WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) reported Alba-Technic, a small technology company based in Winthrop, is collaborating with the University of Maine on concussion research. For more than 10 years, the company’s founder and creator has been working on a material that lessens the impact of collisions, according to the report. Alba-Technic and its patented shock-absorbing […]
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Mohsen Shahinpoor, a University of Maine mechanical engineering professor specializing in biomedical engineering, was mentioned in the Sun Journal article, “Medical wonders: The cool, new and unique in Maine medicine.” Shahinpoor believes health care will see more smart materials and systems, such as artificial muscles made from polymers, which he has been working on, according […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported students in the University of Maine’s Construction Engineering Technology Program are helping with a Habitat for Humanity house renovation. Students in CET 458 Management of Construction are creating the design plans for a home in Bradley that was given to the Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bangor, according to the […]
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The Associated Press and WLBZ (Channel 2) reported scientists and engineers at the University of Maine are evaluating the performance of Maine trees in a kind of lumber that is used to build homes in Canada and Europe. The researchers want to see how trees that grow in Maine and the northeastern U.S. perform in […]
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The Collegiate Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at the University of Maine was awarded an Outstanding Collegiate Section Award at the Silver Level at the SWE Conference awards banquet in Nashville in October. The award recognizes collegiate sections that are active in meeting SWE’s strategic goals of professional excellence, globalization and advocacy. At the Silver […]
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The University of Maine recognized 2,216 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the fall 2015 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,665 are from Maine, 468 are from 30 other states and 83 are from 25 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are students who received Dean’s List honors for […]
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Nicholas Willey once planned to be a lawyer. Then, at his mother’s suggestion, the then-Caribou High School student attended the free University of Maine Pulp & Paper Foundation program “Consider Engineering” that gives juniors insight into the field. “It really opened my eyes to what engineering encompassed,” says Willey. As well as persuasively made the […]
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Kevin Conroy of Falmouth, Maine is a senior in electrical engineering with a concentration in power systems. Coming from a “tried and true University of Maine family,” his inspiration to attend UMaine and study engineering came from his parents, Linda and Brian Conroy. His father, a 1986 graduate with a degree in electrical engineering, is […]
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Engineering News-Record (ENR) reported three ocean engineering firms in January completed testing of wave energy converters, gauging how they will respond to severe offshore storms, at the University of Maine’s Harold Alfond W2 Ocean Engineering Lab. The lab, which opened in November, houses the world’s first offshore wind-wave test basin with a rotating open-jet wind […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported MFGR LLC, a limited liability corporation that shares an address with a Connecticut-based asset liquidator, has purchased the shuttered Expera Specialty Solutions pulp mill in Old Town. Expera spokeswoman Addie Teeters declined to say what would happen to the University of Maine’s Technology Research Center, which opened about five years […]
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