People
Meet some of the many technical experts at Boeing who are making the impossible possible.
Enjoy your flight
The Boeing flying experience depends on continual research and advancements in science and technology.
Q&A with Blake Emery (right), Differentiation Strategy director for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
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Other People stories
Structural integrity
George Ndayizeye is a structural analysis engineer whose life trek from from East Africa to Boeing was a long and determined one that required courage and patience.
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Technical Articles
IQ’s content includes articles written by Boeing technical experts, including scholarly papers from the Boeing Technical Journal, a peer-reviewed periodical. While the expansive BTJ archive remains exclusive to Boeing employees, IQ offers selected articles to all readers; these articles are indicated with a “BTJ” heading.
BTJ: Lean by design
Design Thinking is an effective, innovation-driving tool for cases where there are multiple dimensions to consider, layers of meaning that challenge linear logic, and many gaps in understanding.
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BTJ: Structural durability in Boeing airplanes
The size and longevity of the Boeing active commercial fleet is a testament to a quality achieved through decades of development and experience.
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BTJ: Structural analysis numerical simulation
Boeing has had an extraordinary influence on the development and deployment of several numerical solution methods used in structural dynamics.
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Flights of innovation
Boeing and Embraer have wrapped up the latest round of testing of environmental technologies, in the ecoDemonstrator program. This testing helps get innovations to market more quickly.
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Skywriting to the MAX
Thanks to creative engineering and expert flying, the new 737 MAX airplane undertook a long-duration test flight whose path spelled out a message viewable to those watching the flight path online.
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The power of model-based engineering
Model-based systems engineering and development, one of the focus areas for Boeing’s research in Europe, can lead to enormous improvements in performance and productivity.
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Patent Spotlight
Here’s a look at a few of Boeing’s many latest ideas and technical breakthroughs recently granted or published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Learn MoreThought Leadership
The wonder of flight
Greg Hyslop (right), chief technology officer and senior vice president of Engineering, Test & Technology, notes that the wonder of powered flight is the result of Boeing's extensive and ongoing work in improving the flight experience.
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Other Thought Leadership Columns
Technology Readiness and the Valley of Death, by Dan Newman, Boeing Senior Technical Fellow
Technology Radar
Berkeley, California
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers have developed machine learning algorithms that can predict metallic defects accurately. This method can reduce the computational cost of understanding materials defects, thereby aiding research of advanced alloys and new materials.
See nature.com
Urbana, Illinois
Engineers from the University of Illinois and the California Institute of Technology have achieved autonomous flight of Bat Bot, a flying robot that mimics the morphology of bat wings. The soft, flexible wings of bat-bots could present safety and other advantages compared to current aerial robots such as quadcopters.
See csl.illinois.edu
Blacksburg, Virginia
Using non-invasive brain imaging, scientists can detect the state of knowledge of a criminal activity. Research conducted by researchers at Virginia Tech and Yale University, determined brain activities that indicated if subjects knew they were breaking the law.
See research.vtc.vt.edu
Stuttgart, Germany
Two methods for propelling micro- and nano-robots in fluid have been developed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. One method relies on bubble propulsion; the other, a enzymatic reaction.
See is.mpg.de
Linköping, Sweden
Scientists at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linköping University have made roses into supercapacitor energy storing devices by forming conducting threads throughout the plant. The electronic “power plant” shows promise toward autonomous energy systems.
See liu.se
Dubai, UAE
In July, Dubai’s Roads and Transit Authority (RTA) will be launching autonomous aerial vehicles (UAV) taxi service. Piloted from a central command center, the UAVs will cover a 40-to-50 kilometer area and can carry one passenger. Dubai will use the Ehang 184 UAVs developed in China.
See www.dubai.com
Tokyo, Japan
An autonomously moving synthetic polymer developed at the University of Tokyo could potentially support application in nanomachines. The unidirectional “wave” motion could serve as mass transport for miniscule substances.
See u-tokyo.ac.jp
About Us
Innovation Quarterly is a publication by and for the community of technical professionals at Boeing worldwide. Expected release of each edition is February, May, August and November. Comments and letters are invited by email and may be published in subsequent editions. Submissions are subject to editing; no more than 90 words will be published. To submit a letter to the editor, email candace.k.barron@boeing.com.
On the cover: George Ndayizeye is a Boeing structural engineer working on the 777X program in Everett, Washington.
Publisher: Greg Hyslop | Associate Publisher: Peter Hoffman
Website: Junu Kim, Conan Kisor
