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AAE Alumni Dr. Kivanc Ekici Receives NSF Career Award

Event Date:	May 2, 2013

AAE alumni Dr. Kivanc Ekici Ph.D.'01 received a 5-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award

AAE alumni Dr. Kivanc Ekici Ph.D.'01 received a 5-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award for his proposal entitled "CAREER: A Multidisciplinary Framework for Innovative Design of Wind Turbines" in January 2012.

Dr. Ekici is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and his advisor at Purdue was Dr. Tasos Lyrintzis.

This project will integrate research and education to investigate and devise novel methods for wind turbine design technology with greatly decreased computational cost, while educating the next generation of wind energy engineers.