Congratulations to Professor Sanjay Arwade, who has been honored with the 2025 Outstanding Faculty Award in recognition of his leadership and impact as Director of the Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW). The UMass Amherst College …
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Sanjay Arwade, Director of the ARROW OSW Center, presented as part of a panel on “The Role of Research Institutions in Advancing Energy Innovation” at the Avangrid Innovation Forum in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 2, 2025. Avangrid, Inc., a leading …
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 …
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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.
About UMass Amherst UMass Amherst, the Commonwealth’s flagship campus, is a nationally ranked public research university offering a full range of undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. The University sits on nearly 1,450-acres in the scenic Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts …
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ARROW faculty Jim Manwell and Emmanuel Branlard published Wind Energy Explained: On Land and Offshore, 3rd Edition. This book is the seminal work on wind energy engineering, which has been updated to meet the needs of the burgeoning wind industry. …
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ARROW Faculty Sanjay Arwade and David Schmitt taught a module on wind turbine blade pitch and yaw to a group of 15 trans-disciplinary students at UMass Amherst. Using model turbines, the students adjusted blade pitch, and rotor yaw, and tried …
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ARROW faculty Andy Myers from Northeastern University presented the results of his work on “Ensuring Long-Term Availability and Bankability of Offshore Wind Through Hurricane Risk Assessment and Mitigation” as part of a session on Proactive Risk Mitigation at the NOWRDC meeting in Washington, DC.
Many ARROW members are attending the 2024 NAWEA/WindTech Conference at Rutgers in New Jersey. NAWEA/WindTech is a major annual meeting for presenting and discussing research related to OSW. ARROW members presented work on the atmosphere, the sea, turbines and support …
Arrow Professor Matthew Lackner was interviewed by the WSJ to provide his expertise on the potential of small scale wind technology. While a startups are pitching small scale wind technologies such as turbines for roofs similar to residential solar, Professor …
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