Wind Energy Engineers
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Barometers (Barometric pressure sensors)
- Anemometers (Cup anemometers)
- Portable data input terminals (Dataloggers)
- Desktop computers
- Digital cameras (Digital still cameras)
- Digital camcorders or video cameras (Digital video cameras)
- Temperature transmitters (Electronic temperature sensors)
- Global positioning system receivers (Handheld global positioning system GPS units)
- Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
- Radarbased surveillance systems (Light detection and ranging LIDAR systems)
- Mainframe computers
- Weather stations (Portable meteorological stations)
- Anemometers (Propeller anemometers)
- Solar radiation surface observing apparatus (Pyranometers)
- Anemometers (Recording anemometers)
- Soil core sampling apparatus (Soil samplers)
- Wind surface observing apparatus (Sonic detection and ranging SODAR equipment)
- Wind surface observing apparatus (Wind vanes)
Technologies Include:
- Analytical or scientific software
- ANSYS software
- Power system modeling software
- Schneider Electric Direct Coordination
- Computational fluid dynamics CFD software
- DIgSILENT PowerFactory
- EMD International WindPRO
- Siemens PSS Product Suite
- ESRI ArcGIS Spatial Analyst
- SKM Systems Analysis Power Tools
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- GE Energy Positive Sequence Load Flow Software PSLF
- WindSim
- PowerWorld Corporation PowerWorld Simulator
- ReSoft WindFarm
- Manitoba HVDC Research Centre PSCAD
- Risoe National Laboratory Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program WAsP
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD software
- Mathsoft Mathcad
- PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
- SolidWorks CAD software
- Data base user interface and query software
- Microsoft Access
- Structured query language SQL
- Development environment software
- Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Electronic mail software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Industrial control software
- Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software
- Internet browser software
- Web browser software
- Map creation software
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- ESRI ArcInfo
- Geographic information system GIS software
- Global Mapper Software Global Mapper
- Google Earth Pro
- Object or component oriented development software
- C++
- Microsoft Visual Basic.NET
- Microsoft Visual C# .NET
- Office suite software
- Microsoft Office software
- Presentation software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Project management software
- Microsoft Project
- Primavera Systems software
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Video conferencing software
- Web conferencing software
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
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