Students and faculty from the University of Maine College of Engineering will take part in The Challenger Learning Center of Maine’s “Space Day” celebration during its sixth annual open house on April 29 in Bangor. Researchers from UMaine’s Wireless Sensing Laboratory (WiSe-Net Lab), directed by electrical and computer engineering professor Ali Abedi, will provide demonstrations […]
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Student research was displayed during the 6th annual Undergraduate Research and Academic Showcase on April 14. The event, sponsored by UMaine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR), was open to any undergraduate at the university and featured 121 presentations from 229 students in the form of 92 posters, 16 oral presentations or performances, and 13 exhibits. […]
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The Weekly and The Maine Edge reported the University of Maine will participate in and host this year’s New England Regional Concrete Canoe Competition. More than 200 students from 11 New England universities, including UMaine, will subject their concrete canoe creations to judging on a variety of characteristics at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center […]
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Annual awards cite distinction in civil engineering, philosophy, history and communication.
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Orono High School students visited the University of Maine to prepare for an upcoming engineering and design competition, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported. Instructors from the Advanced Structures and Composites Center helped students transform raw materials into solid, functional wind blades in advance of the seventh annual Wind Blade Challenge that will […]
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Editor’s note: Due to ice conditions on Lake George in Skowhegan, Saturday’s judging events will take place at the Steam Plant Lot on the UMaine campus. The race portion of the competition has been canceled. The University of Maine will participate in and host this year’s New England Regional Concrete Canoe Competition April 24–25 in […]
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The Portland Press Herald spoke with John Belding, director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center, for an article about a new report that says Maine is trailing the rest of New England in developing advanced manufacturing jobs, which require a higher set of skills and also pay better than traditional manufacturing. The report, […]
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The Weekly published a University of Maine news release previewing the 2015 Undergraduate Research and Academic Showcase to be held April 14 at Wells Conference Center. More than 200 students will display their research during the sixth annual event sponsored by UMaine’s Center for Undergraduate Research. Presentations in the form of posters, oral presentations and […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported international engineering volunteer Robert Sypitkowski of Bangor will speak at the 21st annual HOPE Festival on April 25 at the University of Maine. Sypitkowski went from a career in theater design to a career as an environmental engineer after earning a degree in engineering at UMaine in 1990. He currently […]
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Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine; and Anthony Viselli, an engineer at the UMaine Composites Center, sat down with Windpower TV to speak about developing the floating platform for VolturnUS, an offshore wind turbine prototype that was deployed off the coast of Castine. Project manager Dagher […]
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