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Delft University in Wind

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13 research groups, 30-35 PhD’s, acquisition for another 20. Duwind is one of Europe’s oldest / largest academic R&D groups

Part of

Delft Energy Initiative

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Duwind is a formal TUD institute

• An Executive Board: deans + rector (meets almost never)

• An International Advisory Board, together with ECN (twice a year)

• Internal meetings: once a month a work-lunch

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Strong and weak points

Strong: • bottom-up, based on >30 y of cooperation• Duwind has no R&D money, only common

acquisition• All activities are content based

Weak: • Duwind has no R&D money, only common

acquisition• Financial support by faculties for overhead

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experiments / analysis & design / advanced NavierStokes

PhD programme of Duwind 2009-2013

Bijl, vanBussel, Ferreira

vanKuik Bersee, van Wingerden

Analysis, feasibility, lab tests / small scale field-test / large scale field-test

Support structures, access systems, Floating offshore

(combined with wave energy?)

vdTempel , Cerda Salzmann

grid connection & integration, market & institutions, with other sust.energy sources in DRI-TUD

Gibescu, Bauer, Kunneke

Multidisciplinary design methods, component and system design, electric power conversion,

Zaaijer, Tomiyama, Polinder,

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Until now: Wind Energy at a MSc level

• about 40 MSc students / y on wind topics in the 5

Duwind-faculties, in a faculty-MSc programme

• Thé route for specialization

From sept. 2012 on: an official MSc Wind Energy

• An interfaculty MSc, supported by 5 faculties

• Focus on design & integration, not specialization

New: DUWIND MSc Wind Energy

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DelftUniversity ofTechnology

I wish you success

with the new

Delft Robotics Institute