{"id":84449,"date":"2019-03-19T11:06:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T09:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/the-future-of-aerospace-unveiled-at-technion-israel\/"},"modified":"2019-03-19T11:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T09:06:45","slug":"the-future-of-aerospace-unveiled-at-technion-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/the-future-of-aerospace-unveiled-at-technion-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Aerospace Unveiled at Technion Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"
Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Science<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe State of Israel must ensure its place at the forefront of research and development in the aerospace industry,\u201d said Dr. Ami Appelbaum, Chief Scientist and the Chairman of the Board of Israel Innovation Authority, as he opened the 59th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences (IACAS) held in Tel Aviv and Haifa and led by the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n The most important event in Israel in the fields of aviation and space, it was attended by some 600 engineers, scientists and other experts from Israel and abroad. The conference was led by the Technion \u2013 the only academic institution in Israel that has a faculty of aerospace engineering. The Technion Faculty, founded in 1954, has trained and continues to train the engineers who have led and are still leading Israel\u2019s aviation and space industries. The event takes place under the leadership of Prof. Emeritus Mordechai (Moti) Karpel of the Technion\u2019s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Lectures included: <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Appelbaum presented the meteoric pace of innovation in recent decades. \u201cWe are in a place similar to that at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution,\u201d he said. \u201cThe innovations that await us in the coming years will completely change our lives, including the social and cultural aspects. There is no doubt that one of the areas in which a revolution is expected is space exploration, and the State of Israel must ensure its place at the forefront of this industry in order to preserve its economic and security strength.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAeronautics is rapidly evolving into new directions, such as unmanned vehicles, where Israel is definitely leading, and there are many challenges of implementation, coordination, and security,\u201d added Prof. Karpel of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, chairman of the 59<\/span>th<\/span> IACAS Organizing Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n On the second day, which was held at Technion City, Technion\u2019s Senior Executive Vice President Prof. Adam Schwartz said: \u201cThe field of aviation engineering is an excellent example of cooperation between academia and industry. The industry is a source of interesting practical questions, and academia has the resources to develop answers to these questions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The dean of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Prof. Itzchak Frankel, said that \u201cthis conference is a powerful demonstration of the aerospace world and an expression of that vital cooperation.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n Speaking on the theme \u201cAviation\u2019s Third Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities\u201d, ICAA President Dr. Susan Ying said: \u201cWe are at the threshold of the third revolution in aviation, a revolution that will bring upon us countless developments and opportunities. The first stage began with the Wright Brothers and ended with the invention of the jet. We are now moving on to the next generation \u2013 electric aircraft. After 70 years of jet aircraft, we are moving on to the next stage, because conventional planes produce inconceivable pollution and by the middle of this century, it could become the most polluting industry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Ying was born in Taiwan and grew up in Indonesia. After graduating high school, she moved to the US, and on one of her bicycle trips she came upon a flight school where she enrolled in flight lessons, and later went on to work there. At the same time, she completed her undergraduate studies in aeronautical engineering at Cornell University in New York and received her doctoral degree at Stanford University in California. <\/span><\/p>\n In the following years, she worked in various organizations in the field \u2013 including NASA \u2013 and was even accepted into an astronaut training course. From there she moved on to Boeing, where she worked for 20 years. She left Boeing a few years ago and in 2016 joined the start-up company Ampaire, where she serves as Vice President of Technology Strategies. The company employs 15 people and develops electric aircraft that will reduce operating costs and environmental damage from pollution and noise. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe technological acceleration in the world of aviation, as in other fields, creates a space of unlimited opportunities \u2013 Wide Open Space \u2013 in a market estimated at $260 billion over the next decade,\u201d she said, adding that the revolution will begin with short flights, where the advantage of the electric plane is particularly noticeable. \u201cWe’re talking about an 80 percent drop in energy costs and about 50 percent in maintenance. There are many moving parts in a regular plane, but the plane we are developing has only one moving part \u2013 the rotor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The conference also featured a Student Project Competition. The first prize went to the Technion\u2019s Formula project aerodynamics team, supervised by Michael Kuchenko. The second went to Kadmiel Karsenty for his research project on \u201c<\/span>An improved diesel circuit of small aircraft flying at high altitudes<\/span><\/i>\u201d, supervised by Prof. Eran Sher. <\/span><\/p>\n The prizes were given in memory of Dr. Shlomit Gali. Born in Haifa in 1945, Dr. Gali completed three degrees at the Technion Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. During her undergraduate studies, she was the only female student in all of the four graduating classes studying at that time. <\/span><\/p>\n In 1964, she met Dov, her future husband, who was a student in the Faculty of Architecture. After her post-doctoral studies at Imperial College in London, she worked in the US Air Force laboratories until she was asked to join the Lavi project at Israel Aerospace Industries. She went on to Israel\u2019s Ministry of Defense, where she headed the department of technological infrastructure in MAFAT (t<\/span>he\u00a0Administration for the Development of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure<\/span>). She passed away in 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Science \u201cThe State of Israel must ensure its place at the forefront of research and development in the aerospace industry,\u201d said Dr. Ami Appelbaum, Chief Scientist and the Chairman of the Board of Israel Innovation Authority, as he opened the 59th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences (IACAS) held in… Continue Reading The Future of Aerospace Unveiled at Technion Israel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n