Join the Western Washington ASME for an evening of meeting with fellow
engineers in the Puget Sound Region and learn about the Boeing
sponsored GO FLY PRIZE with guest speaker and Boeing Airplane Safety
Engineer TERESA KONOPKA
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjkonopka/]!INFORMATION ABOUT THE GO FLY
PRIZE: [http://goflyprize.com/about/]
Boeing is sponsoring a $2 Million prize for anyone who can create a
safe, quiet, compact vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) personal
flying device. It has to flytwenty miles while carrying a single
person. Innovators from all over the world are able to compete. Phase
I submission deadline was April 18 2018, and awards are issued in
June 2018. A second round of competition ensues with fly offs in
October 2019. Air taxis are the future. From Boeing subsidiary Aurora
Flight Sciences to Uber Elevate, corporations are investing heavily
into this futuristic market. As a mentor for the GoFly prize, Teresa
will discuss technical requirements of the challenge and showcase the
Phase I winners. Then, regulatory and safety concerns will be
addressed from an airspace and safety engineering perspective. As
exciting as the Go Fly prize is, it is fruitless without the proper
airspace integration and safety design in place. Come learn about Go
Fly and be a part of history!
INFORMATION ABOUT GUEST SPEAKER TERESA KONOPKA:
Teresa loves flying and even has some student flight hours in the
Cessna 162 and Robinson 22 to prove it! Her bachelors is in
Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and
Masters is in Aviation Safety Systems from Embry Riddle Aeronautical
University. She made a drone as part of the ONE (Opportunities for
New Engineers) program, which started her obsession with unmanned
aerial vehicles. She has a patent pending on drone payload
technology thru Boeing Intellectual Property. Teresa's long-term goal
is to be an aircraft accident
investigator at Boeing. CONNECT WITH TERESA ON LINKEDIN
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjkonopka/].
Want to get involved with the Go Fly competition? LOOK HERE.
[https://www.herox.com/GoFly]
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