“We haven’t done anything this new with aircraft since forever. … Usually, our industry doesn’t do big changes. You do minimal changes over time. So there’s high risk, but there’s high reward,” said Gökçin Çınar, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, about battery-powered planes, which could cut emissions and make shorter plane routes financially feasible. Washington Post.

Read Dr. Cinar’s article about the key ways to cut aviation emissions today and where technologies like electrification and hydrogen are headed.

U-M professors George Halow and Gokcin Cinar and graduate student Julia Weiss will give a keynote speech on the new undergraduate model-based systems engineering program at the University of Michigan.

For 10 years, ITEC has served as IEEE’s premier conference on transportation electrification, fostering connections between industry and academia. This year, for the first time, ITEC will be joining forces with AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS).