Contact: Roberta Laverty, 207-581-2110, roberta.laverty@umit.maine.edu ORONO — Maine’s innovative composites bridge technologies are being highlighted during a two-day event Wednesday Oct 13 and Thursday Oct. 14. The 2010 Maine Composites Showcase, hosted by MaineDOT and its Maine composites partners, is introducing top bridge engineers from New England and the northeast region to the innovative composites […]
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Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, told the Bangor Daily News a proposed $5 billion undersea power line proposal aimed at spurring development of a coastal wind farm in the Mid-Atlantic states is a great sign that private investors are interested in offshore wind efforts. Google, along with a group […]
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Contact: Patty Counihan, 581-1359 Recruiters and representatives from nearly 60 companies with jobs for engineering students, interns and recent graduates will converge at the Student Fitness and Recreation Center Oct. 20 for UMaine’s 2010 Engineering Job Fair. The annual event is an opportunity for UMaine engineering students to meet prospective employers and learn about large […]
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UMaine engineer Mick Peterson was mentioned in an article on the website Bloodhorse about the replacement of the surface of the thoroughbred horse racing track at Santa Anita Park in California. Peterson, the executive director of the Racing Surfaces Laboratory, will test the track’s new surface.
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A five-year, $3.3 million National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant will fund a new University of Maine initiative to affect institutional change by improving the status of female faculty in the sciences, technology, engineering, mathematics and the social-behavioral sciences. The grant will establish the Rising Tide Center, which […]
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Mainebiz notes a $1 million grant to support the Maine Tidal Power Initiative, which includes UMaine tidal power research in places such as the Cobscook Bay, Bagaduce River, and the Sheepscot estuary. The Maine Tidal Power Initiative is in its fourth year and has been awarded a total of $4 million in government and nongovernment […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Prof. Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, will provide the Friday morning keynote address at the Maine Career and Technical Education Conference. Dagher’s talk is scheduled for 8:15 a.m. at the Lewiston Regional Technical Center on East Avenue. Dagher, […]
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News reports that a $1 million federal grant will support UMaine research related to the development of tidal energy off the Maine coast. UMaine engineering Prof. Michael “Mick” Peterson is quoted in the report, which details the study as it relates to potential environmental impact.
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Contact: Mick Peterson (207) 581-2129 or michael.peterson@maine.edu ORONO – A group of University of Maine researchers, headed up by UMaine Libra Foundation Professor of Engineering Michael “Mick” Peterson, has received a $1 million grant from the Department of Energy to continue developing environmental impact protocols at the site of a tidal-power turbine near Eastport and […]
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A Central Maine Morning Sentinel story details an effort by UMaine engineering students that will hep the town of Farmington build a new recreational bridge across the Sandy River. The students, members of the Engineers Without Borders group, will perform an engineering design study aimed at helping figure out affordable ways to build the 330-foot […]
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