Almost a year and a half between these two images:

And a lot of hard work, study, trial & error (and last but not least, so many beers at the "Taberna  Irlandesa").  Carlos Rodríguez-Casado (#FORMULA WINDY - UO) has achieved a milestone by getting our Smoke Wind Tunnel blowing.
A powerful device for teaching and research on aeroelastic instabilities in bridges, buildings, solar trackers, etc. made in University of Oviedo, in collaboration with IDR-UPM and Princeton University (#ESOLIA #SOLTRACK project).
Stay hungry, stay foolish!

ESOLIA & SOLTRACK Team attended the 2024 edition of GENERA in Madrid last week. We presented the DEMO-TRACK, the first portable device ever for teaching&learning&research on the aeroelastic instabilities of single axis solar trackers, particularly 1DOF flutter. General public and companies turned out to be really interested in the matter and the solution we proposed. We also held many meetings with constructors. Really grateful and proud of every one on board. We would like to acknowledge to this event´s sponsors: "Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Mieres" and Polytechnic School of Mieres and to our awesome host IMEnergy Power Plants, S.L. Looking forward to  meeting you all again!

Do not miss anything and learn how to deal with torsional instability (galloping or flutter of single-axis solar trackers) and go for understanding the "Stability Diagram of the Tracker" ("Diagrama de Estabilidad del Tracker").

I do not believe in QUALITY. I do not believe in surveys. I do not.
At least when this things are going together and are used by ignorants with the aim of pretending knowing.
So let me share this paper with you and you will see. Yo will become truly non believer like me. Or much better than that, you will only believe in real things, important things, reasonable things.

An Evaluation of Course Evaluations (click).
Philip B. Stark, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
[email protected]
Richard Freishtat, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
[email protected]
26 September 2014.

This is like a motto, something that you must keep in mind when you find in your way someone who never should have got power over others.

If you want to know what these four letters mean, please read "Los ingenieros de caminos" by Fernando Sáenz Ridruejo (ed. Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, 1993).
Nowadays it is rather improbably that you will get the real concept, at least in some High School institutions. Nobody knows and nobody will explain to you.
Well, let me drop some thoughts. You will be able to teach something if you have learnt it, if you have done it. Our students don't need actors, politicians, governors, bureaucrats... but teachers: a teacher is side by side with pupils; and he is side by side with reality too.
Nowadays those want us to be called Civil Engineers. The more those say the word "quality" (regarding to teaching and learning) the less you can expect from them.
Students must not be blamed because of neither the educative collapse of the Engineering nor the fall of the Institution so called University... long time ago.
I'm afraid we will keep writing about this... unfortunately.