaw the aircraft in the opposite direction fromthe intended turn That led the Wrights to link their rud‐der to the wing warping In that way they invented thecoordinated turn Ron showed a photo of the 1902gliderrsquos graceful turn (see top right)

Orville never got around to testing the autopilot in 1911In part that was due to the multitude of configurations

his team had to create in their short 2‐week visit to KittyHawk In part it was because of Orvillersquos penchant for se‐crecy Orville thought the tail needed more authority andextended the fuselage truss However that extreme aftcenter of gravity required extending a 6‐ to 15‐pound sandbag far in front of the wing Unwittingly the forward cg somuch improved stability that Orvillersquos longest glide of 9minutes and 45 seconds established a world record forsoaring duration that stood for ten years His record wasonly broken when the Germans concentrated on sailplanes after the Versailles Treaty forbade them from build‐ing powered airplanes

Ironically when a reporter asked if the sand bag was theautopilot that he came to test Orville responded ldquoYesrdquoAn answer that was sarcastic but also acknowledgedthe importance of stability

The 1911 Glider turned out to be a difficult project forRonrsquos team There were no drawings or surviving hard‐ware so dimensions had to be reverse engineered byscaling 43 photographs Ron moved to another jobwhile the calendar advanced so finishing the Gliderproject remains one of Ronrsquos goals

Ron acknowledged volunteering on the Flabob 1903replica Wright Flyer project that was originated by alocal AIAA team A little‐known fact about the 40 ft‐4inch wingspan on that Flyer is that the Wrights addedthe 4 inch extension on the starboard wing to balancethe static rolling moment when their engine turned outto be heavier than either of the brothers

(continued on page 4)

T

General Aviation SummaryRon pointed out that many aircraft companies werefounded in Wichita KS including Mooney General Avia‐tion production in the US went through an economicslump as costs rose the economy slumped and litigatorsextended the statute of limitations on ldquodesign flawsrdquo Dur‐ing the heyday Cessna was producing an aircraft an hourfrom three production lines Mooneyrsquos goal next year isto produce 24 M20rsquos

Ron invited audience participation One series of ques‐tions inquired about the ballistic parachutes used in somelight sport aircraft Mooney doesnrsquot plan to offer eitherparachutes or light sport aircraft Ron contends that thesafety record of aircraft with parachutes is actually worsethan those without them The structural and componentweight penalties and cost are mainly justified if thebuyerrsquos family allows the pilot to buy the aircraft He as‐serts pilots are generally much safer avoiding marginalconditions and flying a damaged aircraft to an airport orsurvivable crash site

Mooney News amp HistoryMooney Aircraft Company was founded in 1929 by Albertand Arthur Mooney and first bankrupted in 1930 Thebrothers restarted the company in 1946 with funding fromCharles Pappy Yankey in Kerrville Texas All three exitedthe company by 1955 the year the first four‐place M20entered production The company has passed throughseveral owners and bankruptcies since then while peri‐odically updating the M20 The latest M20 variants are theOvation and Acclaim Type S which continue the traditionof cruising at about one mph per rated horsepowerMooneyrsquos motto is ldquoWe love to fly FASTrdquo

Mooney was recently bought out of bankruptcy by a Chi‐nese investor called ldquoSoaring Americardquo They are NOTowned by the Chinese government as are many other avi‐ation‐related companies They recently added an office inHunan China and announced the new M10T and M10Jaircraft November 11 at the Zhuhai China airshow Theinvestors expect airspace restrictions in China to be liber‐alized in the next few years Ron says private aircraft arecurrently limited to fly below 3000ft above mean sealevel When the altitude restriction is raised they expecta healthy market for small light aircraft

