With support from the Minnesota Office of Energy Security, Windustry partnered with wind installer experts to develop a Small Wind Installer Training Curriculum designed to prepare technical students for engagement in the growing small wind industry. Working with two of the nation's foremost small wind installers and trainers, Windustry created a cutting edge, state-of-the-art curriculum.
This curriculum, the first such standardized small wind installer curriculum of its kind in the country, was used in a special “Train-the-Trainer” session offered at the University of Minnesota-Morris in the spring of 2011. The seventeen instructors from Minnesota community and technical colleges who participated in the course are now using the curriculum to teach would-be installers in their home schools across the state.
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Curriculum
Terms and Definitions for Small Wind Site Assessor
Lesson 2
Wind Quantity
Test Questions
Teaching Ideas
Lesson 3.1
Wind Quality
Test Questions
Teaching Ideas
Lesson 3.2
What do you “see” at a site?
Test Questions
Teaching Ideas
Lesson 3.3
Displacement Height
Teaching Ideas
Lesson 3.4
Re-evaluating wind shear values
Train the Trainer Forum
The Small Wind Installer Training Curriculum Forum is an interactive hub for instructors who have completed the Train-the-Trainer program, providing discussion and resource sharing.
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