Monday, October 21, 2013
Ahmed Abdelrahman, a mechanical engineering master's student, won the top Peer Recognition award in the Poster Presentation/Competition at the recent Canadian Wind Energy Association meeting and annual research meeting of the NSERC funded Wind Energy Strategic Network (WESNet) held in Toronto. His winning poster was entitled Experimental Testing of Load Alleviation using Trailing Edge Flaps: Rig Design and Instrumentation.
The project for which Abdelrahman based his poster is possibly a first -- it uses a wind turbine blade designed and printed at the university using the 3D printer housed in the Engineering 5 building. Abdelrahman is supervised by WESNet member David Johnson, a Waterloo mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor.