PROJECT 1 - RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE

In Project One, you will be in an engineering design team that contributes to green (renewable
energy) technology. As part of a larger engineering group, your team particularly will be focusing on
designing a turbine blade component inside a wind turbine, by considering its mechanical properties
and performance. Although your team’s design will focus on a blade as the main component, having
knowledge of wind turbine, in general, as a technology and its design considerations of wind turbine
is inevitable to be successful in your turbine blade design.
Your team will also explore the design of this turbine blade through the three levels of the Engineering
Design Process. First, you will explore the technology and learn about the design specifications of
wind turbine. You will also focus on determining the design requirements (i.e. function, constraints,
and objectives) of wind turbine as well as its main component (turbine blade), in one of the four
assigned scenarios (more details will be given for each scenario):
• Renewable Energy for a Large Population
• Engineers Without Border (EWB) Humanitarian Aid Mission
• A Roof Generator
• A Pioneer in Clean Energy
Second, you will then develop a conceptual design by selecting the suitable materials for this turbine
blade based on the design requirements and top objectives considering the mechanical properties/
performance. Finally, you will develop a design embodiment through CAD modelling to determine
the suitable blade dimensions to withstand the design load requirement.
Your team will be exploring the suitable “material choice” and CAD modelling for a turbine blade.
Through this project, your team will acquire knowledge in using Engineering Computational Design
Tools for material selection (ANSYS-Granta EduPack) and CAD modelling (Autodesk Inventor) for
your proposed designs.