September 19, 2016

Branch Activity Report

Student Branch Name: University of Washington at Seattle

Region (I,II,III,IV,V,VI): VI Section: Pacific Northwest

Web Presence (Facebook, Website, Twitter, etc.)______

Department (Aerospace, Mechanical, Computer, Electrical, etc.) Aerospace

Elections (March, April, May, etc.): October

Old Branch Officers New Branch Officers

Student Branch Chair Student Branch Chair

Name: Ethan Ludlam Member Number: 515865 Name: Alexis Harroun Member Number: 543580

Student Branch Vice-Chair Student Branch Vice-Chair

Name: Bailey Bonaci Member Number: 516029 Name: Josh Esfeld Member Number: 738693

Secretary: Secretary:

Name: Zhisong Chen Member Number: 513258 Name: Brett Biggs Member Number: 690548

Treasurer: Treasurer:

Name: Jamie Lambie Member Number: 512040 Name: Riley Pratt Member Number: 631687

Other officers: Other officers:

Name: Navdeep Sandhu Member Number: 497586 Name: Justin Carpenter Member Number: 644072

Name: Daniel Cruz Member Number: 511616 Name: Tyler Sheehan Member Number: 499913

Name: ______Member Number: ______Name: ______Member Number: ______

Old Faculty Advisor: New Faculty Advisor:

Name: Adam Bruckner Member Number: 002090 Name: ______Member Number: ______

Do you have a tax id number under the AIAA umbrella? If yes, have you completed your IRS form 990-N (online only) for the latest tax year?

Please indicate responses below:

1. Did your branch participate in local section events? Yes No

2. Did any members of your branch participate in any AIAA conferences? Yes No

3. Did you have any members participate in the following student programs?

Scholarships / Yes / No
Design, Build, Fly / Yes / No
Design Competitions / Yes / No
Student Paper Conferences / Yes / No

If you would like to provide more details regarding your branch activities please submit an additional page(s)

The University of Washington student chapter of the AIAA had another successful year and has increased the number of events it conducts. The UW AIAA chapter goals are to facilitate and improve the community between students, faculty, and industry involved in AIAA and aerospace at the University of Washington.

The UW AIAA chapter hosted a variety of professional events throughout the year to help students network with their peers and companies in the area. In the fall of 2015, the chapter held a resume workshop, where students worked one-on-one with professors and industry representatives on how to market themselves. A few weeks afterward the chapter held a night with industry event, where representatives from aerospace companies in the Seattle area presented their companies and students were able to discuss opportunities. The two events were designed to prepare students for those conversations with potential employers.

In addition, the chapter held a student mentor night during the spring of 2016. Pre-engineering students were paired with student mentors who were currently in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. During the event, the pre-engineering students were able to meet their fellow aerospace-bound peers and learn from the upperclassmen about the road ahead of them in the department. The event helped foster relationships between the different grades of the department and comradery for the next generation of aerospace engineers.

The University of Washington had a strong showing at the AIAA Section VI student conference this year in Corvallis, Oregon. In the undergraduate category, Mia Lee (“Tunable Bistability of Origami-based Mechanical Metamaterials”), Zhisong Chen (“Leaf-out Origami with Multi-Configuration Stability”), and Lucas Heflin (“Baffled Tube Ram Accelerator”) won first, second, and third, respectively. In the graduate category, Jake Boening (“Design and Experimental Investigation of a Continuously Rotating Detonation Engine Initiated by Azimuthally Sequential Sparking”), Navid Daneshvaran (“Transient Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling of Baffled Tube Ram Accelerator in Eulerian Frame of Reference”), and Wei-Siang Lay (“Design of a Rail Gun System for Mitigating Disruptions in Fusion Reactors”) won first, second, and third, respectively. All eleven participants showcased the impressive research they conducted in the aerospace department.

The UW’s Design, Build, Fly student team has grown to include 25 active members. This year the team entered two successful planes into the AIAA DBF competition. Their plane placed 25th out of 100 entries, demonstrating the team’s technical ability.