Dagher in Radio Interview on UMaine Engineering Projects

Habib Dagher, director of the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center and an authority on wind power and offshore power generation, was a recent call-in guest on the Falmouth-based TideSmart Talk with Stevoe program, which airs Saturdays at 11 a.m. on WLOB (1310 AM) in Portland. Dagher discussed the diversity of work and innovation at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, including UMaine’s unique Bridge-in-a-Backpack design, and the research, testing and development of composite materials for planned deepwater wind-power turbines off the coast of Maine. A podcast of the interview is available on the TideSmart Talk website.

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