Professor Sankaran Mahadevan has been elected Technical Chair of the 3rd AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Conference in 2007. This annual four-day conference is co-located with the AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Dynamics and Materials (SDM) Conference. In 2008, Professor Mahadevan will serve as General Chair of the NDA conference. Previously, he had served as Technical Chair of the SDM conference in 2005 in Austin, Texas.