Richard Higgins, a 1979 UMaine graduate and retired Boeing executive, has won Tau Beta Pi’s 2011 Distinguished Alumnus Award. That engineering honor society will formally recognize Higgins with the award at its October convention in Indianapolis. According to the Tau Beta Pi news release, the award honors Higgins’ “lifetime achievements and commitment to engineering education.” […]
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A unique tube-crimping device created by students and staff at the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center for a Rockland marine products company has streamlined the company’s operations to the point where its business emphasis may change. Students and staff at the Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) last spring designed, machined and assembled a compressed air-powered […]
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UMaine’s work on wind power was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about a finding that Maine surpasses the national rate in creation of so-called green jobs. The story said UMaine is working in partnership with companies such as Cianbro and Bath Iron Works to build a regional cluster of expertise around the development […]
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Prominent Portland attorney Jeffrey A. Thaler has been appointed University of Maine Visiting Professor of Energy Law, Policy and Ethics for a two-year period beginning Aug. 29, 2011 “Jeff Thaler is an acknowledged expert in this field, and he will be instrumental to our efforts as we further develop renewable energy academic programming, research and […]
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UMaine Dept. of Electrical and Computer engineering doctoral student Abolfazl Razi recently won the best paper award at CANEUS/IEEE International Fly By Wireless Conference in Montreal. His paper, on Interference Reduction in Passive Wireless Sensor Networks, was chosen from a field of 38 entries.
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The Sun-Journal in Lewiston recently carried an article about a successful collaboration between the University of Maine and Falcon Performance Footwear in Auburn, which resulted in a unique protective boot toecap made from a composite resin devised at the university’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The caps will be formed starting this fall from […]
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Several news outlets, including the Portland Press Herald covered the announcement that the Southern Maine Community College campuses in South Portland and Brunswick will begin this fall to offer a pre-engineering program, part of a collaboration with UMaine that allows students to continue on and receive bachelor’s and master’s degrees. The Bangor Daily News ran […]
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The Village Soup website reported a Superior Court judge rejected arguments by an environmental activist that the state had failed to meet laws and guidelines in its selection of a site off Monhegan Island for a demonstration wind power project, in which UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center is involved. The UMaine-led DeepCwind Consortium […]
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A Mainebiz article about the future prospects of Old Town Fuel & Fiber included several references to biofuels research being performed by UMaine’s Forest Bioproducts Research Initiative. FBRI’s work several years ago on cellulosic ethanol was mentioned, as was more recent research into biobutanol, which could be a $5 billion industry, according to the story. […]
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The website Smartmeters has an item about last week’s Haskell/IEEE Energy Conference, which was held at UMaine and included representatives from UMaine who discussed the benefits, opportunities and challenges of the smart grid and energy conservation. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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