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The Wind Energy Center at UTD – UTD Wind – is dedicated to the advancement of wind energy science and engineering

The Center conducts fundamental and applied research primarily in blades and rotors; control systems; fluid flows, materials and structural modeling and measurements; digital twins for wind turbines and their primary components; energy storage and grid integration. UTD Wind provides solutions to the wind power industry and works on novel turbine and system-level designs for land-based and offshore wind power. The center is composed of faculty members, research and administrative staff, and graduate and undergraduate students. UTD Wind was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

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This fall our Center is raising funds to support our students by providing travel grants to national and international events to showcase their original research as emerging experts in their field.

Your support enables us to provide travel grants to events that empower students to pursue their academic goals, participate in transformative experiences and contribute to a brighter, more interconnected world.

Recent News

UTD Wind Graduate Student Presents at International Conference in Sweden

This September, graduate student Daniel Bouzolin from UTD Wind presented at the 20th annual PhD Seminar hosted by the Wind Energy section of Uppsala University, AptWind, and the European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE). The three-day conference took place in Visby, Sweden and it allowed PhD researchers the opportunity to share their work among their peers as a way to get involved with an international community in wind energy.

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UTD Wind Project Featured in Popular Trade Magazine

Research done on campus was featured as a focused article in the July 2024 issue of Wind Systems magazine. Wind Systems offers the wind-energy workforce timely, valuable information from key segment players and has been publishing news about the wind energy sector for 15 years.

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Researchers Developing Technology To Improve Offshore Wind Safety

A team at UTD Wind was awarded $500,000 for a project funded through the Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI). Their work focuses on developing safety and environmental improvements in offshore wind energy. The team will examine both fixed-bottom and floating offshore turbines through remote monitoring to reduce the human exposure to hazardous conditions.

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Wind Energy Center To Expand with New Headquarters, Resources

A new initiative will give UTD Wind a physical headquarters for the first time with additional labs, meeting areas and office space. The project also includes additional equipment for wind energy research and education.

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UTD Wind Hosts Industry Advisory Board Winter Meeting

This January UTD Wind hosted its annual WindSTAR Winter Industry Advisory Board meeting. The meeting gathers industry partners, faculty, students and guests to showcase progress on wind energy research projects conducted both at UT Dallas and our partner UMass Lowell.

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Engineer To Explore Interchange of Energy Between Wind, Waves

Dr. Kianoosh Yousefi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas, has received a three-year, $320,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to research air-sea interactions. The research should provide new insights into sea-surface drag with potential applications in the prediction of weather patterns and the development of reliable ocean-based wind turbines.

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Upcoming Events and Conferences

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WindSTAR Winter IAB Meeting

January 28-29, 2025
The University of Texas at Dallas
Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center

WESC 2025

June 25-27, 2025, Nantes, France

The Wind Energy Science Conference (WESC) is a biennial conference held every odd year, beginning in 2017. The goal of the conference is to bring together leading scientists and researchers in the field of wind energy so that they present their latest discoveries in oral presentations and several parallel sessions, covering all scientific topics relating to wind energy.