About the Program - New for 2024!

Navigating The Clean Energy Transition and the Offshore Wind Industry: An interdisciplinary program for emerging, existing, and transitional professionals in the clean energy workforce

This 30-hour training program will provide an interdisciplinary 30-hour program to educate emerging, existing, and transitioning professionals from numerous sectors in the landscape of the clean energy transition and the role of offshore wind. To enhance the knowledge and understanding of business owners, managers, project managers, engineers, environmental scientists, government representatives, and others in this supply chain, we will offer modules that address specific areas most central to this industry.

This program is expected to begin in late June 2024 during a mid-day time slot. 

The program comprises ten distinct modules covering policy, the clean energy transition, community and stakeholder engagement, financing/energy pricing, power, transmission and distribution, hydrogen, climate and environmental impacts, supply chain and manufacturing, and workforce development.

Upon completion of the program, participants will receive a literacy-based microcredential that can be displayed via a digital badge.

The program is developed with grant support from New York State's Offshore Wind Training Institute. The curriculum was created by the School of Professional Development along with faculty from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, College of Business, and School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. 

CONTENT AREAS

Lecture topics include, but are not limited to:

• U.S. and NYS energy and climate policy 
• Wind turbine Aerodynamics
• Power Electronics Converter Applications in Renewable Energy Systems
• Offshore Wind Power System Operation Issues
• Future Climate Change on Storms and Wind Resource
• Impacts on Marine Life
• Opposition to Offshore Wind and Coexistence
• Financing and Monetizing Offshore Wind
• Supply Chain Procurement and Distribution Strategy
• Transmission and Grid Integration
• Preparing the Grid for Offshore Wind

Registration for consideration for this program will begin in the April 2024. Sign up under the Learn More section to receive information as it is published.