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New Offshore Wind Center of Excellence – ARROW announced
This story was originally published by the UMass News Office. The University of Massachusetts Amherst has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to establish and lead the Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW), a new multimillion-dollar national center of excellence to accelerate reliable and equitable offshore wind energy deployment…
ARROW Launches FLEx: A Faculty Learning Exchange to Elevate OSW Education
This past week, we launched FLEx, our Faculty Learning Exchange program. FLEx connects faculty from ARROW institutions nationwide, fostering collaboration through shared expertise, best practices, and course materials—all aimed at strengthening the offshore wind (OSW) education landscape. To kick things off, Professor Arwade (UMass Amherst) and Professor Sabato (UML) delivered engaging lectures at Johns Hopkins…
ARROW Leadership meets with British Consul General
ARROW Director Sanjay Arwade presented ARROWs history and plans to the British Consul General in Boston, David Clay. They discussed building additional connections and collaborations with British institutions.
Empower
ARROW-Empower is the educational arm of ARROW designed to empower the next generation of US-based OSW professionals, enhance the ability of US institutions to deliver comprehensive OSW education and establish global leadership for the US in OSW education.
Engage
ARROW-Engage encompasses the outreach aspects and Community Benefits aspects of the center, especially diversity, energy equity and workforce development initiatives. ARROW’s holistic approach integrates these engagement initiatives into the fabric of its operations, educational programs, research initiatives, stakeholder engagements, and community relationships. ARROW-Engage tasks are integrated with and support research within ARROW-Innovate and Education within ARROW-Empower.
Innovate
ARROW-Innovate is the research arm of ARROW and focuses a rich OSW research environment at ARROW institutions on the characterization and reduction of uncertainty across the OSW system. Key objectives of ARROW-Innovate are increased reliability and the interjection of targeted solutions for OSW resilience. The expertise of the ARROW team covers the areas of infrastructure,…