Ron is the Chief Engineer at Mooney International‐Chinowhere they are developing the M10T and M10J Both aresingle engine low‐wing tricycle gear composite aircraftwith Continental diesel engines The M10T is a fixed geartrainer and has three seats The M10J adds retractablegear is a two‐seat airplane and has a 155HP flat‐ratedwater‐cooled turbocharged engine Both models can useeither jet fuel or diesel fuel and employ a single‐lever fullauthority digital engine control system This simplifies en‐gine management for the pilot as well as improving reli‐ability and efficiency since it prevents the engine frombeing operated improperly

Many thanks are due to The Aerospace Corporation forhosting this Technical Luncheon

Our next Technical Luncheon will be co‐hosted by theUCLA AIAA Student Branch on January 22 2015 Programmanager Bill Kelly will present the Multi‐Mission Radioiso‐tope Thermoelectric Generator which has powered theMars Curiosity Rover Scientific Laboratory for over 840Martian days Please see the advertisement on page 5

Ron Blum ‐ AIAA Los Angeles‐ Las Vegas Section Technical Luncheon (continued from page 3)

December 2014 | Page 4

From left M20T M20J (Mooney International)

Mars Curiosity Rover Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG)

Bill Kelly - Program Manager MMRTG

Upcoming AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas Technical Luncheon January 22 2015

UCLA in Mechanical amp Aeronautical Engineering Building 4

Click here to register httpaiaa-ucla-mmrtg-technical-luncheoneventbritecom

The next Technical Luncheon will be hosted by the UCLA AIAA Student Chapter Bill Kelly will present the development of

the power supply for the Mars Curiosity rover Bill served as a program manager for the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Ther-

moelectric Generator The MMRTG was developed by Aerojet-Rocketdyne and Teledyne The Curiosity Science Lab was

launched on November 26 2011 and landed August 6 2012 It has performed flawlessly on Mars for over 830 sols (Martian

days) and is still making news The MMRTG will be used on future similar missions to Mars and will be a key enabler for

nine other candidate deep-space missions

William M Kelly (Bill) had a whole career at

the Babcock and Wilcox Company (135

years) before he got to the Aerospace indus-

try That career included fossil-fueled (coal

oil gas) boiler and nuclear power plant

startup testing followed by system analysis

in fast breeder reactor design studies and

power plant improvement projects in pressur-

ized water reactors

He got to the aerospace industry at The Mar-

quardt Company where he started as the

manager of their small rocket and ramjet engine test facility (The

Marquardt Jet Laboratory MJL) and moved on to program manage-

ment of USN USAF and USA weapons systems development pro-

grams (cluster munitions chemical weapons Sidewinder missile

warheads etc) After that a short stint at Vacco Industries as a pro-

gram manager for satellite propulsion system components landed

him at Boeing Rocketdyne in 1998

At Rocketdyne Bill started on the RS-68 Development Program as

the engine test planner and got involved with gimbal and Pogo con-

trol systems He then joined the International Space Station team

and a control software test group for the solar arrays This task was

followed in 2003 by MMRTG System Engineering where he was

one of 2 system engineers on the program and the primary author of the first half of this paper In 2006 he became the

Deputy IPT Lead for System Engineering on the J-2X Development Program In 2011 he became the Deputy IPT Lead

for System Development and Test initially on NASArsquos J-2X contract of the Constellation program but ultimately expanded

to RS-25 and the Space Launch System program

He holds a Bachelorrsquos degree in Mechanical Engineering from New York University a Masterrsquos Degree in Nuclear Engineering

from the University of Virginia and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Astronautical Engineering from UCLA

December 2014 | Page 5

DISCOUNTS FOR NEW MEMBERSStudents who attend any of our Section events and are not yet AIAA members will receive a FREE 1‐year AIAAstudent membership In addition new AIAA professional members who attend any of our events will receive a $35DISCOUNT on their membership To obtain your membership promotion please sign up as a new member at theevent itself by completing our membership form or bring to us proof that you have signed up as a new memberduring the month prior to the event

We also offer a promotion for graduating students who transfer to professional membership The first year transitionfrom student to professional membership is $30 (14 of the full rate)

