The 2019 Sustainable Aviation Symposium brings together experts around the world to present the latest breakthroughs in electric aviation. The Symposium will be held at UC Berkeley Pauley Ballroom, Oct. 7-8.  Special student price for the 2-day event is $20*.

The event is co-sponsored by the Institute of Transportation Studies and the Sustainable Aviation Foundation.

The event will help students ask and address critical questions facing the aviation industry today.

The Rose School at the University of Pavia, Italy awarded Professor Emeritus Anil Chopra the Nigel Priestley International Prize 2018, “to honor individuals for creativity, innovation, research, and professional achievements and excellence in education in the field

Mark Hansen, Professor of Transportation Engineering and co-director of the National Center of Excellence in Aviation Operations Research, was quoted in The New York Times article on why airline flight schedules have grown longer despite the fact that it takes the same amount to fly from one airport to another as it did decades ago.

See You're Right. You're Spending More Time Sitting on That Plane (NYT, 9/16/19)

Professor Kenichi Soga is one of 7 Berkeley faculty scientists named as 2019-20 Bakar Fellows, an honor that gives the fellows the money and time to translate their laboratory breakthroughs into technologies ready for the marketplace.

His project is Smart Infrastructure using Real-time Distributed Sensing Technology.