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Contact: Mike Messier or Lisa Gilbert, Airstreams Renewables Technical Institute
Phone: (661) 822-3963
Airstreams Renewables, Inc. offers vocational career focused training programs for individuals and companies seeking certificates in all industry recognized safety related aspects of wind and renewable energy.
Offers a wind energy technology and industry primer course for technicians but is appropriate for business office personnel, decision makers, or anyone seeking a better understanding of the technology and science driving the wind industry.
California Wind Tech offers an accelerated and comprehensive monthly course that provides technical training for an entry-level career as a wind technician. The class is broken into six distinct units that are engineered to educate and the build skills that are needed to enter the wind industry. The units include: Wind Power Systems, Wind Turbine Schematic Reading, Wind Turbine Circuit Troubleshooting, Hydraulic Power Systems, Basic Electrical Systems, and Safety Certifications.
The Industrial Technology Associate of Science Degree is designed to prepare students to enter the industrial setting in the areas of renewable energy (wind/solar), engineering technology, or electronics. Within the Industrial Technology program, students can earn progressive levels of certificates toward employment and/or the degree.
Offers hands-on workshops for residential wind power, homebuilt wind generators, wind-electric systems maintenance and repair, and an introduction to renewable energy. Workshops are offered in various locations.
The Idaho State University's Energy Systems Technology and Education Center offers Associate in Applied Science degrees in Energy Systems Instrumentation and Control, Energy Systems Electrical Engineering Technology, Energy Systems Mechanical Engineering Technology and Wind Energy Technology.
The Wind Power Technology Associate Degree Program offers broad fundamental training in the electrical, electronic, and mechanical aspects of the wind power industry, with a focus on wind turbine maintenance and electrical power production.
Frostburg State University is offering an education program on design, installation, and maintenance of residential electric generation systems using photovoltaic (PV) solar modules and/or small wind turbines.
The Kalamazoo Valley Community College offers a wind energy technology certificate and has a 26-week wind turbine technician academy. The college also offers seminars, workshops, and youth programs.
The Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering offers a program of graduate study leading to a Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E.) degree with a focus in renewable and clean energy.
Contact: Mike Messier or Lisa Gilbert, Airstreams Renewables Technical Institute
Phone: (661) 822-3963
Airstreams Renewables, Inc. offers vocational career focused training programs for individuals and companies seeking certificates in all industry recognized safety related aspects of wind and renewable energy.
Mitchell Technical Institute has developed a new program that is dedicated to wind power technologies. This one- or two-year program will allow students to learn about the basics of turbines, mechanics, hydraulics, electronics and the computer networks that allow the systems to communicate. The optional second year of the program will give graduates experience in areas like PLCs, fiber options, SCADA, electronics and more.
Offers the program, "Industrial Manufacturing/Emerging Technologies." The program contains an alternative energy specialty targeted to train students primarily in wind energy.
Offers hands-on workshops for residential wind power, homebuilt wind generators, wind-electric systems maintenance and repair, and an introduction to renewable energy. Workshops are offered in various locations.
Vestas has entered into a long-term partnership with the College of Engineering. Vestas will begin providing funding support in 2009 that will grow to sponsor as many as 10 graduate and undergraduate students working on wind technology projects. The company also plans to provide visiting research fellows to campus and start a small research-and-development facility near the engineering campus that will focus on technology transfer. Another stage of the partnership will support named professorships or endowed chairs with expanded focus on wind-energy research and education. Vestas is committed to recruiting and retaining future talent for the wind-energy industry, so one named professorship will focus on developing new curriculum materials to support the emerging energy and sustainability fields.
Includes nine institutions, mostly technical colleges and community colleges, that provide renewable energy training courses.
To add your wind energy program to this list, please email Wind Powering America the Web address of your program. We will notify you when your program has been added, typically within two days.
