Virtual Annual Banquet: The Future of Supersonic Transportation
Annual Honors & Awards Presentation, featuring The Future of Supersonic Travel
Join us as we gather to celebrate and honor the recipients of our 2020 Section-wide awards, as well as the winners of the AIAA middle school essay contest. Our guest speaker will be Alex Egeler, an Executive Vice President at Aerion, talking about his vision for the future of supersonic travel.
Aerion is committed to changing the face of global mobility by dramatically increasing the speed of transportation in an environmentally sustainable way. The first step towards this goal is the AS2, a carbon-neutral Mach 1.4 supersonic business jet that is slated for entry into service in 2027. To support this vision, Aerion Technologies is an innovation center located in Palo Alto, CA that develops tools and infrastructure to rapidly respond to the needs of the company and provide automation to engineering tasks and beyond. This presentation will discuss the capabilities that Aerion Technologies provides and how that enables Aerion to design the revolutionary concepts required to alter the way we think about travel.
Alex heads Aerion Technologies, Aerion’s software development division in Palo Alto, California. He has been at Aerion for more than five years, working on everything from software development for optimization, to supersonic inlet design, to strategic planning and direction. Prior to Aerion, Alex worked as a systems engineer innovating new performance analysis capabilities at Northrop Grumman in their Marine Systems division. He has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Stanford.
Schedule:
6:30: Welcome and Introductions
6:35: Section and Student Essay Awards
6:45: Keynote Speaker
8:00: Q&A
8:30: End
Attendance is free. Register here: