AIAA Announces Candidates for Its 2018 AIAA Council of Directors Election Written 1 November 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: John Blacksten
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November 2, 2017 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is pleased to announce that its Council Nominating Committee has selected candidates for next year’s openings on the AIAA Council of Directors. The Committee’s Chair, Jane Hansen, and AIAA Governance Secretary, Christopher Horton, confirmed the names of the director candidates who will appear on the 2018 ballot.

The nominees are:

Director–Aerospace Sciences Group

• Brett Ridgely, Raytheon Missile Systems Company
  
• Robin Vermeland, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company

Director–Aerospace Design & Structures Group

• Carlos Cesnik, University of Michigan
• Thiagarajan Krishnamurthy, NASA Langley Research Center

Director–Region III

• Daniel Jensen, Rolls-Royce Corporation

Director–Region VI

• Darin Haudrich, Northrop Grumman Corporation
• Jeffery Puschell, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems

Elections will open in February 2018.

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