Wind Energy Industry Symposium Agenda and Speaker BiosSeptember 29, 2015, 7:30 A.M. – 5:30 P.M.

Applied Sciences Complex II, Rm 257, with lab tours on campus

SYMPOSIUM AGENDA

7:30 A.M. – 7:50 A.M. Continental Breakfast and Check-In

7:50 A.M. – 8:05 A.M. Welcome Jonathan Wickert, Senior Vice President and Provost, and Sarah Rajala, Dean, College of Engineering; Iowa State University

8:05 A.M. – 8:30 A.M. Jim Ahlgrimm, Wind and Water Power Test Facilities Lead, Office of Wind and Water Power Technology, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, United States Department of Energy

8:30 A.M. – 8:55 A.M. Jason Cotrell, Manager, Wind Turbine Technology and Innovation Group, National Wind Technology Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

8:55 A.M. – 9:15 A.M. Iowa EPSCoR Wind Platform P. Barry Butler, Executive Vice President and Provost, University of Iowa

9:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M. Iowa State University Wind Energy Initiative Raj Aggarwal, Director, Engineering Research Institute, Iowa State University

9:30 A.M. – 10:10 A.M. Tall Turbine Towers Sri Sritharan, Professor, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University; Jason Cotrell, Manager, Wind Turbine Technology and Innovation Group, National Wind Technology Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Markus Wernli, Senior Project Manager, BergerABAM, Inc.

10:10 A.M. – 10:25 A.M. Break

10:25 A.M. – 11:05 A.M. Blade Manufacturing Frank Peters, Associate Professor and Interim Chair, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Iowa State University; Steve Nolet, Principal Engineer and Senior Director of Innovation & Technology, TPI Composites, Inc.

11:05 A.M. - 11:45 A.M. Aerodynamics Performance & Structure Reliability Hui Hu, Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University; Mark Petri, Director, Iowa Energy Center

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11:45 A.M. – 12:30 P.M. Lunch

12:30 P.M. – 1:10 P.M. Structural Health and Condition Monitoring for Blades and Rotary Machinery Leonard Bond, Director, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, Iowa State University; Behzad Moslehi, CEO/CTO, Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation, and Richard Black, Chief Scientist, Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation

1:10 P.M. – 1:50 P.M. Grid Integration Jim McCalley, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University; Clyde Loutan, Senior Advisor, California Independent System Operator, Inc.; Dale Osborn, Consulting Advisor, Policy and Economic and Studies, Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.; Jim Swanson, Principal Engineer, Electric System Planning, MidAmerican Energy Company

1:50 P.M. – 2:05 P.M. Break

2:05 P.M. – 2:45 P.M. Industry Panel Raj Aggarwal, Director, Engineering Research Institute, Iowa State University; Panelists: Adam Jablonski, Project Manager, Wind Development, MidAmerican Energy Company; Kevin Standish, Chief Engineer, Wind Power, Siemens Corporation; Paul Judge, Product Manager, General Electric; Steve Nolet, Principal Engineer and Senior Director of Innovation & Technology, TPI Composites, Inc.

2:45 P.M. – 3:30 P.M. Wrap Up & Discussion Raj Aggarwal, Director, Engineering Research Institute, Iowa State University

3:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Transport to Campus

4:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M. Tour: Wind Energy Facilities • Aeronautic and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel • Wind Energy Manufacturing Laboratory • Wind Energy Systems Laboratory • Structure Engineering Laboratory

SPEAKER BIOS

Jim Ahlgrimm started his career in energy as a nuclear power plant supervisor, serving on board a U.S. Navy submarine. He has been working with Office of Energy Effeciences and Renewable Energy since 2002, where he was initially responsible for managing the hydropower program, and then was assigned to a crosscutting wind and water power program position, as lead for test facilities and materials. Ahlgrimm is the U.S. representative to the International Energy Agency wind committee, and has served as the committee chairman since 2013.

