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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.


Recent News

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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REU Students Present at Summer Symposium

Each summer, UTD Wind hosts a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Wind Energy Systems and 10 students presented their work at the Summer Platform for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) symposium.

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UTD Wind Researcher Chimes in on Texas Wind Energy

With record breaking temperatures during June 2023, CBS News Texas asked Dr. Todd Griffith about the significance of wind energy in Texas during some of the hottest days of the year.

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New Federal Funds, Initiatives To Expand UTD’s North Texas Impact

A federal spending package passed by Congress and signed into law in December will boost a number of infrastructure projects at The University of Texas at Dallas. The package provides $1.6 million for UTD’s Wind Energy Center, which develops and tests technologies to advance wind energy science and engineering.

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Upcoming Events and Conferences

ARPA-E 2024

May 22-24, 2024, Dallas, TX

The ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit brings together experts from different technical disciplines and professional communities to think about America’s energy challenges in new and innovative ways. The Summit offers a unique, three-day program aimed at highlighting the boldest, bravest ideas that could have the biggest impact. 

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TORQUE 2024

May 29-31, 2024, Florence, Italy

The “Science of Making Torque from Wind” is an official event by the European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE) and aims at gathering experts worldwide for a unique chance of discussing the cutting-edge developments in wind energy science.

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ECCOMAS Special Topics – Numerical Simulations of Wind Turbines and Wind Farms 2024

June 3-7, 2024, Lisbon, Portugal

The main event organized by ECCOMAS is its biennial European Congress, providing a rendezvous for scientists and engineers from within Europe and around the globe. The main objective of these congresses is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art developments in scientific computing applied to engineering sciences. Equal emphasis is given to basic methodologies, scientific development and industrial applications.

The ECCOMAS Congress includes invited lectures, invited Special Technological Sessions (STS), contributed papers from Academy and Industry and organized Minisymposia. Proceedings of the ECCOMAS Congresses are widely disseminated in Europe.

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American Control Conference 2024

July 8-12, 2024, Toronto, Canada

ACC is the annual conference of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), the U.S. national member organization of the International Federation for Automatic Control (IFAC).

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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.