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7 Weeks

Fully Online

Close Captioned

Re-Use Encouraged

This MOOC ran on Coursera in October 2014. While it is not available currently, we are hoping to offer it in On Demand format as of Spring 2017.

MOOC Overview: The wind is a part of our everyday experience. Anyone who has lived on a coast or even vacationed there is familiar with waves and tides. That these naturally-occurring fluid flows contain energy is intuitively recognizable and indeed technologies to harvest wind and tidal energy were in use centuries ago. Our current quest for sustainable energy sources has led us to refocus once again on the potential of wind, waves and tides. This course will explain and describe the technologies to extract energy from each. The strengths and weaknesses of these various technologies will be discussed and illustrated through case studies of specific installations.

Project Components
There are currently no other components associated with this project. Likely, this project was part of the Remote Editing Program or was a one-off video project.
Project Components
There are currently no other components associated with this project. Likely, this project was part of the Remote Editing Program or was a one-off video project.
Project Details
Copyright Information

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Funding Information

This project was funded by the Vice Provost, Innovation in Undergraduate Education, University of Toronto and by the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto.

Date of Release

October 2014

Project Staff
Project Lead(s):
Prof. Jim Wallace

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