The Bangor Daily News covered the launch of two large, high-altitude helium-filled balloons from the Pittsfield Municipal Airport as part of a science and engineering project by UMaine students and their adviser Rick Eason, a professor of electrical and computer engineering. The balloons carrying weather instrumentation, GPS transmitters and cameras were expected to go as […]
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An article on the TriplePundit business news website about an international wind-power pact between energy offices in the United States and the United Kingdom that appears to be in the offing cites offshore wind power research by the University of Maine. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 451-3756
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The Bangor Daily News advanced the University of Maine College of Engineering’s design competition, scheduled for Wednesday, April 25 in Barrows Hall. Engineering technology students will share their capstone projects – eight different kinetic sculptures to be installed in public places in Maine. Competing designs, created to attract women and nontraditional students to science and […]
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The University of Maine System Board of Trustees has approved promotion and/or tenure for 29 University of Maine faculty members. The professors, who represent the broad spectrum of UMaine academic programs, were nominated by University of Maine President Paul Ferguson after an extensive process reviewing their work in teaching, research and community service.
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The website Mass High Tech reported that UMaine’s Process Development Center has received a development loan of $99,660, matched with $113,000, to further develop and license its process technologies to produce a novel nanocellulose-based release paper in conjunction with its development partner, Stirling Consulting Inc. Nanocellulose is said to have benefits over other nanomaterials, including […]
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Seacoast Online, a website of newspapers covering southern Maine and northern New Hampshire, had a story about York, Maine company Rohrer Technologies Inc., which received in February a $25,000 Maine Technology Institute grant to work with UMaine’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The company and UMaine will conduct advanced computer simulations that will help fine-tune the […]
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In an article on The Hill website about Karen Mills, a Maine native who is the head of the federal Small Business Association and now a member of President Obama’s Cabinet, recounted a tough task in 2007 of bringing together boat builders with composites materials manufacturers and researchers at UMaine. Mills, who was the 2009 […]
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University and government officials from Japan were in Orono this week to sign a research agreement between the University of Maine’s Maine Tidal Power Initiative and the North Japan Research Institute for Sustainable Energy of Hirosaki University.
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PopSci, the website of Popular Science magazine, has published a feature article about University of Maine wind-power propellers being designed, built and tested at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The article notes that UMaine’s 37,000-square foot Offshore Wind Laboratory is one of two facilities in the U.S. that stress-test full-size blades, and the only […]
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The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center has received an incentive return from Efficiency Maine under the Maine Advanced Buildings program for energy-efficiency measures incorporated into the design and construction of the new facility last year at the center of the UMaine campus.
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