" METU Center for Wind Energy - MetuWind" is being established in the leadership of the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and is a collaborative effort of eight METU departments including Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical-Electronics, Materials and Civil Engineering as well as Department of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning and Department of Business Administration. This is a three-year multi-million dollar project funded by the State Planning Agency of Turkey. The center will be a part of the Renewable Energy, Eco-systems and Sustainability Research Platform of METU. The center will have test facilities and state-of-the-art measurement equipment for wind energy related research.

Potential areas of research include unsteady rotor aerodynamics, integrated design of wind turbine systems, wind farm design and optimization, topographical analysis and micrositing, energy storage, power electronics and smart grid systems, innovative control techniques and adaptive control, smart structures, composites (thermoplastics), mechanics of composite materials, material characterization, damage mechanics, structural optimization, structural dynamics and aeroelasticity, innovative manufacturing techniques for composite blades, tower and foundation design, architectural integration.