SAE International Sustainable Aviation Award Honoring Ramesh Agarwal

Purpose:

This award recognizes individuals or teams (SAE members or non-members) who have made an impact on sustainable aviation, whether working in industry, government, or academia.

The award was made possible through a generous contribution from the Agarwal Family, in honor of Ramesh Agarwal, the William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Agarwal is a leader in sustainable aviation, computational fluid dynamics, and renewable & clean energy technologies, and is a Fellow and longtime member of SAE International.

Criteria:

• Positive impact may occur through innovations related to sustainable aviation fuels, new aircraft designs and propulsion systems, contrails mitigation and air-traffic management, advanced materials, noise reduction, coating technologies resistant to wear and tear, air quality improvement, greener manufacturing processes, and topics related to circular economy, machine learning and artificial intelligence in the context of sustainable aviation.
• Innovations related to creating significant sustainable technologies or practices within the aviation infrastructure are also welcome.

Other contributions that may be considered for this award include:

• Measurable efforts to decrease Co2 emissions & decrease in greenhouse gas emissions.
• Advancements in the development &/or use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) or hydrogen as a fuel source.
• Impactful efforts to the Eco-system. 
• Improvements in infrastructure.
• Global market-based measures for aviation emissions.
• Advancements in electric or hybrid-electric propulsion, and other innovative propulsion technologies including powerplant-airframe integration approaches.
• Technological Innovation as related to airplanes, airport infrastructure &/or airplane support equipment.

Eligibility:

Members of the Selection Committee are not eligible for this award while serving on the committee. Two years must pass before former members of the Selection Committee are eligible to receive the award.

Recognition:

This includes an honorarium and certificate presented at an SAE Event.

Past Recipients:

YEAR	RECIPIENT	COMPANY
2022	Omer Bar Yohay	Eviation Aircraft