December 2014 | Page 6

Future Events

Thursday December 18 AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Dinner Meeting 530 pm ‐ 900 pm Author Craig HarwoodldquoA Unique Aviation Historyrdquo Crowne Plaza Los Angeles Airport 5985 W Century Blvd Los Angeles CA 90045He will be signing copies of his book ldquoQuest for Flightrdquo To register click here httpevrdusTRS+g

January 21 2015 and the third Wednesday of each month 1100 am Meetings of the AIAA Alumni Group of the LosAngeles ‐ Las Vegas Section Discuss topics of current or historical aerospace interest Lunch following the meetingWestern Museum of Flight Torrance Airport 3315 Airport Drive Torrance CA For more information contact JerryLockenour at (310) 406‐8068 jerrylockenourverizonnet or Gary Moir at (310) 378‐7076 garymoiringenuircom

January 22 2015 AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Technical Luncheon co‐hosted by the UCLA AIAA Student Branch onMulti‐Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) Speaker Bill Kelly MMRTG Program Manager UCLAin Mechanical amp Aeronautical Engineering Building 4 Check the AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Section website for updateson registration and time Please see the advertisement on page 5 for more details

February 10 2015 Deadline Reinventing Space Track 2015 ‐ Call for Abstracts Reinventing Space will be a Trackof the AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition (SPACE 2015) which will be held from 31 August ‐ 2September 2015 in Pasadena CA at the Pasadena Convention Center The Forum website is now open for ab‐stract submission httpswwwaiaaorgEventDetailaspxid=20952

February 13 2015 Deadline Call for Presentations Improving Space Ops Workshop Presentations (no paper required)are solicited on a broad range of operations and support topics related to the workshop theme Presentations shouldbe of an educational nature and not a product or service advertisement Please send a paragraph describing yourtopic(s) to the chair of the AIAA Space Operations and Support Technical Committee Larry Bryant atlarrywbryantjplnasagov by close of business February 13 2015 Include your employer and contact informationwhen submitting your proposal(s) If selected for presentation charts must be submitted by end of business April 1 2015

March 14 2015 INCOSE‐LA 2015 Mini‐Conference The 2015 Mini‐Conference is a one‐day event geared forthose local to Los Angeles and will be hosted at Loyola Marymount University on March 14th Traditionally theevent has provided a relatively low‐key environment to interact with others in the systems engineering com‐munity Early Registration is now open and accessible at httpwwwincose‐la‐miniconferenceorg

UCLA Extension Spring Courses Spring enrollment for UCLA Extension Engineering courses begins February 3 2015 In addition classes are being of‐fered in areas such as Integrated Circuit Design Manufacturing Digital Signal Processing Communication Systems andLean Six Sigma For the general engineering flyer for a list of current programs and details on how to enroll clickhttpsinfoaiaaorgRegionsWesternLAListsAnnouncementsAttachments215General20Engineering20Flyerpdf For a flyer for the Astronautical Engineering Space Mission Systems Engineering course required for UCLA Ex‐tensionrsquos Certificate program click httpsinfoaiaaorgRegionsWesternLAListsAnnouncementsAttach‐ments215Space20Mission20Systems20Engineering[1]pdf

For those who would like to take a shorter course in a more specialized area UCLA Extension Engineering offerspublic short courses that may be of interest Please follow the link below for more details Communications amp Sensors Engineering1 DSP for Communication Systems

Aerospace amp Mechanical Engineering1 Kalman Filtering Theory and Applications2 Aerospace Composite Materials

Public Short Course Website httpswwwuclaextensionedushortcoursesPagescoursesaspx

General Aviation SummaryRon pointed out that many aircraft companies werefounded in Wichita KS including Mooney General Avia‐tion production in the US went through an economicslump as costs rose the economy slumped and litigatorsextended the statute of limitations on ldquodesign flawsrdquo Dur‐ing the heyday Cessna was producing an aircraft an hourfrom three production lines Mooneyrsquos goal next year isto produce 24 M20rsquos

