At the invitation of a group of faculty members from the University of Michigan’s Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson participated in the submission of a “concept paper” response to a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) funding opportunity announcement.  If the concept paper submission is selected by the DOE, the group will be invited to submit a full grant application and Robertson will be a Co-PI on the project.  The project is to build a regional Center of Excellence in Offshore Wind for the Great Lakes.  In addition to Professor Robertson, the group includes faculty members from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University.