The Physorg.com science news website Monday carried a report on deepwater offshore wind technology testing being done in the Netherlands by UMaine researchers with a Dutch wind-energy development company. Research with 1/50 scale model wind turbines will lead to development of full-size wind turbines off the coast of Maine. Contact: George Manlove (207) 581-3756
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The University of Maine Forest Bioproducts Research Institute (FBRI) will host a groundbreaking ceremony celebrating plans to build a 3,300 square foot addition to UMaine’s Jenness Hall. The event is scheduled for Tuesday May 3 at 1 p.m. at Jenness Hall.
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UMaine Associate Professor Peter Van Walsum of the department of chemical and biological engineering and the Forest Bioproducts Research Initiative was featured in a video on the Mobile Maine News website. The video includes an interview with Van Walsum about his work on converting forest waste products into biofuels. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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University of Maine engineering students and researchers working at a facility in the Netherlands are now into the third week of testing scale models of deepwater floating offshore wind platforms for wind turbines. The team from UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, is testing 1/50th-scale models at an offshore wind basin owned by a […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) on Wednesday covered the pill-crushing device competition among six teams of UMaine mechanical engineering technology students in Barrows Hall. After being rated by professional nurses and engineers for efficiency, ease of use, noise and safety, students in professor Herb Crosby’s class who designed and constructed the devices ground up vitamins and other […]
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The website Physorg.com has a story about five UMaine students who recently participated in a rocket launch in California’s Mojave Desert. The students, who were working under Professor Ali Abedi, developed wireless sensors that could measure the amount of pre-launch vibration in the 27-foot rocket built by students at California State University Long Beach. Contact: […]
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The Kandy Kids, a team of seven Brewer fifth graders, will visit with researchers at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, Thursday, April 28, from 3:45 – 4:30. They will work with UMaine engineers to testing a structure they built on the way to winning the State of Maine Destination Imagination Challenge.
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Five University of Maine students participated in a recent launch process as a rocket loaded with wireless sensors the students developed in a UMaine lab blasted off in California’s Mojave Desert. The students, working under UMaine electrical and computer engineering Associate Professor Ali Abedi, collaborated on the NASA-funded project with faculty and student researchers at […]
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A Camden firm which is a member of the UMaine-led DeepCwind Consortium received earlier this month a $500,000 grant from the Maine Technology Institute, the Village Soup website noted. WindFloat Maine LLC will use the grant to help fund the development of a floating foundation for deepwater offshore wind turbines, a project being developed at […]
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A Forbes Magazine blogger has a post about the lobster shell golf balls developed at UMaine by engineering professor David Neivandt and his student, Alex Caddell of Winterport. Contact: Kristen Andresen, 207-581-3742
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