The bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed at UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center was featured in a Bangor Daily News report on the replacement of two bridges in Carrabassett Valley that were recently washed out due to flooding from Hurricane Irene. An official from the Maine Department of Transportation commented that although the DOT has a […]
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The field of nanoscience has shown that the smallest of particles are sometimes the strongest. Research into these infinitesimal objects – whose dimensions range from a few nanometers to less than 100 nanometers; by comparison, a sheet of paper has a thickness of 100,000 nanometers – has also shown these particles are well-suited for use […]
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An Associated Press story that includes details of how UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center will utilize a $3 million federal grant. In the story, which ran in Forbes magazine’s website Habib Dagher, director of the center, is quoted as saying the funding will be used for a lab station, or “cell,” where prototype […]
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The Aiken (South Carolina) Standard reports that UMaine engineering professor Mick Peterson visited the Aiken Training Track, a thoroughbred training facility, in June to assess the track and surface. Peterson is an expert in race track surfaces, using ground penetrating radar and other high-tech assessment equipment.
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The Mainebiz website posted an item about the announcement that UMaine has received a $3 million federal grant to buy equipment for the new deepwater offshore wind research laboratory that is part of the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The grant will fund the purchase of equipment for structural testing and pilot manufacturing of […]
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Several state and national media outlets had coverage of the news that UMaine has received a $3 million grant from the Economic Development Administration to advance offshore wind-power research and development. The Forbes and Bloomberg Business Week websites both carried an Associated Press version of the story, as did Bangor television station WABI. Contact: Jessica […]
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson will lead off the first in a series of interdisciplinary research workshops of the 2011-2012 academic year on Friday, Sept. 9 from 12-1:30 p.m. in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union.
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Friday’s Bangor Daily News provided coverage of Thursday’s visit to UMaine by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Accompanied by Sen. Susan Collins and Ken Fletcher, director of Maine’s Office of Energy Security, Salazar visited the Advanced Structures and Composites Center to learn more about UMaine-led work toward developing technology for deepwater offshore wind power. […]
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Prof. Emeritus Richard Hill provided comment for a WLBZ/WCSH televison story about natural gas as a home heating option. Bangor Gas is reporting that it expects to add 1,000 more customers during this year. Hill cautions that market considerations “may drive up the price of natural gas.”
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The website Crazy Engineer has a story about a $1.2 million Department of Energy grant awarded to UMaine professors Robert Lad and Mauricio Pereira da Cunha to develop sensors that can continuously monitor power plants, with the ultimate goal of zero-emission fossil fuel plants. Business Week also ran an Associated Press report about the grant […]
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