Wind engineering pioneer Jon A. Peterka died May 21 in Fort Collins, Colo. Born on May 26, 1941, he was five days shy of his 78 th birthday.

Can a single engineering project electrify a country and spark a worldwide controversy about trade-offs with the environment?

“The term wind engineering wasn’t coined until the 1970s. I think Jack came up with the name.” Cermak was born Sept. 8, 1922, in the farm community of Hastings, near Trinidad.

Several faculty members from the Francis College of Engineering are helping advance the use of clean, renewable wind energy through research in areas such as wind turbine blade manufacturing and ...

Wind energy has become a cornerstone of modern renewable strategy, but scaling it brings significant technical hurdles. From high-maintenance gearboxes to the complex task of grid frequency ...

The total installed global capacity of wind grew to upwards of 900GW in 2023, making the sector an essential part of the energy transition. However, with almost all online turbines being fixed in ...

The 10th annual Collegiate Wind Competition was held in Boulder May 17-19. In the final event of the competition, 13 teams tested their prototype wind turbines and presented their work to panels ...

Help is on the way for structural engineers driving toward improving the efficiency, reliability and resilience of buildings through performance-based wind design. And though it could take a ...

“The Wall of Wind Challenge offered me an opportunity to gain insight in the field of wind engineering which has sparked an interest that I did not know I had,” said Jenna Silvera, a junior at Miami ...

Crews assemble a new motor and blades to a wind turbine on the Western Michigan University College of Engineering's campus, Nov. 20, 2023. (WWMT) ...

From left to right, Ron Weicks, a general manager with Keystone Engineering; Dan Wardle, a civil engineer; and Richard Ekstrom, a project leader for renewable energies, talk Nov. 17, 2021, in an ...