Fellow: José Lebrón Teacher: Andrew Baitinger Professor: Luciano Castillo

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

2. About the Fellow • Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering • Thermal-fluid Science • Dissertation • Experimental modeling of the interaction between wind power plants and the atmosphere

3. About the Teacher • 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

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

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8. INNOVATION PROCESS Invention Technology Discovery Product Development Product Manufacturing Product Marketing PhD PhD/MS MS/BS BS Marketplace Cures Jobs Security Goods 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. Long Term Project • 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 The Johns Hopkins University

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

12. Activities: Teamwork Students are working in subgroups of 4 students Students built towers out of spaghetti and marshmallows to learn the importance of teamwork while learning some basic engineering principles

13. Activities: The lift that drives WT Students ran around an “airfoil” to learn the concept of lift (basic concept used to make airplanes fly and wind turbines rotate) 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.

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

16. The Atmosphere Wind

17. 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.

18. 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!!!!

19. 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