Richard J. Black received a B.Sc. (Hons.) in physics from the University of Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand, and Ph.D. in fiber optics from the Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. He is a Founding Member and currently Chief Scientist at Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation (IFOS), Santa Clara, CA. He was an Invited Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. His research interests include optical fiber sensing systems with application to energy, aerospace, robotics and medical devices. Dr. Black is a senior member of IEEE and life member of the Optical Society of America, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the International Society for Optical Engineers, and Association for Computing Machinery.

Leonard Bond is the director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation at Iowa State University. Bond graduated with his Ph.D. in Physics, in 1978, from the City University London. He is an expert in ultrasonics, NDT/NDE and structural health/condition monitoring. He has experience as an academic, in industry and national laboratories. Previous appointments included faculty positions at University College London, Research Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and with the University of Denver, Denver Research Institute. He was a Laboratory Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and founding Director of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies at the Idaho National Laboratory.

P. Barry Butler is the executive vice president and provost at the University of Iowa. Butler has worked as a visiting research fellow for the U.S. Navy and Sandia National Laboratories and as a visiting faculty member at Université de Provence in Marseille, France. He is active in a number of aerospace-related instructional and research activities and currently serves on the boards of several state and national technology-based organizations committed to economic growth and the advancement of science, technology, engineering, and math education, including the American Wind Energy Association, for which he serves as research and development committee co-chair. Butler was a member of the U.S. Department of Energy’s advisory group to develop a U.S. wind energy

strategic vision. His research is in the area of wind energy optimization and reactive flow analysis and modeling. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in aeronautical and astronautical engineering and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Jason Cotrell is Senior Engineer and Manager of Wind Turbine Technology and Innovation Group, National Wind Technology Center. His current primary responsibilities are managing the Wind Turbine Reliability and Innovation Group at the NWTC that includes activities in gearbox and generator research and testing, advanced controls, distributed wind turbines, and manufacturing supply chain issues. During his 20 years at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, he has researched and developed wind turbine drivetrains, advanced wind turbine rotors, wind-to-hydrogen systems, wind turbine blade and drivetrain testing equipment and facilities, and marine and hydro kinetic testing facilities. His most recent work includes strategic energy analysis of U.S. wind and water

manufacturing and supply chain opportunities.

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Hui Hu is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University. Dr. Hu’s research interests include wind energy and wind turbine aeromechanics; wind turbine icing and anti-icing/de-icing technology; film cooling, trailing edge cooling and thermal management of gas turbines; unsteady aerodynamics and bio-inspired aerodynamic designs for micro-air-vehicle applications; fluid-structure interactions of built structures in violent winds such as tornados, microbursts and storms. Dr. Hu received several prestigious awards in recent years, including 2006 NSF-CAREER Award, 2007 Best Paper in Fluid Mechanics Award (Measurement Science and Technology, IOP Publishing), 2009 AIAA Best Paper Award in Applied Aerodynamics, 2012 Mid-Career Achievement in Research Award of Iowa State University, 2013 AIAA Best Paper Award in Ground Testing Technology, and 2014 Renewable Energy Impact Award from the Iowa Energy Center.

Adam Jablonski is the project manager, wind development at MidAmerican Energy Company, Iowa’s largest energy company headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. He is a native of Iowa and attended Iowa State University and majored in civil engineering at Iowa State University. After graduation he moved to Des Moines, Iowa and worked for Veenstra and Kimm, Inc. consulting engineers where he worked in civil engineering and land surveying. In 2007 he joined MidAmerican Energy Company in their right-of-way department where he began developing wind projects. He then gained valuable knowledge in wind generation by spending three years as a wind operations supervisor before taking on his current position where he has managed the development of hundreds of megawatts of wind generation projects across Iowa.

