WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on a pipeline program between the University of Maine and Thornton Academy high school in Saco. The program, which aims to fill Maine’s shortage of engineers, allows students to get an engineering degree in just three years, according to the report. “This is the only university in Maine where we have […]
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More than 130 companies — the largest number ever — are expected to be represented at the University of Maine’s 2017 Engineering Job Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18 at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. Co-sponsored by the UMaine College of Engineering and Career Center, the 19th annual event is […]
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Today at the University of Maine Foundation Annual Luncheon, University of Maine President Susan J. Hunter and University of Maine Foundation President Jeffery N. Mills announced that UMaine and the Foundation have moved into the final, public phase of the Vision for Tomorrow comprehensive campaign, a $200 million fundraising drive for UMaine. The campaign has […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “Maine should help give mass timber mass appeal.” The editorial argues the state could benefit greatly from turning the lumber from Maine woods into a variety of new products. Using any of the state’s vacant industrial spaces to manufacture mass timber products could […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported 21 construction engineering technology students at the University of Maine are helping Habitat for Humanity renovate a home in Old Town. The students, who began planning last semester, are currently in the demolition process getting rid of structural flaws, WVII reported. “We have some bowed ceilings, bowed roof; we have to […]
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Sun Journal covered a Buckfield Board of Selectmen meeting where it was announced that University of Maine students will assist with the town’s Shedd Hollow Road bridge replacement project over Darnit Brook. The UMaine Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering chose the project as part of its capstone program, according to the article. The students […]
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Editor’s note: story updated Oct. 4. Native American ecological knowledge and western science will be integrated in some University of Maine science courses, with the goal of implementing the methods nationwide. With a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant titled INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science), […]
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The annual Cardboard Canoe Race, hosted by the University of Maine chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, begins at 1 p.m. Sept. 30 on Stillwater River. Teams of as many as four people per cardboard canoe will launch from UMaine’s Steam Plant parking lot. Registration fee is $20 per team. To register or […]
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Khouloud Gaza, a third-year student majoring in mechatronics engineering at National School of Engineers of Sousse, has joined the University of Maine community for the academic year as part of the Tunisia Undergraduate Scholarship Program of the U.S. Department of State’s Thomas Jefferson Scholarship Program. Gaza is the first student to study at UMaine under […]
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The Associated Press reported the National Science Foundation has awarded a one-year, $100,000 grant for continuing a University of Maine citizen science project geared at protecting the water quality of lakes. The grant will help extend the project, which began in 2015 with funding from UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, into […]
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