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The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) will conduct a regional meeting  April 4-5, 2023,  at the Illinois Conference Center, on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. You are cordially invited to attend. Registration is free, but required.

The mobility electricity revolution is a massive twenty-first century economic shift. About 1/3 of primary global energy powers transportation, and it is anticipated that almost all of this will shift to electricity production and delivery. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics estimates more than 10 million total U.S. jobs in transportation and related industry sectors. This meeting will address critical challenges in the transformation of our national transportation system to low-carbon electrical energy. Featured speakers will present challenges and visionary work ranging from zero-emission aircraft and transformative offroad vehicles to mineral resource needs, cybersecurity, and infrastructure impacts. The meeting is co-hosted by NAE, the National Science Foundation Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS) Engineering Research Center, Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT), The Grainger College of Engineering, the Grainger Lecture Series, the Tykociner Lecture Series, the Kent Seminar Series in Transportation, and the MRL Distinguished Lecture Series. The public event begins at 11am on Tuesday, April 4. An industry session continues on April 5. The event concludes after lunch on Wednesday, April 5. A reception will be held the evening of April 3 for early arrivers.

Registration is now open!

Speakers

 
Kiruba Haran
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
 
Giorgio Rizzoni
The Ohio State University
 
Eleftheria Kontou
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
 
Imad Al-Qadi
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign

Symposium Sponsors

MRL Distinguished Lecture Series | Grainger Lecture Series
Kent Seminar Series in Transportation