MAE Distinguished Speaker Series 2026 Seminar on Environmental Assessment of Novel Aircraft Configurations and Technologies

07 Apr 2026 02.00 PM - 03.00 PM LT4 (North Spine, NS4-02-34) Current Students, Public

Professor Dimitri Mavris

Distinguished Regents Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia

This seminar will be chaired by A/P New Tze How, Daniel.

Seminar Abstract

During the 40th Session of the Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the Member States requested a feasibility assessment of a long-term global aspirational goal (LTAG) for international civil aviation in three sectors: technology, fuels, and operations. ICAO’s Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) organized a Technology Sub-group to better understand future evolutionary technologies for airframes, propulsion systems, and advanced concepts (including energy storage) up to 2050. Scenarios were analyzed to understand the impacts on CO2 emissions, costs, and investments, as well as potential implications on aviation growth, noise, and air quality. Professor Dimitri served as co-chair of the Technology Sub-group and under his direction the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory conducted research in support of this study.

In this presentation, Professor Mavris will provide the technological perspective of LTAG with a high-level overview of the integrated results. The LTAG methodology involved three main steps including creating the technology reference aircraft, assessment of advanced tube and wing configurations, and assessment of advanced concept aircraft. A detailed methodology was developed and the international community was engaged to determine the potential of airframe and propulsion technologies possible up to 2050. Advanced tube and wing aircraft have a clear potential to improve the fuel (energy) efficiency of the international aviation system with some incremental contribution from aircraft with unconventional configurations, within the time frame considered for the study. While the integrated scenarios (technology, fuels, and operations) show the potential for substantial CO2 reduction, none of the scenarios reach zero CO2 emissions by 2050, but a carbon neutral growth could be achieved.

 

Speaker's Biography 

Dimitri Mavris earned his B.S. (1984), M.S. (1985), and Ph.D. (1988) in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech. He is the Boeing Chaired Professor of Advanced Aerospace Systems Analysis in Georgia Tech’s School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech Distinguished Regents Professor, and an S.P. Langley NIA Distinguished Professor. He is the Director of the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) and Executive Director of the Professional Master’s in Applied Systems Engineering program. Prof. Mavris is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He served as President of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences from 2023-2024. He is presently the President Emeritus of ICAS.

Prof. Mavris’ expertise is in analysis, design, and architecting of complex systems. Prof. Mavris has pioneered multi-disciplinary design integration and optimization, system architecting, probabilistic design, quantitative technology forecasting, and design space exploration. ASDL’s research program supports 50 Research Engineers and 325 graduate students. He has served as PI on 425+ studies funded by government and industry organizations. He serves as the site director for two FAA Centers of Excellence (COE): Alternative Jet Fuels & Environment and Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility, and Sustainability. He is the Principal Investigator for the Siemens COE for Simulation and Digital Twin and the Airbus COE for Model Based System Engineering-Enabled Digital Overall Aircraft Design.

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