Annual Meeting of the Indiana Space Grant Consortium

 

Professor Dominick Andrisani

January 30, 1998

The Consortium Concept

 

Resulted from the National Space Grant Act of 1988 with the following purposes:

 

To establish an Indiana network of universities and industries with interests and capabilities in aeronautics, space, and related fields.

 

By working together the activities of the Consortium are made greater then the activities of the individual members.

 

Objectives of the ISGC

 

Encourage cooperative aerospace related programs involving universities, industry and government,

 

Encourage education, research, and public service programs related to the aerospace industry,

 

Provide fellowships in order to recruit and train aerospace professionals, especially women, underrepresented minorities and persons with disabilities,

 

Promote a strong science, mathematics and technology education base from elementary through university levels.

 

Expansion of the Consortium

 

Director: Dominick Andrisani

Program Administrator: Diane Schafer

 

Academic Affiliates: Associate Directors

 

1. The University of Evansville* Philip Gerhart

2. Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech.* Barry Farbrother

3. Taylor University Hank Voss

4. Valparaiso University Bruce Hrivnak

5. Ball State University: Dorothy Adalis

6. Indiana University: Jeffrey R. Alberts

7. University of Notre Dame: Thomas J. Mueller

8. Purdue University - Calumet: Dominick Andrisani

9. Purdue University - West Lafayette: Edward S. Pierson

*New member

 

Institutional Affiliates Associate Directors

 

10. Imagination Station (West Laf.)* Annette Goben

11. Science Central (Fort Wayne)* Sharon Riesser-Parnin

12. Indianapolis Children's Museum* Ann Ray

 

ISGC Highlights: 1997-98

 

Addition of Two New Affiliates (U. of Evansville, Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.)

 

Three Institutional Affiliates added (Imagination Station (West Laf.), Science Central (Fort Wayne), Indianapolis Children's Museum

 

Started the Distinguished Lecture Series

1st Lecture: Indiana University: January 31, 1997

Ms. Gina Kolata science writer for the New York Times

2nd Lect: Astronauts Charles Brady and Richard Linnehan, Ball St, 9/12/97

 

Created the first NASA Academy at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Summer 1997 (5 students, $42,734)

 

Sent one student to each of the four NASA Academies* in 1997

Christen Struck, Marian College, Indianapolis, to Ames Academy

Heath Roettig, Rose-Hulman, to Dryden Academy

Chet Kumar, Purdue, to Goddard Academy

Heather Cohea, Purdue, to Marshall Academy

 

ISGC Plans: 1998

 

Add one more Academic Affiliate (IUPUI)

 

Great Midwestern Regional Space Grant Conference, March 27-28, 1998, Radisson Hotel, Chicago, hosted by ISGC (Ed Pierson)

 

National Council of Space Grant Directors Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, April 19-21

 

Sponsor 1998 Great Lakes Aviation and Space Educators Conference,

June 19-21, 1998, at Purdue University, flyers are available

 

Purdue Highlights: 1997-98

 

Mini-grants (10) to students and faculty

 

One Fellowship awarded to Steven Norris

 

NASA Academy, 2 students from Purdue, 2 more from Indiana in summer 1997

 

Aerospace teacher Workshop June 1997

 

Purdue Mini-Grant Awards

Mini-Grant Name

Investigator

Food Science Workshop

Barkman

SERIES Training

Barkman

Genetic Algorithm

Crossley

Undergraduate Design

Crossley

SEDS Fall Space Day

Longuski

Chemical Comp of Meteorite

Lipschutz

Reduced Gravity Flights

Collicott

ISGC Outreach

Andrisani

SEDS Educational Outreach

Longuski