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Dr. Jon McGowan, Professor
Dr. Jon G. McGowan has technical expertise in a wide area of
renewable energy subjects, especially in the area of systems
analysis, siting, and resource assessment. He has served as
principal or co-principal investigator on three state or national
wind energy siting and feasibility studies. He has taught
advanced level windpower and solar energy courses at the
UMass-Amherst, as well as several courses on renewable energy
systems. Dr. McGowan has been a co-principal investigator on
current National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) renewable
energy contracts including "Wind Energy Curriculum
Development, "Optimization Studies of Wind/Diesel
Systems" and "Hybrid Power Systems". He has
participated in and directed several research projects in the
specific area of renewable energy systems analysis and modeling
such as: 1) Wind/solar heating, 2) Passive solar heating, 3)
Wind/domestic water heating, 4) Wind/Rankine cycle systems and 5)
Wind/reverse osmosis water desalination systems. He served as a
co-principal investigator on original UMass (1970's)
NSF/ERDA/DOE wind heating project and was responsible for the
overall system analytical modeling, technical, and economic
feasibility phases of this study. Also, he was a co-principal
investigator on the UMass-Amherst Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
project, which was funded over several years by a number of U.S.
Government agencies. Dr. McGowan has directed several wind siting
and resource assessment projects and currently serves as a solar/
wind system consultant to the U.S. Department of Commerce's
Office of Energy Related Inventions. He has published over 90
technical papers in the renewable energy field and numerous
technical reports on the subject, and has been active in
supporting renewable energy programs in several technical
societies. In addition to his renewable energy work, he has been
a technical consultant to the development laboratories of
ABB-Combustion Engineering Power Systems in Windsor, CT for over
25 years. At ABB-CE he has worked on numerous projects involving
the development of fossil fired combustion systems.
Dr. McGowan received a B.S. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical
Engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1961 and
1965, respectively, and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from
Stanford University in 1962.
Contact Information
Professor Jon G. McGowan
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department
160 Governor's Drive
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003 USA
Office: (413) 545-2756
Fax: (413) 545-0724
jgmcgowa@ecs.umass.edu
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