Category: WEI

With the semester more than half over, the CyWind team is making progress on their design. Track their progress here.

April 11, 2017: Iowa State University was selected to participate in the Dept. of Energy’s 2018 Collegiate Wind Competition. Read more here and here.

Ming-Chen Hsu, an Iowa State University assistant professor of mechanical engineering, searched his computer for a video and clicked play. The tip of a wind turbine blade appeared on his monitor, constantly moving, flexing and vibrating as the blade rotated around the rotor hub. Red indicated air moving at a relative speed of 52 meters per … Continue reading Iowa State engineer models wind turbines for better designs, performance

Original story by Abbie Latterell for the Iowa Energy Center Every year the Iowa Energy Center selects four leaders in energy research and innovation, one for each of its main focus areas: bioenergy, education and outreach, energy efficiency and renewable energy. Sri Sritharan, Wilson Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, received the 2015 award … Continue reading Sri Sritharan winner of a 2015 Iowa Energy Center Impact Award

AMES, Iowa – Hydraulic equipment in two civil engineering labs recently pushed and pulled at test sections of a new kind of wind turbine tower, simulating the heavy, twisting loads that towers have to withstand. Read more.

Iowa State aerospace engineers Anupam Sharma and Hui Hu are working to improve the performance of wind turbines and wind farms. – See more at: http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2015/03/06/dualrotorturbines

Engineering researchers will provide expertise on designing wind blades for manufacturability as part of a new manufacturing innovation hub announced by the White House. Read More

Drs. Hui Hu and Anupam Sharma have won the Iowa Energy Center’s 2014 Renewable Energy Impact Award for their commitment to innovation in renewable energy.  

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By Mike Krapfl, ISU News Service AMES, Iowa – Grant Schmitz, eyes inches from a 6.5-by-12-foot panel of ultra-high performance concrete, studied the smooth surface for tiny cracks. He and other research engineers carefully marked every one with black markers. Schmitz, an Iowa State graduate student of civil, construction and environmental engineering, and Sri Sritharan, … Continue reading Iowa State engineers design, test taller, high-strength concrete towers for wind turbines

The Design for Manufacturability of Blades Workshop was held Nov. 13-14, 2012 at Iowa State University.  Below are photos from the workshop. [pb_slideshow group=”3″]

A multidisciplinary doctorate in wind energy, science, engineering and policy was approved at the Faculty Senate’s first meeting of the academic year on September 11, 2012. ISU’s New Wind Energy Degree in the News: Iowa State Daily, September 25, 2012:  Iowa State to offer wind energy Ph.D. North American Windpower, September 25, 2012: Iowa State … Continue reading Wind Energy Degree Approved by Faculty Senate

Iowa Alliance for Wind Innovation and Novel Development Provides $256,689 Research Grant to Iowa State University

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In April 2010, Iowa State University co-hosted a second wind energy symposium in conjunction with the Iowa Alliance for Wind Innovation and Novel Development (IAWIND) and Iowa Wind Energy Association’s (IWEA) annual meeting and conference at Scheman Conference Center in Ames, Iowa. The conference provided updates on trends in wind energy technology, workforce development, and … Continue reading 2010 Wind Energy Conference