Ron invited audience participation One series of ques‐tions inquired about the ballistic parachutes used in somelight sport aircraft Mooney doesnrsquot plan to offer eitherparachutes or light sport aircraft Ron contends that thesafety record of aircraft with parachutes is actually worsethan those without them The structural and componentweight penalties and cost are mainly justified if thebuyerrsquos family allows the pilot to buy the aircraft He as‐serts pilots are generally much safer avoiding marginalconditions and flying a damaged aircraft to an airport orsurvivable crash site

Mooney News amp HistoryMooney Aircraft Company was founded in 1929 by Albertand Arthur Mooney and first bankrupted in 1930 Thebrothers restarted the company in 1946 with funding fromCharles Pappy Yankey in Kerrville Texas All three exitedthe company by 1955 the year the first four‐place M20entered production The company has passed throughseveral owners and bankruptcies since then while peri‐odically updating the M20 The latest M20 variants are theOvation and Acclaim Type S which continue the traditionof cruising at about one mph per rated horsepowerMooneyrsquos motto is ldquoWe love to fly FASTrdquo

Mooney was recently bought out of bankruptcy by a Chi‐nese investor called ldquoSoaring Americardquo They are NOTowned by the Chinese government as are many other avi‐ation‐related companies They recently added an office inHunan China and announced the new M10T and M10Jaircraft November 11 at the Zhuhai China airshow Theinvestors expect airspace restrictions in China to be liber‐alized in the next few years Ron says private aircraft arecurrently limited to fly below 3000ft above mean sealevel When the altitude restriction is raised they expecta healthy market for small light aircraft

Ron is the Chief Engineer at Mooney International‐Chinowhere they are developing the M10T and M10J Both aresingle engine low‐wing tricycle gear composite aircraftwith Continental diesel engines The M10T is a fixed geartrainer and has three seats The M10J adds retractablegear is a two‐seat airplane and has a 155HP flat‐ratedwater‐cooled turbocharged engine Both models can useeither jet fuel or diesel fuel and employ a single‐lever fullauthority digital engine control system This simplifies en‐gine management for the pilot as well as improving reli‐ability and efficiency since it prevents the engine frombeing operated improperly

Many thanks are due to The Aerospace Corporation forhosting this Technical Luncheon

Our next Technical Luncheon will be co‐hosted by theUCLA AIAA Student Branch on January 22 2015 Programmanager Bill Kelly will present the Multi‐Mission Radioiso‐tope Thermoelectric Generator which has powered theMars Curiosity Rover Scientific Laboratory for over 840Martian days Please see the advertisement on page 5

Ron Blum ‐ AIAA Los Angeles‐ Las Vegas Section Technical Luncheon (continued from page 3)

December 2014 | Page 4

From left M20T M20J (Mooney International)

Mars Curiosity Rover Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG)

Bill Kelly - Program Manager MMRTG

Upcoming AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas Technical Luncheon January 22 2015

UCLA in Mechanical amp Aeronautical Engineering Building 4

Click here to register httpaiaa-ucla-mmrtg-technical-luncheoneventbritecom

The next Technical Luncheon will be hosted by the UCLA AIAA Student Chapter Bill Kelly will present the development of

the power supply for the Mars Curiosity rover Bill served as a program manager for the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Ther-

moelectric Generator The MMRTG was developed by Aerojet-Rocketdyne and Teledyne The Curiosity Science Lab was

launched on November 26 2011 and landed August 6 2012 It has performed flawlessly on Mars for over 830 sols (Martian

days) and is still making news The MMRTG will be used on future similar missions to Mars and will be a key enabler for

