Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was interviewed for a Hastest Solutions company news release posted on the San Jose Women’s Business Examiner website. The company said its role in the design, assembly and recent installation of the three-story environmental wind turbine test chamber at UMaine was a […]
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The Hartford Courant has a story about Nick DiTaranto, a UMaine civil engineering major who is spending the summer as an intern in West Hartford, Conn., inspecting sidewalks on a bicycle. DiTaranto is close to completing the 245-mile inspection and has logged more than 700 sidewalk issues in a town database. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) […]
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Comments by Jake Ward, assistant vice president for research, economic development and government relations at the University of Maine, were included in a Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting story posted on the Bangor Daily News website about a state Department of Environmental Protection decision to allow the Old Town Fuel and Fiber pulp mill […]
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SFGate, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, posted a news release from a company that designed, assembled and installed an Environmental Wind Turbine Test Chamber at UMaine’s Offshore Wind Laboratory, which is part of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center on campus. The president of Hastest Solutions, Inc., said in the release he […]
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The Virtual Strategy Magazine website posted a news release from Hastest Solutions, Inc., a California company that designs and manufactures wind test chambers, which noted the company had designed, assembled and installed a three-story environmental wind turbine test chamber in UMaine’s Offshore Wind Laboratory. The release included a comment from Habib Dagher, UMaine engineering professor […]
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In an opinion piece in the Portland Press Herald, a public information officer for the Maine Department of Transportation defended the state’s response to the news that the Bridge-in-a-Backpack technology developed at UMaine had received a key approval from a national group of transportation officials. Responding to a column in Wednesday’s Press Herald, the officer […]
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The news that the Bridge-in-a-Backpack technology developed at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center has won national approval from a group of transportation officials as the subject of a column in the Portland Press Herald. The column argued that the technology, which is a composite bridge that can be built faster, lighter and stronger than […]
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Researchers at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center are awarded a patent for developing a new manufacturing process.
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The Bangor Daily News reported that the design standards for the Bridge-in-a-Backpack technology that was developed at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center have been accepted for inclusion in the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials codes. Center director Habib Dagher, who was interviewed for the story, said the move means a Bridge-in-a-Backpack […]
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A Bangor Daily News article about Bangor High School student Will Benoit, who has received a prestigious Stockholm Junior Water Prize award, noted that Benoit has been working with professor of chemical engineering and director of UMaine’s paper surface science program Doug Bousfield and UMaine graduate student Finley Richmond on research to create cheaper water […]
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