Philippe Giguère is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.Eng. (Mechanical) from McGill University in 1992, and his M.S.E. from Laval University in 1994. He expects to complete his Ph.D. in the fall of 1999. In addition to his research work in blade design/optimization and wind turbine airfoils, he has been working as a consultant in that area since 1997.