Presented By: Aerospace Engineering
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: The Inventor Tells the Story of How the AgustaWestland Project Zero, the World First All-Electric Vertical Takeoff Aircraft, was Born
James Wang
Professor of Aircraft Design
Director of the eVTOL Research & Innovation Centre
Nanyang Technological University
In 2013 WIRED Magazine named Dr. Wang “the Steve Jobs of Rotorcraft” for inventing the AgustaWestland Project Zero: world’s first all-electric VTOL aircraft. This secret project was created by Dr. James Wang in 2010, when he was the Vice President of R&D at AgustaWestland. In this seminar, Dr. Wang will present the story of how he led a small skunkworks team and working quietly with 16 international partners to design, built and tested this disruptive eVTOL aircraft in only 6 month. The complete project was funded internally and was finally unveiled by debuting at the 2013 Paris Airshow. It instantly went viral and sparked the global eVTOL revolution and race that we see today. During his term as the VP of R&D, he has created and led over 60 research projects and he wrote the 15-year technology strategy plan for AgustaWestland. (This presentation is based on the Royal Aeronautical Society Hensen & Stringfellow Lecture presented by Dr. Wang.)
About the speaker...
Dr. James Wang has held several executive leadership positions and has 30 years of experience in aerospace and high-tech industries; including as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of R&D at Leonardo Helicopters; led Strategic Sales and worked on many helicopter designs at Sikorsky Aircraft. An internationally renowned expert in designing manned/unmanned helicopters and eVTOL aircraft. In 2018, he founded Vtolwerke to provide consulting in advanced air mobility and eVTOL aircraft designing, eVTOL business strategy and product development. Dr. Wang is also a Professor of Aircraft Design, and Director of the eVTOL Research & Innovation Centre at NTU in Singapore.
He received bachelor degrees in Aeronautical, and Electrical Engineering from MIT, a PhD from the University of Maryland, and a Master’s from the MIT Sloan Business School. He holds numerous patents and major international awards, including: Royal Aeronautical Society Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society Team Gold Award, VFS Fellow, AHS’ Grover E. Bell Award, UTC George Mead Award, NASA Award, and Italian National Highest Innovation Grand Prize Premio dei Premi.
Professor of Aircraft Design
Director of the eVTOL Research & Innovation Centre
Nanyang Technological University
In 2013 WIRED Magazine named Dr. Wang “the Steve Jobs of Rotorcraft” for inventing the AgustaWestland Project Zero: world’s first all-electric VTOL aircraft. This secret project was created by Dr. James Wang in 2010, when he was the Vice President of R&D at AgustaWestland. In this seminar, Dr. Wang will present the story of how he led a small skunkworks team and working quietly with 16 international partners to design, built and tested this disruptive eVTOL aircraft in only 6 month. The complete project was funded internally and was finally unveiled by debuting at the 2013 Paris Airshow. It instantly went viral and sparked the global eVTOL revolution and race that we see today. During his term as the VP of R&D, he has created and led over 60 research projects and he wrote the 15-year technology strategy plan for AgustaWestland. (This presentation is based on the Royal Aeronautical Society Hensen & Stringfellow Lecture presented by Dr. Wang.)
About the speaker...
Dr. James Wang has held several executive leadership positions and has 30 years of experience in aerospace and high-tech industries; including as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of R&D at Leonardo Helicopters; led Strategic Sales and worked on many helicopter designs at Sikorsky Aircraft. An internationally renowned expert in designing manned/unmanned helicopters and eVTOL aircraft. In 2018, he founded Vtolwerke to provide consulting in advanced air mobility and eVTOL aircraft designing, eVTOL business strategy and product development. Dr. Wang is also a Professor of Aircraft Design, and Director of the eVTOL Research & Innovation Centre at NTU in Singapore.
He received bachelor degrees in Aeronautical, and Electrical Engineering from MIT, a PhD from the University of Maryland, and a Master’s from the MIT Sloan Business School. He holds numerous patents and major international awards, including: Royal Aeronautical Society Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society Team Gold Award, VFS Fellow, AHS’ Grover E. Bell Award, UTC George Mead Award, NASA Award, and Italian National Highest Innovation Grand Prize Premio dei Premi.
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