This summer, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine (UMaine) hosted an international summer school on digital twins for ocean engineering. Organized through Dr. Amrit Verma’s NSF-funded […]
Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering, Dr. Xiaoxiao Zhao, is the recipient of the 2026 SAMPE North America Young Professional Emerging Leadership Award. The award recognizes Dr. Zhao’s emerging leadership in […]
The University of Maine AIAA Design-Build-Fly (DBF) team spent nearly a full year transforming ideas into an aircraft. Every stage of the process, from conceptual design and aerodynamic analysis to […]
This past school year, Elsa Perez Abella, a sophomore mechanical engineering student, participated in a research project at the Aerosystems Dynamics Laboratory under the guidance of Dr. Ahmed Aboelezz. She […]
Katherine (Kat) Gross believes her experience at UMaine has been incredibly enriching, challenging, and fun. She says her classes pushed her to expand her creative thinking and technical skills but were well […]
