Round up your YP colleagues and join us at our fall 2023 Pacific Northwest AIAA Young Professionals networking event on November 1st at the Airways Brewing Tap Room & Brewery in the Pacific Business Park in Kent (not the one downtown)!  

Connect with old friends and make new friends. Catch up on what you used to do, what you’re doing now and what you’d like to be doing in the future. Find out what your peers are up to in other parts of Northwest aerospace. Get the inside story and what’s in store. It’s always good to be in the know and this is one way to find out. It’s also good to get out of the office, out of the house and into some pizza and beer with your friends and colleagues. Meet up with your local section AIAA leaders; find out what’s coming up; give us your thoughts on what you’d like to see; find out where you can get involved.

We’ll start up around 5:00, with pizza (we’re buying that) coming in around 6:00.

Feel free to pass this invitation along and invite your non-AIAA YP colleagues. Get up, get out, and get back on the grapevine!

When & Where

Wednesday November 1, 2023 | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
In Person at Airways Brewing – Tap Room & Brewery
8611 S 212th St, Kent WA 98031 — In The Pacific Business Park

If you want to get an advance look at the the Airways Brewing Tap Room & Brewery, take a look at https://www.airwaysbrewing.com/tap-room-brewery/. To see some of their selections, take a look at https://www.airwaysbrewing.com/our-beers/. (Note: this is not their Bistro & Beer Garden in downtown Kent; this is the brewery where they make the stuff. The location is on their website and in the registration form.)

Registration

WE NEED YOUR RSVP so we can bring enough pizza, so be sure to register for yourself and any guests you’ll be bringing. Click this button to go register yourself and any of your guests:

Hybrid In-Person and Online Event Thursday, October 19, 2023 | 6:00 to 8:00 pm Pacific

• In person at Raisbeck Aviation High School (Seattle area)
• In person at Battle Ground High School (Vancouver WA/Portland OR area)
• Online via Zoom

Space is pretty much at the top of the list of places not friendly to humans. No air, no pressure, too much heat, too little heat, radiation, micrometeoroids.

Survival is first, but if we want to get things done, humans must be able to perform, or why bother going in person? The space suit is an extraterrestrial vehicle we haven’t talked about much in prior tech talks, and we’re going to correct that on October 19th when we’ve invited Dr. Shane Jacobs to enlighten us with his decades of experience in pressure suits and other protective technologies.

About Dr. Shane Jacobs

Dr. Jacobs is the Design Manager at David Clark Company, where he leads a team of designers and engineers in the design, fabrication and testing of new and innovative pressure suits and other aerospace crew protective equipment.

Some of the recent designs Dr. Jacobs and his team have developed include the S1041 OCSS for NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the S1100 Salus for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, and the suit for Red Bull Stratos. Dr. Jacobs and his team are currently working with Axiom Space on their AxEMU for lunar exploration as part of NASA’s Artemis program.

Dr. Jacobs has A BS in mechanical engineering from McGill University and masters and PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland. He has authored and co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed research papers in the areas of space suit design and aerospace crew protective equipment. He is a long-running guest lecturer in human systems engineering at MIT. He’s even been in show biz, consulting on the costume design for the space suits in the movie “Interstellar.”

Locations and Registration

Dr. Jacobs will be presenting remotely online, and we’re also meeting in person to view the presentation in TWO high school locations to share this experience…one in the greater Seattle area and one in the greater Portland/Vancouver area.

We encourage you to come in person if you can, to meet up with your professional peers over pizza and beverages and to mentor and network the next generation of aerospace professionals.

There’s no charge to attend, and we’d like you to register in advance so we can be sure to have enough food and beverage on hand at each in-person location, and to plan on online attendance numbers. Choose one of the three registration buttons below for which location you’ll be attending, so you can get the details of where to go or where to click in:

Thursday, September 21, 2023 | Zoom Meeting Online 6:00 to 7:00 pm Pacific

Kermit O. Taylor, Engineering Design Consultant

The problem:

Published research (National Association of Manufacturers/Industry Week 2016) has estimated an average defect rate of 2.7% in U.S. manufactured goods, and that it typically costs ten times as much to fix a defective assembly as it does to produce a defect free unit, pointing to scrap and rework costs that add 30% to production cost.

The opportunity:

Since 80% of factory problems can be traced back to conditions designed into the product—engineering errors built into the accepted design process—correcting those knowable flaws offers huge competitive economic opportunities.

The flaws in the design system assumptions:

Three basic categories of design practice cause almost all the problems that occur in production and assembly. These three categories are:

• The square root of squares formula: Engineering aims at the wrong target, resulting in missing the objectives
• Worst case tolerancing instructions: Found in both ASME 14.5 and many design guides, this practice injects unnecessary costs into designs
• Baseline dimensioning: Drafting classes teach this, but the practice results in much larger tolerance accumulations than necessary

About Kermit Taylor

32 years in engineering development and management, including 22 with Boeing. Some of his work has included:

Redesigned 777 cargo door control box structures from build-up to monolithic to reduce costs, lead time and variability

Authored tolerance analysis instructions and spreadsheets that enabled KC-46A and 767 programs to design assemblies to fit consistently with minimum shimming or rework, saving days of factory flow time.

R&D for armored family of vehicles, remote minefield detection, light helicopter experimental (which became the RAH-66 Comanche) and autonomous ground attack aircraft

Authored the instructional ebook Optimum Sigma is NOT 6 to teach engineers and businesses how to improve quality and production flow while increasing profitability

Join Us September 21st at 6:00 PM Pacific

(Optional) Sign up for the event here and get the full calendar event including a host of dial in numbers. Or click on the button:

Or just come in at 6:00 pm Pacific on Thursday, September 21, 2023 using this ZOOM LINK. Meeting ID: 288 862 2049 Passcode: PD2020.

We look forward to seeing you there!