1. Troy High School Fellow: José Lebrón Teacher: Andrew Baitinger Professor: Luciano Castillo

2. 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

3. 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

4. Resources –Desktop computers for each student –Access to internet, and Computer Aided Design (CAD) software –Printer –Projector –Drafting Tables Design and Drawing for Production

5. Students Statistics

8. INNOVATION PROCESS Invention Technology Discovery Product Development Product Manufacturing Product Marketing PhDPhD/MSMS/BSBS Marketplace GoodsSecurityJobsCures BETTER LIFE QUALITY

9. 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

10. 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

11. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Boundary Layer (Friction Zone) Wind Free-stream (Frictionless Zone) 1 25 mph 20 mph 15 mph 10 mph 5 mph 0 mph 25 mph Distance Velocity

12. 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

13. 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)

14. Activities: City Modeling Students sketched a wind turbine model and using hotwire foam cutters to make scale building models

15. Wind Speed and Altitude 20 m/s 0 m/s 40 m/s 10 m/s 5000 ft 2000 ft 300 ft Altitude (ft) Wind Speed (m/s) Wind 0 ft Velocity

16. The Atmosphere Wind

17. Activities: Measurement of the ABL Students will: Measure the wind speed at different heights, from the ground to up to 8 feet. From this activity, students will learn: What is a wind anemometer Wind speed varies with altitude Due to fluctuations in wind speeds, they will need to average the wind speeds over time Orville and Wilbur Wright, 1909 Wilbur is holding the anemometer up into the air.

18. 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.

19. 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!!!!

20. Acknowledgements Andrew Baitinger GK-12 Grant Investigators –Professor Timothy Wei –Professor Luciano Castillo –Professor Diana Borca-Tasciuc, –Tammie Borland Staff at Troy High School Sheilla Torres, RPI Student Michelle Torres, School Psychologist