Associate Professor - Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Description The Department of Mechanical Engineering inside the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering (SMAE) at Clemson University invites applicants for the Clemson University Restoration Institute (CURI) campus in North Charleston. The Department has a particular interest in applicants with expertise in modeling, simulation and advanced controls of wind turbines. The position is targeted at the level of Associate or Full Professor. CURI houses a $98M power facility initiated in 2009 from a $45M Department of Energy grant. The facility includes the Dominion Energy Innovation Center which contains the world’s most-advanced wind-turbine drivetrain testing facility capable of full-scale highly accelerated mechanical and electrical testing of advanced drivetrain systems for wind turbines. The Dominion Energy Innovation Center also houses the Duke Energy Electrical Grid Research Innovation and Development (eGRID) Center, a facility with real-time simulation and 20MVA hardware-in-the-loop capability. Although all areas related to modeling, simulation, and control of wind turbine will be considered, a particular focus on dynamic load assessment, failure prediction, condition mo...