CWC Deployment Team

Meet the Team

The Deployment Team consists of six undergraduate mechanical and electrical engineering students from Northern Arizona University. This team has also worked with the CWC Tunnel Team and two business teams from the W.A. Franke College of Business. All these students are mentored by Karin Wadsack and David Willy, NAU faculty members.

Mike

Michael Wertz

CWC Engineering Lead

mcw233@NAU.edu
  • Oversees the CWC team as the overall student lead
  • Primary blade designer
  • Website developer for the deployment team
  • Responsible for communication with the the U.S. Department of Energy (sponsor)

 

Ryan

Ryan Schatz

Technical Lead

rts59@NAU.edu
  • Turbine modeling expert
  • Primary blade designer
  • Responsible for cohesion between tunnel and deployment turbine designs

 

Norman

Norman Clark

Project Manager

nwc8@NAU.edu
    Generator expert
  • Blade designer
  • Responsible for ensuring the blade design and generator are compatible

 

Brock

Brock Pellerin

Business Liason

btp43@NAU.edu
  • Economic modeling expert
  • Load and generator designer
  • Responsible for determining turbine's business statistics, such as cost and return on investment

 

Anas

Anas Alkandari

Load Expert

aa2583@NAU.edu
    Load requirements expert
  • Generator designer
  • Responsible for ensuring that the generator and load are compatible

 

Hashim

Hashim Alramadhan

Structural Expert

hma52@NAU.edu
  • Turbine support structure expert
  • Load designer
  • Responsible for ensuring that the turbine structure and components are safe to use and perform their designated tasks