Dr. Sivaram Gogineni, a candidate for AIAA President-Elect, met with members of the AIAA San Francisco Section at noon-time today, March 11, in Mountain View. (This event was previously announced in the section e-mail update.) Dr. Gogineni was nominated for the position by former AIAA president Dr. Donald Richardson.
The meeting covered a lot of ground, with Dr. Gogineni opening with his view of issues facing AIAA and what needs to be done, followed by general discussion of issues at the section level and how he has dealt with them. He stated that he is prepared to visit as many sections as possible, meeting with section leaders to discuss their problems.
He is a fellow of AIAA and ASME, has been active in both, and is thus able to draw experience from both sides; but he spends most of his time with AIAA. Outside of these, he was one of the founders of eFluids (http://www.efluids.com), the free on-line resource on fluid dynamics and flow engineering. (To the surprise of the web maintainers present, he was chair of the AIAA web advisory committee, and was able to share some insights into how the national AIAA website got to be what it is.)
It was an intriguing meeting as he directly addressed a lot of concerns that AIAA SF section leaders have. No one left until absolutely necessary. He has posted a site with more information on his candidacy (http://www.gogineni.info).
Hopefully, some of the other attendees will be able to offer their impressions here...
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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