Paul Judge is the product manager for GE’s 1-2MW Wind Platform. In this role, he is responsible for developing and executing GE’s wind product technology and competitive strategy. Under Judge’s leadership, GE’s renewable energy business launched its Digital Wind Farm and 1.7-103 products into the global market. These cutting edge products offer increased efficiency and profitability at low wind speeds and high power density at medium wind speeds. A 7-year GE veteran, Judge has held leadership roles in engineering and product management. Previous to his current position Judge was the systems engineering leader for GE’s 2.X wind energy platform where he led the launch of the 2.5-120, 2.85-103, and 2.5-100 60 Hz wind turbines. Prior to joining GE Judge worked for General Motors in manufacturing, supply chain, and quality leadership positions and for the United States Navy as a nuclear engineer and operations manager. Judge holds a B.S. in ocean engineering from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

Clyde Loutan is a Senior Advisor at the California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO) focusing on power system operation performance, and was the Principal Investigator for several technical studies including the ISO’s renewable resource integration reports published in 2007 and 2010. Mr. Loutan serves on the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Frequency Responsive Reserve and the NERC Reliability Based Control Standards workgroups. Mr. Loutan previously worked at the Pacific Gas and Electric Company for 14 years in various capacities such as Real Time System Operations, Transmission Planning and High Voltage Protection. Mr. Loutan is a licensed professional engineer in the State of California. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Howard University in Washington D.C., and is a senior member of the IEEE.

James D. McCalley is Harpole Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech in 1982, 1986, and 1992, respectively. He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2003. He was previously employed with the Atlanta Gas Light-Company from 1977-1982, with the United States Peace Corps from 1982-1984, and with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), San Francisco, from 1985 to 1990. Dr. McCalley’s research activities focus on electric transmission and resource planning under uncertainty, wind energy systems and grid integration, asset management, transmission system and market operation, security assessment and risk evaluation, power system dynamic analysis and control, and computational models for analysis and design of co-optimized electric, natural gas, and transportation infrastructure systems. He has published 92 journal articles and 142 conference proceeding articles on these research areas.

SPEAKER BIOS

Behzad Moslehi received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Arya-Mehr University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and M.S. in electrical engineering, M.S. in applied physics, and Ph.D. in engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer/Chief Technology Officer of Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation (IFOS), Santa Clara, CA. His current research interests include photonic signal processing, sensing, communications, and networking for applications in avionics, safety, life sciences, and energy. Dr. Moslehi is a Senior Member of IEEE, the Optical Society of America, and the International Society for Optical Engineers, and member of the American Wind Energy Association the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and Sigma Xi.

Steve Nolet is Principal Engineer and Senior Director of Innovation & Technology at TPI Composites. He manages technical activities in the development of low-cost composite structures for the company’s three primary business units: Wind Energy, Military Ground Vehicles, and Transportation Systems. Prior to joining TPI, Mr. Nolet was Vice President of Engineering for Fiberspar Corporation where he directed the development of spoolable composite tubulars for the oil and gas industry. Previous positions include Director of Engineering at American Composite Technology and Senior Engineer in the US Air Force Advanced Composite Program Office in Sacramento, California. Steve received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nolet’s activities have lead

to the issue of more than 30 US Patents on which he is a named inventor.

Dale Osborn, Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc., Consulting Advisor, Policy and Economic Studies, assists study teams in the development of long range economic transmission plans for the entire Midwest ISO and neighboring regions. Currently he is working on the HVDC Network, a transmission conceptual design that may link WECC, ERCOT, and about half of the Eastern Interconnection to exchange capacity diversity and energy. Dale is also the chairman of the Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative Production Cost Task Force. Dale received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Frank Peters is the interim department chair and an Associate Professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department at Iowa State University. He teaches courses in manufacturing processes and manufacturing systems. Manufacturing system improvements has been the central theme of his research. Work within metalcasting includes visual inspection and a digital standard for surface requirements, heat treatment optimization, rapid patternmaking, and cleaning room efficiency. Current effort also includes improving manufacturing processes for composite wind blades including automation solutions for fabric layup. Metrology, fixturing and geometric variability of manufacturing processes are other strong interest areas. Dr. Peters received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in

Industrial Engineering with a Ph.D. minor in Metals Science and Engineering from Penn State.

Mark Petri is Director of the Iowa Energy Center, which was founded by the Iowa General Assembly in 1990 with the aim of advancing Iowa’s energy efficiency and renewable energy use through research, education, and demonstration. The center includes research facilities for commercial-building energy efficiency technologies and for biomass conversion processes. The center offers grants to Iowa colleges, universities, and nonprofits for energy research, technology development, education, and workforce development.

