• Introduction
• Benefits of aviation
• What is sustainable aviation?
• Challenges
• Noise
• Noise requirements
• Noise sources and mitigation
• Emissions
• Climate and energy
• Contrails
• CO₂
• Air Pollution
• Advanced Technologies
• Fuels
• Chemistry
• Biofuels and synthetic jet fuel
• Ethanol
• Methane / natural gas
• Hydrogen
• Sample Exercises
• Electric Aircraft
• Benefits and challenges
• Electric and hybrid electric propulsion architectures
• Batteries
• Performance example
• Infrastructure
• Wrap Up
• Recent developments and advancements
• Technology matrix comparisons

INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Marty Bradley is an AIAA Fellow and recently retired Technical Fellow for The Boeing Company. He has 38 years of aerospace experience and is now a consultant and instructor focused on sustainable aviation and electric aircraft.  Marty has led projects related to electric and hybrid electric aircraft, advanced concepts and technologies, propulsion integration for advanced technologies, alternative fuels, and aviation environmental life cycle analysis. He was the Principal Investigator for the NASA-funded SUGAR study looking at advanced technologies for future commercial aircraft in the 2030-2050 timeframe. He has been working on Sustainable Aviation for more than 20 years, long before it was popular.  He has a B.S., M.S., & Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and teaches their Aircraft Design capstone engineering course.

Classroom hours / CEUs: 10 classroom hours / 1.0 CEU/PDH

Contact: Please contact Lisa Le or Customer Service if you have questions about the course or group discounts (for 5+ participants).