News Archive

10-01-2021
Five new studies conducted by Prof. Raveh and her team in the Aeroelasticity Lab published at the AIAA SciTech Forum.

18-11-2020
Congratulating our graduate, Mr. Boaz Levy, on his appointment as CEO of Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI)

05-11-2020
Salman Nabwani was selected as an Technion’s Outstanding Employee

18-10-2020
Dr. Alexandros Terzis joined our faculty as an Assistant Professor starting October 1st 2020.

18-10-2020
Dr. Michael Karp joined our Faculty as an Assistant Professor starting October 2020.

15-10-2020
Graduate Students of מחזור צ”א
Today, 15.10.20, a number of ceremonies are being held for the graduates by a few faculties at the Technion.
The graduation ceremony of the Aerospace Eng. Students, מחזור צא’ will take place later on physically at the earliest possible time at the Technion faculty.

21-09-2020
An on-line get together- On Wednesday, 16.9.2020, all of us celebrated the graduation of our new PhD’s. The new Doctors, together with their advisors, gathered in a Zoom get-together meeting, where they shared their research achievements and complimented their advisors.

03-09-2020
Initiated in Technion by the Aerospace Department, an agreement is signed, signaling the start of a formal collaboration between Technion and Purdue University.

02-09-2020
Dr. Vladimir Martinusi will join our Faculty in November 2020 as a visiting lecturer.

13-08-2020
Dr. Pavel I. Galich Joined our Faculty as an Assistant Professor in August 1st 2020, after completing his postdoctoral fellowship in Prof. Edwin L. (Ned) Thomas’s group at Rice University (Houston, TX, USA).

04-08-2020
Dr. Vitaly Shaferman joined our faculty as a visiting lecturer in August 2020. Vitaly is a graduate of our faculty.

13-07-2020
The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is ranked 16th in the world in Aerospace Engineering, as determined by the world’s leading index for higher education, the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities, published in July 2020.

04-06-2020
On Friday, May 15th 2020, we successfully flew the all 3D-printed Active Aeroelastic Aircraft Testbed, an experimental aircraft to study and control phenomena related to wing flexibility.

20-04-2020
COVID-19 RESPONSE – In case of emergency, when existing ventilator units become insufficient, Assoc. Prof. Beni Cukurel and his research group aim to bridge the gap with additively manufactured blower ventilators, driven by air pressure.

19-04-2020
COVID-19 RESPONSE – A group of students and graduates of the FIRST Robotics Program from the Reali School in Haifa, led by Prof. Gil Yudilevitch of the Technion’s Aerospace Engineering Faculty, are developing a robotic platform that will be operated remotely by medical teams in hospitals and will reduce the risk of their infection.

01-04-2020
The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is ranked 25th in the world in Aerospace Engineering and 85th on the list of the world’s top academic institutions, first among all Israeli institutions

22-03-2020
The 60th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences was held March 4-5, 2020, in the shadow of the Corona epidemic in Tel Aviv and the Technion. Carefully following the strict guidelines of the Ministry of Health, released at the end of the first day of the conference, we managed to hold a successful second day at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.

27-01-2020
On Thursday, 23/1/20, a ceremony to celebrate the faculty’s outstanding students for the 2018-2019 academic year was held in our newly renovated auditorium. Certificates and prizes were awarded to students who excelled in their studies and research.

25-12-2019
After seven years of construction, the renovated facilities of the Turbomachinery and Heat Transfer Laboratory located at the Jet Engine Building were inaugurated on December 24th, 2019. The lab is a division of Technion’s Turbo and Jet Engine Center, led by Assoc. Prof. Beni Cukurel. The festive event included a speech given by the retiring Dean, Prof. Itzchak Frankel, ribbon cutting ceremony and a tour of the laboratory.

02-12-2019
On November 26th, 2019, the Aerospace Engineering Faculty hosted the Annual Turbomachinery Workshop. It was followed by the 18th Israeli Jet Engine Symposium, which was held on November 28th.

25-11-2019
On Nov. 21, 2019, a symposium on the subject of “Advances in Chemical Propulsion” in honor of Prof. Alon Gany’s 75th birthday took place at the Faculty.

11-11-2019
On Thursday, 7.11.19, we presented the Aeolus – Autonomous Jet UAV Students’ Project with great success at the annual UVID conference at Airport City.

