Engineering

BDN Advances UMaine Engineering Job Fair

The Bangor Daily News carried a news release advancing the Engineering Job Fair Oct. 16 at the University of Maine. The event will draw nearly 80 companies looking to hire engineering students from UMaine. The job fair is cosponsored by the UMaine Career Center and the College of Engineering. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756

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UMaine Hosting Online Hydrogen Fuel Technology Workshop

The University of Maine will video stream on Oct. 18 a series of free workshops featuring international companies working to develop and lessen the cost of hydrogen as an alternative fuel. UMaine professor of mechanical engineering technology David Dvorak, who works with the UMaine Forest Biofuel Research Institute on fuel cell applications in the pulp […]

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Employers, Students Preparing for UMaine Engineering Job Fair Oct. 17

Some 78 companies that employ engineers will be at the University of Maine Wednesday, Oct. 17, looking to meet future employees or prospective interns from UMaine’s College of Engineering. The 2012 Engineering Job Fair takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. The annual event is an opportunity […]

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Channel 2 Covers Student Water Festival at UMaine

Channel 2 (WLBZ) covered the 2012 Northern Maine Children’s Water Festival held Tuesday at UMaine. The event, which is sponsored by the university in conjunction with the Maine Center for Disease Control, Verso Paper and Maine Department of Environmental Protection, is designed to creatively educate school students about the importance of clean water and healthy […]

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Newspaper Follows Up on Scientific Balloon Project

The Bangor Daily News carried an article about Bangor High School students starting to analyze data collected during a University of Maine-assisted scientific balloon launch recently. UMaine electrical engineering professor Rick Eason helped the students launch and later retrieve the weather balloon that carried sensors and other equipment to 95,000 feet to monitor temperature, ultraviolet […]

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Dagher Comments on PUC in Offshore Wind Report

Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article about Maine Public Utilities Commission concerns about the profitability of an offshore wind-power project proposed by the Norwegian Statoil North America company. Dagher said PUC commissioners are not questioning the viability of offshore wind power technology, but […]

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Engineering Expo on Evening News

Channel 5 (WABI) reported on the UMaine College of Engineering’s Engineering Group Expo, an event held Monday designed to introduce first-year engineering students to clubs, societies and projects ongoing in the college. College of Engineering Dean Dana Humphrey said in an interview that faculty members hope students take advantage of the opportunities available through the […]

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Channel 7 Covers Scientific Balloon Launch

Channel 7 (WVII) joined a number of other area news organizations in covering the launch Sept. 27 of a high-altitude scientific balloon as part of the hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) program at Bangor High School through UMaine. Professor of electrical and computer engineering Rick Eason was interviewed for the report. Students loaded the […]

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