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Mr. Griffin has ten years of wind energy engineering experience. He has served as a project manager and principal investigator for several studies concerning composite materials and manufacturing technologies, structural design, weight, and costs of advanced wind turbine blade designs. He has developed aerodynamic designs and structural designs for both conventional blade configurations as well as for blades with adaptive (bend-twist) properties, and he has evaluated candidate designs based on aerodynamic performance, structural efficiency, loads mitigation, and manufacturing cost. Mr. Griffin has designed, conducted and documented numerous tests including full-scale turbine blade fatigue and static tests, wind tunnel tests on vortex generators and aerodynamic braking devices, field tests of turbines with vortex generators, turbine power performance tests, and dynamometer-based gearbox efficiency tests. He has also developed certification plans for several wind turbine manufacturers. Mr. Griffin holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in aeronautical engineering with an emphasis in aerodynamics and fluid mechanics. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering with an emphasis on wind turbine aerodynamics. | 