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Title: What Happened? A Vertically Integrated Engineering Case Study Based on Wind Turbines
Principal Investigator's Name(s): Charles W. Dolan
Project Sponsor: NSF
Project Timeline: August 2005 - July 2007
Program Overview: In the winter of 2003-2004 a single
wind turbine collapsed in Arlington, Wyoming. The collapse solicits the
questions: "What happened?" Can this design be improved? The
question forms the basis of an educational research project to develop
design questions related to wind turbines that will run through several
classed in the college of engineering. Problems, based on the higher applications
of Bloom’s Taxonomy, will be developed in Introduction to Engineering
classes, Statics, Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Electrical Circuits, Structures,
Machine Design, Composite Materials and Power Generation classes. Developed
in co-operation with Laramie County Community College and Western Wyoming
community college, the problems will be the basis for a national outreach
program.
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