26-07-2019
On 26.6.19 students at the faculty presented their projects at a festive event: an aerodynamic kit for a race-car, a swarm of fire-detection quadcopters, a plasma-powered nano-satellite and more.

21-07-2019
The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion announces the Call for Candidates for the Meir Hanin International Aerospace Prize, in memory of the late Prof. Meir Hanin.

01-07-2019
Congratulations to the students of the class of 2018 on your B.Sc. graduation from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion!

17-06-2019
The prize commemorating Prof. Shmuel and Noemi Merhav was awarded to Liraz Mudrik in a ceremony held today, June 17, 2019.

11-06-2019
On Tuesday, 11.6.2019, thirty faculty’s Master degree graduates received their diplomas.

05-06-2019
On Wednesday, 5.6.2019, the faculty celebrated the graduation of its PhD degree students, who received their diplomas earlier that day.

06-05-2019
The Zirmey Silon Educational Project is 1 year old. To celebrate the occasion, a new web site is launched.

27-03-2019
The Annual Graduate Studies Research Day took place on March 27, 2019 at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.

17-03-2019
A Joint Purdue – Technion Course on Aero-Thermal Measurement Techniques took place on March 9-16, 2019.

10-03-2019
The 59th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences (IACAS) was held in Tel Aviv and the Technion on March 6-7, 2019.

22-11-2018
The November 2018 TechWomen event took place yesterday, 21/11/18, where high school female students from 11th and 12th grades arrived to the Technion, heard various lectures and visited the faculties.

07-11-2018
On November 6th, 2018, a turbomachinery workshop, organized by Asst. Prof. Beni Cukurel, was held at the Technion Faculty of Aerospace Engineering for the sixth consecutive year.

01-07-2018
Yaron Ben-Ami, a PhD student under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Avshalom Manela, has become a Fellow of the Israel Academy Adams Program for 2018-2019.

28-06-2018
Congratulations to the students of the class of 2017 on your B.Sc. graduation from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion!

25-06-2018
The prize commemorating Prof. Shmuel and Noemi Merhav was awarded to Shimon Julius in a ceremony held today, June 25, 2018.

15-06-2018
On Monday, June 12th, 2018, the annual award ceremony for “Uzi & Michal Halevy Award for Innovative Applied Engineering” was held at the Technion – IIT.

04-06-2018
On Monday, 4.6.18, twenty two faculty’s Master degree graduates received their diplomas.

28-05-2018
On Monday, 28.5.18, the faculty celebrated the graduation of its PhD students, who received their diplomas later that day.

08-05-2018
The 2017 annual ceremony for the “Gvahim” Excellence Program, promoting excellence among the top undergraduate students in the faculty was held on 8.5.18.

20-03-2018
The 58th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences took place on 14-15/3/18, featuring seven Plenary Lectures from renowned experts worldwide, ~120 technical papers, Industrial Projects, a panel and more…

15-03-2018
Between the 11th and 15th of March 2018, the Aerospace Engineering Faculty of Technion – IIT hosted a group of undergraduate students from Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering.

02-01-2018
Technion and the Israel Space Agency announced that in late 2018, a group of three nanosatellites, which will fly in controlled formation, will be launched for the first time into space.

07-11-2017
On November 7th, 2017, a turbomachinery workshop organized by Asst. Prof. Beni Cukurel was held at the Technion Faculty of Aerospace Engineering for the fifth consecutive year.

24-10-2017
The Autonomous Navigation and Perception Laboratory (ANPL) dedication ceremony was held on October 24, 2017.

23-10-2017
The prize commemorating Prof. Shmuel and Noemi Merhav was awarded to Dr. Maital Levy in a ceremony held on October 23, 2017.

12-07-2017
Shahar Wollmark, M.Sc. student under the supervision of Dr. Yinon Yavor and Prof. Em. Alon Gany, won the 2017 Gemunder Prize for Space Defense Related Technologies.

09-07-2017
David Castaneda (MSc student) received the award for the best student paper in Propulsion at the 2017 European Conference on Aerospace Sciences (EUCASS).

02-07-2017
The 2017 Shanghai Ranking: Technion Aeronautical Engineering Faculty Ranked #8 Worldwide.

02-07-2017
Congratulations to the students of class 2017 on your B.Sc. graduation from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering!

29-06-2017
On June 27, 2017 we held a special event for the Formula Student Technion 2017 Project at our faculty.

