• The Gossamer Spacecraft Program Committee: The GSPC is a forum for dissemination of information to members of the AIAA Gossamer Spacecraft Community.

• The MacTeX pages: The MacTeX website is dedicated to assisting those using TeX/LaTeX, and other variants on the MacOS platform, including MacOS versions 7-X. LaTeX is a logical document markup system that produces beautifull documents without the hassles of a GUI based system like MSWord. Designed by technical people for their own use, it fits the needs of the scientific community well. Read more here. I used Word for my MS Thesis, PhD Dissertation and numerous papers. Tried FrameMaker for 3 years, switched to LaTeX, and it's been a great time saver. Unfortunately you have to really use it to understand. The learning curve is slower than GUI methods, but it is well worth it (or why would I have switched away from Word?). Oh yeah, it's free (get it for other platforms here). For some information on writing a thesis in LaTeX, go here (includes WSU thesis template).

• The Wright State University Trebuchet Competition: The Wright State University Trebuchet Competition is a broad-spectrum educational event with the excitement of a sporting event. Students design and manufacture trebuchets, then form teams and compete in a single elimination tournament...

• AIAA Structural Dynamics Technical Committee: The Structural Dynamics Technical Committee is one of sixty-five technical committees that develop and administer the national technical programs of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Through the Technical Activities Committee (TAC), its Technical Groups and its Technical Committees, the AIAA conducts over twenty technical conferences each year. Other important roles of the AIAA include the support of short courses, scholarships, standards, technical assessments and policy papers. The Structural Dynamics Technical Committee (SDTC) is organized under the AIAA Structures, Design and Test Technical Group. The Technical Group's Deputy Director for Materials and Structures oversees the activities of the Structural Dynamics Techncial Committee.

  The technical area addressed by the Structural Dynamics Technical Committee is the interactions among aerodynamic, dynamic, elastic, damping, inertial and control forces acting on vehicles and structures. Included are response and stability investigations of linear and nonlinear systems using analytical, empirical and experimental techniques.

  The Structural Dynamics Technical Committee, through its various subcommittees, participates in organization and planning of national technical conferences and conference sessions, development of education and training aids, information gathering, assessment and distribution, promotion of cross- disciplinary activities, and promotion of candidates for awards and recognition in the structural dynamics field.

• AIAA Structural Dynamics Outreach DVD: This award winning outreach DVD has been update to version 1.1. Version 1.0 won both a Telly Award for Multimedia, and a 2006 Communicator Award for Video. Cited as a shining example of how Industry, Goverment and Academia can come together to meet out future needs for eingineers, this DVD shows the exciting opportunities that exist in the field of structural dynamics.

  The DVD/CD and material within is copyrighted. Use is restricted to educational use only. Please refer to the usage guidelines for further information. In order for the downloadable iso image to be able to fit on a CD, it does not contain Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, or Java. You may need to download and install these from Adobe and Sun respectively in order for the CD to work.

• Engineering Vibration Toolbox: The Engineering Vibration Toolbox is a set of over 35 educational programs and associated files written in MATLAB by Joseph C. Slater. It can be run on any platform supported by MATLAB (Mac, Windows, VMS, Unix) or Octave. Also included are help files, examples, and files containing raw experimental data. The codes include single degree of freedom response, response spectrum, finite elements, numerical integration, modal analysis and phase plane analysis. It is included free with the text "Engineering Vibration" by Dr. Daniel J. Inman (Prentice Hall).

• Wright State University High Altitude Balloon Team

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