Timeline: Aug 2025-Present
Objective
This project is done as part of MIT Wind, a competitor in the US Department of Energy's 2026 Collegiate Wind Competition in the northeast region. The competition has three main components that contribute to your team's overall score: turbine design, turbine performance, and project development+connection creation.
As build lead of MIT Wind, I lead the mechanical and electrical subteams on the design and testing of the turbine. The designs presented here are preliminary and will be iterated in the coming months.
Outcomes & Contributions
So far, we designed a rudimentary, bare-bones turbine that has all the mechanical parts that enable power generation, pictured below.
Figure 1: Isometric, front, and side view of the preliminary CAD for the MIT Wind turbine
Technical Details & Skills
Manufacturing: Lathe, Drill Press, Bandsaw, Handsaw/Hacksaw, 3D printing, soldering
Languages: MATLAB
CAD: SolidWorks
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