19-06-2017
Congratulations to the AUVSI Project Team for winning 3rd place in the international competition!

15-06-2017
The Annual Graduate Studies Research Day took place on April 19, 2017 at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. Prizes were awarded on June 14, 2017.

12-06-2017
The TAS (Technion Aerial Systems) team is on its way to the USA to take part in the AUVSI SUAS competition, which will take place on June 15-18, 2017.

08-06-2017
On June 5, 2017, the graduation ceremony for the new Aerospace Engineering Master degree graduates was held at the Faculty.

29-05-2017
On Monday, 29.5.17, the faculty celebrated the graduation of its PhD students, who received their diplomas later that day.

21-05-2017
A new book on creativity and innovation, by Distinguished Prof. Daniel Weihs and Professor Dae Shik Kim, was recently published in Korean.

31-03-2017
The Faculty’s 1st annual concert took place on March 29, 2017. This concert was an initiative of Asst. Prof. Avshalom Manela and faculty members, students and employees all participated.

30-03-2017
Asst. Prof. Beni Cukurel was awarded “Henri Gutwirth Prize for Promotion of Excellence in Research” on his research associated with “Acoustic Resonance Enhanced Heat Exchangers”.

27-03-2017
ASSURE affiliate member Sinclair Community College toured the Faculty on March 27, 2017.

20-03-2017
Over 500 engineers, scientists, and experts from Israel and abroad participated in the 57th IACAS, the main event in the aerospace field in Israel.

17-01-2017
The “Aero in the Valley” program was launched on January 17, 2017 at the WIZO Nahalal Youth Village.

16-01-2017
The Technion’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering is now an affiliate member of the FAA’s Center of Excellence for Unmanned Aerial Systems research, ASSURE.

03-01-2017
An exposure conference for the elite programs “Brakim” and “Silon” took place on January 3, 2017 for selected military service candidates.

28-12-2016
Exciting activities were held during the Hanukkah break at the “Imbar” after-school child care facility situated in the Hadar neighborhood in Haifa.

11-12-2016
Students launched a rocket as part of the Rocket Propulsion course.

08-12-2016
The Faculty’s undergraduate students’ project The Medical Glider received its first media exposure.

04-12-2016
The annual ceremony for the “Gvahim” Excellence Program, promoting excellence among the top undergraduate students in the faculty was held on 4.12.2016.

23-11-2016
The IAI “ZRAKOR Day” was held at the Faculty during the Wednesday Noon break and featured a lecture and a quiz.

16-11-2016
Gershon Kats received the 2016 Prize in Memory of the late Professor Yaakov Timnat for his PhD research work.

15-11-2016
On November 15th 2016, for the fourth consecutive year, a turbomachinery workshop organized by Asst. Prof. Beni Cukurel was held at the Technion Aerospace Department.

10-11-2016
On Thursday, November 10, 2016, the Faculty hosted the AUVSI 2016 Project Conclusion and Presentation Event.

09-11-2016
To mark the opening of the Winter Semester, a gathering was held on Wednesday, November 9th, 2016, for the faculty graduate students.

20-09-2016
Shani Elitzur gave a Plenary Lecture at the Alpbach Technology Symposium, which took place in Alpbach, Austria, on August 25-27, 2016.

11-09-2016
Prof. Benny Natan and coauthors win AIAA – Propellants and Combustion Best Paper Award
11-09-2016
New Springer book, by Prof. Pini Gurfil, unifies sciences of celestial mechanics and astrodynamics

21-07-2016
The Wind Tunnel Complex Control Room will be upgraded thanks to the generous gift from Ms. Leesa Steinberg.

17-07-2016
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Daniel Weihs was awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award by the International Society of Bionic Engineering

12-07-2016
The International Space University’s upcoming Space Studies Program (SSP16) is arriving in Israel for the first time and will be convened at the Technion, starting July 2016.

05-07-2016
The Technion was placed 4th in the 14th AUVSI International Student UAS Competition for developing and flying an autonomous aero-system.

23-06-2016
Congratulations to the students of class 2016 on your graduation from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.

23-06-2016
The Spring semester Critical Design Reviews (CDR) were presented as part of the “Design Project” course led by Associate Professor Gil Yudilevitch.

22-06-2016
The prize commemorating Prof. Shmuel and Noemi Merhav was awarded on Wednesday, June 22, 2016, to Mr. Pavel Galich, a PhD student, conducting his research under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Stephan Rudykh.

