Well, the past week has been absolutely crazy… AirPad (the student organization at Iowa State that of which I serve as President) attended the AIAA Region V Conference in Cedar Rapids this week. The conference ran from Wednesday to Friday, but since I’m currently working full time at Rockwell Collins as a Co-op, I had to juggle both the conference and work! Everyone from Ames arrived on Wednesday night, and the presentations were Thursday and Friday. We presented on Thursday afternoon, and did pretty well! Friday evening there was a dinner and Kent Statler, the Executive Vice President of Commercial Systems at Rockwell Collins, was the keynote speaker. After dinner, the awards ceremony was held for the winners of the conference. Unfortunately, AirPad didn’t win any of the awards, but considering that we’ve only been working on the project for a semester, we did well! We’re currently on the first iteration of the project, and we’ll be continuing into other iterations of the project in the future, and returning to the conference next year to present our new research and hopefully do even better!
I’m spending the weekend recuperating from the crazy week, then it’s back to work on Monday. The coming week shouldn’t be as crazy, but next weekend is VEISHEA at Iowa State, so I’ll be returning to Ames.
