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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The University of Maine is hosting its annual Maine Summer Transportation Institute, a hands-on, interactive program to teach youngsters about some of the exciting careers in engineering and transportation. About 20 area middle-school students are participating in the institute, which runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday until July 20. Students are […]
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An article in the Morning Sentinel about the launch this week in Bath of a new military rescue and special operations watercraft that resembles a jet ski noted the vehicle designed for rough seas and breaking surf was built by Hodgdon Defense Composites in Bath, with composite research technology from the University of Maine. The […]
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Recently the University of Maine recognized 2,026 students for achieving Deans List honors in the Spring 2012 semester. Of the students who made the Deans List, 1,728 are from Maine, 242 are from out of state, and 56 are from foreign countries. Listed below are students who received Deans List honors for the 2012 Spring […]
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University of Maine College of Engineering Dean Dana Humphrey was interviewed Wednesday for a Maine Public Broadcasting report about UMaine’s new Brunswick Engineering program at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. Humphrey said the hands-on program is designed to increase the number of engineering students in Maine. Humphrey observed that Maine is currently 49th in […]
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