Post on 13-Dec-2015
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
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
COST
Front ~ $300-$500 Actual Cost ~ $200-$300 Funding
Polygon Engineering Council Engineering Physics AIAA Wisconsin Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium NASA? Pizza Sales
PROCESS
1. Dates, Places, General Itinerary finalized - Next couple months
2. Students participate in Funding process- Instructions next meeting
3. Students instructed when and where to purchase airline tickets
- Second spring meeting
4. Secure spot (20 person cap.)- Participate in funding process- Purchase airline ticket
Next Semester
Guest Speakers Brant White, ORBITEC Prof. Matt Allen, UW-Madison Distinguished AIAA Lecturer, TBA
COE Events Book Exchange (Volunteers needed!)
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
Meeting Day Change
Proposed: Tuesday-night meetings Same general time and location Special meetings for trip & guest lecturers
Any conflicts?
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