nine other candidate deep-space missions

William M Kelly (Bill) had a whole career at

the Babcock and Wilcox Company (135

years) before he got to the Aerospace indus-

try That career included fossil-fueled (coal

oil gas) boiler and nuclear power plant

startup testing followed by system analysis

in fast breeder reactor design studies and

power plant improvement projects in pressur-

ized water reactors

He got to the aerospace industry at The Mar-

quardt Company where he started as the

manager of their small rocket and ramjet engine test facility (The

Marquardt Jet Laboratory MJL) and moved on to program manage-

ment of USN USAF and USA weapons systems development pro-

grams (cluster munitions chemical weapons Sidewinder missile

warheads etc) After that a short stint at Vacco Industries as a pro-

gram manager for satellite propulsion system components landed

him at Boeing Rocketdyne in 1998

At Rocketdyne Bill started on the RS-68 Development Program as

the engine test planner and got involved with gimbal and Pogo con-

trol systems He then joined the International Space Station team

and a control software test group for the solar arrays This task was

followed in 2003 by MMRTG System Engineering where he was

one of 2 system engineers on the program and the primary author of the first half of this paper In 2006 he became the

Deputy IPT Lead for System Engineering on the J-2X Development Program In 2011 he became the Deputy IPT Lead

for System Development and Test initially on NASArsquos J-2X contract of the Constellation program but ultimately expanded

to RS-25 and the Space Launch System program

He holds a Bachelorrsquos degree in Mechanical Engineering from New York University a Masterrsquos Degree in Nuclear Engineering

from the University of Virginia and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Astronautical Engineering from UCLA

December 2014 | Page 5

DISCOUNTS FOR NEW MEMBERSStudents who attend any of our Section events and are not yet AIAA members will receive a FREE 1‐year AIAAstudent membership In addition new AIAA professional members who attend any of our events will receive a $35DISCOUNT on their membership To obtain your membership promotion please sign up as a new member at theevent itself by completing our membership form or bring to us proof that you have signed up as a new memberduring the month prior to the event

We also offer a promotion for graduating students who transfer to professional membership The first year transitionfrom student to professional membership is $30 (14 of the full rate)

December 2014 | Page 6

Future Events

Thursday December 18 AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Dinner Meeting 530 pm ‐ 900 pm Author Craig HarwoodldquoA Unique Aviation Historyrdquo Crowne Plaza Los Angeles Airport 5985 W Century Blvd Los Angeles CA 90045He will be signing copies of his book ldquoQuest for Flightrdquo To register click here httpevrdusTRS+g

January 21 2015 and the third Wednesday of each month 1100 am Meetings of the AIAA Alumni Group of the LosAngeles ‐ Las Vegas Section Discuss topics of current or historical aerospace interest Lunch following the meetingWestern Museum of Flight Torrance Airport 3315 Airport Drive Torrance CA For more information contact JerryLockenour at (310) 406‐8068 jerrylockenourverizonnet or Gary Moir at (310) 378‐7076 garymoiringenuircom

January 22 2015 AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Technical Luncheon co‐hosted by the UCLA AIAA Student Branch onMulti‐Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) Speaker Bill Kelly MMRTG Program Manager UCLAin Mechanical amp Aeronautical Engineering Building 4 Check the AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Section website for updateson registration and time Please see the advertisement on page 5 for more details

February 10 2015 Deadline Reinventing Space Track 2015 ‐ Call for Abstracts Reinventing Space will be a Trackof the AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition (SPACE 2015) which will be held from 31 August ‐ 2September 2015 in Pasadena CA at the Pasadena Convention Center The Forum website is now open for ab‐stract submission httpswwwaiaaorgEventDetailaspxid=20952

February 13 2015 Deadline Call for Presentations Improving Space Ops Workshop Presentations (no paper required)are solicited on a broad range of operations and support topics related to the workshop theme Presentations shouldbe of an educational nature and not a product or service advertisement Please send a paragraph describing yourtopic(s) to the chair of the AIAA Space Operations and Support Technical Committee Larry Bryant atlarrywbryantjplnasagov by close of business February 13 2015 Include your employer and contact informationwhen submitting your proposal(s) If selected for presentation charts must be submitted by end of business April 1 2015

