Important Reminders

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Please mark your calendars for the NAWEA / WindTech 2024 Conference, the premier technical event on wind energy in North America, hosted by Rutgers University, and co-organized by the New Jersey Academic Alliance for Offshore Wind (A2OSW)!

The all–inclusive event period is Oct. 28 (Mon) – Nov. 2 (Sat), 2024. 

The main conference will take place Oct. 30 (Wed) – Nov. 1 (Fri), at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, NJ. 

Software workshops, the Graduate Student Symposium, and many side events will be on various Rutgers–New Brunswick locations. 

For the first time in NAWEA / WindTech Conference history, the Local Organizers received an NSF Conference Award to support the GSS.

The grant will support a GSS Travel Award Program, providing funding for travel and lodging expenses for students living 200 miles away from New Brunswick, NJ. Please note that the Travel Award application period is now closed.

The funding will also be used for the facilities and catering expenses associated with the GSS. 

The grant will also enable us to bring two speakers from Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science (Stony Brook University) to conduct an interactive science communication training session. 

Technical topics include, but not limited to (in alphabetical order):  Airborne Wind; Atmospheric Sciences; Blade Design & Manufacturing; Controls; Digitalization, AI, Machine Learning; Distributed Wind; Education; Environmental; Experiments and Instrumentation; Extreme Weather; Floating Wind Systems; Grid Integration; Hybrids and Power to X; Novel Concepts; Ocean Sciences; Offshore Infrastructure, Supply Chain, and Policy; Reliability, Operations, and Maintenance; Rotor Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity;  Smart Systems, Materials, and Structures; Social Science; Systems Engineering; Wind Plant and Wakes Modeling; and more...

Professional side events include:  Software workshops hosted by NREL (e.g., OpenFAST, WEIS, HOPP, FLORIS, AMR-Wind, etc.,) and PNNL, the Graduate Student Symposium - GSS (open to undergraduate researchers,) and professional organization meetings for NAWEA, IEA Wind, A2OSW, etc.

The Graduate Student Symposium (GSS), open to both graduate and undergraduate researchers, is bigger and better this year.   

The Symposium aims to provide an enriching and interactive platform for students, helping them hone their communication and networking skills alongside other students and leaders in the fields of wind energy technology, research, and innovation.  

 The event is followed by an Industry-Student Networking Event at the Zimmerli Art Museum, and a special Ghost Tour of the Rutgers - College Avenue Campus.

New Jersey is a vital hub for offshore wind activity. Projects include New Jersey Wind Port, the Nation’s first purpose-built offshore wind marshaling point which is expected to support up to $500 million in new economic activity; the Wind Institute for Innovation and Training; the Offshore Wind Research and Monitoring Initiative; the Rutgers Offshore Wind Energy Collaborative, the Rutgers Center for Ocean Observing Leadership, the Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute; and much more. 

New Brunswick is easily accessible to New York City, and boasts amenities including the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, State Theater New Jersey, Zimmerli Art Museum, and shopping on George Street. It is served by four major airports (i.e., EWR, LGA, JFK, and PHL), and trains to Philadelphia, Boston, D.C., and other East Coast cities. 

Like running? The NYC Marathon will be on the Sunday after the Conference, on Nov. 3. 

New York City is only a one-hour train ride away.

The central New Jersey region offers unprecedented proximity to industry, government labs, and scholars. 

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is the third-largest public university by enrollment, with 175 academic departments and 300 centers and institutes comprising New Jersey’s most extensive and diversified network of research libraries. Rutgers–New Brunswick is the nation’s #15 top public university, a Big Ten Academic Alliance member, New Jersey’s land-grant institution with a research portfolio of $940 million across STEM, the humanities, and the arts; – a richly diverse and interdisciplinary community.

The A2OSW is collaborative group of New Jersey universities and colleges consisting of (in alphabetical order): Atlantic Cape Community College, Monmouth University, Montclair State University, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Princeton, Rowan University, Rutgers University,  Seton Hall University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Stockton University.

 NAWEA is a volunteer organization working to overcome the challenges of advancing wind power technology and its applications, optimizing its role in meeting the region’s energy needs in an environmentally sustainable manner, while nurturing the development and education of future generations of technical, management, and policy experts to ensure the continued sustainable advancement and optimization of wind power. Email: info@nawea.org