Sarah Rajala is dean of the College of Engineering at Iowa State University and the James and Katherine Melsa Professor of Engineering. Rajala earned her B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society for Engineering Education and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Rajala is an internationally known academic leader and has served on numerous advisory and editorial boards and committees. She chairs the Global Engineering Deans Council and is a former president of the American Society for Engineering Education.

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Sri Sritharan is the Wilson Engineering Professor of the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University. His research expertise includes lateral-load design of structures, precast systems, wind turbine towers, and ultra-high performance concrete. Sri has led the Wind Energy Initiative at ISU for three years. A fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), Sri has published over 200 journal and conference papers and graduated 50 MS and PhD students. Sri is the lead developer of the Hexcrete Tower Technology.

Jim Swanson is a Principal Engineer in the Electric System Planning Department at MidAmerican Energy Company in Davenport, Iowa. Jim has done transmission planning work at MidAmerican and its predecessor companies for over 30 years. He represents MidAmerican at several transmission planning stakeholder groups at the MidContinent Independent System Operator and leads MidAmerican Energy’s local area transmission planning stakeholder process. Jim received his BSEE degree from the University of Iowa and is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Kevin Standish received his M.S. degree in mechanical and aeronautical engineering from UC Davis in 2003. He joined the blades team at GE Wind in Greenville, South Carolina in 2004 specializing in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and aerodynamic design. In the fall of 2008, he joined Siemens R&D facility located in Boulder, Colorado as a CFD and design engineer and then transitioned into a leadership role tasked with developing a state of the art blade design competence center. The Boulder R&D team successfully introduced the aeroelastic tailored blade (ATB) technology into their products and ultimately earned global ownership of all new Siemens blade designs. Over the last year, Kevin has transitioned back into a technical role as a Siemens senior chief engineer. He has been granted 12 U.S. patents with another 8 still in the application stage. Kevin has a number of publications to his name and has served as a technical reviewer for various technical conferences and journals. He has also served on various technical review panels for DOE/A2E, AWEA, Sandia, and NREL/NWTC.

Markus Wernli is a senior project manager at BergerABAM. Dr. Wernli has been involved in the development of applications for advanced composite materials for strengthening and new construction; the development of large floating concrete structures for berthing piers, storage facilities, offshore wind turbines, and military facilities; the development of large cryogenic storage tanks made of precast concrete; the advancement of accelerated bridge construction technologies in seismic regions; and the development of tall concrete wind turbine towers for the U.S. market. Dr. Wernli shares a Robert J. Lyman Award from the Prestressed Concrete Institute and an American Concrete Institute (ACI) Construction Practice Award for his efforts on advancing the concrete industry. Dr. Wernli is the champion of the Accelerated Technology Implementation team on concrete wind turbine towers of the Strategic Development Council of the ACI Foundation.

Senior Vice President and Provost Jonathan Wickert leads Iowa State University’s academic, research, extension and outreach, and information technology programs. His work is focused on student access and success, educational opportunities that prepare students to make a difference in the world, and public-private partnerships in research and economic development that support Iowa’s economy. Dr. Wickert, a mechanical engineer by training, holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California – Berkeley, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge.

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Dr. Raj Aggarwal, Interim Director, Wind Energy Initiative, rka@iastate.eduwww.engineering.iastate.edu/wei

Raj is currently Director of the Engineering Research Institute at Iowa State University. Previous positions include: Vice President of Global Technology and Special Projects and Vice President of the Advanced Technology Center at Rockwell Collins, Senior Director of Strategic Planning and Technology at Computing Devices International, Director of Research and Technology at Alliant Techsystems, Inc., and a Director of Advanced Programs for Honeywell, Inc. He received his B.S. degree in physics (with honors) from Delhi University; a B.S. degree in electrical communications engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, and an M.S. degree in electrical and communications engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. He also received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Aggarwal is currently a member of a number of university boards and the National Defense Industrial Association Science and Engineering Technology Committee.

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