Engineering in Maine
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Dana Humphrey:
Engineers are critical to virtually everything that’s made that we touch in our environment.
Bill Davids:
It’s everything from the car that you drive, to our transportation infrastructure, to the phone in your pocket, to the drinking water that you use every day. Without engineers, we wouldn’t have those things. They wouldn’t exist. Engineers are central to all of that.
Lynn Farrington:
We’re running out of natural resources, and engineers really need to start making the most of what we have.
Beth Sturtevant:
Water systems, sanitation systems are in dire need.
Ken Priest:
The challenge is really the development of new technologies.
David Bernhardt:
We do have an aging infrastructure.
Steve Swan:
For us, to be competitive here in Maine, we need engineers with new talent, new ideas.
Dana Connors:
We’re not putting out as many engineers as we need to. The opportunity begs for more. The economy wants more.
Beth Sturtevant:
Construction, to the Maine economy, is very, very important. Engineers in a construction company, it’s a very exciting career. It’s a very diverse career.
David Bernhardt:
We use the university to do things like load ratings on some of our bridges.
Bill Davids:
We’re using some really high-tech equipment to gather some very important data. It will save everybody a lot of money, and it will inform the engineering profession in the state of Maine. That’s our job.
Kim Huguenard:
We are looking at how climate change might impact the flow conditions here in the Damariscotta. It’s important to understand that so that aquaculture can grow in a sustainable manner.
Bill Mook:
Aquaculture is one of Maine’s most promising areas for economic development.
Ali Abedi:
Through using sensor technology and wireless communication, we can save lives of newborn infants. We can help increase the quality of life for older individuals. We can help monitor the brain health of astronauts, athletes, soldiers who come back from war.
John Belding:
Small businesses are very critical to the Maine economy. They are really the job creators and the job starters, and are the sector that is expanding the most here in the state.
Ryan Beaumont:
The idea started at the university, and then it left the university. I helped to mature the idea. Now, we’re going back to the Advanced Manufacturing Center, having them help us to evolve the idea even further.
John Belding:
They can expand what they’re doing in the products that they’re developing. They can make those products more efficient and better. They can learn about new research and development going on within manufacturing processes from our center here.
Clay Wheeler:
We’re working on processes to make fuels from Maine’s forests. Someday, you’ll be able to drive your car, fly your airplanes, heat your houses, using these types of fuels.
Mohamad Musavi:
Engineering is fun. Engineering is creativity. Engineering is to use the power of your imagination to create things that never existed before.
Beth Sturtevant:
Engineers, that’s what they do. They make things happen. They build things.
Dana Humphrey:
Engineering at the University of Maine will continue to grow and fill the needs of the state of Maine. We really produce two things. We produce graduates that are ready to work and contribute to Maine’s economy, and we produce the new ideas and new technologies that are necessary to move Maine’s economy forward.