troy high school fellow: josé lebrón teacher: andrew baitinger professor: luciano castillo
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• Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering– Thermal-fluid Science
• Dissertation– Experimental modeling of the interaction between
wind power plants and the atmosphere
About the Fellow
• Andrew Baitinger
• B.S. in Chemical Engineering
• M.S. in Chemical Engineering
• 20 years U.S. Navy Nuclear Power Program
• Troy High Faculty• Design and Drawing for Production
• Part-time Faculty– Hudson Valley Community College
About the Teacher
• Resources– Desktop computers for
each student– Access to internet, and
Computer Aided Design (CAD) software
– Printer– Projector– Drafting Tables
Design and Drawing for Production
INNOVATION PROCESS
Invention TechnologyDiscovery
Product Development
Product Manufacturing
Product Marketing
PhD PhD/MS MS/BS BS
Marketplace
GoodsSecurityJobsCures
BETTER LIFE QUALITY
Long Term Project• Atmospheric Study
– Study interaction between wind farms and both nature and man-made features (Albany)
• Design and build a scaled down model of a city and a wind farm and place them inside of a wind tunnel
• Students will:– Gather information of the
city from the internet– Design 3-D models of
features using Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools
– Build models using 3-D printing
– Test different wind turbine arrangements in a wind tunnel facility
RWDI USA LLC
Long Term Project
The Johns Hopkins University
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Boundary Layer (Friction Zone)
Wind
Free-stream
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Distance
Velocity
Activities: Teamwork
Students built towers out of spaghetti and marshmallows to learn the importance of teamwork while learning some basic engineering principles
Students are working in subgroups of 4 students
Activities: The lift that drives WT
Students learned that air particles move faster over the airfoil than under it. This, in turn, causes a difference in pressure that “lifts” aircrafts and make wind turbines rotate.
Students ran around an “airfoil” to learn the concept of lift (basic concept used to make airplanes fly and wind turbines rotate)
Activities: City ModelingStudents sketched a wind turbine model and using hotwire foam cutters to make scale building models
Wind Speed and Altitude
20 m/s
0 m/s
40 m/s
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Altitude (ft) Wind Speed (m/s)
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Velocity
Current Status & Future Plans• Currently, students are drawing the 32 highest buildings
in Downtown Albany.• In January, students will finish CAD drawings of buildings.• In February, models of buildings will be built using “3D
printing”, while students design the experiments to be carried
• During March students will conduct the experiments at RPI’s wind tunnel
• By April, they will analyze the gathered data and will draw some conclusions
• During May, they will prepare an oral presentation to report results, plots and conclusions.
Concluding Remarks• Our main goal is that students impacted by DAEE
will:– Get a good idea of how research is carried out– Start developing teamwork skills– Start developing critical thinking– Learn how humans learn from nature– Be exposed to current real world problems (i.e., energy
crisis)
– Learn how to research the web for information to answer unfamiliar questions
– How to relate personal experiences to science and engineering concepts
– Learn Fluid Dynamics!!!!