The Wind Energy Center at UMass Amherst has developed a unique continuing-education -credit (CEU) certificate series consisting of five courses to provide wind energy development practitioners with the skills to measure the wind, interpret the results, and provide accurate estimates of wind energy potential.
Courses in the series are:
Course 1) Installing Wind Data Meteorological Towers: Provides classroom instruction on safe methods for installing met towers; to be matched with a subsequent onsite tower installation course offered each summer at UMass.
Course 2) Wind Data Instrumentation, Data Collection, and Reporting: Provides training on the installation of wind sensors, wiring, and data-logging on met towers, plus operation of loggers and associated desktop software.
Course 3) Wind Data Quality Assurance Methods and Long Term Extrapolation: Provides training on proper quality control review of wind energy data, plus synthesis for estimating the long term potential of the site based on the data.
Course 4) Wind Data Collection Using Remote Data Collection: LIDAR and SODAR: Provides training on the use of new SODAR and LIDAR equipment for measuring wind at prospective sites.
Course 5) Wind Site Selection and Performance Estimation Processes: Using maps, software, and the process of "fatal flaw" and "measure-correlate-predict" analyses, provides training on how to assess the energy production potential of a site.
Special features of this non-credit certificate program:
- Unique: This material is not formally taught anywhere else as a professional series.
- Quality: The University of Massachusetts Wind Energy Center is a leading institution in wind energy engineering nationally and internationally. This series is developed and taught by UMass Amherst Wind Energy Center faculty and staff.
- Practical: This series provides you with skills and credentials you need to enter the wind energy siting field or differentiate yourself in that field.
- Convenient: Each course runs for a week and is designed to meet the needs of working professionals.
- Flexible: Take a single course or the entire series; complete the entire series in as little as two semesters or spread the courses out over several years.
- Cost-effective: The cost is only $556 per course with a 10% series discount for those completing all five courses in the series.
Learn more about this program:
To receive more information and connect with the program manager, please click on inquire now to the right.
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Who should enroll:
- Technically-oriented individuals seeking to acquire skills needed to work in the wind energy measurement and feasibility assessment sector.
- Engineering students or engineering graduates interested in acquiring wind energy measurement and siting credentials
Skills Needed:
Those who enroll in this class may also be interested in the graduate level class MIE 573 Engineering Wind Power System.
- Good mathematical skills, including algebra and geometry at the high school level
- Good computer skills, including spread sheet creation and report writing abilities
For more information contact Program Manager Jody Lally at lally@ecs.umass.edu.
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