March 14 2015 INCOSE‐LA 2015 Mini‐Conference The 2015 Mini‐Conference is a one‐day event geared forthose local to Los Angeles and will be hosted at Loyola Marymount University on March 14th Traditionally theevent has provided a relatively low‐key environment to interact with others in the systems engineering com‐munity Early Registration is now open and accessible at httpwwwincose‐la‐miniconferenceorg

UCLA Extension Spring Courses Spring enrollment for UCLA Extension Engineering courses begins February 3 2015 In addition classes are being of‐fered in areas such as Integrated Circuit Design Manufacturing Digital Signal Processing Communication Systems andLean Six Sigma For the general engineering flyer for a list of current programs and details on how to enroll clickhttpsinfoaiaaorgRegionsWesternLAListsAnnouncementsAttachments215General20Engineering20Flyerpdf For a flyer for the Astronautical Engineering Space Mission Systems Engineering course required for UCLA Ex‐tensionrsquos Certificate program click httpsinfoaiaaorgRegionsWesternLAListsAnnouncementsAttach‐ments215Space20Mission20Systems20Engineering[1]pdf

For those who would like to take a shorter course in a more specialized area UCLA Extension Engineering offerspublic short courses that may be of interest Please follow the link below for more details Communications amp Sensors Engineering1 DSP for Communication Systems

Aerospace amp Mechanical Engineering1 Kalman Filtering Theory and Applications2 Aerospace Composite Materials

Public Short Course Website httpswwwuclaextensionedushortcoursesPagescoursesaspx

Mars Curiosity Rover Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG)

Bill Kelly - Program Manager MMRTG

Upcoming AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas Technical Luncheon January 22 2015

UCLA in Mechanical amp Aeronautical Engineering Building 4

Click here to register httpaiaa-ucla-mmrtg-technical-luncheoneventbritecom

The next Technical Luncheon will be hosted by the UCLA AIAA Student Chapter Bill Kelly will present the development of

the power supply for the Mars Curiosity rover Bill served as a program manager for the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Ther-

moelectric Generator The MMRTG was developed by Aerojet-Rocketdyne and Teledyne The Curiosity Science Lab was

launched on November 26 2011 and landed August 6 2012 It has performed flawlessly on Mars for over 830 sols (Martian

days) and is still making news The MMRTG will be used on future similar missions to Mars and will be a key enabler for

nine other candidate deep-space missions

William M Kelly (Bill) had a whole career at

the Babcock and Wilcox Company (135

years) before he got to the Aerospace indus-

try That career included fossil-fueled (coal

oil gas) boiler and nuclear power plant

startup testing followed by system analysis

in fast breeder reactor design studies and

power plant improvement projects in pressur-

ized water reactors

He got to the aerospace industry at The Mar-

quardt Company where he started as the

manager of their small rocket and ramjet engine test facility (The

Marquardt Jet Laboratory MJL) and moved on to program manage-

ment of USN USAF and USA weapons systems development pro-

grams (cluster munitions chemical weapons Sidewinder missile

warheads etc) After that a short stint at Vacco Industries as a pro-

gram manager for satellite propulsion system components landed

him at Boeing Rocketdyne in 1998

At Rocketdyne Bill started on the RS-68 Development Program as

the engine test planner and got involved with gimbal and Pogo con-

trol systems He then joined the International Space Station team

and a control software test group for the solar arrays This task was

followed in 2003 by MMRTG System Engineering where he was

one of 2 system engineers on the program and the primary author of the first half of this paper In 2006 he became the

Deputy IPT Lead for System Engineering on the J-2X Development Program In 2011 he became the Deputy IPT Lead

for System Development and Test initially on NASArsquos J-2X contract of the Constellation program but ultimately expanded

to RS-25 and the Space Launch System program

He holds a Bachelorrsquos degree in Mechanical Engineering from New York University a Masterrsquos Degree in Nuclear Engineering

from the University of Virginia and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Astronautical Engineering from UCLA