13-06-2016
On June 13, 2016, the graduation ceremony for the new Aerospace Engineering Master degree graduates was held at the Faculty.

01-06-2016
The Annual Faculty Picnic of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, organized by the student committee, took place on June 1st, 2016.

17-05-2016
Dr. Oksana Stalnov joined the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering as Assistant Professor in October 2015. She was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Airbus Noise Technology Centre, University of Southampton, UK.

13-04-2016
The Annual Graduate Studies Research Day took place on April 13, 2016 at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.

06-04-2016
35 runners from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering participated in the 2nd Plus500 Technion Race and won 3 medals!

22-03-2016
Ofir Akunis, Minister of Science, Technology and Space, visited Asher Space Research Institute (ASRI) and met with Prof. Pini Gurfil

14-03-2016
Faculty members and students from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering were recognized and awarded prizes during the 56th IACAS.

11-01-2016
The Israeli chapter of EUROAVIA organized an introductory glider flight at the Megiddo Airport.

21-12-2015
On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 the faculty hosted the AUVSI-2015 Project Summary Seminar. The AUVSI project team from last year and this year participated in UVID/AUVSI on November 9, 2015.

18-11-2015
Shani Elitzur won third place in the international Falling Walls Lab competition.

09-11-2015
On November 3, 2015, for the third consecutive year, a turbomachinery workshop, organized by Asst. Prof. Beni Cukurel, was held at the faculty.

05-11-2015
The annual ceremony for the “Gvahim” Excellence Program was held on October 21, 2015.

30-09-2015
Shani Elitzur won first place in the Falling Walls Lab Israel competition.

25-08-2015
Shani Elitzur has been awarded the Rieger Foundation (USA) Fellowship for 2015-2016.

24-08-2015
On 6.8.15, the faculty hosted a seminar on propellers and rotors, led by the Department of Aeronautical Sciences (MoD).

03-08-2015
The 2015 President’s report, “The Technion Touch”, features research from Assoc. Prof. Gurfil and Asst. Prof. Rudykh.

20-07-2015
“InnovNation” Students from over 20 Countries Worldwide Visited the Faculty.

07-07-2015
On June 30, 2015, the faculty held a seminar for 20 teachers from all over the country that teach Aerospace related subjects in Israeli high schools.

02-07-2015
Congratulations to the students of class of 2015 on their graduation from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.

23-06-2015
Technion Aerospace and Electrical Engineering students placed second in the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) competition.

15-06-2015
Ohad Ben-Yaacov Won 2nd Prize for a Paper Presented at the International Workshop on Satellite Constellations.

14-06-2015
A Chinese Delegation of Entrepreneurs Visited the Wind Tunnel Complex.

07-06-2015
Assoc. Prof. Pini Gurfil was featured in a Jerusalem Report story on the SAMSON satellite mission.

18-05-2015
The DG Eclipse Computer, developed in the Aerospace Department, was donated to the MadaTech museum.

12-05-2015
Golda (Evgenia) Kishilev was awarded the Technion Excellence Prize for external graduate students.

07-05-2015
On 07.05.2015, faculty members, staff, and graduate students visited Tel-Aviv – Jaffa for the annual faculty trip.

05-05-2015
Distinguished Emeritus Professor Daniel Weihs received the Toren prize awarded by the Ministry of Defense.

30-04-2015
Shani Elitzur won 1st Prize and the Audience Favorite at the EcoMotion Conference in Tel-Aviv.

30-04-2015
Alice Miller, an aerospace faculty alumni, was one of 14 Israelis given the honor of lighting a torch during the opening ceremonies for Independence Day.

13-04-2015
The “Open Day” for graduate studies was held on April 2nd. Prizes were awarded to the best posters by a PhD student, a Masters student, and the crowd favorite.

02-04-2015
Prof. Benny Natan has won the Hershel Rich Innovation Award, awarded by the Technion for works with the potential of profit or royalties.

23-03-2015
The 55th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences (IACAS) took place on February 25-26, 2015.

22-03-2015
Asst. Prof. Stephan Rudykh’s research was recently highlighted in the Technion newsletter.

19-03-2015
Students and Faculty Members were well represented in the awards ceremony at the 55th Israeli Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences (IACAS).

16-03-2015
Prof. Dan Givoli received the Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education at the Technion award ceremony held on February 17, 2015.

