In Portland, I attended the IEEE Energy Conversion Conference and Exposition, which featured students presenting magnetic research that we have been working on recently. It was also a good chance to catch up in person (instead of phone call or Google Hangout) with Jonathan, who was kind enough to host a collection of other magnetics and drives researchers for dinner one night.
After a week back in Charlotte, I was off to the Outer Banks to meet with M. Muglia and M. Remige of the UNC Coastal Studies Institute and Jennettes Pier. We had some quality meetings about data sets, educational outreach, and wind turbine performance at the coast. I even got see one of the 10 kW turbines in action under tropical storm force winds due to the remnants of Hurricane Michael).
