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6 news kasper sandal wins phd poster award by b e t i n a b r i n k l a u r s e n w i nt h e r kasper sandal, phd at dtu wind
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, won the phd poster award at the wind energy denmark 2016 conference in odense during the 26th and 27th of october 2016. kasper sandal won the price for his phd project ?design optimization of jacket struc- tures for mass production?. in order to achieve the optimum design for the jacket structures, he has developed a so?ware for calculating e.g. the optimal spacing between the legs of the jacket structures to achieve the most cost effective design. kasper sandal started his presentation with the words ?math is more effective than people,? a statement that is supported by the functionality of the so?ware, which will make it possible to calculate the effects of different designs within a short period of time, leading to significant cost reductions. by c h a rlot te b o m a n h e d e ?i am extremely proud and happy that i re- ceived the award. we are a lot of people who have spent a great amount of time on the course and to have it acknowledged is simply amaz- ing,? says malcolm mcgugan, chief engineer at dtu wind energy. in 2016, he received the avt panel excel- lence award from nato. for several years, he had been teaching a series of lectures all over the world, with the name ?structural health monitoring of military vehicles?. in 2014, malcolm mcgugan and some of his colleagues from other european uni- versities held free lecture series in berlin and madrid planned by the science and technology organization (sto), which is a nato subsidiary body. in 2015, the course was held in vancouver as well. approx- imately 140 participants represented fi?een different nato nations from industry, govern- ment and academia during the lectures in ber- lin, madrid and vancouver. due to popularity, sto ordered an extra lec- ture series, this time in bilbao in 2016. during that course, nato presented malcolm mcgu- gan from dtu wind energy with the avt panel excellence award. in 2017, the same group of lecturers will present ?highlights and challenges in diag- nosis of structural integrity and failures?, but this time as part of the cism (centre inter- national des sciences méchaniques) organ- ized advanced professional training at udine, italy. ?e lectures take place from the 2nd to 6th october this year and a book will be published in 2018. chief engineer wins award after lecture series dtu windturbineracer sets world record by b e t i n a b r i n k l a u r s e n w i nt h e r in 2016, the windturbineracer won the rac- ing aeolus competition for the second year running. ?e team did not only ensure the third victory out of nine racing aeolus com- petitions, but it also managed to break the world record in racing against the wind, when the car reached a speed of 101.8% of the wind speed. ?is was the first time in the history of the competition that one of the competing cars went faster than the speed of the wind. 2013 the start of irpwind the european commission decided in december 2013 to fund the integrated research programme on wind energy (irpwind), which was one of the final projects allocated in framework programme 7. the pro- ject is coordinated by dtu wind energy and addresses coordination and networking elements as well as research activities. the ambition is to create a joint european wind energy research programme with strategy and planning including a secretariat to support this. the budget is 10m euro for 4 years. the programme will finish in 2017.
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