Training activities

Aalborg, Denmark
6 – 8 August 2014

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Trinity College Dublin
8 – 10 July 2013

While focusing on current research related to renewable energy sources, with a particular emphasis on wind turbine engineering, the SYSWIND workshop brings together academic reseachers and industry representatives to discuss the state-of-art knowledge and technologies in the renewable energy sector.

The 1st SYSWIND WORKSHOP will be jointly held with the DAMAS Conference 2013. This is the tenth in a series of biennial international conferences, which aim to bring together the expertise of scientists and engineers in academia and industry in the field of damage assessment, structural health monitoring and non-destructive evaluation.

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Patras, Greece
23 – 24 July 2012

The Complimentary Course 2012 on business management addresses issues on intellectual property (IPR), entrepreneurship and business development. This course will be aimed at getting the students to think about how novel ideas can be commercialised, with special examples drawn from three areas: SHM, wind energy, sensors. It will involve a staged series of exercises which move from vision and idea to definition of work to be done; through protecting intellectual property, raising finance, marketing and sales. The whole series engages the researchers by getting them to work in teams and develop a business-plan guided by the training team. They use case studies delivered by entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Business plans are presented to a panel of three judges (including one venture capitalist), followed by a brainstorming session to review the skill-set acquired and it application.

Please note that the complimentary course is only for SYSWIND researchers and mandatory for all SYSWIND ESRs.

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University of Patras, Greece
16 – 20 July 2012

The 3rd SYSWIND Summer School is hosted by the Stochastic Mechanical Systems and Automation (SMSA) Laboratory (www.smsa.upatras.gr) of the University of Patras (www.upatras.gr), Greece. The School focuses mainly on state-of-the-art methods for the Control and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of wind turbines. The lectures are aimed at industry practitioners and engineers, post-graduate students and researchers interested in the use and development of effective techniques for application to the new generation of wind turbines. Professionals from the fields of mechanical, civil, structural, electrical engineering and computer science are expected to benefit from the course.

Training on career planning, proposal writing and job applications: During this 2-day course the SYSWIND researchers will learn how to raise their profiles, develop their research portfolios and prepare for their future careers. This will be followed by a collaborative effort to write sample proposals and practical assistance to successfully present CVs adapted to various recruitment and selection procedures currently in use for both academic and non academic positions.

Please note that the complimentary course is only for SYSWIND researchers and mandatory for all SYSWIND ESRs.

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SYSWIND Summer School 2011 on Structural and Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines

Aalborg, Denmark
1 – 5 August 2011

The SYSWIND Summer School 2011 provides an insight in multi-body dynamics, structural control, generator technology, airfoil design, computational fluid dynamics and other hot topics in structural and aerodynamics of wind turbines. It is open to students and researchers from academia, as well as to engineers and industry practitioners working in the field of mechanical, civil, structural and electrical engineering, aerodynamics and computer science.

First SYSWIND Winter School on Signal Processing, Wireless Sensor Network and System Identification.

Dublin, 15 – 19 November 2010

The first SYSWIND Winter School will be relevant to industry practitioners and engineers as well as academic researchers and students working in the field of mechanical, civil, structural and electrical engineering, aerodynamics and computer science.