Any major. Only one of our three teams builds hardware. The project development team — worth roughly a third of our competition score — depends on students in business, policy, sustainability, and geography, and the outreach team depends on writers, designers, and organizers. If you have been told that engineering clubs are not for you, this one is.
We are new, and that is the offer. This is our founding year. No one here has done this before, so whoever takes a role now is the person who defines how it works — and who can say they built it.
Executive board
Seven equal members. The last three each lead one of the three teams below, and every one of them answers to a scored part of the competition.
What this role owns
Represents Sun Devil Wind to ASU, the competition organizers, and our partners. Runs the executive board and is accountable for the team getting to Cal Poly in May 2027.
About me
My name is Vini, and I am an international student from Brazil. After transferring to ASU, I founded Sun Devil Wind in 2026. I am also a Barrett Honors student with a long-standing passion for wind energy. A fun fact about me: my identical twin and I had our names accidentally swapped at birth.
What this role owns
Brings new members in, gets them onboarded into an actual position, and holds the calendar that works backwards from competition week.
What this role owns
The club budget, ASU funding requests, and sponsorship money — where it comes from, where it goes, and what we can afford to build.
What this role owns
Meeting records, team documentation, and the editing pass on all three competition reports before they are submitted. Writers matter here as much as engineers.
What this role owns
The turbine. Coordinates aerodynamics, structures, fabrication, electrical, controls, and testing so the machine works as one system instead of six.
What this role owns
The wind farm proposal — the siting, permitting, grid, and financial case we have to defend in front of industry judges.
What this role owns
Community and industry engagement: how many people we reach, who they are, and what we can show for it at the end of the year.
Technical team
Builds the turbine that goes in the wind tunnel. Led by the Chief Engineer.
What this role owns
Airfoil choice, blade geometry, and rotor performance across the whole range of wind speeds the tunnel will throw at us.
What this role owns
The structure that holds everything together and survives the test: hub, nacelle, tower, and the loads running through all three.
What this role owns
Turns drawings into physical parts. Runs our shop access, 3D printing, and the build schedule that everything else waits on.
What this role owns
The generator, circuit boards, and power regulation that turn a spinning rotor into measured, usable electricity.
What this role owns
The control system, the automatic safety shutdown the competition requires, and the data logging that proves what the turbine actually did.
What this role owns
Wind tunnel test plans, running the tests, and the safety case for a spinning machine in a room with people in it.
Project development team
Plans a real wind farm on paper and proves it would work. This is worth roughly a third of our competition score, and most of it is not engineering work — it is business, policy, sustainability, and geography.
What this role owns
Where the wind farm goes. Wind resource data, terrain, land constraints, and the maps that justify the choice. A natural fit for geography, GIS, and sustainability students.
What this role owns
Environmental impact, the permits a real project would need, and the community concerns that decide whether a wind farm ever gets built. Policy, sustainability, and environmental science students.
What this role owns
How the farm connects to the grid, including supplying power to data centers — one of the newer questions the competition is asking.
What this role owns
Cost modeling, levelized cost of energy, and whether the project would actually make money. Finance, economics, and business students.
Outreach team
Builds our presence in the community and the wind industry. Led by the Outreach Director. Everything here is scored, and none of it requires an engineering background.
What this role owns
This website, our social media, and the competition poster. Design, marketing, journalism, and communications students.
What this role owns
School workshops and public events — putting wind energy in front of people who have never thought about it. Education and public-service students especially.
What this role owns
Finding mentors, running industry interviews, and keeping sponsor relationships warm enough to last past this season.
See a position you want?
No experience is needed for any of them, and no specific major is either. Tell us which one and we will talk.