Introduction to the Wind Energy

Science, Engineering, and Policy

(WESEP)
Seminar
Fall Semester, 2016
J. McCalley
WESEP 594
August 30, 2016

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 Today’s class
1. Introductions
• Kristy Carter (Takle)
• Charlie Czahor (Anderson/Russell)
• Andrew Bodling (Sharma)
• Emily Johnson (Hsu)
2. Find a new meeting time
3. WESEP 594 course overview
4. Semester schedule
5. International opportunities
6. Attending conferences/writing papers
7. Information for WESEP advisors
8. Upcoming annual review
9. Last year’s review
10.Last comments
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 3. WESEP 594 Course Overview
1. WESEP 594 Presentations:
• Let me know if you would like to give one
• I encourage those of you who are taking qualifier or preliminary exam to
present in here first
• …and those of you who spent the summer overseas
2. External speakers: industry, government, other universities
3. ISU faculty

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 4. Semester schedule
http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~jdm/wesep594/
Let me know if there is anyone in particular who you are
interested to invite to provide a seminar…

…or if there is any particular type of person you would

like to invite to give a seminar.
My orientation is to mix technical, policy, environmental,
and professional skills (e.g., ethics/writing); I try to touch
several disciplines throughout the semester.
My name is Brian Selinger and I head up the Iowa
Energy Office which is a division within the Iowa
Economic Development Authority. Knowing that I am http://www.iowaenergyplan.org/
leading the development of a comprehensive energy
plan for Iowa, I would be more than happy to
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 5. International opportunities
• The following IGERT fellows have had IGERT-funded
international experiences in previous years:
• Huiyi Zhang: China
• David Jahn: Germany
• Nick Brown: OFFIS Energies, Oldenburg
• Michael Czahor: Fraunhofer IWES, Hannover Germany
• Aaron Rosenberg: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• The following IGERT fellows had international experiences
this past summer (or are having them now):
• Austin Herrema, Denmark, Germany
• Austin Downey, Italy
• Armando Figueroa, University of Sydney, Australia
• IGERT supports expenses not incurred if you were here
(travel, accommodations, some subsistence).
• you are strongly encouraged to do it;
• if you are not planning to do it, I want to know “why not”?;
• it helps you now; it helps you later; it helps your advisor;
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 6. Attending conferences/writing papers

You are encouraged to attend conferences and workshops to

present papers and posters.

I can provide a significant part of the support for such

activities (but not all).

it helps you now; it helps you later; it helps your advisor.

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 7. Information for WESEP advisors
• It was suggested in our annual review two years back
that I send information to WESEP advising faculty.
• I developed and sent an email and then later posted to
the IGERT website – see
http://www.igert.windenergy.iastate.edu/faculty/faculty-information/.
• I will send email to all IGERT/WESEP advisors reminding
them of this.
• Please take a look and let me know if there is anything
else I should communicate to them.

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 8. Upcoming annual review
• Please respond to Brandi Geisinger’s email request to fill
the annual IGERT survey.
• Dr. Pietrafesa will be here again in late October or
November to perform a 2-day review.
• This is an NSF requirement, and I am grateful to you for
taking your time to speak with Dr. Pietrafesa.

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 9. 2015 Review

http://www.igert.windenergy.iastate.edu/about/program-evaluation/

I will go through selected parts from the executive summary

and just point to page 17. You might skim through the rest if
you have not already done so.

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 10. Last comments
A. Four WESEP students have graduated:
• Huiyi Zhang, NextEra
• Morteza Khosravi, ?
• David Jahn, Post-doctoral researcher at ISU, Atmospheric Science
Department
• Helena Khazdozian, Ames National Laboratory
B. There exists the Wind Energy Student Organization (WESO);
the president is Fritz Wagner, [email protected].
C. The Wind Energy Systems Lab has greatly expanded under
the management of Nick David. Stop in at some point, Room
1111 Coover.
D. I am discussing with NSF about a possible renewal of the
WESEP IGERT. This will require some work….
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Last Year’s Wind Symposium

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 Last Year’s Wind Symposium
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Registered
Personal Invitation
invitation to "info@" address
Not contacted
Attending IWEA
Farm Owners Farm Developers Turbine Systems Towers Nacelles Blades Other suppliers Farm Operators O&M Service Energy Suppliers Other
Mid American Energy Acterra Group Siemens Trinity Structural Towers TPI Composites ABB Mid American Energy Gamesa Mid American Energy
Optimum Renewables Gamesa GE Conductix-Wampfler Exelon LM Wind Service & Logistics
Central Iowa Power Cooperative
Lafarge North America
Exelon PNE Wind Acciona Gamesa Electric Goodwind Energy Siemens O&M facility ITC Midwest Coreslab Structures
Goodwin Energy Optimum Renewables Clipper Windpower IFOS Corp. NextERA Energy Co., Windlogics
Renew Energy MaintenanceIowa Lakes Electric Cooperative
Alcoa
Pattern Energy Group RPM Access Broadstar Wind Pattern Energy Group UpWind Solutions Barr Engineering
Crosswind Energy LLC EDF RS Areva Energy (off-shore only) Iberdrola Renewables E.ON Energy Services Berger ABAM
Gamesa Boeing
GoldWind USA British Petroleum
Heartland Energy Systems CoreComp Advisors
Suzlon Design Insights, LLC
Vestas Honeywell
IHI Corporation
John Deere
Rolls Royce
Schlumberger
Space X
Toyota
Unfolding Energy
United Technologies (UTR
United Technologies (PW)
Wright Patterson AFB

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