Wind Turbine Project

Lab Materials

• Wind Turbine Design Project Guideline [doc]
• Wind Turbine Power Measurement [doc]
• Wind Turbine Performance Data Sheet [doc]
• Wind Turbine Report Scoring Rubric [doc]
• Wind Turbine Presentation Scoring Rubric [doc]

Support Materials

• Wind Turbine Hub (see Wind Turbine Module in Lecture Canvas to download)
• Hugh Piggott’s web site – Scoraig Wind Electric (see ‘Blade Theory’ – excellent)
• Check out this wind turbine project

Solid Works

• Downloading SolidWorks: login to Canvas for information
• Introduction [pptx]
• Sketching in SW [pptx]
• Creating Reference Planes in SW [pptx]
• Extrude and Revolve [pptx]
• Sweep and Loft [pptx]
• Rendering [pptx]
• Tutorial – Modeling the Wind Turbine Blade [pptx]

Exercises

• CAD Intro Lab [docx]

Resources

• Online Unit Conversion
• Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF files can be downloaded.