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Electric Aircraft Workshop Rethinking the Powertrain

September 14, 2018

Agenda

MIT AeroAstro Building 33, Room 116

8:00 Registration & Light Breakfast 33-116

8:30 Welcome 33-116

8.35 Opening Statement Jayant Sabnis Senior Lecturer, MIT AeroAstro

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8:45 Setting the Stage 1 Design options and challenges for electric aircraft propulsion David Hall Power & Propulsion Group Lead, Aurora Flight Sciences

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9:15 Setting the Stage 2 Challenges and performance assessment of electric and hybrid electric aircraft Marty Bradley Technical Fellow, Boeing Commercial Airplanes

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9:45 Coffee Break

10:00 Panel discussion: Powertrain design concepts and technological gaps

Moderator: Zoltan Spakovszky, MIT AeroAstro

Panelists: 1. Electrified propulsion for small aircraft

Matt Knapp, Aero Chief Engineer, Zunum Aero 2. Electric machines

Kiruba Haran, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC

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3. Batteries Venkat Viswanathan, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, CMU

4. Power electronics David Perreault, Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT

5. Turbo-electric propulsion for large commercial aircraft Mike Benzakein, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ohio State University

11:10 Electric Aircraft Hackathon

Groups:

1. Green: Metrics for electrified propulsion systems Facilitator: David Hall, Aurora Flights Sciences Room: 33-116

2. Pink: Dynamics and control of electrified propulsion systems Facilitator: Nick Cumpsty, Imperial College London Room: 33-218

3. Blue: Thermal management systems Facilitator: Alan Epstein, MIT Room: 33-206

1:00 Lunch MIT Building W20 (“Stratton Student Center”), Third Floor (see map)

Twenty Chimneys

1:40 Electric Aircraft Hackathon continued See above

3:00 Coffee Break Hackathon rooms

3:15 Plenary session

Moderator: Steven Barrett, MIT AeroAstro • Hackathon reports • Discussion and identification of additional topic areas

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Summary and Closing Remarks 33-116