Recruit Votes For Dr. Yang At Delta TechOps, NASA ERA Program And Supersonic Business Jets

This event is not open to the General Public or to all AIAA Atlanta Section Members.

This event is an attempt by AIAA Atlanta Section to help elect Dr. Vigor Yang, Chair of Aerospace  Engineering at Georgia Tech, to be AIAA President by recruiting AIAA Members at Delta Air Lines.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

TOC1, 2^nd Floor Classrooms

David Garrison, SVP Engineering, Quality, Planning & Logistics

Dr. Vigor Yang, Chair of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech

Dr. Dimitri Mavris, Director of the Aerospace Systems Design Lab at Georgia Tech

Mr. Steve Justice, Executive Director – Centers of Innovation, Georgia Department of Economic Development

David Garrison and Dr. Vigor Yang invite you to join them at a Lunch & Learn Event co-sponsored by the Atlanta Section of AIAA.  AIAA is an international technical society dedicated to the arts and sciences of the aerospace profession.  AIAA is the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession and has more than 30,000 members worldwide.

In addition to directing the aerospace programs at Georgia Tech, Dr. Yang is a Fellow in the AIAA and is running to be its President.  He would like to share with you his goals & objectives if he is elected.  See website www.ae.gatech.edu/aiaa-yang for more details. AIAA Atlanta Council Members will discuss the benefits of choosing AIAA as your technical society as a way to keep informed of technology innovations, public policy issues and career advancement opportunities that may apply to Delta’s Engineering and MRO at TechOps.

If you want to support and vote for Dr. Yang in his campaign for President, you would first need to join AIAA.  Voting for Dr. Yang must be done by close of the election on March 31, 2017.

Special presentations will be made by distinguished AIAA Members:

• Dimitri Mavris (Fellow)will speak about the NASA Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) Project.
• Steve Justice (Associate Fellow)will speak about Supersonic Business Jets (SSBJ).

Something in these two currently active topics will surely catch your attention. Will Delta soon add SSBJ’s to its current fleet of Private Jets?

Free box lunch, i.e.,  deli sandwich, chips & can of soda, to first 100 attendees.  Feel free to bring your favorite lunch items if you prefer that instead.  Registration in advance at website aiaa-atlanta.org is required so that we can properly prepare accommodations for everyone.

Contact Aaron Harcrow (AIAA Senior Member, Atlanta Section Council, Membership Committee Chair; DGS Contractor assigned to Enabling Technologies), aaron.harcrow@delta.com, if you have any questions about this event.