19-02-2015
Just Published by Springer: Advances on Estimation, Navigation, and Spacecraft Control — Selected Papers of the Itzhack Y. Bar-Itzhack Memorial Symposium…

19-02-2015
Many prospective students to the Technion visited the Aerospace Engineering Faculty during the Technion Open House that took place on February 19th.

15-02-2015
Michael Karp, currently a Ph.D. student in the Aerospace department, has won the excellence prize from the Wolf Foundation.

22-01-2015
On Thursday 22/1/15 the department held a ceremony in which students received awards for excellence in studies and in research.

21-01-2015
Technion’s SAMSON nanosatellite project, led by Prof. Pini Gurfil, was featured in The Marker as part of their coverage of the Israeli Space Week.

09-12-2014
Technion President, Prof. Peretz Lavie, has appointed Prof. Gurfil to head the Asher Space Research Institute (ASRI) as of January 1st, 2015.

05-11-2014
For the second consecutive year, a turbomachinery workshop was held by the Aerospace Eng. department, organized by Dr. Beni Cukurel.

30-10-2014
The Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering join efforts to establish a new Control Education Laboratory.

29-10-2014
On 29 October, 2014 the Technion held a reunion of the 1964 class of Aeronautical Engineering (as the department used to be called then) graduates.

23-10-2014
Prof. Dan Givoli has won The Yanai Award for Excellence in Academic Education for 2014.

22-10-2014
Mr. Alon Weiss (M.Sc. student) won the Best Paper by Young Author award in the 28th International Symposium on Ballistics (28-ISB), Atlanta, USA, September 22-26, 2014.

18-09-2014
The students of Grade I, the 1st year participants of the international AUVSI, presented the GREY OWL System in the UVID Conference for Unmanned Vehicles on 17/09/14, and won an academic award.

17-09-2014
The dean of the department of Aerospace Engineering served as a member of the search committee for the new head of the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel.

22-07-2014
Dr. Igal Kronhaus joined our department as Assistant Professor in October 2014. He was a post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Bundeswehr University, Munich, Germany.

20-06-2014
The department’s AUVSI students team has won the honorable 5th place in the Annual Student Unmanned Air Systems (SUAS) Competition.

06-06-2014
A paper by Dan Michaels and Alon Gany, and a poster by Arza Hadad, Dan Grinstein and Benveniste Natan both won 1st awards in the 10th International Symposium on Special Problems in Chemical Propulsion (10-ISICP), Poitiers, France, June 2-6, 2014.

23-05-2014
Ms. Shani Elitzur, a Ph.D. student supervised by Prof. Alon Gany and Dr. Valery Rosenband, won the double honor of 2nd Prize and the Audience Favorite in the student competition Challenge 2014 for solutions to reduce the use of petroleum in transportation held during EcoMotion Conference in Sdot-Yam on May 22-23, 2014.

16-04-2014
Prof. Moti Karpel and researchers from the Technical University of Delft developed an autonomous flap for reducing vibrations of flight vehicles.

02-04-2014
Dr. Ian Jacobi, who officially joined us in 2012, returned in October 2014 from a two-year postdoctoral research period in Princeton.

01-04-2014
Dr. Stephan Rudykh is joining our Faculty as Assistant Professor. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar in MIT.

18-03-2014
Dr. Vadim Indelman is joining our Faculty as Assistant Professor. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Georgia-Tech.

14-03-2014
Ms. Sonya Tiomkin, a Ph.D. student at the department, won the ZONTA International Amelia Earhart Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year.

17-02-2014
The Minerva Center of “Advanced Micro Gas Turbines Technologies towards Distributed Power Generation” was endowed to the Turbo & Jet Engine Laboratory.

10-02-2014
Prof. Emeritus Alon Gany was appointed as Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering.

03-02-2014
Ph.D. student Shani Elitzur, Prof. Alon Gany and Dr. Valery Rosenband demonstrated the use of aluminum and water generate power.

10-01-2014
The Grey Owl autonomous flying system, designed by a team of undergraduate students, to compete in the annual AUVSI competition in the US.

01-01-2014
SAMSON – A new satellite mission at the Technion: an autonomous cluster of three satellites will be launched into space within a few years.

20-11-2013
About one hundred and fifty high school pupils visited the faculty of Aerospace Engineering in the Technion, as part of a special women’s day.