December 2014 | Page 5

DISCOUNTS FOR NEW MEMBERSStudents who attend any of our Section events and are not yet AIAA members will receive a FREE 1‐year AIAAstudent membership In addition new AIAA professional members who attend any of our events will receive a $35DISCOUNT on their membership To obtain your membership promotion please sign up as a new member at theevent itself by completing our membership form or bring to us proof that you have signed up as a new memberduring the month prior to the event

We also offer a promotion for graduating students who transfer to professional membership The first year transitionfrom student to professional membership is $30 (14 of the full rate)

December 2014 | Page 6

Future Events

Thursday December 18 AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Dinner Meeting 530 pm ‐ 900 pm Author Craig HarwoodldquoA Unique Aviation Historyrdquo Crowne Plaza Los Angeles Airport 5985 W Century Blvd Los Angeles CA 90045He will be signing copies of his book ldquoQuest for Flightrdquo To register click here httpevrdusTRS+g

January 21 2015 and the third Wednesday of each month 1100 am Meetings of the AIAA Alumni Group of the LosAngeles ‐ Las Vegas Section Discuss topics of current or historical aerospace interest Lunch following the meetingWestern Museum of Flight Torrance Airport 3315 Airport Drive Torrance CA For more information contact JerryLockenour at (310) 406‐8068 jerrylockenourverizonnet or Gary Moir at (310) 378‐7076 garymoiringenuircom

January 22 2015 AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Technical Luncheon co‐hosted by the UCLA AIAA Student Branch onMulti‐Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) Speaker Bill Kelly MMRTG Program Manager UCLAin Mechanical amp Aeronautical Engineering Building 4 Check the AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Section website for updateson registration and time Please see the advertisement on page 5 for more details

February 10 2015 Deadline Reinventing Space Track 2015 ‐ Call for Abstracts Reinventing Space will be a Trackof the AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition (SPACE 2015) which will be held from 31 August ‐ 2September 2015 in Pasadena CA at the Pasadena Convention Center The Forum website is now open for ab‐stract submission httpswwwaiaaorgEventDetailaspxid=20952

February 13 2015 Deadline Call for Presentations Improving Space Ops Workshop Presentations (no paper required)are solicited on a broad range of operations and support topics related to the workshop theme Presentations shouldbe of an educational nature and not a product or service advertisement Please send a paragraph describing yourtopic(s) to the chair of the AIAA Space Operations and Support Technical Committee Larry Bryant atlarrywbryantjplnasagov by close of business February 13 2015 Include your employer and contact informationwhen submitting your proposal(s) If selected for presentation charts must be submitted by end of business April 1 2015

March 14 2015 INCOSE‐LA 2015 Mini‐Conference The 2015 Mini‐Conference is a one‐day event geared forthose local to Los Angeles and will be hosted at Loyola Marymount University on March 14th Traditionally theevent has provided a relatively low‐key environment to interact with others in the systems engineering com‐munity Early Registration is now open and accessible at httpwwwincose‐la‐miniconferenceorg

UCLA Extension Spring Courses Spring enrollment for UCLA Extension Engineering courses begins February 3 2015 In addition classes are being of‐fered in areas such as Integrated Circuit Design Manufacturing Digital Signal Processing Communication Systems andLean Six Sigma For the general engineering flyer for a list of current programs and details on how to enroll clickhttpsinfoaiaaorgRegionsWesternLAListsAnnouncementsAttachments215General20Engineering20Flyerpdf For a flyer for the Astronautical Engineering Space Mission Systems Engineering course required for UCLA Ex‐tensionrsquos Certificate program click httpsinfoaiaaorgRegionsWesternLAListsAnnouncementsAttach‐ments215Space20Mission20Systems20Engineering[1]pdf

For those who would like to take a shorter course in a more specialized area UCLA Extension Engineering offerspublic short courses that may be of interest Please follow the link below for more details Communications amp Sensors Engineering1 DSP for Communication Systems

