Academia

To advance their research program, the Wind Energy Institute of Canada collaborates with many academic institutions throughout Canada and the United States. We value relationships with academia because of the specialized expertise that academics can offer to research problems. Collaboration with professors has mainly taken place through our Visiting Professor and Peer Review Program (VPPP) and through funding from research grants. We are open to new collaborators and continuing research with current and previous collaborators in performing research that follows our mandate. Compiled below is a list of collaborators with WEICan over the past ten years of research and demonstration.


Name:
Rebecca Barthelmie
Agreement Type:
NDA
Purpose:
Measurement of wind speed and turbulence in the presence of wakes and an escarpment.
https://www.mae.cornell.edu/faculty-directory/rebecca-j-barthelmie
Effective Date(s):
Mar 01/2015
Name:
Sara C Pryor
Agreement Type:
NDA
Purpose:
Measurement of wind speed and turbulence in the presence of wakes and an escarpment.
https://www.eas.cornell.edu/faculty-directory/sara-c-pryor
Effective Date(s):
May 01/2015
Name:
Jonathan Nixon
Agreement Type:
NDA
Purpose:
Investigating turbine operation in cold climates.
Effective Date(s):
Nov 30/-0001
Name:
Lukas Swan
Agreement Type:
NDA
Purpose:
NSERC Engage: Baseline Experimental and Potential Economic Performance of a sodium-Nickel-Chloride Battery Integrated with Wind Turbines and the Electricity Grid
Link to Dalhousie Web-page: https://www.dal.ca/faculty/engineering/mechanical/faculty-staff/our-faculty/professors/lukas-swan.html
Effective Date(s):
Sep 01/2014
Name:
Hamed Aly
Agreement Type:
NDA, Mitacs
Purpose:
Research relating to operation WEICan renewable energy infrastructure.
Effective Date(s):
Jan 01/2023
Name:
Adrian Ilinca
Agreement Type:
NDA
Purpose:
Preliminary study and discussion for a possible research collaboration on the correlations between meteorological conditions and power loss in wind turbines operating in icing conditions.
https://www.etsmtl.ca/en/research/professors/ailinca/
Effective Date(s):
Jan 21/2022
Name:
Tariq Iqbal
Agreement Type:
VPPP
Purpose:
Learn about the Supervisory control and data acquisition systems as well as the hardware and details of operation of the small wind turbine test bed and data logging system being used at WEICan.
https://www.engr.mun.ca/~tariq/
Effective Date(s):
Oct 01/2015
Name:
Hamid Zareipour, Schulich School of Engineering
Agreement Type:
MOU, NDA, MITACS
Purpose:
Focus on their common interest in the areas of wind energy engineering (in particular around asset management and condition monitoring systems) and renewable energy generation.
https://hzareipour.ucalgaryblogs.ca/
Effective Date(s):
Jan 01/2017
Name:
Liuchen Chang
Agreement Type:
Dyno Test Bed located on WEICan site
Purpose:
Focus on operation of dyno test bed and support for NSERC Network for Energy Storage and Technology.
https://www.unb.ca/faculty-staff/directory/engineering-electrical-and-computer/chang-liuchen.html
Effective Date(s):
Apr 30/2015
Name:
Karen Hinzer
Agreement Type:
NDA
Purpose:
Performance analysis of monofacial and bifacial photovoltaic arrays in the Canadian context.
https://engineering.uottawa.ca/people/hinzer-karin
Effective Date(s):
Feb 23/2022
Name:
Grant McSorley
Agreement Type:
NDA
Purpose:
Research related to Life Cycle Assessment and Asset Integrity Management of Renewable Energy Technology Systems.
Effective Date(s):
May 03/2023
Name:
Adam Fenech
Agreement Type:
MOU, NDA
Purpose:
Testing and validating meteorological equipment at WEICan site.
https://projects.upei.ca/climate/
Effective Date(s):
Nov 30/2019
Name:
Amy Hsiao
Agreement Type:
NDA, Mitacs
Purpose:
Research related to materials assessment and characterization of wind turbine components, including lubricants, blades, and leading edge protection.
Effective Date(s):
Jan 01/2017
Name:
Claudio Canzares
Agreement Type:
NDA, VPPP
Purpose:
Focus on their common interests in the areas of energy storage and wind energy.
https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/ccanizar/home
Effective Date(s):
Jul 01/2017
Name:
Mehrdad Kazerani
Agreement Type:
NDA, VPPP
Purpose:
Focus on their common interests in the areas of energy storage and wind energy.
https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/profile/mkazeran
Effective Date(s):
Jul 01/2017
Name:
David Johnson
Agreement Type:
NDA, VPPP
Purpose:
Focus on their common interests in the areas of energy storage and wind energy.
https://uwaterloo.ca/mechanical-mechatronics-engineering/profile/da3johns
Effective Date(s):
Jul 01/2017
Name:
Horia Hangan/Kamran Siddiqui
Agreement Type:
NDA
Purpose:
NSERC Engage: Investigation of wake and topography effects on a wind farm performance.
https://www.eng.uwo.ca/civil/faculty/hangan_h/index.html
Effective Date(s):
Mar 01/2015
Name:
Rupp Carriveau
Agreement Type:
NDA
Purpose:
NSERC Engage: Data Analytics for Canadian Commercial Wind Energy
https://www.uwindsor.ca/engineering/civil/115/dr-rupp-carriveau
Effective Date(s):
Jun 01/2015
Name:
Peter Taylor
Agreement Type:
NDA
Purpose:
NSERC Engage: Investigation of wake and topography effects on a wind farm performance.
https://lassonde.yorku.ca/users/pat
Effective Date(s):
Mar 01/2015
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