Kiruba Haran: Building an Electric Aircraft and Getting Back to the Future | The UIUC Talkshow #14

Kiruba Haran is an ECE professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he focuses on the big and long-term goal of creating an electric aircraft.
After 13 years at GE, Dr. Haran came to UIUC to try out academia and become part of the Grainger CEME. Dr. Haran was born and raised in Sri Lanka and studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Obafemi Awolowo University and received his Ph.D. at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. That's where he found his love for electrical machines.
Dr. Haran's research is supported by organizations such as NASA and NSF.
EPISODE LINKS:
Kiruba Haran Lab's Website: haran.ece.illinois.edu/
Kiruba Haran's LinkedIn: / kiruba-haran
OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
0:55 - Electric propulsion
17:00 - Sri Lanka, GE, UIUC
20:15 - How to make electric aircraft real
26:00 - Hydrogen economy
34:26 - Starting a company as a professor
39:50 - Space propulsion
44:15 - Sustainability and innovation
50:56 - Children
55:18 - Create cool shit, not RSOs
1:16:35 - Advice for young people
1:21:00 - Electric flying cars?
🚥Overrated or Underrated Section 🚥
1:23:46 - 🥼 The Flux Capacitor
1:25:20 - 🛫 Boom Supersonic
1:27:00 - ⚡️ Superconductivity
1:29:50 - 🕶 Engineering Vision/Leadership
1:31:08 - Closing words
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Here are the timestamps. If you have questions or comments for Dr. Haran, please write them below. OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:55 - Electric propulsion 17:00 - Sri Lanka, GE, UIUC 20:15 - How to make electric aircraft real 26:00 - Hydrogen economy 34:26 - Starting a company as a professor 39:50 - Space propulsion 44:15 - Sustainability and innovation 50:56 - Children 55:18 - Create cool shit, not RSOs 1:16:35 - Advice for young people 1:21:00 - Electric flying cars? 🚥Overrated or Underrated Section 🚥 1:23:46 - 🥼 The Flux Capacitor 1:25:20 - 🛫 Boom Supersonic 1:27:00 - ⚡️ Superconductivity 1:29:50 - 🕶 Engineering Vision/Leadership 1:31:08 - Closing words

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Amazing! Electric planes are cool!!

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Hello Dr. Sharma. Electric planes are very interesting, especially if we figure out better range, weight, and battery issues.