Aerospace amp Mechanical Engineering1 Kalman Filtering Theory and Applications2 Aerospace Composite Materials

Public Short Course Website httpswwwuclaextensionedushortcoursesPagescoursesaspx

December 2014 | Page 6

Future Events

Thursday December 18 AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Dinner Meeting 530 pm ‐ 900 pm Author Craig HarwoodldquoA Unique Aviation Historyrdquo Crowne Plaza Los Angeles Airport 5985 W Century Blvd Los Angeles CA 90045He will be signing copies of his book ldquoQuest for Flightrdquo To register click here httpevrdusTRS+g

January 21 2015 and the third Wednesday of each month 1100 am Meetings of the AIAA Alumni Group of the LosAngeles ‐ Las Vegas Section Discuss topics of current or historical aerospace interest Lunch following the meetingWestern Museum of Flight Torrance Airport 3315 Airport Drive Torrance CA For more information contact JerryLockenour at (310) 406‐8068 jerrylockenourverizonnet or Gary Moir at (310) 378‐7076 garymoiringenuircom

January 22 2015 AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Technical Luncheon co‐hosted by the UCLA AIAA Student Branch onMulti‐Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) Speaker Bill Kelly MMRTG Program Manager UCLAin Mechanical amp Aeronautical Engineering Building 4 Check the AIAA Los Angeles‐Las Vegas Section website for updateson registration and time Please see the advertisement on page 5 for more details

February 10 2015 Deadline Reinventing Space Track 2015 ‐ Call for Abstracts Reinventing Space will be a Trackof the AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition (SPACE 2015) which will be held from 31 August ‐ 2September 2015 in Pasadena CA at the Pasadena Convention Center The Forum website is now open for ab‐stract submission httpswwwaiaaorgEventDetailaspxid=20952

February 13 2015 Deadline Call for Presentations Improving Space Ops Workshop Presentations (no paper required)are solicited on a broad range of operations and support topics related to the workshop theme Presentations shouldbe of an educational nature and not a product or service advertisement Please send a paragraph describing yourtopic(s) to the chair of the AIAA Space Operations and Support Technical Committee Larry Bryant atlarrywbryantjplnasagov by close of business February 13 2015 Include your employer and contact informationwhen submitting your proposal(s) If selected for presentation charts must be submitted by end of business April 1 2015

March 14 2015 INCOSE‐LA 2015 Mini‐Conference The 2015 Mini‐Conference is a one‐day event geared forthose local to Los Angeles and will be hosted at Loyola Marymount University on March 14th Traditionally theevent has provided a relatively low‐key environment to interact with others in the systems engineering com‐munity Early Registration is now open and accessible at httpwwwincose‐la‐miniconferenceorg

UCLA Extension Spring Courses Spring enrollment for UCLA Extension Engineering courses begins February 3 2015 In addition classes are being of‐fered in areas such as Integrated Circuit Design Manufacturing Digital Signal Processing Communication Systems andLean Six Sigma For the general engineering flyer for a list of current programs and details on how to enroll clickhttpsinfoaiaaorgRegionsWesternLAListsAnnouncementsAttachments215General20Engineering20Flyerpdf For a flyer for the Astronautical Engineering Space Mission Systems Engineering course required for UCLA Ex‐tensionrsquos Certificate program click httpsinfoaiaaorgRegionsWesternLAListsAnnouncementsAttach‐ments215Space20Mission20Systems20Engineering[1]pdf

For those who would like to take a shorter course in a more specialized area UCLA Extension Engineering offerspublic short courses that may be of interest Please follow the link below for more details Communications amp Sensors Engineering1 DSP for Communication Systems

Aerospace amp Mechanical Engineering1 Kalman Filtering Theory and Applications2 Aerospace Composite Materials

Public Short Course Website httpswwwuclaextensionedushortcoursesPagescoursesaspx