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Design and Construction of an Aesthetically Pleasing Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (APVAWT) – A Case Study of Art and Engineering Collaboration in Engineering Capstone Course

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Virtual On line

Publication Date

June 22, 2020

Start Date

June 22, 2020

End Date

June 26, 2021

Conference Session

Green Energy Manufacturing and Sustainable Energy Management

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Energy Conversion and Conservation and Manufacturing

Page Count

11

DOI

10.18260/1-2--34388

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https://peer.asee.org/34388

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496

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Jung-Uk Lim Liberty University

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Jung-Uk Lim received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University, Korea in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Currently, He is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Liberty University, United States. His research interests include power system control, operation, planning and protection, Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS), renewable energy such as solar power and wind power, microgrids and smart grid. He is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).

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Kyung K. Bae Liberty University

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Kyung K. Bae received his B.S. from Yonsei University, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Virginia Tech, all in electrical engineering. Currently, he is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Liberty University, United States. His research interests include cognitive radio, radio resource allocation and optimization, application of bio-inspired algorithms to wireless communication systems, and machine learning. He is a member of ASEE and IEEE.

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Hector E. Medina Liberty University

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Dr. Medina is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Liberty University (Lynchburg, Va.). He obtained a B.Sc. in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, and both an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from the Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to graduate school, he worked in the oil industry and 7-12 education, in his native Venezuela and Aruba. Since 2012, he has published and presented about forty articles in peer-review journals and conference proceedings. Journals include Applied Mechanics Reviews, Polymer, and International Journal of Solids and Structures. He has also presented at both national and international podiums and won several awards. He recently was recognized as a co-winner of the Department of energy's FAST Prize for developing a novel Pump Storage Hydro System.

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Abstract

This paper proposes an enhanced approach for the capstone design course, as a part of the undergraduate engineering curriculum, through collaboration of art and engineering by designing and building an Aesthetically Pleasing Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (APVAWT). Such collaboration brings creativity to art and engineering students through an interdisciplinary project considering both functionality and beauty for wind generation system.

In order to assist the capstone team’s design and construction of an APVAWT, total eight decision gates (stakeholder requirements, system requirements, system operations, system functions, system architectures, implementation, verification and validation) are set for the project from inception to completion in order to satisfy the need of a client who asks to make an APVAWT. This process includes technical and artistic designs considering functionality, beauty, safety, economics, and ethical implications, ensuring the functionality and beauty for the completed physical unit. Through this project, students will have an enriched opportunity for an interdisciplinary design process combining engineering and arts.

Lim, J., & Bae, K. K., & Medina, H. E. (2020, June), Design and Construction of an Aesthetically Pleasing Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (APVAWT) – A Case Study of Art and Engineering Collaboration in Engineering Capstone Course Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34388

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