The Crowded Skies: Is Your Next Flight Safe?

Today's airports, airlines and skies are more crowded than ever.  Do our overcrowded skies mean more than just the inconvenience of delays and cancellations? Has it become a question of safety? What are our alternatives as the situation escalates with the building of new airports and more runways?

These issues and new technologies that can help relieve our crowded skies and protect the consumer's safety are discussed this Sunday on Technogenesis®, a TV program produced by Stevens Institute of Technology, in cooperation with cn8, the Comcast Network.

Featured guests include David Field, Editor for the Americas at Airline Business Magazine, and Ed Jaekle, a retired American Airlines Captain. 

The Technogenesis program, "The Crowded Skies: Is Your Next Flight Safe?" airs at 7:30 p.m. on cn8, the Comcast Network, each of the following Sundays: July 29, Aug. 12, Aug. 26, Sept. 9. 

Ed Jaekle is a retired commercial pilot who served nearly four decades as an aviator with American Airlines and check airman at the Flight Academy in Dallas. He started in prop planes, moved to jets with the industry and ultimately flew the wide-bodies and the newest digitally operated aircraft. He's retired from commercial aviation but still flies. He is a graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology.

David Field is a 20-year veteran journalist who focuses on regulatory and political issues within the airline industry as well as airline management strategy. Prior to joining Airline Business Magazine, Field was an airline reporter for USA Today and other newspapers including Aviation Daily.

Co-produced by Stevens and Comcast, the half-hour Technogenesis programs feature government, research and industry leaders discussing some of the most challenging real-world issues facing science and technology today.

Hosted by Stevens President Harold J. Raveche and veteran TV journalist Steve Taylor, each program includes two or more special guests from the areas of science, technology, government, education, business or industry.

The Comcast Network is one of the nation's largest regional cable networks reaching close to 4 million households in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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